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A Few Changes

Among other big happenings with work this week, we have begun the move from a shared hosting account over to a dedicated server. Let’s face it, I’m a control freak when it comes to Linux — Give me root, or give me death! I’m going to be moving my personal domains (including this one) over to it starting next week. This blog and a few others that I work on will be taking a more thematic direction as well. One of the lessons that I’ve learned from more experienced web publishers is that too varied of content creates less interest. These moves will provide for better avenues of content to be displayed through these new sites.

For hopefully the last time for a few years, our primary email accounts will be changing. As always, all mail sent to old accounts will be forwarding indefinitely into their appropriate ones (I’m a big fan of parallel system migration). Keep an eye in your spam folders for that to happen.

Best of 05/06

In addition to Ben’s last post- you can see just a selected few of last month’s photos by looking at the top rated.

May Photos are In

May 2006

Just copied them all over to the server and loaded them in. June will be coming out rather quick as well but with no school going on right now I should be able to get them in quicker!

New Videos

Olive Fingers
Baby Hop Dance

On a lighter note (for me), I’m using VirtualDub now to recompress and clip the videos. It’s about a 6/1 compression ratio using the Windows Media Player 9 codec.

What does this mean for you? Longer files with a fraction of the download time. What does this mean for me? Longer files with a fraction of the bandwidth. Not that I care about bandwidth having a server in my office, but I stream talk radio all day long and I feel bad sometimes when I see someone trying to download a 30-second clip that’s 4MB during the day.

Bye Bilbo!

Tonight, I officially retired the old gallery password. Bilbo Baggins served us well for the past year, but he will now move on. If you didn’t get the memo, just send us a message we’ll give you the new one (that is, as long as you can provide at least 2 pieces of personal identification, a utility bill to prove residency, W-2′s, and possibly cover an access fee).

We’re posting a new video every week or so as well. The Video section will display the last 10 that were uploaded, but the directory itself holds many more. I’ll probably modify the script later for a “Display All” type function.

I almost forgot, I uploaded the pictures for January as well. While doing this I also upgraded the gallery software. Hopefully it is a little more efficient on the front.

Site upgrade

This morning I updated WordPress and then decided to change the theme for the heck of it. I worked out quite a few bugs with merging the gallery and blog templates, but if you happen to run across anything (typically just poor coloring) please let me know!

Cheers!

September Gallery

The 2005 September gallery is up and ready for viewing. Shae has taken the liberty of selecting several of her favorites. You can see them by clicking here.