I’m finally undertaking the effort of moving my main web domain from a box hosted by a friend to a commercial server in California. This mirgation, while filling me with a sense of dread (I can’t afford any downtime) will allow for such technologically advance features as FTP access (I’ve been limping along with AFP/Samba, which is cool but slow as shit and unreachable from my PC), multiple subdomains, WebDAV, includes, MySQL, PHP and Perl. Plus, I can migrate over to Mail.app and abandon Eudora on the side of the road like the broke-down ’75 Pacer it is. Sweet zombie Jesus, I’m excited.
Right now I’m making a master backup of the site, which will take an hour or two (there’s a ton of old content there—I don’t even want to look at the old weblog right now) and then I have to push it all live to the new server, then point the DNS over and pray for success.
When things slow down a bit in the future, I’ll add a weblog to the illustration directory, clean up the link rot, set up some web calendars, and have a personalized sandbox for each of my clients to use.
Now, it’s back to the grind.
Taking a rare (and well-deserved) walk with my wife last night, I noticed little dots of color here and there on the ground. I noticed that the older trees in our neigghborhood are still green and full, but many of the younger maples are beginning to redden and drop leaves- a sign of the season to come.
I don’t honestly know what’s cooler- getting a letter postmarked from San Francisco with a Big Fat Check inside one week after the invoice went out, or the fact that it carries a Green Lantern stamp instead of a boring corporate postmark.
The Pantone Huey is an $89 device for calibrating color on CRTs and LCDs. No word on quality, fit, or finish, but this might be a future purchase for the Lockardugan Print Collective.
10 Geek Business Myths for startups. Good information here. (via)
You should go fuck yourselves, because your “installation instructions” are for shit!
Oh, and thanks, Apple, for messing with the standard install for DBD::mysql, so that I can’t run it on my iBook without knowing how to write the fucking thing myself.