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Hosting Changes

December 10th, 2008

I know the photo gallery is down.  Katie and I decided to shift to GoDaddy for our hosting.  I think Verizon caught on to what I was doing and blocked those specific ports.  Oh well, not too big of a deal.  We will have the photo gallery back soon.  We are sending out cards with the web address for the site with our Christmas cards, so we have to get the wedding and Honeymoon photos back first.  They are the largest collection anyway.

Big update on our lives and everything that has happened in the past year from Katie in the next few days.

Oh Where, Oh Where, Have the Alix’s been?

November 10th, 2008

Where have we been?  That’s a pretty damn good question.  We’ve been busy.  I’ll try to fill everyone in, but I have to start from the beginning. . .which I guess would be sometime around October 1st.

Well, to start off, Katie on the other hand has been busy almost every waking moment with her research.  Her animal studies have been completed, she is working on her final target compound, and is nearing the finish line with her computer modeling.  Only thing left is that gigantic paper she has to write.  It has become clear that she won’t be officially graduating until May, but she should be able to defend her thesis come January and after that she can get a job.  She just won’t have that piece of paper that makes everything official.

Me on the other hand, I’ve basically been working and then relaxing on my evenings and days off.  I have found time to finally get a decent file server setup at the house.  It has a 1-TB RAID-5 array, which should be plenty for us.  We’ve currently only filled up 23% (approx. 230 GB), but that frees a lot of stuff off our of computer drives.  The best part is that I have it setup to backup to Carbonite, that way if anything happens all of Katie’s important research and all our pictures are safe.  I highly recommend it to everyone.  I have also spent time cleaning out the spare bedroom and slowly getting rid of the stuff in there.  We donated our old waterbed frame to Goodwill and gave MJ a lot of stuff too.  It feels nice to have an almost fully functional spare room again.

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"Weird Al" Releases a new song!!

October 9th, 2008

Always good to have some “Weird Al” Yankovic to listen to.  His new song is a pardoy of T.I’s song Whatever You Like.  This one is good, considering the current state of out economy.

On another note, I know the photo gallery is missing.  I am in the process of fixing it.  Katie and I are going to King’s Dominion on Saturday and then we have D&D that evening.  So, hopefully Sunday it will be back.  Just don’t ask what I did to it.  I’ll just bore you with the details.

We have done it!

July 12th, 2008

I finally figured out the reason why the header was only displaying 2 of the 9 images.  It turns out that the extension on the seven missing images was JPG when the software was looking for jpg.  See the subtle capitalization difference.  Oh well, it is fixed now.

Second thing, I got a watermark placed on all of our images.  I don’t want people stealing them.  Not cool.  Especially since the some of the wedding photos that we paid for are up there.

Speaking of wedding photos, Katie got the wedding photos uploaded and I got the honeymoon pictures up.  Now everyone. . .stop complaining!

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Software upgrades. . ./facepalm

June 29th, 2008

Ugh. . .that was torture.  Not only am I nursing a mild hangover (you people at the wedding need to learn to drink more beer), I just spend the past 2 hours upgrading and then fixing the blog.  For some odd reason the WPG2 Plugin (the one that links the photo gallery to the blog) didn’t want to work properly.  I got it fixed, but to be honest I don’t know exactly what I did to fix it.

Anyway, we are going to go see Wall-E in a bit, after that we will post up all the pictures from the wedding and the honeymoon.  Then maybe I can get back to playing GTAIV some more.

EDIT: Errrrrrrrrrr. . .maybe it’s not fully fixed yet. . .GRRRR

EDIT #2:  After playing around for a long while, we changed a few things and updated some stuff.  A few small tweaks to do and everything should be set.