Tonight I did something I've been meaning to do for many months. I updated my work/resume/consulting web site. If you would like to check it out it is located here.

The last two days I completely re-worked the pictures archive on the site. We are now running Gallery. I haven’t updated the rest of the site yet or the older web log entries to represent this change but it is in place and the main page navigation bar should take you there.

Since there are approximately fifteen gigs in photos it is taking a significant amount of time to import them all. Between that and having to deal with bugs (like my camera naming Jpegs with an extension of JPE, which gallery doesn’t like) it has become quite a bit larger project than I originally anticipated. I am also taking this opportunity to clean out years of thumbnails and other garbage that has built up in the photo directories.

As of right now I’m about halfway through importing 2003 photos and will continue to import the other photos as time permits. From an overall perspective I’m about 30% done importing photos. Hopefully I should be able to finish up tomorrow evening.

Please let me know if you run into any issues.

Tonight I spent a couple of hours migrating to Polarblog and tweaking the main template for the web site. It is far from done but at least the basics are now in place.

Things won't look terribly consistent until I get it all fixed but we're on our way so please forgive.

Jeff in his sexy-ass 1980's glasses (yes, they really are from the 80s but I've told him to paint the sides blue and tell people they match his boat):

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After a couple days of spending time here and there dinking with a new weblog authoring software I have pretty much decided to move away from Personal Web Log to PolarBlog. It was built to be backward compatible and is supported by someone who used PWL before he decided to bail and do his own thing.

So far I'm really happy with it. As I find time over the coming days I'll start the process of migrating the main site over to it but for now you can see the "beta" deployment I have put up at this location.

Check it out, send me your hate mail if you wish and then go about your daily business . I know I haven't been a good blogger recently and given you daily updates of every little thing that happens in my life. If it means anything to you all I have cleaned my fishtank and spent some time last night reorganizing my living room with Laura and a new friend named Stacey so I haven't been a complete slacker.

With that being said go forth and multiply..

Today the network underwent a fairly major change. I moved the server over to a new cable modem and in the process had to change the static IP address. With this it required a bunch of DNS changes and things so I fully expect most of you will not be able to get to the web site for the next 4-12 hours. This is a bummer but something that had to be done eventually so I decided to do it sooner rather than later since I’m on vacation right now and have the time to mess with it.

Biking:

Yesterday Chris and I went out to Crescent Lake and biked up to the lake. Only about a 13 mile ride but it was fun. Due to something I ate before we started or some other random sickness it was pretty miserable for me for the first half of the trip. By the time we reached the top I had recovered and had a pleasurable trip down. The entire event including stopping in Soldotna at the Dairy Queen on our way back took about 12 hours primarily due to the driving involved in this expedition. I took some pictures but they haven’t been uploaded yet.

DinoTurtle?

Quote of the Day:

People who use car phones annoy other drivers. –Crazy People/1990