Regular (or even semi-regular) readers will notice that everything has been shut down around here for nearly two weeks. My hosts moved their DNS server addresses, but neglected to make this known to me, so joshie.surber.us hasn’t been pointing at the right server. Worse, everytime I filled out a support ticket, I was told that it “should be working now”. I finally guessed what was wrong my damn self.

Today we are moving. It is going to suck since we have a lot of stuff that is heavy and our muscles are sore, but we gotta do what we gotta do. We have until Tuesday to get out, but we aren’t gonna be doing anything on Halloween, as that is Jennifer’s favorite holiday.

My host seems to have munged their bind settings, so subdomains aren’t working at all, not even www.surber.us. I have temporarily moved everything, and may wind up doing so permanently anyway, but it still sucks as joshie.surber.us is the domain I have given everyone and every site to use. Not to mention I would like to keep all my personal writing (such as it may be) where it isn’t easily found by future potential employers searching for my name. Oh well.

I also got rid of my skins… I now force the Star Trek look upon you. Sorry if you don’t like it, but I doubt many people changed it anyway. I haven’t tested it in Internet Exploder recently, so if anyone uses that and can mail a screenshot to me (joshie@surber.us) I would appreciate it.

I also cleaned up my CSS and am now a big fan of CSSTidy (with an online interface available for you webdevs).

I just got my review at work. I ranked pretty average, which pisses me off, but Home Depot makes it just about impossible for anyone to get better. I will try to on my next one though.

My anniversary is on 29 October, and I have requested a four day weekend for it. My anniversary at work is 14 November, so I won’t have any vacation time until after my wedding anniversary, but I sure can cheat. I am taking my vacation the week after Thanksgiving.

Again, I point out my birthday on 4 October, and again I link to my Froogle wishlist. Hint hint.

View my photo album at picasaweb.google.com/joshiesurber/. And be sure to add it to your bookmarks, subscribe to the RSS feed, flag me as a friend if you have a Google account, et cetera et cetera.

I just can’t wait for the Mac version of Picasa so I can manage photos even easier. For the first time I am envious of you Windoze people. (Not by much, though).

And everyone quit posting comments that you want photos, dammit!

On Star Trek, LCARS is the Library Computer Access and Retrieval System, and has one of the most beautiful interfaces ever designed. It may be a work of fiction, but there are lots of places you can enjoy it now. My favorite is LCARSnet, though it requires Flash. It is well worth installing Flash if you don’t have it, though.

If you are viewing this on Lynx, you will notice another improvement; I am now using markup that is more logical to the end user than the browser. This may make it more difficult for a browser to recognize a list of navigational links as a list, but is that worth making “alternative” browser users to scroll through half a page to get past my navigation? I really don’t think so. (An attitude I believe I first heard thrown in under a positive light by Aaron Broodman — yes, that Aaron Broodman — though it may have been Scott or Cameron ; I don’t remember.

Anyway, enjoy! And let me know about any problems you have.

And welcome to the future!

I am migrating back on my home computer, and when I am done it will go back online. I would still recommend WP for anyone who is setting up their first blog and doesn’t require their own templates, but as I regularly redesign my site, I defiantly want the template-editing power of TextPattern.

I got my first speeding ticket the other day, for going 54 in a 40. I am going to take a defensive driving class, so hopefully it will go away.

Soon I hope to have a new job, driving the trucks that deliver the donuts and such to 7-Eleven. It is supposedly easy and pays almost $15 an hour.

I am kind of back online… I still don’t have internet at home, but they have it at the library and now that I don’t have to jump through hoops to post, I will more often. (I say that a lot, don’t I?)

I haven’t set up any pretty templates yet, though, so it doesn’t look like my site yet. I’m working on that.

I work at 7-Eleven now. I like it so far, although I preferred Shell.

Being noncreative, I borrowed it from OSWD, but of course… it has been heavily modified. The HTML was valid but not semantic, so I had to update almost every selector in the file.

One day, I will make Emily happy and put up a skin that uses images. But not today.

Some day…

No longer.