The Tewksbury SpedPAC had a meeting last night. It went very well in spite of the fact that I had to speak about the web site stuff I’ve been working on on their behalf. Public speaking is not my forte and talking tech to non-techies can be tough, particularly when you leave your […]

So begins my theme design work. I like the colors and imagery, but the columns are too narrow. I also dislike the sidebar layout. I’m leaning towards something more dynamic and interactive. More to come…
Update: For a first draft w/o any Javascript support, I like it. I wanted the […]

As you can see, I’m in a grand mood at the moment. While the built-in phpBB admin database dump failed to work on the Barscape database, the phpmysql script provided by the old web hosting provider did the trick. 49MB of data was extracted to my laptop, which I then FTP’d up to […]

Well, that turned out to be somewhat less than optimal. I can’t backup the barscape.net forum because my old web hosting provider doesn’t host the database locally. It hosts it on another server. The database is large enough such that the database connection times out mid-backup and the PHP code isn’t robust […]

So, I spent the waking hours of last evening prepping the new server and moving my files from the old hosting provider to the new one. All told, I must’ve moved something like 150-200MB of compressed data. Some of it is quite dated, the cruft of obsolete code methodologies and projects. Now […]

Well, I’ve got a lot to do.
First off, while the default theme is certainly useful, it’s also dull as paint. I’ll install and modify a new one soon.
Since, I’ve also signed on with a new web hosting provider (DreamHost), I’ll be migrating my other domains to the new provider over the next few days. […]

So this is it. The blogosphere. (settles into a comfy chair) Not bad. Not bad at all.
Life is strange. There are times when you see the big events coming a mile away and then there are times when they sneak up and smash in your kneecaps, leaving you hobbling along […]