No doubt, you’ll have noted some changes to the web site.
On Monday evening I rented a newer, cheaper, server from Layered Tech, saving myself about $20 a month. I told them to keep the old server online until the end of the billing cycle, figuring I had about a week to pull my data off of the server and make sure this one worked ok.
The end of the billing period was yesterday. I scrambled to get the data off of my server and onto the new server before the folks over there obeyed my direction to “shut it off at the end of the billing cycle”. Yeah. That was smart, so I made some changes while I was at it.
The new server runs CentOS 5, a newer, more up-to-date version of CentOS. It includes all kinds of goodies under the hood that will likely go unnoticed by visitors and bystanders, but it will allow me to do some things that CentOS 4 was holding me back on, mostly with PHP and Ruby on Rails. I like tinkering with my computers, and having the interpreters that work with the software I want to play with helps.
I’ve also got an (almost) fully functional web server. I still need to edit the skin for this site a bit, as well as load all over the old blog posts (that’ll take a bit), but all in all, I’m pretty close to being done for now.
As far as the site is concerned, gone is the ever growing list of projects that I did not have enough time to document with its own set of articles, wiki entries, and blog entries. I realized that I put everything into the blog and can handle it with categories and tags rather than creating an increasingly chaotic wiki.
Let me know what you think. Old blog posts should be back up soon.
Photos may take a while.