Some New Changes

Hopefully soon All of my various pages will be under one roof and hosted by one host.
I have had to leave my “temp” host.I was asked to do so after asking him to set up a friend with a paid account.He said he didn’t want any more clients and that I should pack up my files and find hosting elsewhere,too.

Luckily for me he did have the name of a very good host and I went and signed up with them.That was the easy part.I have a dud site located on the angelfire network.I don’t really care about this site
at all.

I just want the domain name I registered with them.I’ve always taken any bad press with a grain of salt but a little googling did turn up some other folks who’d had a problem transferring their domains from lycos(angelfire is lycos). I am officially registered with Melbourne IT but they aren’t much help,either.I filled out a form is all I know.

I have to change the nameservers to my new hosts’.Bleh.So techy.
Then when that is all done I have to redirect everyone from those other sites to my one site.Bleh again as I am not sharp on the webmaster side of things.And this was what my former host meant when he said it would be a good learning experience for me.
I admit I was lazy before when I had the chance to learn about all this when my old host set me up.I was supposed to point my old angelfire address to the address he made for me but I didn’t.
I may end up having to reregister with Pow Web but they charge 15 dollars and I still have about 5 months left on my old domain…I think.

Do you laugh when people fall down?


I had an unfortunate incident today. I was walking my dog and had to pass a large group of people gathered outside a funeral home on Park ave.(in Bklyn).They didn’t seem all that put out that someone they knew was being laid to rest.In fact they seemed downright jolly;joking and laughing,someone’s recent death a chance to socialize…Anyway, I know that folks tend to be scared of my dog so I tried to be extra respectful and gave them a wide berth.I figured I’d act right even if they weren’t.We were crossing against the light and I began to run and Bozzio did what he usually does if I run when he’s on the leash: starting leaping and biting at the leash.It’s kind of a game we both like but this time he tripped me and I fell and landed on my palms and
skidded a bit on them for good measure.
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Errol Morris

Errol Morris has his own website.
When I have more time I’m going to check it out a bit more extensively.

You may have seen his excellent Fast,Cheap and Out of Control, Mr.Death or my favorite movie that’s based on real events set in Texas(my home town,woo!) A Thin Blue Line.I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this film. A lot,though. Rent it if you can find it. Probably NetFlix has it.Check out this page with all the movie covers for more info.

Moving day

Yesterday I gathered my courage and also mananged to supress my usually procrastinative nature and I signed up with a new web hosting CO.
I couldn’t get over how cheap it was:70 a year.&75 databases &a whole bunch of one-click installations.Joomla,Mambo,Wordpress & etc.I love having the option to install these big name products even if their innards kind of scare me.I fiddled briefly with Mambo and just backed away from it. I didn’t have to “get” it so I didn’t do much more than peek at the files.I did not find it brimming with userintuitive interface at all.
After I loaded all my files to the new host,
I had to enable CGI for my scripts to work but apart from that and changing paths to files it was really easy to transfer to Pow Web.I cheated and called customer support who walked me through the whole thing and even took the time to explain how to point a domain to another registrar or whatever it’s called.

I got a bit of a buzzkill when I first pasted in my new URL and got an error message…
I though crap! Now what? But I went to the forums and found out that it was just a matter of clicking enable CGI and waiting 6 hours for everything to update.Now my site looks just like it did. Which is total crap! I suck! Just kidding.I only say this because this past 2 weeks have been CSS bootcamp for me.
I have gotten a lot better at making stuff look the way I want it to.
A big source of inspiration was the website for the creator of SmoothGallery.
Naturally he’d have a kickass page.