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.
New Job Started
I’m breaking off from prepping my files and finding where I stashed all my tools
and collecting and optimizing images for the new site. I have to go walk the dog before A. gets home and biitches at me for neglecting him. And since we already had one fight today I’d like to avoid another.
The weirdest thing: the new job’s site is hosted by Purehost…I’m not sure if this is so great.I know I can’t use mysql there.I know Purehost’s foibles all too well after working on another site hosted by them. ‘m still that site’s webmaster and so I keep pretty up to date with what I can and can’t do there.Pretty much anything that has session start will load super slow.
But even html files go slow sometimes or take a long time to load
I’ll write more about it later.I’m going to be really in the weeds for a long time til I get my framework figured out.But I’m happy to be doing a new job. After twiddling my thumbs for a week I’m ready to work.