Connor had his 1st birthday last month and since I’m not importing any of the contents of my old blog’s right away I felt like he needed to be included in one of the first posts. What else can I say, him and his mother are my life.
It’s catching
It seems abcnews.com had the same idea (but probably long ago) to change the entire look of their site too. For me that’s going to take more getting used to than the new look of my own site.
Everything’s in need of an overhaul at some point – just to keep it fresh. In fact I got the idea of relocating my entire site and redoing the entire blog based on the fact that I was not at all happy with the old site. It was way too boring. The movement and adaptation of all the local web services was an afterthought. I’m much happier with the new look now that my template is pretty much done. And the speed seems to be much better as my site used to spend a lot of time waiting in line for the SQL server at totalchoicehosting.com. They received my cancellation notice today.
Apache, MySQL, WordPress
All of these applications and database are now running on my machine at home, serving this site to the web. No more web hosting ever again for me thanks to no-ip.com – dynamic DNS all the way from now on. Sorry Time Warner.
The WordPress template I’m using needs a lot of work but I’m just happy I got a new router, firewall, and this site up in under one day. Never again will I need to FTP files. My total cost for running this site is $45 a year including the domain registration.