Well, it looks like the web hosting move was fairly smooth. Much easier than I had thought it would be. I do think I forgot a few things on the old server and I didn’t note my old IP address… dumb. I’m hoping Yoshi still has that.
We had our fifth of six baby classes last night. They show the nastiest crap in the videos and pictures in that class. To hell with providing condoms or teaching sex education in our schools. Just show all of them these videos. They’ll never want to have babies. Ever.
Tomorrow evening we have our final walk-through of the house to see if everything that we requested has been completed before we close on Friday. Friday we put ourselves in enough debt to keep us shackled to St. Louis for the rest of our lives. Wonderful. Oh well, that’s the way it goes. Interest rates are higher now than when moved back to the States. The housing market sucks. To all of you who told us what a great time it would be to come back home because the car market and housing market were so great: YOU WERE WRONG. Unless of course you are in the market for a full size pickup truck and a “remodeler’s dream home”.
But hopefully we will be getting settled soon. Our sea shipment from Hong Kong will be delivered on Saturday and then our storage items will arrive on Monday morning. We need to get our utiliites sorted and get internet access in the house. It’s going to be crazy. And the baby is due any time now….
Just want to let everyone know that I’ll be switching over the DNS for the following web sites to match their new hosting server:
cybrpunk.com
A Little Scary
Cat and Muse
ShotSauce
My friend Yoshi is kicking me off his servers so I had to go get a new hosting package. The data looks like it’s all transferred as of yesterday but I can’t really test it till I get the domains pointing to the new locations.
The change will probably be kicked off overnight tonight. If anyone sees anything not working, please let me know.
UPDATE:
Looks like the DNS changes are underway. I had to repost today’s comic and this post. Yay! So far so good.
Yoshi over at Hello! Yoshi is having a contest this week which you should definitely check out. He’s been planning a contest for the Blogathon ever since the last Blogathon, but they have decided to cancel it this year. So what is Yoshi to do with his fabulous prizes that he bought for this event? He has two brand new MP3 players just itching to be given away. That’s the reason for the seemingly random contest.
The rules are simple and you only have till this coming Sunday to enter. So hurry up and head over to enter the contest today!
Do you like contests? I’m betting most people would answer yes. Even if I know I have no chance of winning or would prefer I not win (which would be wierd), my competitive spirit keeps me coming back for more. In the realm of the internet and blogging I’ve seen lots of different contests: photo contests, writing contests, guessing game contests, comment contests, etc and I’m sure there’s a million others out there I haven’t heard of or seen before.
So my question to you is: What is the best contest you have ever entered and why?
I signed up for Plurk a while back and have only made a half-hearted effort to interact with it. That is until today. Today I decided to play a little game with Plurk. I noticed that when browsing other people’s friends that it often shows what city and country that each person lives in. So I started clicking on people from other countries and seeing if they were actively using Plurk and if so I would send a friend request.
It’s simple and a bit silly, but I think it would be interesting to see the Twitter-like messages of people from all around the Earth. Sure not all of them will accept me as a friend and many of them don’t write in English but that’s OK. I can make out what some of them are saying in some cases and in other cases it probably doesn’t matter. I don’t think it’s possible to get friends in every single country in the world… but wouldn’t it be cool if you could?
If you are interested in signing up and haven’t yet, you should. http://www.plurk.com
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