Posts from — January 2008

So, to make a long story very short, my host of 5+ years decided to make some pretty big changes to their service, pricing, and level of access. Business wise it’ll be good for them, they can attract tons of SOHO’s to their service with lots of push-button services and “security”. All at the touch of a button.Well, the touch of a button thing is really a dirty lie, but besides that, their five 9’s reliability had plummeted to maybe two 5’s. Time to move on.I did a quick survey and found Dreamhost to have the right price, a good promo, and all the right features for the purposes of this project.

Additionally, have the flexibility to spread my wings a bit is nice, more on that next week. Even though there have been some very public typographical errors on their part in recent history, that level of transparency that they so dutifully maintain is what just convinced me to join on in.So let’s pretend for now that this is a new age, and we can all kick back our chairs, sip on some ice tea, and dream of spring and WWDC.

Hooray!

So we’re off to another great year here at the University of Tennessee and I’m one more semester close to graduation. I’ve decided to go ahead and go for the minor in Information Sciences. If we had a major I would have switched to that long ago, but since that isn’t available this will have to do.

On that note, IS 102, the introduction to the IS minor is interesting. I won’t lie, it’s far too basic for me. We’re starting on what computers are and not going too terribly far from that. Computer Science 102 and 160 both taught me more than this class can, but the context is certainly different which makes it not a complete waste of time. In either case it’s unavoidable at this point in time since the professor responsible for the minor left but a few months ago. We’ll make this interesting however. As versed as I am in Django, I have not had a chance to fiddle with Drupal. So I’ll be taking some class related time in the coming weeks to develop some Drupalie stuff. Good times. [Read more →]