journaling: enabled

… trying to be more regular about posting.  :D  I’ve corrected the comments form issue.  I like the way this theme looks, but I’m not a big fan of how it handles fonts (default is serif fonts in very small sizes … I think the designer must have 40/20 vision or something like that).  Anyway, I’m sure it will continue to be tweaked.

I pulled the feed out of facebook this evening because I’m not sure I’m comfortable with it sucking in all my posts and keeping them.  Not that I want to hide them from my facebook friends … I’d just far rather Facebook didn’t suck the content in for its own.

Two days of work done this week already.  It’s flying by.  Monday started out like a “Monday” … and not in a good way.  A couple of little crises to deal with at work but nothing that couldn’t be handled.  Today was a day full of meetings.  I basically spent 5 hrs in meetings today.  Thankfully my day started out really productive so it wasn’t a loss.  Tomorrow I don’t have a lot going on so hopefully will be able to get more documentation done for our Active Directory project as well as make some progress on building our web sandbox.

On the home front, I had hoped to do some updates on the church website but the Internet connection was being ornery, so I punted that for the evening.  I think I need to get someone out here to figure out if it’s a cable or our connection or what.  It’s been pretty flakey since mid-August.  They (BTI) have replaced some equipment on their end but it still flakes out a little now and then.  Tomorrow I need to call up the hosting company for the church website and talk down the price.  We’re currently paying about $30/month for hosting … but new people can sign up for a better plan for $8.95/month.  Saving the church money would be good.  Speaking of church, I’m also researching video recording equipment for church services.  I keep waffling back and forth about what route to go though.

I decided today that it has really been too long since I’ve gotten together with Rich.  We need to catch up on what’s going on in our lives and “talk shop”.  I also need to get him over to the house to see if he can help me out with my FreeBSD booting problem … it boots, but it needs some geeky assistance to do so since I did some hard drive swapping.

Today started way too early (5:20). Was hoping to get a decent nap in today but had nappus interruptus after about 1/2 an hour …. and a power nap wasn’t going to cut it today. It’s now 11:15pm. The child has been very frustrating today. If tonight doesn’t go well, I’m probably going to be very groucny (even more so than I am now). Thank God that my work experience has given me a fair amount of patience.

Most of today and yesterday (a day off) was spent producing a DVD of our church Christmas program. Yesterday was editing, today was making DVDs … I had about 50 requests. While writing DVDs I poked at drupal a little bit as a possibility for the church website. Last year I spent Thanksgiving break re-writing the website because I wasn’t happy with any of the CMS packages that were available and I wanted other people to be able to contribute content. Now the site has been online that way a little over a year and I have yet to have another person post something. So much for that effort. So now I’m thinking it may be useful to have a forum, but I don’t want to write a module for one myself.

Work has been hectic. We’re gearing up to start moving off one of our major file servers to a new file system that’s WebDAV-based (Xythos Digital Locker). That will involve moving about 700GB worth of files for at least 7000 people. We’re running into deadline crunch time (needs to be completed by start of Spring term) so I haven’t been following up on the lower priority tasks that are part of the project.

Well, the daughter appears to be sleeping now so I’m going to go try and do the same.

So I took a bit of a break from working on our church website. I’ve been trying to wrestle Joomla into what I want to make the site more useful to our congregation. Unfortunately I ran into a bizarre error on it today when I decided to go back to working on it and log in, I now get an error that I’m not authorized to view the content (as an admin no less!). Anyway, I’m thinking of biting the bullet and coding what I want myself. The two big things I want are the ability for members to submit news postings or articles, and a nice calendar.