Back in Business!
After six months off the air, this blog is online once more. One day last summer, I suddenly found that I could no longer post to my Typo blog. I tried uninstalling, reinstalling, updating, backing up, moving, renaming, and doing everything else I could think of to resurrect my “post” ability. Sure, you could still see the whole blog, but that was just because a backup copy was still available.
Fast forward to today. I decided to give up and rip the whole thing out. I updated Apache, spent hours reading up on FastCGI, mod_fcgid, Rails, and finally found Mongrel. Turns out Mongrel is awesome. Within 5 minutes of making the decision to switch to Mongrel, I’m authoring this post.
Could I have found more interesting things to do with my Saturday evening? Sure. Would I have it any other way? Absolutely not. In the last three hours, I’ve learned all sorts of things about Windows, Apache 2.2, and even more about Rails.
Thanks go out to Donn Lewis, who reminded me that this thing was still up and a bit stale (I’m going to go right now and update the Duke Lacrosse post I made a year ago).
What have I been up to for the past six months, you ask? Well, I read reddit frequently. I’m still working at McDonogh (just signed my contract for 2007-2008 with a 4% raise). I’m selling my ownership in Kudda and trying to drum up more freelance business. I’m also looking to move, not because I don’t love where I’m living, but because I’d like to move in with friends. More on the search to buy a house later.
In 2007, thus far, I have been to Vermont, New York, Philadelphia, North and South Carolina, and New Orleans (summary | photos). On Thursday, I’m off to Houston for Beer Bike. The best part about all of this is that I paid for travel on only one of those trips. Hooray for being a high school chaperone!
Now I’m off to find a new look for this crusty old blog. Nothing says “fresh” like an unnecessary facelift!