PolarLava::Blog

I've now converted the weather feeds on my Hawaii page to use my weather class instead of the RSS Weather feed I had been using.

Ever since I switched from the old SETI@HOME project to the the BOINC project, I've been wanting to replace the SETI stats with the BOINC stats.  For a variety of reasons —mostly time, I hadn't done so.  Well, as of now you will note the new "BOINC" link in the navigation menu.  Bet you'll never guess what that link is!  ;)

You might have noticed that things look  just a bit different around here!  ;)  If you haven't…well then you must be blind and or using a screen reader.  In any case, it was time for something new and I've finally gotten a decent logo (via Rob) from Erik Eggleston at Eggleston Design.  So I've now rethemed everything to coordinate with the colors in the logo.  You should note a new icon in your brower's address bar also.  I think I've weeded out all of the old color scheme, but let me know if you stumble across anything odd.  I may tweak things a bit, but for the most part I think it's pretty well "there".  Feedback is always welcome.

Whoo ha!  It's been three years now that I've been spewing out this pointless, self-serving drivel.  Hopefully you're enjoying it…I think I am!  ;)

December 9, 2005
And if you're now reading this, my migration to A2 Web Hosting has succeeded!  It's likely that there are a few things that may be broken, so bear with me over the next couple of days whilst I sort it all out.

— December 5, 2005
Things will probably be pretty quite here this week as I prepare to switch over my hosting Friday evening.

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As much as I didn't want to have to do it, I've decided to move my website again.  I've signed up and begun reconfiguring my website at A2 Web Hosting.

Although my current hosting provider runs fast servers and does a good job of staying on top of security issues, they have been increasingly unresponsive to support requests.  I've had a couple of issues in the past couple of months that have not been acknowledged or remedied.  I'm not sure what has happened with them, but I used to get very timely and positive responses to my support requests.  And I don't think it's because I'm constantly whining about things, I'm not.  I've been here for two years now and other than some initial issues, I haven't spoken to them until the past couple of months.  That's not acceptable to me and that's the first reason I'm packing up and moving.

The other reason for my move is because I want to be on a server with PHP5 on it.  I had volunteered to be guinea pig for it with my current provider, but my offer was not acknowleged.  And then more recently I entered into a discussion to consider porting PolarBlog to PostgreSQL.  This is something I am interested in doing as well as increasing my general knowledge, so I then needed a host which would also provide that.  Thus in addition to my current requirements, I needed a host that had both PHP5 and PostgreSQL support.  I found only a few affordable choice and A2 Web Hosting quickly became the clear option.  As an added bonus they also support Ruby on Rails should I start looking at that…something else I'd like to do.

So, sometime in the next month, PolarLava will be on the move.  And if I can find the time, it will come out on the other side with a new look.  But that may need to wait a bit…time will tell.