Host hunting

Looks like I’ll need to find some hosting for my blog and gallery somewhere. Seeing has how some of the stuff I need to access from outside the hospital is personal stuff, that probably doesn’t jive with the hospital’s acceptable use policy and would be tough to justify.

Moving will mean another pain in the butt and mean more breakage in the blog though. I’ll have to come up with a migration plan.

I see Jared has an ad for Dreamhost on his site, and Matthew suggested Linode. I’ll have to go through the MT forum and wiki to see what recommended hosts are out there that can handle MT decently.

Had a look at what Linode has to offer. Interesting concept in hosting. They provide you with a VM of pretty much any OS distro you want, so you can do whatever you like with it. It’s a little pricey though, but it’s like having your own dedicated server instead of sharing and having to work around an existing configuration. Since they just provide the hosting, I’d have to register a domain from somewhere else.

Dreamhost provides a goodly amount of storage and bandwidth (unlimited promo going on right now) at a pretty reasonable cost, but on shared servers so MT might suffer. They also do domain registrations too, which is a plus. One stop shopping.

I’m sure I’ll run into a few more before the week is out.

Engage the cloak!

Ok, it seems that a couple of days ago, my server got pushed back behind the firewall at work so now I’m effectively invisible and can’t access several projects I’ve been working on unless I’m at work. The server is working just fine, and I have no problem getting to it from work. I just can’t see it from anywhere outside of work.

I suspect third party interference in this but will refrain from spreading gossip about it.

Now to go see what can be done about this. May be invisible for a time while things get sorted out. Some rearranging might be required.

Update: Had one of the PACS guys check with one of the network people and the server is still outside the firewall. Looks like something else is going on. May have to relocate my blog, gallery, wiki and e107 site.

Beach bum Stanley

A vet appointment for Nala this morning gave me the perfect excuse to take the morning off and head to the beach with Stanley and the dogs before going to the vet. So off we went to the Washout area at Folly Beach. It was just before high tide, so there wasn’t much beach area to speak of so we just stood and watched and listened to the waves.



Then we went over to the Folly Beach fishing pier where there was a little more beach to wander around on. Unfortunately the fishing pier has a no dogs rule, so we couldn’t go for a walk on the pier.


Off to the vet. Nala has this quarter sized patch that she’s been scratching at so I wanted to get it checked out because she’s losing hair there now. Stanley’s checking out what the vet tech is scribbling down in Nala’s chart.

Peeking through the door into the secret back area

Waiting patiently on the exam room table

And that brings an end to Stanley’s adventures in Charleston with me. He’s at the mail box now waiting for Mail Guy to pick him up, but before packing him up I included a package of Nala and Simba’s favourite cookies from The Good Dog Bakery for Stanley to share with the dogs at his next stop.

It’s not hair, it’s a condiment

Found in the sig of a lab-retriever.net forum member

If the recipe doesn’t include a few lab hairs…it ain’t complete.

Stanley visits Waterfront Park

After hitting the dog park after work today, I decided to take the dogs for a walk down to Waterfront Park on the Charleston Peninsula. It was a very nice evening for a walk


Stanley at the Pineapple fountain.



Then we headed out onto the boardwalk to enjoy the view and some of the orange-y-ness of the sunset