Sorry to anyone that tried to visit the site for the last week or so. I upgraded the web server to Ubuntu 8.10 last week and things did not go well. Finally, late last night I was able to fit in some time to address the issues and get the ship upright again. These sort [...]
This site was down for about 20 hours since yesterday afternoon (i.e., 9/17/08) while I upgraded my Ubuntu server. It was kind of scary to rebuild it from scratch, but I want to get a Bugzilla instance and SVN repository set up and the old OS had reached EOL. My apologies to anyone who tried [...]
I just updated the CMS for the website late last week and just realized shortly after that none of the permalinks were working correctly. A little research along with some elbow grease fixed the problems and things are back to normal. Also, it’s been a long hiatus since I last posted. Hopefully, I get into [...]
As a volunteer and all around fun open source web app project I have been working on enhancing the Leadville Trail 100 race series reporting capabilities. I competed in the Silver Rush 50 MTB last year and was quickly hooked by the compelling high altitude scenery. From the course to the competitors it [...]
It’s been almost three full months now since I have switched my main home PC to a Mac. In a word I am very happy with the switch. The general consensus was the Dell Latitude D620 laptop that my wife and I were sharing for a year and three months was becoming a [...]
Have been busy the last few days making some minor modifications to the site. Improvements include shaping up the primary menu, adding resume in PDF format, making sense of the about page, fixing various broken HTML pieces, validate XHTML, and adding some underlying WordPress plugins to banish SPAM from the comments (i.e., very few [...]
For over a year I have been working on a redesign of my local parish website, Holy Trinity Catholic Church. I have put in some heavy time here and there, but nothing consistent. We are building a blog style site founded on the Drupal CMS with tag categories for Church bulletin, religious education, news [...]
It is about time. After years of talking about it and setting out at least twice before and then for various reasons abandoning it is finally done - online presence established. WordPress is treating me great so far. Total time was about three days to get a handle on the basic ins [...]