About to roll out the new server
I’m still not sure about the new server, and I’m dreadfully afraid of alienating readers, but then, a number of folks who write in are not worried about alienating me, so there’s that to consider.
If it goes like it’s supposed to, sometime late Monday night, I’ll pop the new numbers into the machine and see what happens. I know the order form is still broken, but frankly, I could care less. It’s not like there’s been any business lately. Then there’s the mailing list, and the subscription information. So far, it’s taken a whole weekend and there’s still one piece to the puzzle that’s missing. Plus, if this new server doesn’t start performing a little better, I’ll just have to do something else. It will be another 28 days before I could launch a site again.
The current weekly scopes, on the new server, are one click down from the front page. Still automated, and the problem is, the new server reads West Coast time. So the scopes don’t roll over until 2:00 AM local time.
Complaints? Forget it.
Greg did about ten minutes worth of work, and I owe him “just a couple of beers,” for his efforts, but the tiny script works like magic. In many different forms.
I was a little pissed, though, see, I’d gone by the apartment’s office to put in a two extra hours of work, and in doing so, I also tried to access the new server through an AOL Windows dialup account. Didn’t work.
One of my Gemini friends was in town with her beau, a delightful Sagittarius lad. The picked me up at the other office and trucked me on over to Book People. While I was waiting in line for coffee, I read the store’s history on the wall. In 1995, “it was the largest bookstore in the USA,” or so they claim.
I wandered home after making a single purchase, something I’ve been meaning to get for weeks now, William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. Wish I could justify it better., but I do like his style.
Strange, how whatever it is that I’m reading at the moment (three books, not counting the bus riding text), influences what I write.
