IGN Column: Nintendo is Lazy and You Don’t Care – Wii feature – at IGN

Published on December 12th, 2009 - 9:08 am

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Column: Nintendo is Lazy and You Don’t Care – Wii feature – at IGN.

Great editorial on Nintendo.  Sums up why I don’t own a Wii.  Quite frustrating, good thing Mass Effect 2 comes out soon :) .

“Godfather of Spam” goes to prison for four years

Published on November 24th, 2009 - 9:11 pm

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“Godfather of Spam” goes to prison for four years.

That made my day.

No More Diapers

Published on November 16th, 2009 - 8:42 pm

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Just a quick blurb to let the world know that the Kephart household is now officially a diaper free zone. Go Ali!

Server Migration Complete

Published on October 25th, 2009 - 8:40 pm

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joshandmeg.net is now officially migrated from my shared hosting account on Site5 to my own server, affectionately dubbed ‘Cortana’ (technically cortana.keppynet, where keppynet is my network name at home, and cortana is… ).

Since you’re still reading, I’m assuming you want all the nitty-gritty details.  All in all, it went remarkably well, much better than I expected.  WordPress just required a few variable changes in a config file to point to my new database and user on Cortana.  Gallery required pretty much the exact same thing settings wise, but migrating files is where Gallery really took forever.  We’ve amassed quite a photo collection, and moving roughly 5 GB from Site5 to Cortana took most of the night.

Other than the file downloading, nothing else really took much time at all.  In fact, if it didn’t take a day or so for DNS changes to propagate to all the master servers, I think I only would have been off-line for about an hour.  Pretty good for my first big migration :) .  Did any of you even hit my ‘joshandmeg.net is currently offline’ page?

If you’ve got some time, click around and make sure everything still works, I’m sure I probably missed something.  One thing I did leave out purposely is the photo blog.  It hasn’t seen much activity recently, and with the upgrade to Gallery 3 I’m thinking I’ll probably just retire it.  Everything else should be fully functional though.  Let me know if you see anything broken and how the speed is in comparison to before.

Now, on to the second phase of the joshandmeg.net 3.0 project, Graphic Design (that’s you Meg ;) ).