The hosting situation is almost solved. I’ve got most of my personal site back online now courtesy of JTLNet.com, a Linux-based hosting firm I learned about via hosts.php.net. It’s a pretty good deal, considering you get PHP and MySQL access (essential tools for me these days). I’m going to sublet 5MB to The Tares so I can get their site back up.
Nancy now has a decent domain name to call it’s own: nancyband.com. We played last night and have an outdoor gig tonight at 7:00 p.m., assuming it doesn’t get rained out.
Work has been sending me on lots of campus visits lately, mostly to small universities in Oklahoma and Arkansas. That doesn’t sound too fun, but it gets me out of the office, which is a nice change of pace. Monday, some people are visiting our office to test drive our distance education workstations (which use MS NetMeeting along with some multimedia headsets and desktop cameras). We’re going to start using it in real-world situations this fall. Right now, it’s in the beta-testing stage but seems to be pretty groovy (the shared whiteboard is cool). Of course, being an open source/free software freak, I’ve been looking into how we can do it using Linux, on Mac, etc. :)
Not much else to tell. The funk I was in last week seems to be over now. Things are going okay. And a few big projects are quickly coming to an end, which means I’ll have some time to work on my coding projects.
I’m reading Last Orders by Graham Swift. It’s good (his Waterland is even better).