Woozle/to do/archive/2006-2007

What Woozle Is Doing Right Now

Entries are most recent first; to read in order, start at the end.

Overview

• Catching up on work lost due to hard drive failure.
• Moving web sites off old 233 MHz web server with senile MySQL installation onto newer, less expensive server, where possible, before they too get corrupted.

Today

• 16:31, 3 Jul 2005 (EDT): While searching for an image which I needed in order to get a particular thing done and off my desk, I found the hang-tag images which I thought might have been lost in migrating from Windows to Linux. So I've been reorganizing images (because there was a lot of other stuff in that same area which really belonged elsewhere), and getting B&Z ready for swimming with Grandma Dorothy, and now it's just about time to go get Sunday dinner (assuming Costco isn't closed early for July 4).
• 09:58, 3 Jul 2005 (EDT): Trying to decide if I should renew glxp.com. Wrote proposed Domain Resale Code of Ethics.
• 09:14, 3 Jul 2005 (EDT): One of the thumbnails still won't show up, but I've decided it's good enough (maybe a cache somewhere just needs to expire) and have pointed wiki.vbz.net at the new server.

Meanwhile, this morning I was thinking of names for a hypothetical multi-wiki site. The first thing that came to mind was "wikimonster", which is pretty good and suggests a great logo -- a cookie-monster-ish creature eating one of the brackets by which it is surrounded -- but is a bit long to use for multiple subdomains. Then I thought maybe "wikimon", as a short form alias for wikimonster... and then I thought "wikim", even shorter, but then that suggested "wikem" (like "sic'em"), which is even shorter and doesn't require a longer form (but how do you make a logo for that? A dog chasing a wiki flower? Chasing brackets? More complicated and not as cute.)

But okay, wikimonster.com is taken (not .net or .org). wikimon.com is available; wikim.com is taken (not .net or .org), and wikem.com is also taken (not .net or .org). So do I get one of those in .net/.org form, or maybe base it off hypertwins.org (htwiki.org and htwik.org are both available) or glxp.com, even?

• 08:18, 3 Jul 2005 (EDT): Still in the "getting up" process, but Pip hopped up on the sink so I thought it best to go make an entry so he would go away. Today: finishing move of vbzwiki.

What Woozle Was Doing Earlier

2005-07-02

• 21:28, 2 Jul 2005 (EDT): Rotten headache most of the day, so didn't get much done -- but it mysteriously cleared up around suppertime (not that I'd eaten anything, and I still have a bit of a sore throat) and since then I've started moving the vbzwiki over to the newer-cheaper-faster server. Should be able to get it fully moved tomorrow morning. Going to bed now.
• 10:18, 2 Jul 2005 (EDT): Feeling rather crappy due to mild throat cold. Mowed lawn anyway, because it was overdue. Processing in-stock orders.

2005-07-01

• 17:51, 1 Jul 2005 (EDT): And then we decided (at Mel's invitation) to finally watch The Return of the King (extended DVD). This may seem frivolous, given all the other stuff we needed to do today, but you have to understand the following:
  • We've had the DVD since before Christmas
  • Neither of us got to see it in the theatre -- there were no show times where it ended before kid-pick-up time
  • This is the one movie we've really wanted to see for the past year or so

...so basically, if we didn't take this opportunity, who knows when we'd actually get around to seeing it. (As it was, we had to watch the last 20 minutes after picking up B & Z.)

And don't even ask about the hassles of trying to pin down a date when we can have the kids watched (ferried to & from camp, fed) so we can both go down to Athens next week to view the court documents. Also don't ask me why I don't just go by myself, because if you ask I'll tell you. And then you'll be sorry.

• 08:42, 1 Jul 2005 (EDT): Got all the images working. Oop, gotta go do Friday Morning Errands. *zoop*

Earlier Months

• June, 2005