BURNINGBIRD
a node at the edge  


October 31, 2002
ConnectingWired

Good and bad bits. First the good:

I received my early Christmas present and am now the proud owner of a Netgear wireless router. Both Linksys and Netgear had good ratings and recommendations, but I found that Netgear was rated a tad better for installation ease.

Easy! I was finished networking three laptops to a wireless router in twenty minutes. And it works beautifully. I'll have to check out the range outside tomorrow, look up the warchalk symbols and chalk up my neighborhood. Thanks to you who provided good suggestions and recommendations.

I also found a new host. After looking around I decided to go with Hosting Matters. They're highly rated and provide good value for the money. In particular, the bandwidth was better than most providers. The other recommendations were good, but Hosting Matters met our needs the best. Thanks to all those folks kind enough to make suggestions.

For moving the webogs, instead of trying to use Movable Type's import/export procedure, I'm using MySql's mysqldump utility to dump the database. I tested this out moving the weblog from my FreeBSD server to my laptop and had no problems. I'm still following Jonathon's "born again blog" approach, but I'll hold on the re-birth process until after I move to the new server.

Now the bad news: I didn't get a job I was hoping to get. I gather that the group was concerned about my having been unemployed for almost a year -- working on three books just doesn't cut it here in Missouri. Neither does weblogging experience, and screwing with RSS and RDF, or my other tinkerings. A bit frustrating because I didn't choose to be unemployed -- it just kind of happened.

I'm still up for another gig, but not sure if the down time is going to be a concern for them, too. I hope not. Sincerely hope not.

This has me tense, stressed, very worried, and I'm sorry to say, a whole lot crankier than my usual firey self. And more than a little depressed. So, time to take a few days, work on the server move, the book, and generally have some quiet time.

However, I will leave you some pretty pictures to look at, once I get them packaged.

Next week then.


Posted by Bb at October 31, 2002 08:38 PM


Trackback Count (0)

Comments

I'm sorry about the job, Bb. I hope the other gig comes through for you.

Those schmoes who turned you down don't know what they're missing.

Posted by: Dorothea Salo on October 31, 2002 09:32 PM

Ditto.

Strange people who don't think that writing books might qualify you as an "expert."

So, burningbird is going to be a phoenix. Strangely appropriate.

Posted by: Loren on October 31, 2002 09:48 PM

Sorry about the job, Bb. As Dorothea says, here's hoping the other one comes through.

I'm glad you're happy with the Netgear. I was going to suggest Netgear but, because I don't have a wireless setup, I decided to butt out. But I love my Netgear Firewall/Router -- it's the best value piece of computing equipment I've ever bought.

Posted by: Jonathon Delacour on October 31, 2002 11:54 PM

Unfortunately, the second one looks like a no go -- if they don't call by week end, it's usually a bust. And other jobs I've been submitted to are now on hold for year end. But no use grousing because no one wants to hire you, right?

BTW, if you can read these comments, you're now viewing the weblog at its new home.

Dorothea, I agree with you. As tempermental as I may be in this weblog, I'm actually a very good worker, and a decent team player. Decent at mentoring, too.

Loren -- I know, the concept of 'phoenix' is fitting, isn't it?

Jonathon, the Netgear is quite nice. Practically installed itself.


Posted by: Shelley on November 2, 2002 10:17 PM


Post a comment

Name:


Email Address:


URL:


Comments:


Remember info?