I'll be ringing in 2020 tonight, and with then be heading to Louisiana for a few days of post-holiday vacation. As well as being the last post of 2019, this will also likely be my last entry for awhile. There are now officially less than three months remaining until Corinne's and my wedding, and preparing for that event is going to take up an increasing amount of my spare time between now and then (that, in fact, I one of the reasons we are heading to Louisiana this weekend).
But before I do that, a few housekeeping/meta-blogging items I've meant to take care of but haven't done so until now:
First, in keeping with a tradition of archiving family obituaries on this blog, I'm (finally) posting my grandfather Horace Gray's obituary, which I have retroblogged to the day of his passing, August 9, 2000. Hard to believe that he will have been gone twenty years this coming summer.
I'm also making a couple of changes to the blogroll on the right side of this page, starting with my college football links. Since Deadspin has been gutted by its new corporate overlords, it no longer warrants a link. The Every Day Should Be Saturday folks have moved on to the Banner Society (the final post on EDSBS - a dissertation combining life, college football and "Free Bird" - being absolutely epic), so I am replacing the former with a link to the latter.
Finally, and with a bit of sadness, I have deleted my "Dubai" blogroll. As much fun as it was to have played a (small) part of that city's blogosphere a dozen or so years ago, the simple fact is that Dubai is no longer part of my life. I was last there over seven years ago, I am no longer at a job that requires me to travel there, and I doubt I will be heading back there for any reason anytime soon. Furthermore, most of the blogs I linked to have either become dormant (an exception being Alexander McNabb's Fake Plastic Souks) or their writers have moved.
Everybody be safe tonight, and may you have a wonderful 2020!
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Friday, October 07, 2016
Thanks a lot, Google.
Sometime last week, Google made an update to their Blogger software that caused the links lists (aka, my "blogroll") on this site to disappear.
There was some discussion on Google tech forums that Google would restore this particular functionality, but that has not happened. I guess this means that at some point I am going to have to recreate a blogroll from scratch.
Yes, I know that Blogger is free, yadda yadda yadda... But this is a bit of a pain in the ass.
EDIT 10/10: The blogrolls have reappeared. Never mind.
Thanks for fixing this, Google.
There was some discussion on Google tech forums that Google would restore this particular functionality, but that has not happened. I guess this means that at some point I am going to have to recreate a blogroll from scratch.
Yes, I know that Blogger is free, yadda yadda yadda... But this is a bit of a pain in the ass.
EDIT 10/10: The blogrolls have reappeared. Never mind.
Thanks for fixing this, Google.
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Retroblogging
This blog didn't really begin in earnest until the late spring of 2006. However, I had been blogging for at least two years earlier, on my old, out-of-date website that I finally put out if its misery a couple of weeks ago.
There were some things I wrote on my first "blog" that I wanted to keep. For example, posts regarding Kirby's birth, posts about Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the exploits of the Cougars and the Astros, my trip to Japan, my very first trip to Dubai.
So I went through all of them, decided which ones I wanted to keep, and moved them to this blog. I backdated them to the date I originally published them on my old website. I generally cut and pasted them as they were originally written, only lightly editing them. I didn't even strip out the hyperlinks in many of them, even though a lot of them are now unfortunately dead.
I note at the bottom of each post the date they were "retroblogged" (today, August 23, 2015) and in many cases add a sentence or two to update what I wrote.
Thus, every entry now on this blog from 2004, all but one entry from 2005, and one entry from 2006 are imports from my old website. There are 40 of them in total. They all carry the "retroblog" tag.
Some what I think are the more noteworthy of these "retroblogs" are as follows:
July 18, 2004: Local homeowners complain about development in spite of Houston's lack of zoning
August 21, 2004: Kirby's birth
October 12, 2004: Astros get past the Atlanta Braves to win their first-ever postseason series
November 16, 2004: 2004 Presidential Election thoughts (aka, they both sucked)
November 22. 2004: The Coogs conclude a disappointing season
December 27, 2004: Houston experiences a White Christmas
March 15, 2005: Disco lives! at the University of North Texas library
April 25, 2005: Political instability continues in Ecuador as another president is forced out of office
September 8, 2005: Pondering the future of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
September 25, 2005: The disaster that was the Hurricane Rita evacuation
October 12, 2005: The "Kat-Rita Bowl:" Houston 35, Tulane 14 in Lafayette
October 20, 2005: The Astros are going to the World Series (and I'm going to Japan!)
December 7, 2005: College football teams that got Screwed and Shafted by bowl selection committees
December 10, 2005: Pictures and a review of my trip to Japan in October 2005
February 19, 2006: Pictures and a review of my trip to Dubai in January 2006
It was truly interesting to go back and read all of those old blog entries - many of which I hadn't looked at in years - to see how things were and what my life was like a decade ago.
There is still some material I saved from my old website that I might put on this blog in the future, but I probably won't be backdating them as I did with the above posts.
There were some things I wrote on my first "blog" that I wanted to keep. For example, posts regarding Kirby's birth, posts about Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the exploits of the Cougars and the Astros, my trip to Japan, my very first trip to Dubai.
So I went through all of them, decided which ones I wanted to keep, and moved them to this blog. I backdated them to the date I originally published them on my old website. I generally cut and pasted them as they were originally written, only lightly editing them. I didn't even strip out the hyperlinks in many of them, even though a lot of them are now unfortunately dead.
I note at the bottom of each post the date they were "retroblogged" (today, August 23, 2015) and in many cases add a sentence or two to update what I wrote.
Thus, every entry now on this blog from 2004, all but one entry from 2005, and one entry from 2006 are imports from my old website. There are 40 of them in total. They all carry the "retroblog" tag.
Some what I think are the more noteworthy of these "retroblogs" are as follows:
July 18, 2004: Local homeowners complain about development in spite of Houston's lack of zoning
August 21, 2004: Kirby's birth
October 12, 2004: Astros get past the Atlanta Braves to win their first-ever postseason series
November 16, 2004: 2004 Presidential Election thoughts (aka, they both sucked)
November 22. 2004: The Coogs conclude a disappointing season
December 27, 2004: Houston experiences a White Christmas
March 15, 2005: Disco lives! at the University of North Texas library
April 25, 2005: Political instability continues in Ecuador as another president is forced out of office
September 8, 2005: Pondering the future of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
September 25, 2005: The disaster that was the Hurricane Rita evacuation
October 12, 2005: The "Kat-Rita Bowl:" Houston 35, Tulane 14 in Lafayette
October 20, 2005: The Astros are going to the World Series (and I'm going to Japan!)
December 7, 2005: College football teams that got Screwed and Shafted by bowl selection committees
December 10, 2005: Pictures and a review of my trip to Japan in October 2005
February 19, 2006: Pictures and a review of my trip to Dubai in January 2006
It was truly interesting to go back and read all of those old blog entries - many of which I hadn't looked at in years - to see how things were and what my life was like a decade ago.
There is still some material I saved from my old website that I might put on this blog in the future, but I probably won't be backdating them as I did with the above posts.
Sunday, August 09, 2015
On (finally) killing my website
Earlier today, I did something that I had been meaning to do for years: kill my website.
I took the whole thing down. It no longer exists. See?
The screenshot above shows that indotav.com (I no longer own the rights to the url) was “last modified on September 4, 2007.” I kept the site, which I originally created in 2000, updated on a semi-regular basis until that point, when I ran into an issue regarding the pictures and content on Lori's "side" of the website. That problem never got resolved, and I lost interest in keeping the site updated.
Which means I let the site languish for almost eight years. I always meant to do something about it, such as completely revamp it or move it to a new webhost - hence the notice at the top of the page - but I never took any action. I just didn’t have the time, the motivation or (quite frankly) the skill to do so.
Furthermore, I was unsure about what to do with some of the material on that site. If I revamped it or took it down, then what, for example, should happen to my “old” blog entries, my entire thesis on The Aesthetic Condition of the Urban Freeway, my travelogues from Japan, Ecuador and Dubai, my advice for suburban homebuyers suffering from the “drawbridge mentality” that rings just as true today as it did fifteen years ago when I originally wrote it, or my explanation as to why rabbits make lousy pets (which still generates e-mail from bunny friend and foe alike, a decade after I originally uploaded it)?
Of course, the amount of dated or obsolete material on that website far outweighed the material I wanted to keep. The decade-old article on Ecuador’s experiment with dollarization, for example. Pictures from Houston and North Texas football games in the early 00s. Links to my old Daily Cougar columns that are no longer active. There were light rail and streetcar maps I originally drew in the 2002-04 as a favor to Robert Schwandl, whose urbanrail.net site once only contained heavy rail networks. Once Robert started carrying those systems on his page, however, there was no longer any reason for me to update them (my name is still on the Houston map on his site).
And then there were pictures of my wedding to Lori, which remained on that site over five years after our divorce was finalized.
In the end, I decided that the whole thing should come down. I let my registration to indotav.com lapse, found the old password to the Earthlink ftp site which held the pages, and finally pulled everything down this weekend with the exception of a terse "home page" redirecting people to this blog. In the end, I thought it would be best to let indotav.com die completely, and let my presence on the Interwebs be limited to this blog (even though this site, too, might someday come to a hiatus) and my Facebook page.
As far as the material I wanted to keep: some of it will be ported over here, as “retro” blog entries. My pictures of my trip to Japan as well as my first trip to Dubai, for example, as well as things I wrote during hurricanes Katrina and Rita (has it really been ten years?!), will soon go up here, backdated to when I originally wrote them. I’m debating about whether I want to do this with some other material – do I really want more hate mail about how rabbits make bad pets? – but that will be a decision for me to make as I port material to Blogspot over the coming months.
What to do about my thesis on urban highway aesthetics is a bit more troublesome. I could also port that to this blog, perhaps with each chapter being its own entry, but given that the document was originally written in 1999, it really needs to be updated, and the pictures are not of high quality as well. I think I am going to hold off on that for now; maybe I need to update it and republish it through professional channels.
So the website that I originally created back in 2000, using my very limited HTML skills, and which continually grew over the following half-dozen years, is no more. And I’m a little sad about it.
But I’m sadder that I didn’t kill it a long time ago.
I took the whole thing down. It no longer exists. See?
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| indotav.com: 2000 - 2015. May it rest in peace. |
Which means I let the site languish for almost eight years. I always meant to do something about it, such as completely revamp it or move it to a new webhost - hence the notice at the top of the page - but I never took any action. I just didn’t have the time, the motivation or (quite frankly) the skill to do so.
Furthermore, I was unsure about what to do with some of the material on that site. If I revamped it or took it down, then what, for example, should happen to my “old” blog entries, my entire thesis on The Aesthetic Condition of the Urban Freeway, my travelogues from Japan, Ecuador and Dubai, my advice for suburban homebuyers suffering from the “drawbridge mentality” that rings just as true today as it did fifteen years ago when I originally wrote it, or my explanation as to why rabbits make lousy pets (which still generates e-mail from bunny friend and foe alike, a decade after I originally uploaded it)?
Of course, the amount of dated or obsolete material on that website far outweighed the material I wanted to keep. The decade-old article on Ecuador’s experiment with dollarization, for example. Pictures from Houston and North Texas football games in the early 00s. Links to my old Daily Cougar columns that are no longer active. There were light rail and streetcar maps I originally drew in the 2002-04 as a favor to Robert Schwandl, whose urbanrail.net site once only contained heavy rail networks. Once Robert started carrying those systems on his page, however, there was no longer any reason for me to update them (my name is still on the Houston map on his site).
And then there were pictures of my wedding to Lori, which remained on that site over five years after our divorce was finalized.
In the end, I decided that the whole thing should come down. I let my registration to indotav.com lapse, found the old password to the Earthlink ftp site which held the pages, and finally pulled everything down this weekend with the exception of a terse "home page" redirecting people to this blog. In the end, I thought it would be best to let indotav.com die completely, and let my presence on the Interwebs be limited to this blog (even though this site, too, might someday come to a hiatus) and my Facebook page.
As far as the material I wanted to keep: some of it will be ported over here, as “retro” blog entries. My pictures of my trip to Japan as well as my first trip to Dubai, for example, as well as things I wrote during hurricanes Katrina and Rita (has it really been ten years?!), will soon go up here, backdated to when I originally wrote them. I’m debating about whether I want to do this with some other material – do I really want more hate mail about how rabbits make bad pets? – but that will be a decision for me to make as I port material to Blogspot over the coming months.
What to do about my thesis on urban highway aesthetics is a bit more troublesome. I could also port that to this blog, perhaps with each chapter being its own entry, but given that the document was originally written in 1999, it really needs to be updated, and the pictures are not of high quality as well. I think I am going to hold off on that for now; maybe I need to update it and republish it through professional channels.
So the website that I originally created back in 2000, using my very limited HTML skills, and which continually grew over the following half-dozen years, is no more. And I’m a little sad about it.
But I’m sadder that I didn’t kill it a long time ago.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Like the new layout?
Blogger has added a new template design feature, and I thought I'd play around with it. I might be tweaking the appearance and format of this blog over the next several days until I come up with something I really like.
If there's anything that bothers you about this new layout (i.e. colors are garish, fonts are hard to read, etc.) then please let me know. All comments and suggestions are welcome!
If there's anything that bothers you about this new layout (i.e. colors are garish, fonts are hard to read, etc.) then please let me know. All comments and suggestions are welcome!
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Website updates
I've made some minor changes to my website. Notably, I've placed an announcement on my home page indicating that I plan to move the entire site to a new webhost sometime in the near future. I've also finally updated a handful of my light rail and streetcar maps, including Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Sacramento, Salt Lake City and Seattle.
These are the last updates I am going to be making to my website until I make the move to a new webhost.
These are the last updates I am going to be making to my website until I make the move to a new webhost.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Time for a new webhost
Those of you who have gone over to my website recently might have noticed that some parts of my site are inaccessible. For example, if you go to see pictures of Kirby, you'll notice that none of them will load. Same for my pictures of my trips to Japan or Dubai. And if you try to read Lori's page, you're probably going to come across this: "The Web page or file that you requested is temporarily unavailable. It has been so popular this month that it exceeded its free monthly traffic allotment. Access to this Web site will be restored on the first of next month."
A bit of background: after I finished graduate school in early 2000, Lori and I opened an e-mail account with Mindspring (which was shortly thereafter brought out by EarthLink). With each e-mail address came ten megabytes of web storage. My web site consists of both my and Lori's web space allotments; a total of 20 MB of space (the domain I own, indotav.com, simply redirects to EarthLink's server). Lori's portion of the site is where I've stored a lot of pictures, including ones of Kirby or recent travels.
And it seemed to work fine, at least until earlier this year when I noticed that Lori's portion of the website was no longer accessible. The message claims that bandwidth has been exceeded for the month, which initially surprised me since I couldn't imagine that anything on Lori's portion of the site would be so popular as to exceed its monthly bandwidth allocation. However, as the months passed - and access to her portion of the site was in fact not restored even though the message indicated otherwise - it was clear that there was a fundamental problem with EarthLink's web hosting system.
So I contacted EarthLink's web tech support folks (who have been outsourced to India and are only reachable through online chat sessions rather than by telephone). The first conversation I had with them back at the beginning of May was rather unhelpful:
Indian Tech Support Guy: Thank you for contacting EarthLink LiveChat, how may I help you today?
Me: Hi. I've been with Earthlink (Mindspring) for many years now. I have a question about the free webspace that comes with my and my wife's account.
ITSG: Please let me know your question. I will provide you the required information.
Me: My web site is at mindspring.com/~tbgray. It seems to be working fine. But some of the pictures and pages link back to my wife's web site at mindspring.com/~ldstevens. Lately, I've been getting the following error message: "The Web page or file that you requested is temporarily unavailable. It has been so popular this month that it exceeded its free monthly traffic allotment. Access to this Web site will be restored on the first of next month." I find it hard to believe that so many people are going to my wife's site that it's using up all of the allotted bandwidth. Also, since it's a new month, shouldn't the site be available again?
ITSG: Yes, the site will be again on the first of next month if it is closed due to bandwidth.
Me: But it *is* a new month! It's May 2nd! I want to know why the bandwidth has been used up already. Are people hotlinking images off my wife's website and stealing my wife's bandwidth?
ITSG: I have gone through your wife's web site. As per the EarthLink norms it should be up be now. It is taking little more time this time. I request you to wait for another 24 hours. I am sure it will the site will be up by then.
Me: Okay, and if it isn't? Do I come back here for another chat?
ITSG: I am sure it should fix the issue by next 24 hours.
Me: Okay. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to keep this from happening again.
ITSG: The only to save band width is to restrict your site by giving to the less number of people. You can do this by password protecting the site.
Me: I'd hate to have to password protect it. I just can't imagine that so many people are going to look at the pictures on my wife's site.
ITSG: If you wish you can host web site with us where you can get more band width.
(Of course. Even though we're tech support, we'll gladly try to sell you one of our services!)
Me: Eh, I'll wait 24 hours, as you suggest, and see what happens.
ITSG: I am sure by that issue will be fixed. Your site should be up by next 24 hours. Have a wonderful day.
Me: Okay, Thanks.
Of course, nothing happened. May came and went. As did June. My wife's portion of the website never became available; it just redirected to the same "bandwidth exceeded" message. So, in July, I had another chat with EarthLink's web tech support staff. This second conversation was just as unhelpful as the first:
Indian Tech Support Guy: Thank you for contacting EarthLink LiveChat, how may I help you today?
Me: I'm having a problem with my website. Are you the person I can speak with about this?
ITSG: Sure, you can. Please let me know the complete website address with which you are facing the issue.
Me: Okay. My website is http://www.mindspring.com/~tbgray/. My wife's website is http://www.mindspring.com/~ldstevens. Her website has been offline for several months now.
ITSG: To best assist you, you need to speak with a Web Hosting Technical Support Representative. Please standby while I transfer you. Please wait while I transfer the chat to the best suited site operator.
(Oh? I thought you just said that you could help me with this problem. Anyway...)
Another Indian Tech Support Guy: Hello, I see you've already been chatting. Please give me a moment so I can read the previous chat and pick up where you left off.
Me: Hi there.
AITSG: Does the mailbox ldstevens got inactive at any point of time?
Me: Not that I am aware of. She still receives e-mail at that account. I'm concerned about her website. http://www.mindspring.com/~ldstevens has been offline for several months. Something about the bandwidth being exceeded. I find this hard to believe, but I understand that at the beginning of the month there is a reset and so the site should be up again.
AITSG: Yes, you are correct. We are aware of the issue and working on it, it had been a problem from some time now.
Me: Okay. Every time I try to access my wife's site I get a "Sorry... Page Temporarily Unavailable" message. When will this problem be resolved?
AITSG: I am sorry, we do not have any expected time frame regarding the issue. I am very sorry for the inconvenience.
Me: Hmmm. There's no way for you to reset it? I have pictures of trips and pictures of my son on that site that people would like to see, but for several months now they've been unable to do so.
AITSG: No, I need to escalate the issue to our engineers and get this updated.
Me: This hasn't been a problem with my website, http://www.mindspring.com/~tbgray/. It is still active. But I have a lot of links from my website to hers that haven't worked lately. I'm so frustrated that I am thinking about leaving Earthlink and using another webhost.
AITSG: Yes, we are experiencing the issues with some of them only. I am sorry for the inconvenience, we will do our best to get the site back as soon as possible. We do not want to loose any of long standing customers. I will escalate the issue with high priority and get the issue resolved as soon as possible.
Me: I'd appreciate it.
July came and went. And now we're in the second half of August. There still hasn't been a resolution to the issue. Lori's ten megabytes of web space are still offline. I'm getting the distinct impression that the folks at EarthLink either don't know how to repair the problem or just don't care. I've been more than patient with them and I've gotten nowhere.
So, it's time to move on. My website needs a new home. The question is, who should I use? If anybody out there has any suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.
A bit of background: after I finished graduate school in early 2000, Lori and I opened an e-mail account with Mindspring (which was shortly thereafter brought out by EarthLink). With each e-mail address came ten megabytes of web storage. My web site consists of both my and Lori's web space allotments; a total of 20 MB of space (the domain I own, indotav.com, simply redirects to EarthLink's server). Lori's portion of the site is where I've stored a lot of pictures, including ones of Kirby or recent travels.
And it seemed to work fine, at least until earlier this year when I noticed that Lori's portion of the website was no longer accessible. The message claims that bandwidth has been exceeded for the month, which initially surprised me since I couldn't imagine that anything on Lori's portion of the site would be so popular as to exceed its monthly bandwidth allocation. However, as the months passed - and access to her portion of the site was in fact not restored even though the message indicated otherwise - it was clear that there was a fundamental problem with EarthLink's web hosting system.
So I contacted EarthLink's web tech support folks (who have been outsourced to India and are only reachable through online chat sessions rather than by telephone). The first conversation I had with them back at the beginning of May was rather unhelpful:
Indian Tech Support Guy: Thank you for contacting EarthLink LiveChat, how may I help you today?
Me: Hi. I've been with Earthlink (Mindspring) for many years now. I have a question about the free webspace that comes with my and my wife's account.
ITSG: Please let me know your question. I will provide you the required information.
Me: My web site is at mindspring.com/~tbgray. It seems to be working fine. But some of the pictures and pages link back to my wife's web site at mindspring.com/~ldstevens. Lately, I've been getting the following error message: "The Web page or file that you requested is temporarily unavailable. It has been so popular this month that it exceeded its free monthly traffic allotment. Access to this Web site will be restored on the first of next month." I find it hard to believe that so many people are going to my wife's site that it's using up all of the allotted bandwidth. Also, since it's a new month, shouldn't the site be available again?
ITSG: Yes, the site will be again on the first of next month if it is closed due to bandwidth.
Me: But it *is* a new month! It's May 2nd! I want to know why the bandwidth has been used up already. Are people hotlinking images off my wife's website and stealing my wife's bandwidth?
ITSG: I have gone through your wife's web site. As per the EarthLink norms it should be up be now. It is taking little more time this time. I request you to wait for another 24 hours. I am sure it will the site will be up by then.
Me: Okay, and if it isn't? Do I come back here for another chat?
ITSG: I am sure it should fix the issue by next 24 hours.
Me: Okay. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to keep this from happening again.
ITSG: The only to save band width is to restrict your site by giving to the less number of people. You can do this by password protecting the site.
Me: I'd hate to have to password protect it. I just can't imagine that so many people are going to look at the pictures on my wife's site.
ITSG: If you wish you can host web site with us where you can get more band width.
(Of course. Even though we're tech support, we'll gladly try to sell you one of our services!)
Me: Eh, I'll wait 24 hours, as you suggest, and see what happens.
ITSG: I am sure by that issue will be fixed. Your site should be up by next 24 hours. Have a wonderful day.
Me: Okay, Thanks.
Of course, nothing happened. May came and went. As did June. My wife's portion of the website never became available; it just redirected to the same "bandwidth exceeded" message. So, in July, I had another chat with EarthLink's web tech support staff. This second conversation was just as unhelpful as the first:
Indian Tech Support Guy: Thank you for contacting EarthLink LiveChat, how may I help you today?
Me: I'm having a problem with my website. Are you the person I can speak with about this?
ITSG: Sure, you can. Please let me know the complete website address with which you are facing the issue.
Me: Okay. My website is http://www.mindspring.com/~tbgray/. My wife's website is http://www.mindspring.com/~ldstevens. Her website has been offline for several months now.
ITSG: To best assist you, you need to speak with a Web Hosting Technical Support Representative. Please standby while I transfer you. Please wait while I transfer the chat to the best suited site operator.
(Oh? I thought you just said that you could help me with this problem. Anyway...)
Another Indian Tech Support Guy: Hello, I see you've already been chatting. Please give me a moment so I can read the previous chat and pick up where you left off.
Me: Hi there.
AITSG: Does the mailbox ldstevens got inactive at any point of time?
Me: Not that I am aware of. She still receives e-mail at that account. I'm concerned about her website. http://www.mindspring.com/~ldstevens has been offline for several months. Something about the bandwidth being exceeded. I find this hard to believe, but I understand that at the beginning of the month there is a reset and so the site should be up again.
AITSG: Yes, you are correct. We are aware of the issue and working on it, it had been a problem from some time now.
Me: Okay. Every time I try to access my wife's site I get a "Sorry... Page Temporarily Unavailable" message. When will this problem be resolved?
AITSG: I am sorry, we do not have any expected time frame regarding the issue. I am very sorry for the inconvenience.
Me: Hmmm. There's no way for you to reset it? I have pictures of trips and pictures of my son on that site that people would like to see, but for several months now they've been unable to do so.
AITSG: No, I need to escalate the issue to our engineers and get this updated.
Me: This hasn't been a problem with my website, http://www.mindspring.com/~tbgray/. It is still active. But I have a lot of links from my website to hers that haven't worked lately. I'm so frustrated that I am thinking about leaving Earthlink and using another webhost.
AITSG: Yes, we are experiencing the issues with some of them only. I am sorry for the inconvenience, we will do our best to get the site back as soon as possible. We do not want to loose any of long standing customers. I will escalate the issue with high priority and get the issue resolved as soon as possible.
Me: I'd appreciate it.
July came and went. And now we're in the second half of August. There still hasn't been a resolution to the issue. Lori's ten megabytes of web space are still offline. I'm getting the distinct impression that the folks at EarthLink either don't know how to repair the problem or just don't care. I've been more than patient with them and I've gotten nowhere.
So, it's time to move on. My website needs a new home. The question is, who should I use? If anybody out there has any suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Website finally back up
It took me much longer than I had anticipated, and there are still several changes and updates I want to make that I haven't yet done, but the entire content of my website is back online. There isn't any one "big" change to my website, but rather lots of smaller ones. I've added content to some pages, reformatted others, and also retired a handful of pages which had become dated. More modifications, additions and deletions are in the works, but it could be some time before those occur given the radical change in my schedule for the next three months.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Update on my missing website
My entire website is still down. I originally planned to put everything back up yesterday or today, but now it's looking like it's not going to happen until this weekend at the earliest.
Thank you for your patience.
Thank you for your patience.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Website notice
I am in the process of making some changes to my website, so I've temporarily taken the whole thing down. I should have everything back up again within a few days.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
My website is a medical training resource
Of all the e-mail I've received about my website - be it from angry rabbit lovers, Super 8 film enthusiasts, travelers to Ecuador, people asking how they can make their city's freeways look prettier, even economics students interested in dollarization - I never, ever thought I would receive the following message:
One of these days, Kirby will be happy to know that he did his part for medical education!
Thank you for sharing Kirby's photos. In one photograph you've allowed much discussion and learning opportunity for student nurses at Fayetteville Technical Community College in Fayetteville, North Carolina. [at a distance- before the actual clinical experience begins for the Maternal-Women- Newborn health rotation]. The photographer did an excellent job in capturing the forcep marks, the vernix, the amniotic fluid, the "normal" transition assistance of the healthcare team and Kirby looks to be a fine wee one as he prepared to leave the hospital.This person is, of course, referring to the very first picture of Kirby, which was taken right as he was delivered. I put that picture, graphic as it might be, on my website because I wanted to document my son's life right from its first moment: him literally taking his first breath. That the picture is able to serve an educational purpose as well, even though that wasn't its original intent, is really rather cool.
One of these days, Kirby will be happy to know that he did his part for medical education!
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Website Update
I've updated my page of aerial photos to include pictures of the Hoover Dam and Humphreys Peak that I took while flying back from Vegas a couple of years ago.
I'll be in Dallas for the rest of this week. Look for new postings when I return this weekend.
I'll be in Dallas for the rest of this week. Look for new postings when I return this weekend.
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