{"id":49,"date":"2002-02-03T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2002-02-03T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/ye_olde_goerorg"},"modified":"2002-02-03T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2002-02-03T15:10:15","slug":"ye_olde_goerorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/02\/ye_olde_goerorg.html","title":{"rendered":"Ye olde goer.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#8217;ve decided to switch webhosts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt wasn&#8217;t last month&#8217;s several hours of unannounced and unapologized-for downtime.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t the numerous typos on their help pages.<br \/>\nNo, I think what did the trick was the bill I received for $4,211.20 for<br \/>\nunpaid web services.  To accumulate that bill, I would have<br \/>\nhad to have been delinquent for 188 months, or since mid-1986.  (That predates<br \/>\nthe <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/SDG\/Software\/Mosaic\/NCSAMosaicHome.html\" title=\"the precursor to Netscape\">Mosaic browser<\/a><br \/>\nand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/MarkUp\/\" title=\"the W3C HTML spec\">HTML standard<\/a>, although not<br \/>\nthe <a href=\"http:\/\/compnetworking.about.com\/cs\/tcpipoverviews\/\" title=\"protocols on which the Internet runs\">TCP\/IP protocol<\/a>.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnyway I think the procedure is pretty simple:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Register with new host<\/li>\n<li>FTP files to new host<\/li>\n<li>Get NetworkSolutions to change their nameservers<\/li>\n<li>Cancel service with old host<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nSo if all goes as planned, the changeover will cause no interruptions to this site.<br \/>\nOh, damn.  I&#8217;ve probably jinxed myself right there.  I&#8217;d better move on before<br \/>\nI do any more damage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLast night <a href=\"\/Nancy\/\" title=\"partner in crime\">Nancy<\/a> and I went to Bill&#8217;s for dinner.  His<br \/>\nsister Patty was there, along with Jennie and a nice Belgian couple,<br \/>\nSophie and Ward.  The problem with the dinner:  I can&#8217;t say <em>anything<\/em><br \/>\nelse about it.  See, Bill is currently obsessed with my silly little website that maybe<br \/>\nten people bother to read on a regular basis.  All evening it was,<br \/>\n&#8220;Don&#8217;t put that on the website!&#8221;  &#8220;That&#8217;s off-the-record!&#8221;<br \/>\nThis must be what Bob Woodward&#8217;s social life is like.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo I think the only thing I <em>can<\/em> talk about is the wine.  So here it is,<br \/>\nanother Winelog entry:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStag&#8217;s Leap, Napa, 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon: <B>BRAVISSIMO!!<\/B>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Other News:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;Reassurance is good.  Cash is better.&#8221; &#8211; Ahmad Fawzi, spokesman for the<br \/>\nUnited Nations special envoy to Afghanistan, on long-term American<br \/>\nsupport for the nation (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/\" title=\"Newsweek home page\">Newsweek<\/a>.)\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nFawzi should take heart:  if President Hamid Karzai <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> get the<br \/>\nsupport his country so desperately needs, he can at least<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A6020-2002Jan31.html\" title=\"That man DOES know how to pick his hats\">knock<br \/>\nus dead with his fashion sense<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><i>Edit, April 2003:  Well, it&#8217;s pretty clear by now that we&#8217;ve screwed Karzai pretty good.  I guess fashion sense isn&#8217;t enough.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I think what did the trick was the bill I received for $4,211.20 for unpaid web services.  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