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What a week. What a freaking week.
I got back from the river trip to find that foodini.org had gone offline.
Sorry about that. Under Doran Barton's regime, this was a smooth and easy
process with no downtime that I was ever aware of, other than the times that the
hardware was being upgraded. Recently, a combination snafu of my bank and
knowledgeblue.com meant that people weren't getting paid and I wasn't getting
the notices to that effect. When knowledgeblue emailed me about the situation,
they contacted an address that they well knew had long ago been a massive spam
target. Somehow, they figured that I'd still be reading it, despite my having
told them many times in the past that this was not the case.
They have since claimed that they couldn't contact me directly. Somehow, they
must have missed the fact that my email and phone contact information are
clearly published on my home page. They're the ones hosting the damn thing.
You'd think they might figure that my PERSONAL web site might contain PERSONAL
information.
So anyway, after a full third of my life with a single provider (Doran's
business was bought up by knowledgeblue,) I've switched over to bluehost.com.
We'll see how that goes.
So in addition to being incommunicado due to the river trip, a ton of incoming
email was lost. This was followed by the most cruel form of layoff process I
have ever endured. I did survive the process, but it took twenty-four hours to
go from 'the company is in bad shape' to 'you do/do not still have a job.' I
think that the longest I've ever seen that process take was under a minute.
I headed home Tuesday to a sleepless night, wondering if my company was going to
close, lay off, or drop salaries. Wednesday night the fire alarms in my
building went off - twice.
On top of all of this, I've been transferring all of the foodini.org bits,
trying to get it all running, editing the 700+ photos from the river, and trying
to figure out when I'm going to have time to get the new photo browser up. I
_REALLY_ dislike the look of it (take a peek,) but I'm not sure what to do about
that at this point. I'm open to suggestion.
-rbarry
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