The CrabAppleLane Blog is now back at a CrabAppleLane address ... I hope. You can change the URL to
if you're so inclined. Or not. I think the current nethost address will work as long as I stay at this host server. I chose this holiday weekend to make the switch because I know fewer people would be impacted by it. Holiday weekends are slower here than my typical slow weekends. It was a rather maddening interesting migration. At 9AM this morning, my browser brought me here to the new server and I started fixing the broken things. By 10:30AM, my browser was bringing me back to the old server and everything I had fixed was broken. Not knowing where I stand/stood any more and because rebuilding large blogs is tedious, I decided to wait and see. As of this writing, CrabAppleLane is still in limbo. If you put www in the URL, you are taken to the old server (At 1:10PM CrabAppleLane time). If you don't, you come here to the new one. I don't understand the internet.
CrabAppleLane tip for bloggers who post a lot of photos: Start using a storage/share service such as FlickR for your photos. Store them there. I'm only mentioning FlickR because I don't know the policies of any of the others. With FlickR, you can blog your photos as long as you provide a link back to it's FlickR location (Something you'll want to do anyway). I'm on my 5th host in 8 years. Hosting services can be unreliable. They can get overcrowded and unstable like my last one did, they can go out of business like the one before that, or they can be outgrown like the two before that. If you ever have to move to another host, moving image files (Typically the largest ones you have) is tedious and unreliable. Image files do not travel well over FTP programs en masse. One or two? No problem. Several hundred? BIG problem.
A lot of the links at the original blog might not work any more and some of the photos didn't travel well but I thought I'd revisit one entry that I came across that I just had to fix. Unfortunately, it won't be fixed until the migration is complete.
62 days until football season ...
Quote of the Day
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
A Yankee Doodle, do or die
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam
Born on the Fourth of July
George M Cohan, I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "I have a rusted, stripped, useless shower head; a disgustingly dirty, ancient medicine cabinet; live wires and a broken lamp in my (one of two) closets; and a fishwife neighbour who shouts constantly at her young kids."
Happy 4th Rob!
Thanks and same to you, Andrea.