Now that I have the webserver migrated over to the new machine, I need to move my email server over as well. I’m super close to having it working too, but I’m getting an obscure error that I’m having troubles figuring out. Once I do, I should be in a position to turn off the old server on a permanent basis. I’ll miss OpenBSD, but I won’t miss the hardware I had it running on.

So that’s today’s lunch task.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “There’s nothing wrong with crabgrass, it just has a bad name, that’s all. Everyone would love it if it had a cute name, like…elfgrass.” - Homer

The weather was gorgeous here over the weekend, a lot of melting, lots of people out walking, plenty of opportunity for getting fresh air. William and I built a couple of snowmen in the backyard (I suspect that Erin will post pictures at some point) which was fun - the snow was perfect for snowmen. One of them collapsed not long after we left it alone. Saturday night we had our first BBQ of the season - fired up the grill and cooked up some burgers. It was great.

Not much else new though - I got the websites all moved over to the new server, so if you notice it’s a little faster, that’s why.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Bart, you’re just like Chilly, the elf who cannot love.” - Lisa

I’ve been having strange connectivity issues with my server over the past couple of weeks - yesterday it was unavailable for a good chunk of the day, which really sucks (and is why I didn’t post anything yesterday.) I don’t know what’s going wrong, but I intend to find out, and fix it over the weekend if I can.

If you’re interested in history, or photography, or the history of photography, then you’ll find these photos interesting. Apparently the French were the only people taking colour photos during World War I to any degree. Some of the photos are really striking.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Look what happened without my pills!” - Grandpa Simpson

Last night we took William to my parents’ place so that we could get some industrial sized work done around the house. The plan was to rearrange the furniture in our bedroom, to allow us to bring in a single bed for William, to slowly migrate him to his own bed/room. I got the dressers moved away from the wall where we planned on moving the bed to, only to find that due to the placement of the plugins/cold air return vent, we couldn’t put the bed there. We played with a bunch of different configurations, and ultimately wound up putting the dressers right back where they started. The only change is that the crib has been moved to the other side of the bed, and there’s now a single bed a couple of feet from our bed, so William can get used to it. That meant that Erin and I switched sides of the bed, which was a little strange last night, since we’ve been sleeping on the same sides of the bed for quite a while. We’ll get used to it though.

It felt a little like we got nothing accomplished, since everything is almost back where it started, but I guess it was a learning experience. We also got a couple of boxes unpacked, which was good.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “People now… Please, please, I can assure you that we’ll be using the most advanced, scientific techniques in the field of… body finding.” - Chief Wiggum

Ok, so I dumped a litre of water on my new PC at work today. Fortunately it just kind of ran down the sides, and was easily wiped up - no harm done. Phew. I’m stuck with a crappy mousepad until my real mousepad dries out.

Posting here might slow down even more over the coming days, as I work on getting this site transitioned to the new machine. I’m hopeful that I can have everything in place within a short while. I hear that there’s a major Apache update in the Gentoo pipeline, so I should probably get that emerging right away…

Simpson’s quote of the day: “*gasp* It’s the four elephants of the apocalypse!” - Ned Flanders