streak still intact ;-)

20Aug09

EditThisPage was down all day yesterday hence I couldn’t flip/post here. Instead, I did so there. ::chuckle:: It’s the longest ETP server outage I’ve experienced in a while, and I was certain it had finally reached the end of its road.

As I worked all morning with Peter and Jimmy on clearing the yard at Haleakala Church, now overgrown with weeds, elephant grass and thorny raspberry bushes I began thinking about the process of moving my online identity and history elsewhere. I haven’t come to any conclusion or resolution about that, as I have almost 10 years of archival content that will need transferring. So, it’s a substantial task.

And one that will need doing now, rather than later, if or when ETP itself does finally become history. I remain infinitely grateful to the folks at Userland Frontier who, all these years, have supported their early adopters such as me, letting us keep and maintain our original weblogs and sites.

I suppose that, like any savvy 21st century person—and like many of my former TIC students and mentees—I should have long ago gotten my own domain name (e.g., lloydnebres.net is still available) and either found a host to serve up my weblog content or had my stuff at ETP redirect to my domain. But I was content with the status quo, and inertia won out. Still, nothing is forever and one day the server at ETP will be turned off one last time. If I myself am still around, that won’t be much of an issue. ::chuckle::

But if I’m still here then I’ll want my online self to be maintained elsewhere, and in some other form. Perhaps, then, I shouldn’t wait. Perhaps the time has come to take matters in my own hands and set down more permanent online roots. (Such as it is, in this world of bits and bytes.)

So I should get on that. But first, more work needs to be done up at the churchyard this morning, and Jimmy and I are going to load his truck with the cuttings, and take ‘em to the landfill for composting.

#1 reason why I still love using Manila/EditThisPage, after lo all these years—by far the simplest writing/posting interface. Nothing gets in the way between writing these words and publishing—there’s just a web page, this text entry field, and that “Update Home Page” button. Classic. Timeless. Simple.

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Noon…

…as I got back from the yardwork and logged online, David IMed me just as a thunder-and-lightningstorm hit the town he’s in currently, Urbana-Champaign. David just got there last weekend after a cross-country drive, to start his Masters program in Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois.

So I asked him to go on iChat video so I could witness the storm and indeed it was quite dramatic, with the booming of thunder clearly audible, and even the rattling of his window as the rain started to pelt down.

David just moved in to his apartment, 20 minutes by foot off-campus, so he said it wasn’t furnished yet. Not even a bed—his is arriving on the moving truck along with the rest of his stuff from home, later this week.


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