Waileia

After a nearly one-year hiatus, I’m pleased to announce that Waileia has officially re-launched. Welcome back! The world hasn’t stopped changing since my last post in February, 2005, so there’s clearly a lot of catch-up work to be done.

I’m excited to announce that after many months of debating, designing, and coding, I’ve officially switched to WordPress, an open-source weblog engine that I think will provide me with more flexibility in getting my thoughts from my brain to the world.

Unfortunately, few changes come without downsides, and this is no exception. If you’re one of the many incredibly cool people that have linked to me through a previous permalink, you’ll want to update the link to the new format. It’s not too difficult to do - just delete any zeros in front of the file name and erase the “.html” extension at the end. If you do use an old link, I’ll provide a direct link to the new location in the 404 error message. (I may decide to make this a permanent redirect, but for the moment, it’s not.) As long as you’re using a recent version of a mainstream feed reader, you’ll have no problems with the new RSS 2.0 feed - I’ve set up permanent redirects on the old feed URLs to make it easy to find.

Thanks to all of you for your support of Waileia over the years. It’s truly you that motivates me to share this journal with the world.

I think I’m going to make these semi-annual gripes about daylight saving time a Waileia tradition. I forgot to set Movable Type back to Nome time to compensate for the rest of the United States (except for those smart Hoosiers in Indiana and a few places in Arizona) jumping an hour into the future. Thanks for the reminder, Dean.

Elsewhere:

• Slashdot had a poll, with the haters far outnumbering the lovers. One of the more interesting threads to emerge talks about the potential impact on cron jobs.
• Two NBA players were benched for not making a morning practice due to daylight saving time change.

The server that hosts Waileia is now settled in its new home (and what a home it is). The total downtime was about three hours. Stuff seems a little slow now, but I’m sure that’s due to the rush of people checking on their web sites. I figure that it will pass by tomorrow.

Thanks, VO. You guys (and girls) rock !

Because my awesome hosting provider, Ventures Online, is moving to a bigger data center, Waileia may be unavailable for a few hours tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenience.

My jaunt to CompUSA today took quite some time to complete, as I predicted earlier. Thankfully, the repair tech I spoke with (name withheld to protect the innocent) was incredibly patient and eager to please. He was a trainee, so he had to run back and forth to answer my questions; however, he kept running until every one of my concerns was addressed. I feel indebted to him for his assistance, and I will be sure to let his manager know.

I was so impressed, in fact, that I went ahead and bought the Tungsten C anyway. It’s a little hard to hit the buttons accurately, but I think I’ll get used to it eventually. (Hey, I’ve actually gotten faster since I started blogging this entry! )