Category: Site related

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I’ve joined the sites that are going Pink for October.

A great introduction to what breast cancer is and the danger it poses to both men and women is, as always, available on Wikipedia.

Well I managed to figure out how to get the website moved over with minimal fuss. I switched to a new theme to boot – I didn’t like the ‘mechanical’ feeling of the last one. Somehow it felt desolate. I’m not sure I like this one either – too much space wasted on the sides. But we’ll see if I find another one.

So right now everything is running on the new server so things should be a bit faster. The only thing left to do is to migrate all those pictures from the old gallery to the new one. So you’ll notice that old links don’t work to pictures, and many pictures and albums are still missing. Please be patient as I get them all migrated over.

The new gallery will also make uploading easier, so look forward to that.

I’ve been slowly migrating everything on this server to my new server, and the only two things left are the blog and the picture gallery. Since every time someone makes an update to either of these I need to recapture the data for migration, I’m going to stop letting people make updates.

The easiest way to do this will be to simply close my firewall for a bit, until the site is moved properly. I have no idea how long that will take. I’m hoping less than a day but with my spare time slowly ebbing away … I can’t really say.

So in the near future (sometime in July I think) if you come surfing over here and there’s nothing to read – don’t be surprised. Check back regularly and see if I manage to get everything right.

I missed it by a few days, but it’s theBside’s first anniversary!

It’s a year ago that I started this silly ‘blog’, and I think it has turned out somewhat how I hoped. Not quite, but somewhat.

Still so many plans for improvements – I’m sure that once the baby is born I’ll have a lot more free time to get things done. That’s how it works, right?

In case someone out there hadn’t noticed, posts have been slow this month. I’ve just completed upgrading this site’s software (WordPress) to the latest version and am in the process of seeing if there’s a theme I like better than the old one.

So bear with me and comment on any themes you see on the site that you like. Shan’t be long.

My co-conspirator from Boston is now able to contrbute to the site. It’s strange how everyone so far that has registered is smarter than I am – more letters after their name, more experience. I’m torn between feeling sad and feeling hopeful.

I think I’ll just stick to sad – less work.

Audrey joins us after imigrating from T.O. A former teacher, she’ll be watching my gramar and speling. Rite Audrey?

All hail the legendary shoe unit!

Jaime, another smarty, joins the cadre of people wanting to post here. Welcome aboard – Argh!

Today Dale became the first person signed up for access to thebside.ca

Now we can all expect many posts and comments from this outstanding PhD candidate.

Anyone else interested in signing up to contribute to the site (this includes sarcastic comments) feel free to phone or email me your desired username and password.

So begins a new foray for Kirk