This is the newest addition to our the inside of our house. Our good friend Jonathan Raney who is obviously an amazing painter, has spent the last few months creating this fantastic rendering of our favorite picture we took while we were on our Honeymoon a few years ago. The town in the painting is Manarola, a beautiful town in the Cinque Terre (the Italian Rivera). Watching the painting progress from pencil drawing to finished piece was a treat, as I have never been involved in the creative process to that extent. Jonathan put his heart and soul into this painting and it shows.October 30th: I’m “bumping” this post just so I can see this amazing piece of work again. Jonathan, thanks so much for your hard work we are thrilled to have a piece of yours in our lives for many years to come!
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
The other day, a friend of mine turned me on to this interesting new search engine. It’s slow, has pretty accurate results and is rather entertaining. Head on over and give Ms. Dewey a try!
I’ll be upgrading my grid server to Php 5 and reconfiguring my php.ini file over the next few days… I’m sure I’ll screw things up a few times but I hope the end result will be a performance boost!
I began the process of migrating my site to Media Temple’s new (gs) Grid-Server hosting plan. It’s faster, more scaleable, better, stronger, etc, etc. I’ve been waiting for this for a while now, as I have a few clients that want sites and I was waiting for Media Temple to roll this out before we began the process. We will see how it goes, but it should be just what the doctor ordered.
So as of October 19th my site is now running on Media Temple’s new Grid Server back end and everything went pretty smooth for the most part. Wordpress tranfered over perfectly but Gallery2 did not. My data directory (i.e. the one that has all the photos and videos in it) did not come across (at least I couldn’t find it) but I’m sure the folks at MT will fix me up soon… The performance of my web site has suffered a tiny little bit (I use fasterfox’s built in page load timer as a benchmark) but I have not turned on my RR container and have spent no time tweaking things such as my php.ini file and other toys I never had before. Overall it went very smooth and I’m sure things will get better, as more people migrate over and MT platform’s get’s more mature…
As of October 20th, MT has helped me work through my issues (yes they were my issues really and one I figured it out it was easy to fix) and now everything is fully functional again… Yahoo!
Hot damn, the weatherman says it’s going to snow! The first snow advisory of the season has been issued for Bozeman tonight and possibly tomorrow. Even if it doesn’t pan out (we all know how accurate the weatherman can be sometimes) it is still very exciting. Jami laughed when I did my happy dance!
— October 17th Update —
There is snow on the ground in Livingston, Bozeman, a foot of fresh up at Bridger Bowl, and more on on the way this weekend! Let’s hope this is a good indication of what is to come this winter!