Well, it seems that I am doing what I said I never would - blogging from my iPhone. It seems that somewhere along the way the wireless card in the MacBook Pro got shaken too vigorously and now, while I can connect I am averaging a throughput of somewhat less than normal. It seems to connect at no more than 360 bytes (no, not kilobytes) and spends much of its time idling at 0. So it is off to the Mac store I go…
More as I have news.
During the move this site and talkingfox.com will be hosted by HostGator. While the initial setup was a bit tricky (changing paths, relying on php errors to tell me what the paths actually were, etc) I managed to get it up and running.
Since my wife didn’t keep copies of her mail locally her mail “disappeared” when the DNS switched over. I will probably alter her hosts file long enough to pull all the mail off the server and cache it locally so that she can respond to a few she had lined up.
After that it is a matter of switching our mail readers to point to the right (new) server for the interim and then changing everything back once we are relocated and settled.
Ok, everyone already knows we are moving back to the lower 48. This means, of course, that this site and talkingfox.com will both be down during the transition. Unless, that is, I can find a reasonable price on one month of hosting. Just to throw the blogs and email up and point the DNS there during the move. If not, expect this site to be down from the 22nd of this month until sometime around the first week of June.
More later.