Moving Day Has Come!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for coming along this short period of time!

I have moved to my permanent location:

FireWolf's Blog Please adjust your blogrolls accordingly!

Thanks!

On a musical note.....

Have you purchased any new music CDs lately?

Well I haven't been a professed American Idol fan (William Hung not withstanding), and I have heard a few Kelly Clarkson songs that I actually liked so I went and purchased her latest cd "BreakAway".

Wow, if you don't have this cd, you need to get it. I have never purchased any music from an "Idol" contestant, and I am impressed.

Most of these songs you've heard from the radio, but you probably didn't know they were all on the same album.

Can American Idol hope to suck me in for a future purchase? Depends on if they suck or not ;)

Go William!

HTTP 404 Error.... (Day 3)

Wow, who'd have thought this amount of work was required to launch your own blogsite?

For those of you who don't know, I purchased hosting and domain services from GoDaddy.com. At first, I was thinking "ooh yeah! up and running in no time". WRONG!

I am having to suck it up and learn the hard way about hosting providers. They charge for everything, and tell you nothing. Getting my own domain and blogsite is a first for me. A First! Can you believe it? I have been on the internet since '92, have done website design in the mid-90's, and I've even done some sys admin, but NOTHING has prepared me for the learning curves I've had to undergo.

WordPress & GoDaddy at the same time. :(

To toss in a little "irony" I think I have my wordpress things configured. THINK being the operative word here.

Today, as I suddenly found my site back online, I had to tweak the default dummy page so that index.htm would naturally cause a browser to show a page. ANY PAGE. So, there I was, happy I had SOMETHING to show when you got to my domain. Then, as I am trying to tweak the WP code so that I can run the default setup routine, nothing was showing and my website seemed to not recognize WP at all. It's as if my files just simply were not there or available.

Then I had an epiphany! I started looking into information in the support documentation for GoDaddy on Directory Indexes. Of course nothing shows up. But, then I was looking at the server operating systems to see what types of code they would handle. It wasn't until after I called technical support @ GoDaddy that they told me PHP code only runs on Linux, not the Windows (.asp).

So, I went back into my account profiles, and it wasn't until I dug deep that it stated: Windows (.asp) Linux (.php).

UGH!

Now that I have switched over my server OS, they tell me it's another two days before I can know if I configured WP's initial setup correctly.

Time will tell.

Maybe I should write a series about my experiences in choosing GoDaddy. I like their prices, and $1.99 to get my very own domain was a sweet deal.

BTW....

didja hear Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi is dead?

U.S. Forces 1 - Al Qaida 0

Way to go guys!

Domains & Observations

While I am still waiting for my host to HURRY UP! I can't help but
make some observations known.

First of all, as i've learned from Aaron (Technosailor's owner),
Nothing is worth doing if you don't do them yourself.

Secondly, there are almost a million choices as far as hosts, which
software to use, etc. Do your homework and ask your blogging buddies.
They will offer their support & advice.

After all that, make sure you have some technical understanding, it's
not for the weak of heart!

As for today, I am sitting in a dentist office waiting to go in. (I
love my techno-savvy dentists). After which, I am wrapping up my week
of funeral stuff with the burial today. I hope to add more tomorrow
to my short list of articles so stay tuned!