Lisbeth is faced with decisions

I’m getting a new computer at work soon.  Which means I should probably move all my files and stuff off of my hardrive and onto my folder on the network.  Bah.  I don’t like using my network folder to store stuff, since then I don’t have it when I’m traveling or otherwise away from work.  But I guess that it’s only a temporary thing while I’m switching systems, and as soon as the new one is in place, I can revert to keeping everything on my own drives again.  That’s a good thing.

It’s a good thing I’m getting a new computer, too.  The one I have now is about 3 years old, and has all sorts of problems.  It’s a laptop, and the battery is completely dead - I get about 10 minutes on what should be a full charge.  Also, the CD/DVD drive is shot - I can’t read discs, much less burn them.  And then, every so often, when I’m using it as a laptop (not docked at my desk), the screen just doesn’t light up.  The content is there, though.  If I get close and squint, it’s kind of like reading in the dark.

They were supposed to order it today.  They ordered another one for some new girl who starts Monday, so I guess the plan is for them both to be here before then.

Uh-huh…

This past Wednesday night, Seth left on a Special Olympics trip he was chaperoning. I’ve missed him a bunch, but he just got home.

Our plans for tomorrow involve sleeping late, lazing around, and watching Grey’s Anatomy. No real plans to speak of, really.

I’ve been following Urban Giraffe’s directions for installing WordPress on your local machine so that I can mess around with making my own templates without screwing anything up beyond repair here on the real site or using up my own bandwidth until I have everything the way I want it. Downloading and installing Apache and MySQL went okay, but when I tested the mod_rewrite function by creating an .htaccess file (just as he directed), it didn’t work. The test.php address returns a 404 page, no matter what. Looking through the comments, I tried all the stuff mentioned (at least, I think I did - some of this stuff is above my head). When I pinged local.theoffwhites.com, I got 127.0.0.1, so that’s not the problem. I have the .htaccess file in the root (again - I think I do, anyway).

Maybe tomorrow Seth and I can look at it together and figure it out, if we get around to it.

Ahh, the ubiquitous WordPress first post. Hello world, indeed.

Seth and I decided to buy a new domain and hosting to go with it. As we march steadily down the path of geekery, it’s only natural that we pick up new stuff on the way. So, our new homepage is now http://theoffwhites.com/. There isn’t much just now, but then again, we just set it up last night. We chose Dreamhost to host the site - they offer lots of storage, bandwidth, and extras. This blog, for instance. I’ve started on Blogger, then moved to Typepad. I always thought I’d like to install and maintain Moveable Type someday, but Dreamhost offered one-click installation of Wordpress (well, it was a few more clicks than one, but it was still super-easy), so here we are. I’ll probably still try to install MT someday, but for now, WP is looking better and better.