You can check out my Germany Picture map on Flickr.  It is very cool.  Scroll through the pictures to see them laid out on the map.  It is especially interesting when you start seeing paths that I have walked or see how the pictures lay out around Osnabrueck’s Old Town.

Also, the Flickr badge has been added back in so that the five more recent photos uploaded to Flickr will appear on the side providing a quick view for people to see if something new has been added and also providing a quick link to the Flickr site which has become increasingly popular now that Liesl has arrived.

Supposedly, the hot new feature of the 2.6 series is that it tracks revisions!  I am looking forward to seeing how this works in action.

We also had another really important server completely die tonight.  I worked on that until well after one in the morning.  No luck.

Currently our plans are to sleep, as that is necessary, then to drive to Scranton first thing in the morning and make an assessment of the situation at that point.  I have no idea how bad it is right now and there is nothing that I can do about it from here.  We are preparing for the worst.

Another weekend without any real sleep. 

This also makes following my Twitter feed much easier for people who do not have their own Twitter accounts and therefore are unable to “follow” me on Twitter.

Andy is already underway preparing for the next Dice Tech Challenge.  This next one does not require a round of voting.  We will keep you updated.

Just to be on the extra safe side I did an operating system update manually but found that we were completely up to date.  I am also undertaking a WordPress update too.  Might as well go all the way, I guess.

And, you should notice, that we ended 2007 with our 2,000th daily post.

We are also very pleased to announce that we have also successfully migrated the site from the aging Geneseo Data Center to our brand new facility in Scranton.  I expect that most of our readers will notice a significant increase in the speed and responsiveness of the web site.  We will also, hopefully, eliminate a large percentage of the down time that has been occurring recently.

We were down from early Wednesday morning when the drive failed until 3:30am on Thursday morning. Almost twenty-four hours but not quite. We are currently running in a “limping” state and have been backed up and are being kept up to date to Newark as we expect the server to go down again.

We are attempt to relocate this machine’s services to a server in Scranton over the next several days.

Small change to the site layout to make it more usable. The Flickr badge is now near the top of the page so that new pictures are easily accessible.

Expect outages again as soon as tonight. I am upgrading the server that we are running on. Currently we are running on an Athlon 64 3000+ 754pin which is plenty fast but I am looking for expanded memory capacity so we are installing a new board that takes the 939pin processors. The new Athlon 64 3700+ arrived yesterday and I hope to be installing it this weekend along with the new board and three times the current system memory.

Stay tuned.

The Whole Site Feed
The Dailies Feed
The SGL Podcast
The SGL Vlog
The Comments Feed

Any feed aggregator will work just fine for the text feeds such as the dailies or the comments. I suggest a dedicated reader such as SharpReader or a email client that also reads feeds such as Thunderbird. In order to listen to the podcast try Juice and for the vlog try FireANT.

Simply scroll down until you see the META section in the lefthand column and click LOGIN. You will be prompted from there. Or you can even more simply choose REGISTER from the top menu.

We now have working RSS feeds so that you can subscribe to the site and get your updates through an RSS aggregator. The site has been designed in such a way that you can subscribe to the entire site or to just one portion or another (such as just the dailies, just the podcast, etc.) You can now post comments. You can now permalink to specific articles. The archives are a bit different now and you can jump straight to any month’s listings but you then have to click on the “comments” link at the bottom to read the entire posting. That is a little weird and we might have to work on that.

All in all I think that the new site is incredibly exciting and I am really looking forward to seeing how everyone is going to use the features to make the site a better experience for them.

Thanks, everyone, for coming to check out the work being done on the new site. This “maintenance” post is the first post made exclusively to the WordPress version of the site.