motogobi

I used to have a little sidebar thing that said I was a father-to-be that I’ve since misplaced in the shuffle to this new layout for motogobi. Well, part of the time spent mucking around with the redesign (which I like a whole ton, ackshually) was done while sitting on the couch watching my son sleep. Everett was born Monday July 26th to a very overjoyed Mom and Dad who’ve been nothing less than totally in love with him since the moment we first set eyes on him…

I’ll have to wait for the paperwork to come through in a bit, but I nailed my VCP410 exam this morning. Ah, the load off my chest at the moment…

– mike

Oh hey – the site was down for a good portion of today due to some hosting provider issues. Please contact me if you experience any problems ’round these parts.

UPDATE: the site is loading very very slowly with random 404 and 500 errors. I’m working with xxxxxx’s technical support to figure out the issue. Hopefully this will be resolved quickly or you’re gonna see another “Moved hosting providers” post shortly. Grr

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: I’ll be moving hosting providers again shortly. Thanks for your patience. This downtime came at a really inopportune time as I really, really needed the image hosting while I try to sell one of our vehicles.

UPDATE TO THE UPDATED UPDATE: Settled in with BlueHost quite nicely, ackshually (thanks for the tip, Paul!) I sincerely hope you don’t see any further issues for quite some time…

- mike

Just a nice walk with Thatcher to start the year.

Yeah, got off my butt and posted these up on my Picasa Web account for all to see…

I’ve found that two things get in the way of updating this site: skiing and starting a new job. I mean, being married and having a very active dog and wife and it being prime motorbike weather doesn’t usually put as much of a crimp on at least posting some new pics of the most recent ski season, but with this new position I’ve most definitely stepped into the major leagues. I’ve been working on an ESX deployment that takes virtualization to an entirely new level that I’ve never experienced before – DRS, HA, NetApp NFS storage with snapshotting, and much much higher uptime expectations from my customers. It’s exciting, if terrifying at the same time.

Yeah, Anna’s going to kick me for changing it (again) but I was a little disappointed with the layout of the previous motogobi theme. This is a little more clean, a little more readable, and those annoying blue borders around linked images are gone in IE. Plus, this is what I do – I mess with things…

The large piece Anna removed by force and by the passing light a car’s headlights last night standing by the side of the road. The smaller piece Thatcher gave up after a tasty tasty hydrogen peroxide cocktail.

Hooray for the Bantz Canine Surgery Avoidance Response Team of Mike and Anna.

Unlike the last time I updated WordPress, where I pretty much wiped out the entire uploads section of my website, you shouldn’t notice much of anything. I did, however, add my TripAdvisor travel map (to be updated often, hopefully!). We found that TripAdvisor was a really good resource on our most recent sojourn to Costa Rica, and almost all of the people we ran into there that were from abroad did as well. One of those ideas that you wish you had thought up…