thanksgiving
well, somehow it's slipped already into friday here in england, and so i missed posting on thanksgiving day. but i've clearly got loads to be thankful for, so had to post anyway.
all week the french and spanish editors of my site (ok, so i don't OWN it, but when you manage a website, you naturally end up feeling like a loving parent... i just wish it would pick up after itself) have been in town, helping manually migrate the content that wasn't auto-migrated into the new content management system. and a small army of my office mates and even the tech team from our vendor (who happens to be oxfam great britain!) has been helping QA, and stitch together all the pieces of our baby.
we're planning sort of a soft launch tomorrow (um, today, friday), but it's not going to be any one particular flip of the switch. we finally got, as of a few days ago, the ability to publish content on the 'live' server, and so have begun pushing articles over to it. so that's what we'll be doing over the next few days. then hopefully on wednesday: flip the switch. that is, repoint the domain DNS to that server with all the content on it. and let it propagate.
it's funny how exact and specific computers and the web (ie, all the code behind the web) must be in order to run properly (properly = do what we want them to do)... but at the same time, it's like freaking magic. who can predict who will click on what and read which page and download which thingamabobby?!?! i love it!
it so happened that several weeks ago i saw an ad for this band called Ska Cubano, playing at the Zodiac, where they get a good mix of local, regional, and national acts. (at capacity 400 or so, it's a bit too small to host international acts.) their description sounded right on, plus i figured might as well, as i knew i'd not be home to celebrate Tgiving with family. also i knew i wanted to ask this friend who is in the final death throes of finishing her doctorate, and i knew she could use a night out. so at 13 quid, it was a little pricey but well worth the steamy sweaty dancing.
in fact it was literally so steamy, it took like 20 minutes for the steam to dissipate from my camera lens! and not being patient enough for that to happen, while bodies be knocking about all around me, i used my t-shirt to WIPE THE STEAM OFF THE LENS!!! far as i can tell, that's like the #1 Cardinal Sin for Camera Lens: DON'T WIPE THEM WITH ANYTHING BUT A PROPER LENS CLEANING CLOTH!! ah but i could not wait. like the Heinz ketchup commercial.
so here are a couple piccies! enjoy! (i uploaded 4 photos but do not seem them here in preview mode... will have to check once this entry is published).
i hope you didn't over do it on the pumpkin pie tonight!!!!
all week the french and spanish editors of my site (ok, so i don't OWN it, but when you manage a website, you naturally end up feeling like a loving parent... i just wish it would pick up after itself) have been in town, helping manually migrate the content that wasn't auto-migrated into the new content management system. and a small army of my office mates and even the tech team from our vendor (who happens to be oxfam great britain!) has been helping QA, and stitch together all the pieces of our baby.
we're planning sort of a soft launch tomorrow (um, today, friday), but it's not going to be any one particular flip of the switch. we finally got, as of a few days ago, the ability to publish content on the 'live' server, and so have begun pushing articles over to it. so that's what we'll be doing over the next few days. then hopefully on wednesday: flip the switch. that is, repoint the domain DNS to that server with all the content on it. and let it propagate.
it's funny how exact and specific computers and the web (ie, all the code behind the web) must be in order to run properly (properly = do what we want them to do)... but at the same time, it's like freaking magic. who can predict who will click on what and read which page and download which thingamabobby?!?! i love it!
it so happened that several weeks ago i saw an ad for this band called Ska Cubano, playing at the Zodiac, where they get a good mix of local, regional, and national acts. (at capacity 400 or so, it's a bit too small to host international acts.) their description sounded right on, plus i figured might as well, as i knew i'd not be home to celebrate Tgiving with family. also i knew i wanted to ask this friend who is in the final death throes of finishing her doctorate, and i knew she could use a night out. so at 13 quid, it was a little pricey but well worth the steamy sweaty dancing.
in fact it was literally so steamy, it took like 20 minutes for the steam to dissipate from my camera lens! and not being patient enough for that to happen, while bodies be knocking about all around me, i used my t-shirt to WIPE THE STEAM OFF THE LENS!!! far as i can tell, that's like the #1 Cardinal Sin for Camera Lens: DON'T WIPE THEM WITH ANYTHING BUT A PROPER LENS CLEANING CLOTH!! ah but i could not wait. like the Heinz ketchup commercial.
so here are a couple piccies! enjoy! (i uploaded 4 photos but do not seem them here in preview mode... will have to check once this entry is published).
i hope you didn't over do it on the pumpkin pie tonight!!!!
posted by Joel Bassuk at 1:23 AM
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