This blog has been down for some time now. We had problems with our ISP – despite the fact that we had an agreement for a fixed IP address, their NOC group (Network Operations Center) has decided that all residential customers will have port 80 blocked (which is the HTTP port – i.e. our web-server is blocked).

We were quite upset and discussed our options with them. Shortly after our troubles, we moved Malin’s photography site to TextDrive servers. We were able to do this because a colleague of mine at work has available bandwidth for his account there. I have been in discussions with another colleague of mine regarding SliceHost hosting. So we will likely move our web-site there in the near future. At that time – if not sooner – this blog will be operational again.

In the meantime, no one can read this post except me :(

Despite the fact that no one can access this blog now, I decided to begin writing posts again to make sure our lives are suitably documented.

As far as the news of the past many weeks:

  • I’ve been to Ireland. I visited Belfast and Dublin and had a pretty decent time, despite the fact that I was there for business.
  • My parents invited Malin, Will, and me to Savannah, GA (Tybee Beach in particular). We joined them for several days there. Will loved the beach, and we all had fun. I got to go shark-fishing with my dad (which, unfortunately, was a little slow due to less-than-stellar guides), Malin and I got to visit some of our old haunts, and Will got to have fun playing in the sand at the beach. Will also has a mark on his head even to this day – he fell and hit/cut his head on the corner of a table. That was a particularly crappy/scary morning. But when we realized that his injury did not require stitches or any other need for a doctor we all made it through the day a-otay.
  • Malin got a new camera. All photos posted to her photo-blog since May 25th have been with a super-swank Nikon D200 with a very nice lens (vs. her D50 for which she has one decent lens and one inexpensive “kit” lens). She swears that the camera was worth it because of the phenomenal pictures it takes. I trust her.
  • We had a couple of friends over for Memorial Day. Little Will thinks that my friend Scott’s name is “Rupaul”. He also thinks that playing car racing games on the X-Box (Need for Speed: Carbon) is synonymous with “fast women”. Thanks for that one, Rupaul.

Whenever this site is back up, then you can all read the wonderful things I’ll be writing. Hopefully we’ll get this site up and running on the TextDrive servers soon.