I just came across a new piece of software, with an intro price of $50 USD, that looks something like this:

You can find more at:
http://tinyurl.com/yrnh and I have to say…the UI leaves something to be desired. Could there be any more icons/buttons/listviews in the above screenshot? [click it to view it in all its […]

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YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1200641994_0′]={”text”:”Adobe Photoshop”,”weight”:0.711162,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/other/product”],”category”:[”THING”]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1200641994_1′]={”text”:”Twitter”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/domain”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”],”metaData”:{”domain_name”:”Twitter”,”domain_url”:”http://twitter.com/”}};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1200641994_2′]={”text”:”web editing software field”,”weight”:3.29289,”type”:[”shortcuts:/concept”],”category”:[”CONCEPT”],”clientMetaData”:{”disabled”:true}};A couple new Mac applications have been introduced at Macworld 2008. One is
Iris [no, not that
Iris], which has a public beta now available. Iris is a photo editing application, similar to
Pixelmator,
Acorn, and the ever-popular [but also very expensive!] Adobe Photoshop. Iris is a Leopard only application, so […]

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YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};In what is the first Boeing 777 “crash”, a British Airlines Boeing 777 lost all power on its approach to London Heathrow Airport and was forced to
glide to a safe landing. All 151 survived and only a few minor injuries were reported. Thankfully emergency power was present, but this is a very strange story, […]

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YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1200195385_0′]={”text”:”Wordpress”,”weight”:0.979175,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/domain”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”],”metaData”:{”domain_name”:”Wordpress”,”domain_url”:”http://www.wordpress.com/”}};Moving my old blog from
Geeklog to Wordpress. I think this post will be here just temporarily. Let’s see if the code that moves data from Geeklog to Wordpress really works!
Expect more posts here soon!

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It is another new year. That means I *must* get my new server up and running. Well, it really is up and running. It simply is not serving. I have a brand new super-fast connection on a brand new super fast server I built [a 1U rack mount server!] being hosted by a company that features armed guards and Mission Impossible-styled machine rooms.

So what I need to do now is move my gazillion sites to the new server, and start blogging again. I’ve got nearly a gazillion blog entries in my head; but I would much rather get them on "digital paper".

So what is taking so long? I am moving all my sites [remember, a gazillion!] from one place to another, but these sites all run on different programs, or use different programs that are all based on PHP4 and MySQL version 4.x. I intend on upgrading to PHP5 and moving to MySQL 5. With over 10 years of coding [i started writing PHP back in 1997], this means a lot of things need cleaning up and fixed before they are ready to be made public.

But I do intend on getting vjl.org moved over. The "w3log" URL, however, will redirect to a new vjl.org/blog link. I will make sure all past articles/links get forwarded to the correct new page[s]. Upgrading vjl.org is actually the easy part, and since I like doing the hard stuff first [and stuff that affects others], I’ve been back-burnering vjl.org’s upgrade.

But no more! It *will* be upgraded. Very soon. Honest. Just check back in a few days, ok?

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