Hey all,

There's a new baby in the family! 

Congratulations to Chirs and Lois on the birth of their newest addition, Blake Joseph!  He was born on Sept 3rd 2009, weighed in at 7lbs 14oz, and was 18".

In related news, my nephew Logan is well over a month old now, and from all reports, seems to be doing well!  I really do hope you be able to visit soon!  I was recently sent some new photos of him (click to view them all):

I found out this morning that someone had managed to temporarily take over a small part of the web server.  As a result, it was unavailable. They did this by exploiting a bug in the software for one of the sites I host.

I've corrected the issue for now, and am working to permanently plug the hole they used to do what they did.

Joe

Hello all,

Sorry about the server downtime last week. The motherboard for the old server failed abruptly.  I tried to get a replacement part, but unfortunately, I live in Eastern Tennessee, and my closest Fry's electronics is 3 hours away in Atlanta.

I considered making the drive down, but since I had company (Chuck and Ediths Dad) I couldn't really break away. Not to mention I had a ton of stuff to do.

So in the end, I just bought a new server at Best Buy. Actually, it was a really good deal too!  $369 for a Compaq system with an Athlon 64x2 (dual core 64bit CPU), 3 gigs of ram, 320gig drive, DVD burner, and Windows Vista Home Premium (I dont really care about Vista. I just yanked the drive and popped in my Linux server's root drive instead)

Moving on...

Melissa is due any day now.  I'm anxiously awaiting news of baby Logan's arrival!
Also, I found out that cousin Andrea is expecting!  SHe's due in December I believe.

Exciting times!

Anyway, As you have likely noticed, I am not big on updating my blog anymore.  I have too much to do, and I update Facebook (from time to time) so there's not a lot of reason to keep this going, but who knows, I may transition back to this someday.

Take care everyone!

~J