Verbosity 2.0 ~ Talking about life on Drupal

Today I'm nearing the end of a full week off. It's been great sleeping in, snowboarding and working on some projects I've been putting off for a long time.

As you probably already know I have a web server I own that I maintain as a hobby. Recently a few friends who have accounts on the server started requesting new features and I figured it was probably time to bit the bullet and start the upgrades.

A Windows day at work. The CSS for one of our sites was broken in IE 6. For those of you who aren't in the know: only in IE 7 has Microsoft finally adopted best practices with the CSS specification.

So after a few short hours I successfully moved one box. All I needed to do was uninstall IE 7, reboot, start all my programs again, then test and play till things looked right before installing IE 7 again. What a waste of time.

Vancouver is starting to get mighty cold and wet so I'm taking a step out to go to places that are colder and wetter than here: Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

Having taken the same trip last year at this time I will be traveling to the cities in reverse order, suggesting that I may stay in Ontario longer than planned. What are my plans when I'm there? Largely the same as what I do here: lots of reading, coffee and writing emails. Catching up with things I haven't had the time to do in Vancouver lately.

When I ran into some old friends in Vancouver this summer we parted with a "see you on Facebook" comment. We had been discussing the popular social networking tool and lamenting that it seems harder to arrange events using the utility. "After about four months you'll get over Facebook" said one of the women I was speaking to. Based on prior experience I knew she was right.