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So things over at nineteen05 are starting to really get moving. We’re almost to version 0.8 of our software as we’ll be rolling out the bulk of our member management utility in the coming week or two. Over the last week we’ve had two appointments that each have gone really well. Now it’s to followup and just getting everything to play well together.

This leads me to this post. We are needing to move over to a dedicated hosting solution. I have looked at both VPS and Dedicated. We’ve made the decision to go with dedicated for the benefits of having our who unit (which we may run like a vps for our clients) to ensure up-time and that it is only our scripts competing for resources. While this is a more expensive approach, over time we believe that it will be more beneficial for us. I’d really appreciate any feedback from those of you out there who know more about the network administration side of things than I do. (more…)

Our website for nineteen05 is up! This is really exciting for us. Let us know your thoughts, Again the design is by Ned Wright.

In the near future I’ll be putting blogging software on the site, and starting a blogs for the sites I host. I’m thinking about using WordpressMU, anyone have any experience with this? I know some people use it for a full fledged CMS. Let me know your thoughts/experiences.

Lately my mind hasn’t had much time to slow down and rest. In less then 10 days I will be back in the US. It has so many implications for my life that it is taking a long time to wrap my mind around from; Leaving France, getting married, leaving Midwest Skier, and even projects from France.

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Since 1999 the website Midwest Skier has dominated the online community of Midwest freestyle skiing. From it’s birth the community and subsequent partnerships with magazines, events, and even at times branching into event and video production had become the visible pulse of a much-neglected movement. Midwest kier is now for sale.

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It’s been a couple days and I’ve got the website coming along quite well. I’m excited to see how it all falls into place and to see if there will be any growth out of it. I’m using a CMS (content managment system) this time around instead of writting my own. I just have to finish the identity of the site and then from there design some clothing and put it online for others to print. I’m pretty stoked about it and how it’s coming along.

Here is the new typeface, working on a logo and sheild for later.

We’re going for kind of a medieval/ren. period and we’ll see how it goes over. I might fidget with that a bit more but it’s mostly how it’s going to look. Any critique is more then welcome, please!

So I’m working on Midwestskier a little bit again and I was looking at the space usage and couldn’t figure it out. It said I was using 670 megs of my gig. I have taken most of the old site down and am playing with some cms stuff and the numebr didn’t shift… weird is what I thought first. Then I decided to check the dump email account… yea, only 69,315 messages in the inbox (or about 3470 pages to list the email)… thats all spam from the last year that didn’t get read. hmmm, now to see if I can turn mailbox dumping off and empty it out. haha.

Well I called highline back today, let them know that I’m planning on doing a summer project and won’t be able to go out there for an internship. I will admit I was slightly nervous doing so, since this is a great opportunity for me. After talking for a minute Dave told me that if I was interested they could get me doing contract work for them next winter. That would be really nice, get some money over winter break as well as some really great job experience in the field I will probably end up in.

For those of you who may be wondering why, then, am I going to school for art. I didn’t want to sit through a four year program where I would learn next to nothing that I haven’t already learned and experienced first hand. Art is a passion of mine and one that, with practice, I could get quite good at and will help to round my abilities.

I talked to Christina today only to find out she’s already back at Kansas and we didn’t get a chance to catch up with each other over break. It was really nice taking her out for breakfast before we left for college, she is one of the few people who just gets me. When I talk to her it seems like she knows whats going on in my head, when most of the time I feel like people don’t have a clue. Sometimes I feel like I’ve done to much and even feelings of guilt come up with that as well. Oh well, can’t do anything about the past. Can only live for the future.

Take Care and God bless you,
~paul