jarandhel

Huh. Browser misbehaves. Restart computer. Browser works again. That's so rarely the case on Macs these days that I honestly thought the beta of google chrome for Mac was just really buggy and was considering uninstalling it. Glad I was wrong. Now that I've restarted my computer, it's working VERY nicely. :)

I've been working on a few things tonight. First of all, I finally got my external USB drive working. Bought the adapter I needed a while ago, finally got around to hooking it up to my desktop and formatting it, then installed the drive back in the usb enclosure, hooked it up to my laptop and repartitioned/reformatted it. Complete success. :)

Then, I booted up Windows XP in Parallels. Great piece of software, that. I had thought that due to all of the free and/or open source virtualization software out there that I would never need to pay for a program like this. I'm seriously considering revising that opinion. I was able to boot up XP from the virtual disk on my laptop hard drive, and tell the virtual machine to use the physical external hard drive as a secondary hard disk. Not to put a virtual drive ON the physical hard drive, but actually to access the disk directly and use it as a normal hard drive from within the virtual machine. And from what I understand, I could have used it as a boot volume for the virtual machine in the same manner. I find that very useful.

Finally, I'm looking into the possibility of moving my WanderingPaths website to its own domain. I'm very grateful to kyoudai02 for hosting my site these past few years, but I've been thinking for a while now that it would be nice to have my own domain and be able to spread out my projects (wanderingpaths, reiki annex, and a few others yet to be announced) across multiple subdomains. The major reason I had not done so yet was a reluctance to start over in gaining google rankings on a new domain. Today we learned the http://www.heliwood.org account was, for reasons beyond our control, cancelled. If I stay with the twins and share hosting with them, it will involve moving the site to a subdomain of http://www.thehermeticdog.com/ That pretty much removes my reason for not getting my own domain, and so it looks like I will be striking out on my own. (Though I will still be collaborating closely with the twins, and have a hand in at least one project planned for http://www.thehermeticdog.com)

Presently, I haven't settled on a hosting provider yet, or much of anything really. I'm leaning somewhat towards http://www.dreamhart.org as the domain name, but that is very tentative at this stage. I'm pondering whether I want to build a server and host my site in-house or purchase hosting as well as registering the domain. There are positive and negative aspects to both approaches, and so far I haven't decided which would be most preferable for the various projects I have planned.

Input, as always, is welcomed.