Today we’re gonna finish up at the old apartment. Cleaning. After today, we will never be going back. Out with the old, in with the new.

The DNS refreshed and now I’m finished migrating between my old host and my new one – Kattare. The JSP/Servlet community is hot on this host and in particular it is the home of Blogging Roller. My old ISP, while feature rich, had performance problems. So far I’m blown away by how fast MovableType seems here.

Now, after all this moving, I can get back to, in my private time, working on Cofax. Lots of documentation to write, including thank yous. A new release should be out shortly. I can also get back to my experimenting. That means I’ll hopefully get a chance to try out Roller real soon now.

Not only that – but I can get back to working with my recorder 🙂 I have tons of songs I can finally share.

That fire did a real number on my schedule.

Thanks for the support on the smokes. Still going strong. It will be one week at midnight tonight. The worst part of it now are the waves of… saddness… that I am experiencing. Real heavy weights on my chest. I know they are smoking related and should disappear soon. But they really suck.

Check out Bill’s postings titled “The Fear”. Looking like a cool behind the scenes story to me 🙂

Yea, it doesn’t sound like to big a deal for you non-smokers. But I got thru last night, a bar night with co-workers, without lighting up. I played like shit (well there is nothing new there…) but got thru without a smoke.

“Sept. 11 brought the family together, ironically. It was like a another Thanksgiving,” said the boys’ father, Dante Martino. Four days later, tragedy would strike again. Hunter James, while sleeping in his crib in his Upper Moreland home, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or the unexpected death of an apparently healthy baby – usually between 2 and 4 months old – for reasons that cannot be explained, even after a thorough investigation.

Katie and Dante Martino were devastated. But from their grief and pain came hope and help for others, in the form of the Sleeping Angels Fund, an organization dedicated to helping financially needy families pay for funeral arrangements after the sudden death of their infants.

Read the rest in this Record article.

Yesterday I got to watch Dante, my brother, and Katie, my sister in-law, film a commercial for Comcast Digital Television. It was great fun. The commercial is going to be something else. Expect it to be playing sometime early September.

It warms my heart to see.

The world can be a smaller place. As Garret said a real weblogger wedding.

Just about two or three months ago, I went two weeks without a smoke. I went to a bar, and almost ended up in a fight with an Airforce pilot who was disrespecting my sister in law who told him to scram. He started to put her down. Which pissed me off. The bartender threw him out. Lucky for me. I woulda got my ass kicked.

Anyway, it’s 8:26 and I know I’ve beaten it today. And I look forward to beating it tomorrow.

Anyone who says this is easy is out of their skulls.

I’m actually going to use Form 1500 as described in this phonezilla.net posting. Marlborough has been sending me magazines and junk mail and has ignored attempts to get them to cease. If they find me at my new address, it’s off to the post office! via camworld.