Well I'm finally getting around to putting this stuff back on the internet. The server that used to host imp-detail.org has been sitting on the floor in the corner of this room since January, waiting for me to copy things off of it and on to the new host. I decided before I moved last that I'm sick of dealing with upgrades and compiling and power outages and UPS failures and disk failures and everything else that goes with running a server, so when I moved I pulled the plug on imp-detail.org with the intention of having it totally hosted on site5 forever (or whatever). I got as far as e-mail, then lost interest, and the web site was MIA until a few days ago, when I decided that I wanted the thing working again.
Sounds so easy, but I never really planned for this and all of these blog posts (and all of my photos, and several other things) are stored in a MySQL database and it's kind of inconvenient to export and re-import that stuff, or at least it's not immediately obvious how to do it, so I've been going through a manual process of copying posts off of the old server (which is turned on ... I had forgotten how loud it is! Oh, does someone want to buy a server? It's very nice) on to the new one; fixing database names and include locations and all of that crap that I had very carefully configured to be secure and logical on my own server.
Why did I want to do this again? I don't remember.
Anyway, as of today I've got all of the blog posts back up. Don't have the photos yet. That's going to take a while.
In the meantime, I've moved off of the TVIS project and on to a new one: Displays and Controls for the (as yet designed or really even authorized) Crew Exploration Vehicle. I realize that it seems premature to get on this before the Augustine commission is done and the president has decided something, but I'm assuming that whatever the outcome, we'll still have a manned space program and still need cockpit avionics for it. So I should be fine :)
Maybe I'll post more later, now that I've got this thing again. Honestly ... I've been at this for a few hours now and I just don't get so excited about spending hours sitting in front of the computer anymore. Maybe tomorrow.
Oh, I'm taking Thursday and Friday off work, just because. Woo!