The office is full of candy and I’m eating espresso cupcakes for breakfast. They were brought in just for me, because tomorrow is my birthday.
So I’ve transplanted photos from the 2002 London excursion to the newish gallery. Feel free to take a look, if you haven’t already. And once you’ve flipped around, come back here and leave some suggestions for our next Trans-Atlantic vacation. We’re heading over in November with tentative plans to stick to just the British Isles, though we haven’t completely discounted a side-trip onto the Continent. If you know of any out of the way spots in the UK that are worth a visit, say so.
Speaking of … the Simple PHP Gallery is a reasonable solution for displaying my photos. It has been remarkably stable (though a bit slow) since I got my cache issues solved. The only real problems come when I need to upload a lot of photos. Since it is on the free space I got from 1and1.com a few years ago — it was a promotional deal where giving them your name and email address scored you 2GB for “life” — the transfer is very slow and tends to falter or time out about halfway through. And if your pushing up really high-res photos … well, it just chokes. At those times, I start thinking again about going Pro with my Flickr account. But free is free and Flickr is … not free.
And lastly, but most annoyingly … it looks like Grabbingsand is going to move again. LogJamming has been a rather good host for a little over two years, but I am thinking I can find a better deal elsewhere. Also, they’ve just caught up with their long overdue accounting, so the decision to stay or go is far more immediate. Right now, I’m looking at DreamHost, because they offer a metric ton of storage, high bandwidth, multiple MySQL databases and the option of running three domains under one account. This would allow for some bill consolidation for mine and Nikki’s hosting. So if nothing else, leave a comment or two about your own hosting recommendations, experiences, revelations or nightmares.
