Cruisin’
Spent a wonderful afternoon yesterday on an Erie Canal cruise with the gang from Presbytery. It was nice way to get a break in the PC rebuilding and website-making action.
Working on a redesign for the Presbytery site. That’s going well. Either I’m really, really good or they’re really, really easy to please. It’s another case of the first thing out of my fingers and they’re loving it, even though it’s so rough I told them I don’t even consider it to be draft quality.
Anyway, this won’t be your average redesign. I’m throwing all sorts of stuff at it. The finished product—which is still months away—will be done in a content management system, will include a publically updatable online events calendar, a forum, a gallery and a workgroup/intranet section. Oh, and the library catalog. At a committment of ten hours a week—including routine updates during all this—don’t hold your breath waiting for the launch announcment.
On the home front, the diagnostic software confirmed that one 160GB drive is toast. I think that one’s still under warranty. The 80GB drive that was suspect, in fact has developed bad secotr on the disk. That one’s out of warranty, but I’m hoping to limp along with it by using it only for swap/paging and tmp/temp directories and a I’m using a little creativity to partition the drive to avoid storing data in the bad section. If that drive goes south, it’s no biggie. Still, I feel cramped with only one 40GB drive, one certified okay 80GB drive and one 160GB drive, along with the iffy 80GB one.
Windows has been stable for a few days, so I installed my usual load of software, sans M$ Office. As I write now, I’ve just installed Fedora Core 3 (again) and it’s merrily updating 556 component files. Oh. It’s done. Time to configure and install software. Then I have to get ready for server upgrades this Sunday.
It’s all joy here in geekdom. 
