So far, switching hosts hasn’t been too bad. Transferring stuff around has took awhile, but it hasn’t been near as taxing as I thought. If you find a broken link shoot me an email with Broken Link as the subject.

Update: I updated the DNS stuff last night before I went to bed, and bingo, the new server is live.

For the first time ever today, I actually listed to the words of the Rascal Flatts song Bless the Broken Road. I didn’t write these words, but they say almost everything I feel about Beck.

Bless the Broken Road
Rascal Flatts

I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn’t see how every sign pointed straight to you
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

I think about the years I spent just passing through
I’d like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You’ve been there you understand
It’s all part of a grander plan that is coming true

Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

Now I’m just rolling home
Into my lover’s arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you.

I love you Beck, for forever and a day.

Mitch Hedberg is dead. He passed away on March 29, 2005. At the time I posted this, I had no idea he was dead. I was curious why I hadn’t heard any new material from him in awhile, so I visited his website. I was honestly sad when I read the news. He was really a funny guy and I absolutely loved his sense of humor. Most of his jokes were common sense that I never looked at so commonly until he pointed it out. Thanks for the laughs, man. Your odd brand of wisdom will be surely missed.

If you’re a regular visitor, you probably noticed that the front page now has a nifty little sidebar so you can see my five most recent tech tips. The whole exercise has been an effort of futility because I still have to fight with Firefox and IE 6 to get stuff to render right! I suppose I get frustrated because I don’t actively develop pages as much as I once did and I have just forgotten about how defensive you must be as far as making a change to the code, checking the renders in all browsers, making a change to the code, checking the renders in all browsers, ad infinitum.

I somehow lack the patience for this tedium now. Oddly enough, PHP tedium is fine: I’m actually getting to the point where doing a basic CSS/HTML design is annoying. The worst part is that I have an insane need to change my page every six months or so, which means I will always have to juggle the CSS/HTML render cycle. Talk about a Catch 22: Do I drive myself mad with the boredom of a current design or do I drive myself mad by writing new code? What to do…what to do…

The one thing I do know is that I really like my sidebar and that all is well in Travis land at the moment. Good night!

Happy Halloween to everyone!!