January 2003

February 21st marks the third year in a row I’ve had my websites hosted at Dreamhost. Apparently they appreciate my business. I received an email last night with a $30 gift certificate to mark the occassion. Technically they’ve hosted my websites since late 1997 but I moved my sites briefly in 1999 and again in 2000. I had more of a love/hate relationship with them at the beginning (which is why I switched twice); but the past three years have been great. It’s interesting to see how much they’ve grown, too. I remember when they were just starting out and hosting Swanky.org, a project I was part of at the time in 1997-1998. Five years ago really doesn’t feel like five years ago. Or something like that.

I still haven’t figured out the problem I’m having with Movable Type. Though I don’t think it’s really a problem with Movable Type necessarily, moreso a permissions problem with files. I can publish all files through Movable Type just fine except when it gets to the index files. I get this error message: Writing to ‘/home/.beak/susank/sooz.com/index.html.new’ failed: Opening local file ‘/home/.beak/susank/sooz.com/index.html.new’ failed: Permission denied.

I’ve tried making adjustments to the existing index.html file’s permissions but that didn’t help. Weird.

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Update Jan. 21st @ 11:50pm: The problem is fixed! I had the wrong CGI user associated with sooz.com.

I’ve moved the sooz.com homepage from Blogger to Movable Type. There’s one small technical detail which I need to figure out so for now, the main page redirects to /log. But you probably wouldn’t have noticed that unless I told you.

I’m merging my photo site (capricious.org) with sooz.com since I have enough websites as it is. Four is enough. So, if you’ve got capricious.org bookmarked or in your blogroll, consider changing the link from capricious to sooz.com. Now it’s time for a movie and then Michael and I are going to visit friends who are back in town after living in Florida the past 1.5 years. Not a bad way to spend a birthday evening!

A group of friends joined me to celebrate my 30th birthday a few days early at Henrietta’s Table in Harvard Square. It was a very tasty meal shared with friends. Shannon gave me a knitting “starter kit” and a certificate for a complimentary lesson at Mind’s Eye in Porter Square. Someday soon I will be knitting my very own socks. Assuming I can figure out how to knit. We’ll see how it goes. I added birthday brunch photographs to the photo album.

I spent Friday through part of Sunday in New York City, visiting friends and seeing the city for the second time (ever). One of the highlights was lunch on Sunday at Zen Palate with Josh, Carrie and Jeffrey. It turned out to be Jeffrey’s birthday so we had an unplanned January birthdays lunch (Josh’s birthday was a few days ago and mine is on the 20th). Josh and Jeffrey are my favorite online pals and it’s always been a wish-of-sorts to be able to spend time with both of them in the same room. Of course, that was a lot easier to see happen since Josh has moved from L.A. to NYC. Check out the photo album.

I’m working on reorganizing my web projects. I’ve moved the Free Agent Boston content over to its own home at www.FreeAgentBoston.com. If you’re a free agent (freelancer, consultant, independent) in the Boston area, we’re meeting for the monthly free agent lunch on Thursday, January 16th. See you there? The design for Free Agent Boston.com is temporary until the first week or two in February. Next up … moving capricious.org photos over here.