Been spending a little time with my friend Talia. She is one of those friends that is fun to be around but hard to plan anything with.

She lives on the other side of town which makes it difficult to do things with. I guess this is the reason I spend so much time with my neighbor up the street is we are so close by and both of us have a lot of free time on our hands.

Plumber came out Friday because none of my drains were draining. He put the roto thing down my main drain but was unable to completely clear it and it looks like I have sand getting in the main drain which might mean a pipe has cracked underground. They are coming back on Tuesday to put a video camera down the pipe to see what’s up. Just I wanted to spend a bunch of money of this month.

Returned to the gym yesterday for the first time since being sick. I’m still very weak from this but felling good.

Planning on hitting the malls and feeding the economy this afternoon. Other then that just some errands to run. Still haven’t made any plans for this evening but my neighbor mentioned hitting the strip clubs so maybe naked woman jiggling is on tonight’s agenda.

One of the very painful parts about running a website is selecting a host for your site. For those of you who are not techie, that means selecting the company who provides the computer connected to the internet where your website actually lives. While I am based in Montreal, my webservers have been located in Atlanta, Ga. for the last 6 years. That is about to change, and that is a great and scary thing.

The scary part is that the underside of a website for the most part is a ton of fairly complex plumbing and combative code. If you ever saw the movie Brazil, you have seen what the internet looks like. Under the shiny and pretty exterior is the code of hundreds of different people running over equipment made by different people over wires owned by all sorts of people to computers that are all different in their own way.

Every server is different. Even if you build two identical boxes right side by side, and load the same exact software on them, the moment you flip the switch and start building a website, they are different and they will never again be the same.

So over the next couple of weeks, I will be (theoretically) pulling the tent poles out from under hundreds of websites and putting them back up in another place, hopefully entirely invisibly and hopefully without disturbing your enjoyment.   It is the electronic equivialant of the spinning plates routine at the circus, where you try to keep all the plates spinning and not having any of them fall.  The move isn’t far in theory (the sites are going to be served from what is known as the “NAP of the Americas”, a well connected and super strong facility in Florida.  This will improve the speed at which the sites can be seen in Europe, South America, and Asia as this is a major switching hub for all of those areas as they enter in the US.  Effectively, I have moved everything a couple of steps closer to you.

It will take a few days, that is for sure, and everything is slowly getting set up and things are looking good.  Hopefully things will move without a blink… here is to hoping!