Published 1 year, 7 months ago
in Blog.
Since this is a personal blog, I thought I’d go ahead and make the domain name match as such, so today, JamesMBurke.com went live. It may take up to 72 hours for the DNS entries to resolve for you, but the site is still accessible via jbctech.com. I’ve used the jbctech.com domain for a number of years, but have been wanting to switch to something a little more personal.
I also fought with some server troubles tonight with the launch - apparently the hosting provider encountered a hard disk failure and had to move servers. When they moved my data over to the other server, there were a couple of corrupted files, and it took me about a half hour to get that all resolved. Luckily, all of my SQL databases were intact. Ahh the joys of local disks…wouldn’t it be nice if it were on a NetApp SAN.
Published 1 year, 7 months ago
in Life.
Traveling. That’s how I would describe these two days. We left Honolulu on December 29th at around 9:00pm HST, and arrived in Lubbock at around 11:00am (Central) on the 30th. Another horrible experience — it took the Lubbock Airport a little over an hour to get our bags…anyway, we then spent an hour or so with Rebecca’s mom and sister, having lunch and then departed on our long drive back home. We stopped in Dallas to have dinner with my Dad and his brother. We then left at around 8:30 to see how far we could make it. We ended up stopping in Shreveport, LA after about a 520 mile drive from Lubbock.
The next morning (New Year’s Eve), we woke up at 8:00am (Central) and headed to Raleigh. I drove until we hit Vicksburg, Mississippi. Then, Rebecca took over and drove until Birmingham, Alabama. Determined to make it to Raleigh as close to midnight as possible, I then took over and continued driving until we hit Raleigh at around 12:45am (Eastern). That drive covered 1000 miles and took us about 16 hours.
It was definitely nice to be home. We had Daisy (our dog) with us, and she was happy to be home too.
