technology

housecleaning

i’ve removed the sigma museum photos from flickr in an attempt to cut down on costs and will be hosting images directly instead of using a flickr pro account. unfortunately, i’ll have to manually edit all the previous posts which will take me close to forever to finish, if at all. please bear with the mess in the meantime.

new look again

hosting provider finally hooked me up with a word press upgrade. i’d been too chicken to upgrade it myself because i nuked the last blog i tried to do that with. but now that i’m upgraded, i can try out the latest themes and widgets. how’s this one?

free chapter site hosting on bluephi.net

i threw this out a while ago on thecause1914, but didn’t get much response. i really feel this is a service the folks running pbs1914.org should offer and with Yahoo!’s recent announcement to close their free Geocities hosting service by October, i know quite a few of you may be looking to relocate your chapter sites elsewhere. so here’s the deal, i’ll host your chapter site free of charge. all i ask of you is a link back to bluephi.net. i’ll give you your own subdomain: chapter.bluephi.net. we’ll have to talk specifics about who’s got access and how much you’ll be able to update on your own. if you’re interested, hit me up.

bluephi.net turns 3

it’s hard to believe that i’ve been running this site in its current form for 3 years now. i just now looked back at the first post and realized that i’d written it 3 years ago yesterday. it reminded me of one of the reasons why i started blogging – to evangelize technology solutions to other Sigma webmasters and hope to create various web goodies you can use on your sites.

the first thing i did when i was asked to be a supporting officer was to establish my identity online. i went out and found pockets of active Sigma communities and i started participating, posting, introducing myself and so on getting my name out to get an idea of who’s who in Sigma online. it was then that i realized that the national site was missing out on a huge opportunity in not hosting its own social network and driving all that activity to pbs1914.org.

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