Benjamin Clark

Exactly one year ago today, I had just installed Drupal at BenClark.com and I posted a "hello world" to prove it. A year later, I am still working on finishing the content migration from WordPress to Drupal. (Tsk tsk on me...)

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Tonight begins my 5,000 mile road trip! My friend Josh and I are getting into my 2008 Toyota Matrix after I get off of work. We'll be driving from Tallahassee, FL, straight to Boulder, CO, on I-70 (through Missouri & Kansas). We're estimating that to be a 25 hour stretch. Then after a day or two in Boulder, we go to Moab, UT, and finish up around Las Cruces, NM, before heading back on I-10.

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People throw around the word "neglect" so much that it loses all meaning. Yeah, yeah, I haven't updated this blog in a month or so. I feel your pain. I just haven't had a whole heck of a lot to update about. Here's a real brief overview of what's been going on:

(1) Work is the same, good or bad. I'm settling in to the day-to-day patterns.

(2) I went to visit some friends in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area one weekend this past month, and I spent some time contemplating a move up there. I'm still thinking very seriously of it, and more to be updated on that subject later on.

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Every few weeks or so, I remember that I have a blog here. There's only a handful of people who read this, but that doesn't mean I should treat you like second-class citizens, right? Exactly. Yeah, I'm just not good at this.

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Okay, so I drop off the face of the planet for what seems like a few days, and suddenly it's November. And not just 'November,' but smack dab in the middle of November.

I've created a new WordPress theme. You're (probably) seeing it right now. I like it. No B.S. like fonts, colors, or graphics -- just pure fixed-width text goodness. I call it alt.newsgroup.theme in honor of the bygone years of Usenet, UNIX terminals, and dial-in BBSes. Feel free to use it on your own site.

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Details about the new Benclark.com:

Hardware
AMD 64 3000+ (Socket 939)
MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard
1 GB DDR400
80 GB hda
200 GB hdd

Software
Ubuntu Linux (based on Debian) -- amd64 native port
Apache2 + php4

I decided to self-host benclark.com, with the exception of my e-mail, which is currently being switched over to an economy account at GoDaddy. The 24-48 hour transitional period means that I will be without e-mail for that long. If you absolutely need me, use LJ to send me a text message, or an e-mail.

In other news, I'm in Venice for the weekend. Play by play when I get back on Sunday.

Update: My e-mail is working again as of Saturday 2 PM. If it got bounced back, resend it.

I've been enjoying my summer break so far. (I got a week off of work, so I took off as soon as I finished my last paper on Tuesday.) Even the drive home was nice -- no traffic, no cops, just me and the road, cruise control and my iPod.

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