Some women deal with loss by hitting the hairdressers, what does a girl geek mourning the exit of her country from a football tournament do? Migrate a domain. As the great philosopher Doris Day once said “Que sera sera”. OK I left scottishlass.co.uk as the last domain to move over to the VPS. I held off doing it sooner because I could see a few hits from people looking for the Runrig Loch Lomond link and had landed on this blog. If you can read this then you should be getting served by the American VPS host. Next step close the old hosting account…and make sure they cancel the recurring billing. The whole move’s gone amazingly smoothly so far, suspiciously so. Just a few cron jobs to set up for RSS gubbins.
Archive for November, 2007
Comfort geeking…
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Scotland vs. Italy. Good luck Scotland!
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Scotland will be a nervous wreck tonight. The whole country will be chewing its fingernails. To recap, Scotland *have* to beat Italy at home at Hampden to qualify for Euro 2008. Don’t bother phoning anyone in Scotland between 5 and 7pm – the country will be at a standstill.
Good luck Scotland! After the draw was announced no one would have given us a prayer of still being in contention at this stage so many thanks to Walter Smith for turning the team around and current manager Alex Mcleish for keeping us in with a chance. Alex has handled the whole media side of this campaign brilliantly.
We have some of the best football fans in the world in the shape of the Tartan Army they’ve been exceptional. Let’s hope the team gives the fans the chance to follow them to the bigger Euro stage.
UPDATE Scotland 1 Italy 2. Alas not to be but by Christ we gave it a go
Buy Loch Lomond by Runrig and Tartan Army for Children in Need
Friday, November 16th, 2007Come on all you Scotland fans, put the swirling saltires down for a few seconds and go to the iTunes store and buy the special Loch Lomond (Hampen Remix) EP. Rousing rendition of Runrig’s finest backed up by the silver tonsils of Scotland’s own Tartan Army – recorded at Hampden during the Ukraine match.
The direct iTunes link is
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=268083976&s=143444
Busy *doing*, gonny be movin
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Just a note to self and subscribers that I’m in the middle of faffing around with my portfolio of domain names, nameserver changes and moving all sorts of ancient shite between servers across the globe. UK visitors may find things a wee bit slower when it all settles down as I’m abandoning my UK hosts. Plan to do most of the donkey work this week/weekend so disruption may occur. If it all ends up looking as it does now then everything’s working well – the lousy design is, cough, ‘normal’ 