Thursday, May 20, 2004

GISMO blog

I am working on a new design for the GISMO (NYC area GIS user group) website and am experimenting with adding a blog.

Please take a look:

http://gismonyc.blogspot.com

This blog is hosted on blogspot.com. It is rather featureless at this point, but I think as an example of what a blog would look like for a group like ours, it is a start. I plan to move it to MovableType when I set up a new hosting account. I've decided to drop Brinkster & go to Netfirms. I took a class at eclasses.org in blogging and really love the MovableType interface.

Monday, May 17, 2004

What's up with Brinkster?

My website is down. Brinkster launched a great new site with new pricing structure. Somehow my files got lost in the mix. Not just my little website but a great big one I was working on for AMNH. I had been having trouble with Brinkster for a while - there were ads on my supposedly ad-free site. Now there are no ads, but no files either. It'll be a pain to repost these files, so I'm thinking about dropping the account. I was ready to move it to AMNH anyway & was planning to find a host that supports MovableType. Of course that was until I heard about the new MT pricing structure. Now I'm wondering if Blogger is where I belong.

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So, just now I finished up with the support people via LivePerson. Of course they are not aware of why the files are gone. Did I delete them by accident, they wonder? Six hundred files in several different folders? Not likely. They don't appear to have any record of what happened regarding my previous problems with ads on the site or whether the person who fixed that problem had something to do with the missing files. So, I am mad. I have a backup of some of the files, but I probably lost some of the Vietnam expedition pictures that I had cleaned up. I'll have to go to the museum to see if they are there, or perhaps they are still in Outlook. Sigh.

So if you want me today, I'll be hovering over my WS-FTP console.

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Rumsfeld prefers being in Iraq

from today's Top Stories - AP "Rumsfeld Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq "
Rumsfeld was accompanied by Myers and several lawyers on a trip designed to reassure U.S. troops that the prisoner abuse scandal has not weakened public support for their mission and to get firsthand reports from the most senior commanders. Neither hid his feelings about the tough questioning he endured from members of Congress over the prison abuses.
"I'm really glad to be here," Myers enthused.
Before taking questions from soldiers, Rumsfeld said, "It's generally a lot more fun here than it is back home."

I wonder if the soldiers think it is more fun in Iraq.

Monday, May 10, 2004

GISMO Meeting Tomorrow

The next GISMO meeting is tomorrow, May 11th from 12:00pm-2:30pm at the Fund for the City of New York, 121 Sixth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY. Michael Schill of the NYU Furman (Real Estate) Center will discuss the NY Times 2/6 Exposure of New Web site www.nychanis.com. Anyone interested in geographic information systems software is welcome to attend. No need to RSVP. Lunch is provided by the Fund.

The next meeting is Thursday, July 15: Discussion on future of GIS/GISMO/NYC/NYS.

For additional details please see the GISMO website at http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/gismo.