David Singlespeed Unrau

Well, all good things come to an end. We are back in the snow. No updates as we spent the end of the trip around Manuel Antonio National Park with no internet connection. I’ll try to post some more pictures.

Well, here we are in Costa Rica. This is the view from our hotel room. It’s sunny, high twenties with a nice breeze coming in off the ocean. I can’t say that I’m missing Canada yet!

You may have noticed some service interuptions with the Salientia website over the last couple of days.  I’ve just moved the whole website from a Linux box in our living room to Korax hosting.  There are a number of reasons for this – first of all, hosting with Korax is cheaper than the upcharge I have to pay our ISP for a fixed IP address.  Secondly, the web traffic was starting to choke our connection – too many people looking at pictures on the server.  Thirdly, Korax’s email servers are far faster and more reliable than our ISPs.  Finally, this is all part of my plan to get rid of Bell and go to VOIP.  Moving the WordPress blogs went smoothly – moving the gallery – not so smoothly.  It turns out I’d configured the database with some options that are not supported on the Korax implementation of MySQL, so I need to rebuild the database….oh well.

I’ve just installed the Gallery2 photo gallery software as a subsite on the server.  For now, I’ve moved all the MTB pictures over there.  If it works out, I’ll use the gallery for larger albums of photos in general, and start restricting the blog to the ‘artsie’ pictures.  You should be able to register and add comments and ratings to the images.  I still have to skin it to fit in more with the rest of the site.  Let me know what you think.