I’m Moving On Up

So I have been playing around with the idea of moving my blog from wordpress.com to my own hosted site. I started reading up on what needs to be done in order to move from my wordpress.com address to a different site and it turns out it is really hard with large sites. So I decided to take the step and move to http://www.scottwarren.info/ . I still have to set everything up but I thought that I should start letting people know because I’m planning on not updating this blog after today (assuming I get access to my webpage before tomorrow afternoon).

I had a lot of reasons for doing this. The first was Google Analytics. I really like Google Analytics because it gives you a much more detailed view of you site than the integrated wordpress stats plug in. By using my own site I can modify the template for this site so I can actually use that. I also want to have more control over the way things are added to my site. It’s really nice to be able to add a custom script or plug-in to perform actions that WordPress just doesn’t support. I also have had problems getting changes uploaded to a binary file without changing the files path everywhere on the site.

The only downside to moving is that I have to pay for everything now and I really hope I don’t go over on my bandwidth use age. I should have all the problems ironed out this weekend.

Weekly Photo Post 2008-01-20ish

Next week I swear I will get these photos up quicker. I ran into a couple days this week where I took a picture but I don’t feel comfortable sharing them.

Quick Update

Just a quick update. Amanda and I had a 12+ hour day today so we are going to bed. I sat down to charge my iPod and the update that allows me to play rented movies showed up! I guess I can take back that ugly post I made about Apple not supporting the rented movies on all devices. I’m going to bed after I check to see if the AppleTV update is out. Tomorrow when I have time I’m going to post my pictures from the last week and start working on a couple longer posts. Now that my storage limit here has been upped I can really start working on the things I want without having to worry space. I have also put a lot of though into getting my Blog hosted on my own hosted server because I would really like to do more with it and I like the deals that GoDaddy.com has.

Photo Organizing Software

Recently, I have been looking for good photo organizing software. I know there are commercial options out their but as an amateur I have already spent over two thousand dollars on equipment (an amount that seems to increase every couple weeks ) so I don’t really want to spend more money. Because of this I have been looking at the various free photo organizing tools and I haven’t been able to find one that has all the features that I really want.

Digital Filing

I have been spending a lot of time this weekend thinking about organizing digital documents.  I’m very anal retentive about keeping the bills that I receive but I have a couple filing boxes full of papers.  Only twice have I had to go back and look at the bills but I did need to get that information.  I have started scanning my bills and then shredding it so I have a way to refer to them but don’t have them sitting around.  The problem I have run into is that because I’m organizing the bills by month I can easily find a bill for a specific date but I have a hard time getting to bills from a specific company.  I could easily make a copy of the file in another folder but that would create redundant files and use up extra space.

What I need is a system that organizes files on disk based on the date they were created but also allows for tagging of the files.  That would allow me to quickly find the information  I need without using up to much extra hard drive space.  It would be nice if the program could store the tags inside the files whenever possible so they can easily be moved around.  I have found some software that is proprietary and I’m a little worried about getting my data stuck in a file.