Yet this defense raises the question of why Ted Kennedy never thought to run for president on the slogan “He Never Took a Drink In His Life,” and then, when challenged, point out that other members of his family are less sober than he.

Jonathan Chait in The New Republic “Sarah Quaylin“

Its interesting what you find when you do a Google image seach ofr “Windmasters Hill”

Just saying….

Did they not realize what they were setting up?

That goes along the lines of this.

This is here mostly for my own thoughts etc to get them down on paper. I would appreciate any feedback / comments if you wish…

So, I have my own domain (atlow.org) – technically two domains as atlow.net mirrors the main domain. Currently the domain hosts a display of my awesome HTML talent (not…), a link to my lj, my Gallery 2 photo gallery, HTML exports of my movie- book- and music- collectorz indexes, a link to my Amazon wish list, a crappy guestbook, and my links pages – one being a crpappy HTML list of links, and two others using o”Bookmarks

In addition, I host and am responsible for a few other sites:

• autocrat.atlow.org – a wiki and forum for autcrats that Ive done little to maintain or publicize
• reluctantapple.com – a holding page for ’s on line portfolio
• gotvice.org – the web page for the doomed overly ambitious vice themed event
• jeffnancy.net – & Jeff’s domain

Mostly I just use my domain for the email. Given that, and that things are working overall, why touch it? Well, cause my web page overall looks like crap. And honestly, I need something to keep me surfing places I shouldnt.

With all of that background out of the way, here is what I am considering:

Switching the email from the hosted email to gmail for domains.
pros – its gmail, ’nuff said
cons – potential loss of email during the switchover, need to reconfigure my blacberry to the new mail server etc.
action plan – just need to get off my ass and do it.

Implementing CMS. I have played around a bit and know that if I am going to do this, then it will be Drupal.
Pros:

• highly configurable
• lots of plugins and themes
• can manage multiple sites with a single Drupal code base install
• has full gallery 2 integration
• has a LJ plug-in which allows post to both (I suspect is doing something similar with House de la Flamme though I suspect he’s using Word Press or something similar.

Cons –

• Havent really found the theme I want yet and dont want to learn enough PHP and CSS to do my own custom theme.
• Its a major redo of everything and will mean taking atlow.org down for some time until I get it sorted.
• Not sure I want to continue using Gallery2 – might follow ’s lead and switch to ZenPhoto.
• Dont feel like porting my links over a third time.

Action Plan – A lot more mulling things over.

There is also a part of me that wonders what do I need a web page and domain for. Lets take a look…

• Blog – currently use LJ and thats where my friends are making the viewing of their blogs very convenient.
• Pictures – Gallery2 is working, plus I could always shift to flickr or any of the other free hosting sites
• Links – ol’bookmarks is working or I could switch and use google bookmarks – I dont like del.iscio.us
• eMail – already planning to switch it to gmail, why do I need my own domain?

Ah, paralyzed by indecission….

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