Month: October 2004

They always go in threes …

Monday, October 4, 2004:

  • Gordo Cooper – Former NASA astronaut, one of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in space alone. Also the one to report seeing the aurora australis over Perth which was turned into a huge story when it was misrepresented by the media as a “UFO”.
  • Janet Leigh – Actress best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and mother of Jamie Lee Curtis.

Tuesday, October 5, 2004:

  • Rodney Dangerfield – Comedian and actor. Known for his self depreciating humor and his desire to help young new comedians find fame.

Upgrades

There are a number of changes for MeisterPlanet.com taking place right now. I’ve switched from POE Hosting to MJZ Hosting due in small part to the reduced monthly web hosting fees, but mostly because of the extra harddrive space that comes with their servers.

The increase from 600MB to 5,000 will reduce the stress of worrying about some of the oddball, large video and image files I’ve served from here on occasion. The 50GB of monthly traffic will help in that regard as well.

Since I would need to reconfigure the blogging software anyway, I decided it was time to move on from MovableType due to their new licensing issues with the release of version 3.0 of their software. I’ve chosen WordPress as my new journal backend, due both to positive word of mouth and the open GPL license the codebase is released under.