Monday, March 22, 2010

Spring Cleaning

Google recently announced that it was discontinuing blogs published via FTP which is how this blog used to be published.  So, today I scrapped my custom built template I put together several years back and took the plunge to storing all of my content on Google's servers.  The following are the changes:
  • Since the posts are stored on Google's cloud instead of my home machine, and I want the same URL to work, I had to change kevin.servebeer.com from a DNS host to a DNS alias that points to Google's servers.
  • Since my picture gallery is still stored on my host machine, I had to register another hostname so that my picture gallery is still accessible.  My picture gallery can now be accessed at http://kevingallery.servebeer.com/gallery2.
  • Set up a broken link host to point to kevingallery.servebeer.com so that pictures from old posts continue to work.
  • Completely new fresh template design courtesy of the new online template designer
  • Besides the new obvious colors and look and feel, a few cool new things:
    • Date based hierarchical listing of old posts
    • "Cloud" labels where the label names are larger for those that are more frequent
    • Subscribe widget with several options to subscribe to the blog
    • Cooler "What I'm Reading" section taken directly from my Google Reader account.  The items are sorted by most recently updated and include icons and thumbnails related to the item
Since I'm completely on Google's system now instead of using a hand built template on my home server, I hope to continue to add new and cool features that only the non-FTP deployment can provide.

Hopefully this fresh look will also give me more motivation to post more often.  Nowadays, most of my motivation is spread thin between school, work, and our bathroom remodel (details to come later).  I should be done with school this summer though and hope to pick up on a bunch of neglected projects like this website.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Wish List 2009

Here's this year's wish list that I'll update as ideas come to me:

Download in PDF, Excel, or Text.

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Hitched

Megan and I got married on June 20th, 2009. It was a beautiful ceremony and reception with photos, video, etc. to follow later when I get all the pictures back from the photographer.

We got back from our honeymoon a few days ago from Playa del Carmen. Check out all of the pictures at http://kevin.servebeer.com/gallery2/v/honeymoon. The resort was amazing and we had a great time. I slept like a baby every night. Some of the highlights included our trip to Tulum to see the Mayan ruins, swimming with the dolphins, and a monkey sticking its tongue in Megan's mouth:


Monday, March 23, 2009

Um, This is Awesome

I need a fish tank with one of these:

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Engagement Photos

Megan and I took our engagement pictures a couple of weeks ago while we were in Wichita at Lasting Memories. After filtering through all the stiff and awkward pictures, we picked out 15 that I posted here.

I think we will probably use some form of this one for the papers:

This one I requested to take as a joke but it actually turned out pretty good:

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Wish List 2008

Here's this year's wish list that I'll update as ideas come to me:

Download in PDF, Excel, or Text.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Live Shiba Inu Puppy Cam!!

Watch all the little Ember's live :) It even has sound. This totally made my day...




Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!

Some cool and funny pictures I've seen floating around the last week or so:





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