I wake up to NPR every morning. This morning, there was a segment about Marriage in Washington and there was an interview with a guy named Dave “who’s Chinese and scored a cushy job working at a bustling dot-com in the mid-90’s in Seattle”. I thought “huh–I wonder if it’s Amazon. And if it is, I wonder if I know who”. As I listened more and thought more, I was like “wait! That’s Dave Wong!”. Sure enough, the guy who helped set up my web developer desktop on my first day at Amazon 6 years ago who is supposedly currently learning calligraphy in China was talking on the air about…

Whew! Well, the domain transfer finally happened—and in doing so, my mail server and DNS also flipped over. For the most part, this was totally seamless (although it was odd–over the weekend, some of my mail went to my old server, some mail went to the new server..as I discovered this morning). The main issue is that Dreamhost doesn’t support Mason—so you’ll see that on many of my pages, the header and footer look pretty messed up. Ack, I’ll have to deal later and convert them into Server-Side Includes or something like that.

This domain transfer is taking longer than I had anticipated—Dreamhost first sent a request to Register.com. That processed for 2 days before Register.com sent me an email warning me of the transfer and basically giving me 5 days to cancel before they continued with the transfer. Technically, the transfer should have been approved to go yesterday…but nothing’s happened yet. Meanwhile, since I’m in mid-transfer, the DNS is frozen and I can’t modify it on either end. So I thought I might as well blog. The trip to NYC was awesome as expected. Matt’s friend, Teresa, was kind enough to let us crash at her place in Brooklyn while we were…

New York was awesome–I’ll have to blog about it later. Meanwhile, I need to switch webhosts. After looking around a bit, I decided to go with DreamHost–they had a pretty rockin’ deal. Apologies if my site goes down or looks funky as I migrate this whole site over. This’ll be a first for me.

I discovered Sudoku Puzzles today. Pretty fun and captivating for the mathematical mind. It’s basically a grid of Nine 3×3 boxes where you have to fill in numbers such that each column, row and 3×3 box has the numbers 1 to 9 inclusively.

Misha’s lion cut Originally uploaded by moohaha. Misha got his lion cut today! AND the groomer was able to get all the mats off his bum. He’s got this nice fuzz about him now—it’s an interesting feeling picking him up, not having a mass of fur. So far, so good–he doesn’t seem to really notice it. Oops.

My friend, Alex, who has graciously hosted my website for free for the last 6 years, since its birth, has decided to shut down his servers in a week. As a result, I need a new web host! I don’t even know where to look since Alex has hosted my site ever since I’ve even had a website. For all you out there that have your own domain, do you recommend your webhost? Advice? I’d love to hear it—either put something in the comments or email me: audrey-at-this-website.

Everything Sounds Like Coldplay— pretty funny and sad at the same time “Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en“— cool benefit song featuring The Arcade Fire, Postal Service, Feist, Beck, Sonic Youth and more Chill weekend–went to party at Kabir’s on Friday. Spent all of Saturday with Eric and John (who was visiting from San Francisco). We rented and saw Kung Fu Hustle—totally hilarious. Loved it. I highly recommend this for some good ‘ol kung fu humor. We later got a scrumptious veggie dinner at Carmelita’s (I had truffled potato empanadas), followed by an evening of bowling and karaoke at Leilani Lanes. Wahoo. Sunday, caught up with former coworker, Phillip, and his…

The new iPod nano is hot. It’s somewhere between a Shuffle and a Mini, as thin as a pencil, 4GB for $199, color screen, supports photos and charges/sycncs via USB. I’ve still got my old school 2nd generation 20GB iPod. It works fine–this one makes me think twice about having a backup. This is a great compilation of some of the best and worst of Katrina reporting. Some of it just gets me so riled up and angry. Grr. I love that Microsoft does 100% matching for charity giving PLUS they made it convenient for me to just deduct straight from my payroll to give to the American Red Cross.…

Hallelujah—after postponing it for weeks and weeks and weeks, I finally decided to work on “RAS-ing” (Remote Access) from home to the Microsoft network so that I can take the time some days to leave early and continue spec writing from the Bauhaus. I had initial problems because my main connection program was out of date and wouldn’t run and I couldn’t get the new .exe to install. Thank goodness MS has a 24 hour helpline dedicated just for employees to fix ANYTHING that has to do with Microsoft software or whatever. A quick call to a dude in India and I’m all patched up–yay! Okay, this isn’t something to…