Well how’s everyone been? It’s been a little slow around here. Now that I’m done futzing with how the website works. Any of you getting used to me updating on a daily basis? I have updated every day since the 25th of June. Now that has to be a record for me. I have to admit with use of NewsPro it has become easier to update. But I feel that maybe sometimes I’m posting something just because it’s so easy now.

So once again I’m going to call out to my viewers. How about a little interaction? At least how’s about you guy’s send me along some cool links you’ve found? Just a thought. Or maybe tell me why it is you come back more than once. Or what you think when you stumble in on the place from the outside. Like you people I get from I Should Be Working or Web WWWeirdness. So if you have the time drop me a line.

I got an e-mail from my host and they wanted to tell me that I was moving servers. So I figured I would pass it on to you guys.

In order to continue to provide quality service, we are migrating your account from its current home on server2.virtualave.net to server9.virtualave.net. DNS records will be updated to make this change mostly transparent, but the final transfer of data from the current server requires a brief outage of approximately 4 hours, beginning Thursday, July 12th, 2001 at 9:00 am PDT (16:00 UTC); you will not be able to make updates to your Web site during this time, though users will still be able to view your pages.

I know it says “users will still be able to view your pages”. But just in case you have been warned. I will be making a back up of all my data the day before. Again just in case. I read enough of other sites having horror stories about moving servers. So everyone cross their fingers.

Here are two really cool links from SETI that talks about the movies Independence Day and Contact that I missed. Very cool reads. Both of these stories hawk SETI stuff. I know they need funding but it seems like a tacky way of doing it.

Well it’s another boring night at work. Dead as a door nail. We have about twenty rooms rented. So me and the security guard start talking. This isn’t a bad thing. A very smart guy. Anyway were talking about where life on our planet came from. I have talked about this before. But the security guard thinks we came from outer space. And keep in mind I don’t want to get in any fights about creation theory. I’m not saying what I think, or that you should think these ideas.

But the idea that a superior race seeded us on earth does have a romantic flavor to me. I would like to think there is life out there. It would be a terrible waste of space if we were all alone in this huge place in which we live on one planet. Perhaps the surest sign of intelligent life in space is that they have yet to contact us. Well on that subject here are a few links to some stuff that shares some of the opinions I may or may not have:

• An essay about the future, “The Good and the Bad:Outlines for Tomorrow”.
• A conversation with NASA scientist (and Nebula Award winner) Geoff Landis about the possibility of interstellar flight without faster than light travel.
• An essay about how infectious ideas may affect human destiny, “The New Meme”.
• SETI Institute Online has an article called Hidden Oceans Could Still Support Life.

And again I want to state that these are my opinions. And I am not forcing them down anyone’s throat. These links are just there for you to take a look at (or don’t).

Well it has been a very slow night. Nothing going on here at the hotel. I work tonight and then I’m off for four days. I should mention it’s the 4th of July. So about the only thing I’m doing is going to the fireworks with the Izer’s. Just make sure everyone has a safe holiday. Watch out for those fireworks.

Gillian Anderson is leaving the X-Files. It’s not like I watch the show for any other reason. I don’t watch it because of Mulder. I watch the show because of Scully. Really I’m serious. I would watch anything with that woman. She is a goddess.

But that means both of the show’s stars are going to leave the show. It doesn’t sound like Duchovny will be around for another season. So the two characters that make the show are leaving. All kidding a side regarding Scully’s babeness (and she’s hot). The other characters are not strong enough to run the show. The show will die without Duchovny and Anderson. Fox better cancel the X-Files without them.

Well I have my Archive problems sorted out. I had to futz around with some of NewsPro‘s settings. But I have got it the way I wanted it. NewsPro makes posting easier. Maybe a little to easy. Just the last couple of days I have had multiple posts for each day. Which again everything is so much easier. And again I’ll say I love how NewsPro automatically puts old news into the Archive. I just love it. Now the Archived news is in chronological order. So I’m a happy guy.