Most of the office complete but a few things that are still left.  I guess its been 1 week now since we moved back in.  So far I like it, but I think I would have done a few things different if I had to do it over, that’s for sure.

Here are two pictures:

Scott Left - Jordan Right:

Scott’s Side:

Often when I need new computer parts I tend to ask others what they think or I tend to check out online stores.  Of course there are many of places on the Internet to shop and buy computer parts and systems.  One place I like to check out has a pretty cool tag line:

“One can always find a best buy at www.buy.com”

This place has tons of items and accessories and computer stuff and other things.  The have tons of sales and weekly specials.  I think you should check them out on your next electronic purchase or when you are pricing some items out.

Last week I enabled a plugin that allowed the Do Follow on links that were put into comments on my posts.  I got the idea from a good blogging friend (BioTeck) and since he is a graphics guy he made himself a cool little badge to announce that his blog follows comments.  So he was kind enough to make me a similar one with the colors I provided.  It’s awesome..  It’s over to your right as your reading this under my entrecard blog of the day.

Also I added another plugin called commentluv.  This enables you if you wish to have your last blog post and link show up when you leave a comment on my site.  Another idea from Bioteck.  And speaking of Bioteck you should check out his blog.  He is also creating a massive list of commentluv blogs.  So if you are using commentluv on your blog, please stop by his blog and get your name added to the list!

Related Links:
BioTeck.net Commentluv List (Check this out)

The office is about 1/2 packed up now and I have 1 of my 2 computers already in another location for the next 2 days.  One of the guys came in today and said it will take them 1.5 days to get it all done.  If they were not going to paint then it would probably be just one day.

So here are 3 shots.  One from the door, one of Jordan’s area and one of mine.  I will follow up with after shots on Friday.

From the door:

Jordan’s corner:

My Desk:

For my wife’s birthday a couple weeks ago, I decided to replace her aging old p4 laptop that she has been using for awhile now.  She really needed something new.  Not to mention that every time there was an issue and I had to work on it, the slowness would always kill me.  Most of the laptops these days are pretty decent with the specs they come with, but with Vista I wanted to make sure it would handle the new OS.

So I found a pretty decent Toshiba on sale that was in a pretty good price range for me.  It came with a dual proc cpu and 2 gigs of computer memory, a 160gb hard drive which is a pretty good sized drive, DVD burner, and all the little stuff.

So far she is pretty happy with it and it turned out to be a good birthday!

So with the massive download day upon us, and after trying for about 45min I finally got in via the ftp site someone posted on twitter.

I didn’t have a chance to install it till just a little while ago, but it’s finally installed.  (at least on one computer)

Now some of my extensions didn’t work but that’s OK cause I’m sure they will rather soon as the authors start getting things updated, but the main ones I got to work.  Then I went to find a new theme/skin, however you prefer and this is what I came up with so far:

Looking forward to getting more themes and extensions installed and to play with them…

Also showing props to Entrecard as you can see..!!!

Tomorrow, make sure you download the latest copy of Firefox 3

I think the switchover went pretty good and I think the downtime was less than 1 hour.

I have had a couple plugin problems, but I will get that sorted out over the next couple of days.

The Database Import went pretty smoothly and overall I was happy that I didn’t have any issues..
And now that I’m at my new home this site should remain for quite some time..

Something I should have done before I really got started on this was get my own host. So in the next few days there might not be any updates, etc. I’m hoping to make the switch by the weekend.

Like other domain name changes “Although I’m keeping my name, tazdog.com” it still has to resolve via DNS.

Sorry about this but after this there should be no more changes…

Right now I’m using a friends shared account to host this blog, and I feel the need to move it. I actually like where this site is being hosted now, but was just wondering what others use that have their own domain names for their hosting needs..

Would anyone care to leave a comment and let me know who you use and if you have had any problems?