Mare Imbrium

May/June '08 Trip to Colorado

I've added a photo gallery for the Kearl visit picnic photos.  I went back to Fort Collins to meet up with them, work on a demo with my brother for a meeting he had that Monday, and see friends.  The picnic itself went better than I hoped, got to see a number of old friends from high school, most I hadn't seen since then, and despite everything no children seemed to get scarred for life.  Amazing.

2001 - 2003 Uploaded

And I need to take a break now.  Lots of memories, though.  I'm seeing some photos that are on the website but not in our archives, so I can see I'm going to have to download all of that stuff to make sure we don't lose anything.  More work.

Importing the Photo Albums

It is taking me longer than I hoped to move the photo albums over here, but TypePad has a .reg file that allows you to use the Windows XP web publishing wizard to do it in a pretty easy way.  The big problem is that existing names, descriptions, etc. won't transfer.

My current plan is to move all the raw photos themselves over, then update the text as I get time.  I'm putting the photos in from oldest to newest, I may do the text the opposite way.

The New and Improved Mare Imbrium

This is probably my third or fourth different tech for running mareimbrium.com, but after using TypePad for many months on myshoggoth.com, I know I'm happy enough with it to convert yet again and I think it will be a good long term solution.  Especially since we're paying for the TypePad account anyway.

If you're interested what Mare Imbrium means, check out the Wikipedia article.  We chose the name long ago because we had recently moved to Seattle (so the Sea of Rains reference was apropos) and we wanted an interesting domain name to call our own.

The next big step is moving the billions of photo galleries over, upgrading the TypePad account to Pro level, and making sure skye can post here if she is so inclined.