It may seem that we totally went away for a couple of months.  Off to some warm tropical isle perhaps.  But no, we were always right here, in (currently) snowy SE Va.

I was tempted to title this post ‘A funny thing happened on the way to blog’ mainly because it was funny in an ‘oh crap, what’s going on’ way.  I’ve mentioned before that we are adapting to the new website (almost a year old now!) and one of those adaptations is having two different areas to keep an eye on.   In the old days of the 90′s we had a host for the site and used Frontpage (go ahead, snicker if you want) for updates and maintenance.  It’s essentially the same now, with WordPress taking the Frontpage role – sorry Mr. Gates, but using the same host.  Well Jake at www.krekura.com did a great job setting up the site for us, but for some reason our site decided to save a complete version of itself every 12 hours or so.  The end result was that late last year we were up to almost 40 gigs of storage on a shared server and climbing.  Our hosting company was none too pleased.  After many hours on the phone with vague, disinterested IT guys we finally landed one who opened up the ‘guts’ on their server and discovered the over zealous code.  It was changed, and the superfluous backups were deleted.  And there was much rejoicing in a shared server somewhere in Massachusetts or Kentucky or wherever.

Now, the reason I’m going into this is because we were extremely tentative in putting up new info on the server, since we couldn’t figure out what was going on.  We even did a work around with Flickr that works really well, and we will utilize that in a way you’ll see soon.

So, we had a couple of months of new images and new items that have now migrated from our studio desktops to the server in Kentucky or Kashmir or Kalinda or  wherever.  Instead of doing a single page for the new items we’ve turned it into an Easter egg hunt by hiding them in plain sight in their respective categories.  And you may also notice that we found a neat little trick that allows up to pick the thumbnail image that will be displayed in the various ways on the site.  So no more fish midsections or odd choices making you wonder exactly what the larger image is supposed to be.

That’s it for now.  No pictures on the update as they are all (mostly) in bed in the categories where they belong.  Plus I’m tired of editing.  Check back soon for some pics of SNOW!  (like 75% of the country hasn’t seen that already this winter!)

Jac