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Brewery Tour Photos

Josh Lyon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:53:17 +0000

The photos from the Anheuser-Busch brewery tour in Colorado have been posted. Aaron (my brother-in-law) took about 150 pictures, but I posted the ones I liked best. It was fun getting to go through the tour and see the beer brewing process, but the best part was at the end where we got to taste the beer (2 beers / person). I tried their version of a Guiness as well as a beer called the Harbin.

We also got to see the Clydesdale's after the tour. The horses are HUGE and were really excited to see us - think "red rocket" like a dog or "now I know why they say 'hung like a horse'!" I saw a lot of pumps and valves throughout the plant but never asked who made the pumps (eg. if they were Flowserve's). Click the image below to view the pictures:

Colorado Rafting and Hiking Pictures

Josh Lyon — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:59:50 +0000

I've uploaded some of the pictures from the visit to my parents house in Loveland, Colorado. We went hiking at Rocky Mountain National Park and went White Water rafting on a Wanderlust Adventure down the Poudre river. Click on the links below to check out the albums. Also, remember that I now have two slideshow options in my gallery. You can view a full-screen slideshow from the root of each gallery (eg. where you are looking at all the picture thumbnails) and a regular slideshow as well.

Visiting my Parents in Loveland

Josh Lyon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:22:41 +0000

We're in Loveland, CO for an extended weekend to visit my parents at their new house. My parents recently moved up here for my Dad's new job at McLane Co. To keep my mom happy, my dad bought her a big house. I'll try to take some pictures before we leave and post them when we get back.

Madeline, Laura and my friend from highschool in Plano, lives out here and is visiting us today. We are going hiking in just a few minutes, going white-water rafting tomorrow, and are going for the brewery tour sometime before we leave. Sorry for another short blog-post, but it's better than nothing, right?!

post from wii

Josh Lyon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:07:48 +0000

i made this post from my wii internet browser

Flash Video: End of the World

Josh Lyon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:28:46 +0000

I promised Alex that I would upload two of our favorite flash videos: Mario Twins and End of the World. You can find the Mario video at the following link: Mario Twins

The End of the World video is below. It may take a few minutes to load on slow connections as it's somewhat large file (around 3MB)

Flash Videos: Mario Twins

Josh Lyon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:23:03 +0000

I've uploaded the Mario Twins (Shiggity Shiggity Shwa) and End of the World flash videos to my website. The Mario one will start playing automatically, so I decided to put the End of the World on it's own blog post. You can find the End of the World video at this link: End of the World

Chase and Jill Love Us

Josh Lyon — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:20:13 +0000

We are staying with Chase and Jill Kerlin again this weekend in Austin. They live in Round Rock and always leave a room available for us - even last minute. We were down here just the other weekend to come to a wedding and my friend from Panama (the country) is here this weekend, so we are going to hang out with him.

Thanks Chase and Jill!

Back to One Webhost

Josh Lyon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:47:27 +0000

I can happily say, I am back to paying for just one webhost. As I mentioned in a previous article, I was paying almost $40/month between two webhosts (1 shared + 1 VPS) and had my websites split across both of them. I recently moved all the websites on both of the old hosts over to my new Hostmonster account. Everything seems to be running fine and I even got a chance to do a little housekeeping at the same time.

I was originally paying for my brother's domains and hosting, but asked him to start paying for his domains if he wanted to keep them. Since then, he transferred his domains to GoDaddy and started paying for them. The downside to this is I no longer have control over them. His domains were one of the main reasons I kept the oldest (shared) servers for so long. Being that I don't have control over the DNS records and it's almost been a year now that I am still paying for the shared hosting, I decided to just kill the DNS hosting and let his website go dead until he takes care of the DNS records.

Either way, I'm back to one host at a great price and so far I'm still happy with the decision.

VPS to Shared

Josh Lyon — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:59:43 +0000

If you are seeing this message, then you are now seeing my website served up through my new webhost, HostMonster. I decided to switch from a VPS back to simple shared hosting. I realized that it didn't really make sense for me to have my own server as I wasn't really taking advantage of it. It was nice to have my site load a few milliseconds faster, but it really wasn't worth the money I was spending.

For those of you who don't know, I originally was using the Business Shared Hosting from 1and1, but the servers kept getting slower and slower. Shared hosting companies are known for overloading shared boxes with more users than is necessary and I assume that's what happened. I really liked 1and1 and was sad to see that they couldn't come up with a good solution for me. Oddly enough, almost a year later I still am paying for their service as I haven't gotten around to tranferring my brother's and other peoples sites off of the old 1and1 servers. On the other hand, I did move my main website off of the 1and1 servers and onto a Virtual Private Server (VPS) running on VPSLink.com hardware.

It was a learning experience with VPSLink and now that it's all said and done, I learned a lot and enjoyed the experience - even though Laura might say otherwise. ;) I have decided that it doesn't make sense to pay $37 for hosting ($10 for 1and1's hosting and $27 for VPSLink) so I am finally in the process of moving all the hosts over to the new server. I packaged up all the databases and files last night and shipped them over the wire - around 1.1 GB (gigabytes) worth of data in just over 2 minutes. The speed of the transfer was all due to one of the core requirements I have when looking at any type of hosting: Shell Access. I'll explain the details later, but it provides a lot of flexibility.

Anyway - the big thing is my main website (boshdirect) and all the subsites are moved over to HostMonster. I'll let you know how things go!

(Next up is updating my site to Joomla 1.5)

Boshdirect to J!1.5

Josh Lyon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:24:07 +0000

I'm thinking about upgrading my website to Joomla! 1.5. I'm currently running the 1.0.x series and while I don't post to my website much, I think I should update to a new version. Community Builder recently release 1.2 which is J!1.5 native stable and plenty of other components and plugins are doing the same. Fireboard is moving towards the 1.5 codebase and some of my favorite plugins like JCE are moving that way as well.