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OK Folks time for a new update on what is happening at Club Josh!

I know it appears that the site is languishing (more than usual), but I have been making progress.

The Gorn Page Galleries has been rebuilt from the ground up with a new version of Gallery on the new server. It was a major upgrade and it did not want to automatically convert from the earlier version. I just need to copy and past all of the old photo descriptions and that is done. There will be more photos than ever before when the site relaunches.

The difficulties with the Gallery conversions have sort of forced me to reconsider what I will relaunch with the new site. Anything that had a photo gallery will be an issue on the new server, but I am hoping I can just retain the older versions of Gallery for the Disney theme park galleries.

Most of the current site will go over easily, but the new design and style of the three blogs on the site will take some more work. I have no idea when TextDrive is going to boot me off of the old server as I am about 6 months past when I was supposed to be off. So apologies if you come to the site one day and it is down.

The worst part is that I have neglected to document some things that have been going on in the last 6 months. I wish I had written down some thoughts on the deaths of a few people as well as some great weekend getaways we have done. Thankfully Twitter and Instagram have been my outlet and I hope to go back and re-publish some of that in the Daily Update to freshen it up.

More soon!

Over a month later, and they still haven't given me the login for my new account. I expect it some time soon as they just started emailing them out to users on 11-29.

Instead of an early November roll out, now it looks like a mid December roll out to the new site.

Sorry for the delays, but hopefully 2013 will be much more productive!

More soon!

It seems that another era at Club Josh will be coming to an end. The five of you that still look at this site have noticed that I haven't blogged in a long time as my attention as been distracted by Instagram and Twitter. I've been struggling to redesign this site for years and now it seems that my hand will be forced by my hosting company.

A little over a year ago, I found out that the server I was on was old and outdated and the nice folks at Joynet offered to move my site to a newer server capable of running the latest WordPress or Movable Type site. I was able to move my files over until I got to the Gorn Page and realized that it would take a huge effort to re-build that site as the software I use for the image galleries needed a big upgrade as well.

Life has a way of getting in the way of my site more and more, so the new site turned into just trying to get the old site running on the new server. For years, I've just struggled as to where to take my site. Do I return to a smaller, simpler 1995 era site with just a few pages of interest, or do I make the jump and put the site fully into a CMS that I can change the theme whenever it suits me.

I guess that the big problem is that my site is really a collection of smaller sites: Daily Update, The Gorn Page, Trip Diaries, and then some random misc pages held over from my original sites back in the 1990s.

Flash forward to August 2012 and I received a notice that my server will go away at the end of October, despite my purchase of a Mixed Grill "lifetime" account. Now as I fire away an email asking for a full refund of my purchase price, the reality is I need to sit down and figure out what I want to do with the site. Just a few years ago, the thought of just walking away from Club Josh was never a thought and I often mused that it would outlast my own life. Now, I must think of what I want my Internet presence to be (if anything).

I think a new site will be here soon. It will be leaner, more up to date, and hopefully be able to contain my microblogging feeds from Twitter and Instagram. Or shoot, maybe everything is just posted here and then fed to the other services..

At any rate, if you know of a good hosting provider let me know!