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I am now in Columbia, enrolled and attending the University of South Carolina. This is the dawning of a new age, and it’s pretty exciting! I have two years left, and here’s to making them exciting, research-filled, and stimulating. I’m pretty excited. I’m so excited, in fact, that I’ve spent the past hour and a half troubleshooting a new installation of b2evolution on a brand-new server pointed to think.stufftoread.comthinkblog.org, which is wherefrom you shall be reading this.

It’s been a long time coming. Having this on a new server, apart from my aging sixth-floor apartment in the southern portion of downtown Columbia, will hopefully virtually eliminate downtime, and the 2.5+ seconds it takes to generate a page of MySQL database entries (i.e., blog entries) should be reduced dramatically now that I’m not on my old server. The old server is actually rigged up in my closet at this point, running the last few days (weeks?) of mphillips.zapto.org before it points back to think!. I will be working on a custom skin for b2evo, just as with the old site I created my own template from near-scratch, teaching myself CSS, PHP, and SQL along the way. That was great, but now I don’t need the distraction of code rot. There’s research to be done, and academic prowess to be exercised, &c., &c. So long to the 466MHz Celeron running on an Asus P2B-F with 212MB SDRAM (128 + 64 + 32 + 16 sticks, IIRC, minus video RAM on a cheap old 3Dfx card). She’s about to be retired in favor of a much more excellent machine, but I’ll not speak of such things until the time comes.

Life: Undergrad Part III begins thus. Third time’s a charm, right?

I am now in Columbia, enrolled and attending the University of South Carolina. This is the dawning of a new age, and it’s pretty exciting! I have two years left, and here’s to making them exciting, research-filled, and stimulating. I’m pretty excited. I’m so excited, in fact, that I’ve spent the past hour and a half troubleshooting a new installation of b2evolution on a brand-new server pointed to think.stufftoread.comthinkblog.org, which is wherefrom you shall be reading this.

It’s been a long time coming. Having this on a new server, apart from my aging sixth-floor apartment in the southern portion of downtown Columbia, will hopefully virtually eliminate downtime, and the 2.5+ seconds it takes to generate a page of MySQL database entries (i.e., blog entries) should be reduced dramatically now that I’m not on my old server. The old server is actually rigged up in my closet at this point, running the last few days (weeks?) of mphillips.zapto.org before it points back to think!. I will be working on a custom skin for b2evo, just as with the old site I created my own template from near-scratch, teaching myself CSS, PHP, and SQL along the way. That was great, but now I don’t need the distraction of code rot. There’s research to be done, and academic prowess to be exercised, &c., &c. So long to the 466MHz Celeron running on an Asus P2B-F with 212MB SDRAM (128 + 64 + 32 + 16 sticks, IIRC, minus video RAM on a cheap old 3Dfx card). She’s about to be retired in favor of a much more excellent machine, but I’ll not speak of such things until the time comes.

Life: Undergrad Part III begins thus. Third time’s a charm, right?