Site Housekeeping, Redux

So I just looked at my site in Internet Explorer on a Mac and noticed that several of the little boxes are, um, off. Oddly, the boxes are not messed up in IE for Windows.

sigh...

Another bit to look into. This web publishing stuff can be a giant pain in the ass sometimes.

Site Housekeeping

I think I've pretty much fully migrated this site to HostGator. Still have some things to tidy up when I get a chance, which probably won't be until everyone in the house is healthy.

• I need to update the stylesheets for the main site. The colors are kind of out of whack, and many of them were just temporary placeholders any way.
• I need to update the stylesheets for the Gallery pages. I got Gallery installed, but haven't had a chance to tinker with the styles, so they're using the default templates. Ugly, ugly, very ugly.
• Comments are currently restricted to those with TypeKey accounts. I did this because my site was being overrun with comment spam, and it was increasingly difficult to keep up with it. I haven't decided if I'm going to re-enable comments, leave them the way they are, or disable comments altogether.
• There's other stuff to fix, like creating custom "404 Page Not Found" pages, etc. No idea when I'll get to those kinds of things.
• The archiving scheme for this site has changed as part of the move. Previously, individual archive pages were simply named with a number, something like 000114.html. Now they are named in a much more sensible manner. But this means that any existing links to individual pages are now broken.

Green Light of Death

Well, it finally happened.

I turned on my D70 on Christmas Day and it was unresponsive, with the green memory card access LED blinking steadily. My camera had succumbed to the dreaded Blinking Green Light Of Death (BGLOD).

Nikon D70 and D2H BGLOD

This, of course, is a giant pain in the ass. This is a documented issue with the early production runs of the D70. Nikon issued a service advisory to fix or replace any affected cameras. So, I sent my camera in to Nikon per the advisory. Nikon fixed the issue free of charge (except for the cost of shipping my camera to their repair facility in Melville, NY) and shipped my camera back to me.

B2
Service Repair Rank B2
Write Up
Repair SC 201759
RPL METERING FPC
ADJ AUTO FOCUS OPERATION
CLEAN CCD
GENERAL CHECK AND CLEAN
25212 SERIAL NO xxxxxxx
D70 DIGITAL SLR CAMERA SET

Repair Charges 0.00
Complimentary 0.00
Shipping and Handling 0.00
Total Amount 0.00

In addition to repairing the flaw in the circuit board (which causes the BGLOD), they adjusted the autofocus and cleaned the CCD and the exterior of the camera.

Cool.

I'd rather not have had my camera die on Christmas morning, but I'm happy it was fixed (for free) and sent back so quickly. Total turn-around from the day I shipped it to Nikon was about 8 days.