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Posted 25 Aug, 2005 at 14:12 by brent in /Social | Permanent link

We're moving!

Yes, we will be moving 1 time zone closer to Ontario, the fabled homeland and birthplace.

I've accepted a position at BioWare and despite the dramatic paycut and freaking cold, I'm eagerly looking forward to it!

The plan at present is to move at the beginning of October. This will imply downtime for the web sites so if we need an interim solution and you have a recommendation on such, that would be good to know.

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Yay! Congratulations!!!
Posted 2005/8/25 17:34:58 by Wendy
Hey, congrats on moving back to Canada! Hmm... I think I know someone working at BioWare, but I'm not sure.
Posted 2005/8/25 18:02:24 by Nikita
Huzzah! Does that mean you'll be working not so much the crazy hours any more?

Hm. I guess that also means I'll need a new plan for Thanksgiving this year, eh?
Posted 2005/8/25 21:01:26 by Matt
Congrats Brent! Re: websites... hmm.. what are the odds we could find someplace to host the sites for a month in the interim? What would the cost be if everyone kicked in a share? Or am I the only one who would care?
Posted 2005/8/26 05:57:45 by Blue
Thanks!
If you don't mind wallowing in the cold (as I recall you found it far less offensive than I) I have no qualms with keeping it going in the frozen north :) Re web sites: It might be possible to take static pages and put them up temporarily on another site and dns redirect them. No db or https but it would work. Should be about a week hopefully at worst--but no guarantees till I talk to ISPs there.
Posted 2005/8/26 11:53:30 by Brent
Thanks!
If you don't mind wallowing in the cold (as I recall you found it far less offensive than I) I have no qualms with keeping it going in the frozen north :) Re web sites: It might be possible to take static pages and put them up temporarily on another site and dns redirect them. No db or https but it would work. Should be about a week hopefully at worst--but no guarantees till I talk to ISPs there.
Posted 2005/8/26 13:51:00 by Brent
'Grats!
Great! Does this mean you're going to take up skiing? I'm toying with the idea of getting a fixed IP & setting up my own server, but the problem is there are so many ideas I'm toying with....
Posted 2005/8/26 23:05:20 by Kael
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