Boyink! - Spring Forward on the Web

This issue has been resolved -thanks to Eric Reagan and Fred Boyle for the help. 

Essentially I replaced this style of redirect:

with this style:

I’m sure I tested the former and had them working - why they stopped I don’t know.  It’s one of those things I don’t have the time to figure out—they seem to be working again and I’m moving on.

So after my main desktop went out in a cloud of glory this week I’m still moving into the new Win7 model.  Initial impressions are favorable - but I’m running into snags with the email / calendar / invoicing process I’ve been using for years as some of the tools involved are seemingly now obsolete.

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It’s with a great sense of anticipation that I write this post.  The last 4 weeks have been filled with lengthy family discussions, meetings with bankers, accountants, and salespeople.  There have been more “What if…”, “What about…”, and “Who will….” type questions asked in our family than ever before.  We don’t yet have all the answers to all the questions, but have worked through enough of them that we are finally ready to put wheels on a long-time dream, and can finally tell you about it.

Sometime in the fall of 2010, we (my wife, 13 year old son, 12 year old daughter, and myself) will turn over our house keys to someone else, seat-belt ourselves into an RV, shift into “drive” and hit the road for roughly a year of travel, sightseeing, work, exploration, making new friends and visiting old ones.  And yes, I fully expect that time will also include arguments, short tempers, frustration, mechanical breakdowns, too-little personal space, and homesickness.

But mix all those together and we think it will fully define what we are after as a family - a true adventure.

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On February 3, 2000 I had a cushy corporate IT job at a Fortune 500 company, a couple of toddlers at home, and the first dot-com bubble was just peaking.  On a whim one day I checked for the availability of my last name - Boyink - as a domain and found it available.  I bought it mainly because I thought it would be cool for my family to have personal email addresses of our first name at boyink dot com—especially my kids as they got older.  What I did not know is that a couple years later the site would become the platform for a new business and a whole new way of life.  Since becoming a business site Boyink.com has had at least 4 different visual designs, and I’m very proud to have launched the 5th yesterday.

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The video of my presentation from the 2009 ExpressionEngine/CodeIgniter Conference has been posted online by the good folks over at Whoooz! Webmedia.  You can view it on the Video Page from the conference website, or on Train-ee.com.