My website decide to take a small break this afternoon for about five hours. If you tried to visit during that time, all you got was a simple Error 500 message (wonder what error 1-499 are?). Anyways, I was really ticked because this was the second time in two weeks this happened. Not only can I not access this site, but I also can’t access the site I’ve been spending every waking moment developing.

I called 1and1, who is my server company, around 3:30pm. The first guy I talked to was less than helpful. He seemed like he had better places to be. Needless to say, that call didn’t help anything.

I called back at 5:45pm and talked to Nadine. She was very helpful and explained exactly what she was going to do to fix the site. She said I’d receive an email within 30 minutes regarding the status of the fix.

32 minutes later…

As we monitor your two websites:  jacobwycoff.com and [deleted].com it
is still displaying an Error 500.  We already escalated the case few
minutes ago.
We will get back to you once again via email for further update.

The site finally was back up around 8:45pm. It sounds weird, but while the site was done, I didn’t know what to do with myself. This new site is just so consuming that I get in the zone and lose track of time. We are rolling the site out next Wednesday. Until then, I’ll be working out the bugs.

Today was a very productive day for me, even though I didn’t ‘work’ much.

I made great progress on the new website and it should be up and running in a week or two. Joe and I worked on content for the page. I used the program LogMeIn to access Joe’s computer and show him how to use WordPress. Before I know it, Joe is poking around the website to get acquainted. The motto for our website is “The One-Stop-Shop For Tomorrow’s Weather Today”. To deliver on that promise, we will be offering forecasts, technical discussions, blogs, video forecasts, and more. It truly will be a place for everyone to visit.

Everyone I’ve showed the site to likes the layout and design. We are trying to make it as user friendly as possible. This means crossing our t’s and dotting our i’s many times over. All in the hopes for a great site.

Ultimately Joe and I would like to make some money of the site. We are brainstorming ideas how to make that work. That is for the future. For now, we’ll be spending our free time making the site. Don’t worry, you all will be the first to see it.

So as the phrase goes… just another day, another dollar. (Can I take the lump payout now?)

My iBook finally crapped out on me. I think this may be its final stand. I wasn’t able to back up things for a while so I have no clue what I’m losing. I’m posting from my blackberry, and until my computer gets fixed (or I get a new one), I unfortunately have to put this site on hold.

My friend Joe Roy may be filling in and posting some things on here from time to time, so enjoy!

So I essentially did nothing all day. Freezing rain and lack of motivation to go outside kept me in the house.

Tomorrow I have to buckle down and do some job searching. My goal is to have a good job by end of January. I really hope I can get one because I can’t spend too many more days inside doing nothing.

I’ll be starting blogging daily starting in a few weeks. I’m trying to finish some pages up before I can do that… Thanks for stopping by and check out About Me and my Resume.