Hey All,

Sorry for the lack of a show and/or a website update in the past few weeks.  We have been taking care of a sick family member as well as having new windows installed, a birthday party for Tanya and many, many other stressful things.  It has been pretty crazy the last month but, we are working hard to bring you another show soon.

Thank you for your prayers and support, as well as for sticking with us.  We truly appreciate all of you and thank God for you being a part of our lives.

God Bless,

Chris, Tanya and Linus

Hello all,

As you can probably tell, we are not going to be producing an episode this week.  We had an exceptionally busy weekend with visits to family and Linus seems to be going through a growth  spurt and is also teething so, he is being a handful and a half, especially for Tanya.

We will do our best to resume our normal schedule next week, pending baby behavior and ideas for a show.

God Bless,

Chris, Tanya and Linus

Hello All,

Google Voice finally sent an invite, so there is finally a LOF Show feedback line!  The number is (860)368-0LOF (0563).  There isn’t a custom greeting for it yet but, at least there is a number.

If all went according to plan, and it seems that it did, the site migration is now complete.  It took about 2 hours to re-post all of the podcast episodes.  All of the blog entries were moved over, with the exception of the lifeonfire posts relating to site stuff that doesn’t matter anymore.

The new feed still needs to be tested prior to changing the feedburner one.  This will be done tomorrow prior to the posting of this week’s Life on Fire episode.

You can now listen to podcast episodes right through their blog post, rather than through a central player.  This seems to work out better for the site overall.

Hope you like the improvements!

update 9/7/09:

Feed is working OK and has been changed over at feedburner.  Replaced the twitter plugin that wasn’t working correctly with another one which works.

Ok,

This Drupal setup is causing way too many problems.   When the podcast feed is updated, all the fixes/changes to existing feed items get erased.   These changes have been made 3 times already to make it so that people can download the MP3 files directly.

Also, the feed reader doesn’t update the way that it should and the Twitter module caused database problems.

We have made the decision to migrate all of the site and podcast content to WordPress over the next couple of days.

WordPress has an awesome Podcasting plugin that includes a player for each post.   It also has a plugin to add Google Analytics, which we use to check out site traffic and such.   They also have around 900 themes to pick from and seem to be a lot better developed in other areas.

We are hoping that there will be no visible interruption in the site during the migration.   Perhaps we will set up a sub-domain to have the WordPress site on for now and then, once everything is migrated, we will just backup the database, rip drupal and wordpress and then re-install WordPress into the main directory and import the data from the backup database.

This will take a few days but, really seems to be for the best…