by Chris on November 23, 2008
A Celebration of Color
Yesterday the weather in Houston was just incredible, so I decided to see what was going on around town. That’s when I found the Via Colori festival in downtown Houston. It’s a free, yearly festival where lots of artists get together and do chalk drawings in the street.
Some of them were pretty simple, others were complex. Some were done by one artist, some were done by several artists. No matter how they were done, or what the subject matter was, one thing was certain: they were all inspiring.
I snapped some pic you can find here.
by Chris on November 17, 2008
What happened to the site that was here before? What happened to the posts about amazing people in the life of Chris Kiklas? What happened to the tributes, the book reviews, the food reviews and the random commentary?
Several years ago when I first started working on this site, I was using a different, more expensive, blogging platform. During the two years I used it, the site was hacked by the “Russian Mob” and lots of Islamic i-don’t-know-whats (because when they took over, the site was in Islamic), so I opted to move the blog to Wordpress.
It took a couple months, but I was able to get all of my posts back and life was happy. I had a great design that I loved, there was peace on Earth and everywhere I went, music played.
Then the host I was using decided to upgrade their platform, and as my scheduled upgrade day came and went, I was not upgraded. For the next 6 months I had intermittent site connectivity. When I was finally moved over, I could never reconnect with my database (which, by the way, was now empty). So I had to start over.
I installed the software again and as I began playing around, I noticed the site was incredibly slow. This started my week long transfer to a new host.
So here we are, in mid November, on a new host, a new platform and a new design. Hopefully this time things will continue running smooth and I can enjoy posting again.
Thanks for sticking around.
