I’m not 100% sure, but I’m starting to figure out that Gallery albums may have limits.
We have been using my website as the photo depository for pictures from Camp Bapchule. Last year, we only had about 150 pictures total. This year, we have over 400!
Since personally, I’ve never taken that many pictures for a single event or for a single subject, I’ve never stretched the Gallery 1 software that far.
Last night, the album was sitting just shy of 400 pictures when Vanessa attempted to upload about 30 or so. It crashed and threw at her a handful of unexpected EOF errors. After some troubleshooting, it simply appears that once you hit about 405-410 pictures, it stops working.
It may not be the number of pictures, but also the total size of the picture thumbnails. I’m not too sure.
Since all of the photos were uploaded, the solution I discovered is to delete the album and reimport the images.
Does anyone else have information regarding this limit? I haven’t been able to find anything on the web so far.

Two new projects down the workflow for your consideration.
First, a new website called Catholic Thinker. This weblog, written mainly by Mark Lavernge, hopes to have a few regular contributors discussing modern events in light of Catholic thought.
As the disclaimer on the site reads,

“The authors on the website do not claim to speak for the Church. We are Catholic, however, and so we hope to promote a Catholic way of looking at current events, books, media and whatever else comes to our mind. We might say something that is contrary to Catholic thought. If you catch us, let us know. The depth of knowledge contained within the Church is too expansive for any one person or any small group to ever fully understand and so we will make mistakes.
We hope to further the discussion that was started during the Second Vatican Council when the Council Fathers asked how does our faith- our church- connect to today’s modern world.

I’m excited about this project and hope it’ll find its niche online.
The second project is primarly for Lambda Omega Alpha, the Catholic fraternity at The University of Texas at Austin. I’m launched an online store that is currently selling LOA and UCC t-shirts. It’s not perfect and there are many tweaks I need to make, but since it is primarly for a small audience, I’m taking my time on it. All proceeds will go to LOA, the UCC and the LOA Scholarship Fund.

Early Sunday morning, I realized I had some incorrect settings for my site’s DNS. In trying to fix it, I accidently knocked off the site for most of today.
There are various DNS servers across the Internet that help your computer know that brandonkraft.com actually points to a server with a certain IP address. Since it’s a decentralized system- part of the whole “the Internet could survive a nuclear attack” thing- it takes a little time for the update to scatter across the Internet. In practice, this means that it takes 24-36 hours normally to fully update the Internet. In some cases, although rare these days, it can take up to 72 hours.
So yeah, I was playing with one of those settings they say not to play with and I knocked myself off the grid.

Well, fantastic. I had good news and I had bad news.
The good news- the Brandon Kraft family of websites is popular. Between this site, The Brandon Kraft Foundation, my personal portal, the Save Players! effort and an unannounced Catholic Thinker project, there was enough activity to lead to an abnormal and unacceptable level of server load for the account I was on.
My account previously was a “shared” hosting solution. In short, myself and 30-50 other people were all being hosted on the same actual computer. We were like a little community. You know what it’s like living with other people. Imagine a really large community like that.
Now imagine if one in those 50 people used up 25% of the hot water all of the time. Or caused brownouts because he used all of the electricity. Or parked in 25% of the parking spaces all at once.
I was that guy.
My service provider, HostGator, took an approach that overall, I didn’t like.
Without notice that I was such a bother, they suspended my account. E-mail, website, everything around 11 p.m. last Monday. I discover the problem at Midnight and instantly start calling/e-mailing them to figure out 1) why I was suspended and 2) how can I get my site back up.
They told me various things, none of those things had a solid action plan associated with them, except pay more for a higher system. Could I figure out what part of my site was draining most of the resources and attempt to curtail? Sure, but they didn’t provide any information to assist with that (besides it is a Perl module, which doesn’t narrow it down much except to say brandonkraft.net didn’t cause the problem). It took three days to get e-mali access again, and even then, I didn’t have access to e-mail sent during the down time. I’ve got most of it back, but I still have 36 hours of e-mail either in a queue somewhere or discarded.
So after three or four days of simply trying to figure out what they want me to do to begin to fix it, I still had no idea. They had given me a week from Monday to figure out everything before terminating my account and deleting my data.
Early Friday morning, I balked. I upgraded to the semi-dedicated plan. Instead of 50 people using the same computer, now it is about 2 or 3.
In short, I am finally back online but behind on my academic online postings. Need to get to that….

Six Apart announced that Movable Type now is installed on Yahoo! Small Business Hosting solutions.
After Cyberstation of Wichita Falls, which I do not suggest anyone purchase a hosting solution from them, Yahoo! Small Business was the second host of brandonkraft.com. It was during the Yahoo! days that I discovered Movable Type for my use and installed it.
It never worked quite right. I always had problems with it, mostly on the database end. All of the issues I had could be worked around- every entry saved as a Draft, then edited and saved as Published- but it was quite annoying.
Now, I’m switched over to HostGator, who has been great to me. It would have been nice for Movable Type to work correctly with Yahoo! back then…