Snow already?

A few inches of snow in the Sierra has put a damper on our weekend plans to head over to the East side to check out the fall colors and fish. As of right now, highway 120, 108, and 88/4 are still closed or on chain controls. The Tioga Pass webcam shows the road with a slick layer of ice.

So, we're stuck at home. I'm going to use the unexpected downtime to do some upgrades to the site. My webhost will be upgrading the PHP on their servers in the next few weeks - it *shouldn't* cause a problem with my Movable Type and Gallery installations, but it's a good enough excuse to bring them up to the newer versions.

I also hope to finish porting the links to photo albums in old posts from their old Coppermine albums to the new Gallery albums (unfortunately there is no clean way to simply do a URL redirect). Then I can remove the old Coppermine installation entirely and everything will be in Gallery - and it will also clear up much needed space. I only have room for a few more trips worth of pictures right now.

So, this is just a fair warning - if the website breaks, I'll hopefully have it up again shortly.