Every once in a while I'll run into a request for one of my Drupal sites which has a module that will accomplish it. Sometimes I will remember the name, but most times I will not due to the plethera of modules that come across on a daily basis. Today that module was "Text Formatter." I'm not sure I totally dig the name that they've come up with, but the module is a lifesaver.

A few months ago it came to my knowledge that a co-worker of mine had been managing some domain names for his department. Since starting here that's been one thing that I have noticed is that if someone wants something (i.e. website, domain name) they just go ahead and buy it! This situation was unique in that said co-worker was paying for the domain names from his own pocket! I didn't find that out until later, but I was glad that I asked.

For those of you that are subscribed to my news feed I migrated my feed over to FeedBurner today. Here's the new URL:

http://feedproxy.google.com/amariotti

I'm also doing some tests with the new PubSubHubbub... cool stuff. :)

Last night I started my 60-Day MobileMe Trial to help a family member decide if the iPhone is for him (more to come on this later). My original intentions were to test out the MobileMe Mail Push and after looking through that I just couldn't stop jumping to the different web apps on me.com. All in all I am really impressed with the engineers behind the web interface of me.com. If you've never seen it, I recommend starting your 60-Day Free Trial today.

The Webware 100 Winners for 2009 were announced and Drupal was awarded in the Social & Publishing category with some pretty big players (Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, etc.). Congratulations, Drupal on yet another great year!

I just finished upgrading a couple of the sites that I run to Drupal 6. The task was no easy one, but it could of been much worse. But, it's done now and I'm going to go enjoy some time with my family. It took altogether probably 4-5 hours to upgrade 4 sites. It was my first time so that has a lot to do with it.

Explanation of what I did to make it happen to come later! Happy Easter everyone!

I know that Microsoft Word has a bad record of crappy HTML output—but I didn't know it was this bad. I was upgrading our site today and came across a post in our news section done by the Marketing Team.

Original Code that was pasted into TinyMCE from MS Word:

A few weeks ago I ran into an issue with my web host that made me a little frustrated. Here's what was happening.

When creating a simple blog post with pictures and a bulleted list would send me to a blank page with a "page not found" error. I was a little confused with this, and wasn't really sure where to even start. The first place I checked was my watchdog log in Drupal. The only thing that it showed was the page not found error and it showed that I was trying to access a page called "500.shtml." When I ran into this a problem a while ago I decided to just modify my post and remove most of the html so that it would go through. This time there was no way around it.

When I logged in this morning I noticed that on my user account page it says that I've been a member for "1 year 23 hours." It's been a year, huh? That's crazy. I thought I would throw a post up here talking about my experiences so far with having my own blog. First, here are my stats from Google Analytics.

2,812 Visits
6,116 Pageviews
2.17 Pages/Visit
64.26% Bounce Rate
00:02:31 Avg. Time on Site
78.98% New Visits

Just wanted to post a shout out to the World Wide Web! Today is the 20th Birthday of the WWW, so Happy Birthday! Obviously the web has changed the way we do everything. If it didn't exist then I wouldn't have a job—so for that I thank the WWW! (image courtesy of ReadWriteWeb.com)