Upgrading

So I decided to upgrade my dev environmet to latest build of DotNetNuke. Mistake. Of course I backed everything up prior and made sure it worked. I kept getting all kinds of wierd error messages. I finally decided to just start up from scratch. Not a big deal really.. Just set me back a day or two. So I'm currently rebuilding with the current build of Dotnetnuke. I was able to get my hands on the skinning guide for Active forums, so I'm going to start tackling that again.

I've been at a loss of what to do for the articles section of MLS. The majority of the articles I have a very image heavy and some are as long as 50 pages. Most of the article management systems out there for DNN are meant for much shorter articles. The image management capabilites aren't that great and they display the article in one page. Not good from a readability standpoint when I'm usually publishing 30 - 40 pages. I was exited to see this week however that DNNMasters has mulitiple page content on their roadmap for later this month. I'm going to be dowloading the demo of their current version later today to try it out. I look forward to seeing if I can make this work in my environment.

On another note, one of my other hobbies is collecting rare vinyl records from the 80s and early 90s new wave/alternative scene. I've got about 800 pieces in my collection. I sold my turntable some 10 years ago when I got married and my records have been stored in the basement waiting for this week to arrive. I was at the local Costco Friday night and saw that they had the ION iTTUSB turntable in stock. I've wanted one of these for a while, but they've always been out of stock at all the online outlets or local stores when I had the cash to get one. I immediately grabbed one and put it in my cart. It was only $119, compared to the $159 that I saw it for at Bestbuy later that day. I feel like I got a good deal on it. I have it hooked up to my PC now and am listening to the 12" extended remix of the Cure's "Hot Hot Hot" as I type this. I'm happy with the quality of the sound coming out of this thing. I'm excited to start recording all this old vinyl into FLAC and MP3 format so I can enjoy it all in a more portable format!!! I think the 160GB Ipod is definately on my Christmas list this year.