Speaking of Canada...

Before you ask: Americans can also put in pins. In fact, there is no connection between the two maps, so if you want to show up on the Canada map, you'll need to push a new pin.

eta: ita, latest code is at the same URL.

You have no idea the level of restraint I'm exercising to keep from doing it. Only the conviction that the moment I put them up would be the three seconds of the year that the CEO decides to dedicate to checking out the site is holding me back.

You should write to the CEO and ask permission. Maybe s/he has a sense of humor?

Gus, it might entertain you to know that I spent about 20 minutes this morning web searching for pictures of monkeys. To threaten people who refuse to send their headshots for the website.

During the summer before my freshman year in college, the school sent a face book of all the incoming freshmen. If they didn't have your picture, they substituted a picture of a movie monster.

So it's been done.

BTW, my eventual roommate was Frankenstein.

BTW, my eventual roommate was Frankenstein.

My roomate was an asshole. I so would have taken Frankenstein over him.

(Heck, I even would have taken Frankenstein's Monster.)

Touche, tommy.

Gus, you can remove Zihuatenejo (By Margaritaville) and Fort Hancock (Texas). I was in a Shawshank Redemption frame of mind last night and...

Oh, and I put in Lake Woebegon. It does not need to be.

DCJ, that's done. Thanks. The joke is getting a little overextended.

from NovaChild in Bureaucracy:

But a dedicated server is pretty much a one-time investment, right? Or am i just totally confused on the way things work? Can you not provide your own server to whatever ISP is giving you access, with your own hard drive and CPU and whatnot? Why would CPU cycles provide a continuous expense?

No, we're renting someone else's hardware. There's a point at which buying our own would be cheaper, but with a managed dedicated server they do take some care of us. Most of the strict co-location agreements I've seen, where you provide the hardware, they don't touch the box beside making sure it's cool and has power. Meaning no backup, no reboots, no upgrades, nothing. We'd need to have someone who could go in and physically touch it, or pay through the nose for someone unfamiliar with how we decided to set up the OS and utilities to poke at it.

Ah. I guess that makes sense. I'm looking at this thing from a rather naive micro-management standpoint, I guess. I can see the benefits of having them do backups, reboots, et cetera for us. Guess it's a matter of whether we have somebody dedicated and interested enough that they'd be a good Sysadmin for a buffista-built-boxen with little or no pay, if we wanted to make it cheaper. Might be a rather time-consuming and thankless job.

Okay. Gotcha. Understood. I can see how this board would be big enough of a deal to require a dedicated server, too.

MySQL stuff

Would switching to Postgres help at all, or is it more difficult to interface with PHP, or is the stuff you're running into unrelated to the stuff that Postgres does better than MySQL? I only have rudimentary knowledge of these things, admittedly, but I've heard that Postgres is more professionally respected for some things than MySQL, if somewhat more difficult to use.

This is why I don't come to BaBB. All I hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But when I don't come where, I miss exciting things like maps!