Voluntary Simplicity Blog Site coming soon

I am a great advocate of the voluntary simplicity movement and have written about it even in this blog several years ago. Lately I've been giving some serious thought to creating a blog dedicated to voluntary simplicity and economic self-reliance. Primarily aimed at providing information to average people on ways to save money around the home, the blog and site will eventually promote a more simplified method of living within the sometimes very confusing and socially driven environment in which we all find ourselves. Since the vehicle for this initiative is the web the Blog will start with the basics on saving money on computers, software, furniture and will move to other corners of the household to finally finish out in the garage or workshop where the page will attempt to help consumers save money on home repairs. Much more than simply a how-to site, the articles and overall objective of the site will be to empower it's readers and give them the tools to learn how to fend for themselves and learn from past experiences and troubleshoot problems from what they have already learnt in other situations. This will by no means be an easy feat as the page is still very much under development, but the main overall goal and mission has been set and will inevitably guide the production and path of the new site.

When will the site be published? This is a very good question and as work progresses this blog will be updated and a URL will be posted the minute it is available. 

What the???

I have no idea what happened during the last post, I somehow was able to complete discombobulate the font format of my blog. Anyway, that posting was transferred from my podcast blog. Unfortunately I'm going to have to close my podcasting site until I can bring up my own server again as I had it running way back in the Spring of 2006. It seems the hosting people that I have found are very sneaky with their FTP settings. They give you a maximum size of 13 MB for an upload to their FTP site, however they only give you 5 minutes to do this, otherwise the system times out and your upload dies. So since my upload speed is at a maximum of about 512 Kbps I'm going to have to resort to running my old server again. It's currently 10:30 PM on a Sunday and I have work tomorrow, but I'm going to hook up the old boy and fire him up to see if Solaris comes up and see what the IP address is of that machine. Then in the next few days I'll re-install the website on that server until I can ascertain that I have enough traffic to warrant buying a monthly hosting plan. The reason why I want to get the Podcast site up and running again is that if one Googles Electric Vehicle Podcast, my entry comes up number one in Google, I certainly cannot give up this privilege. I will post again when the site is up and running.