Wow – what a difference a couple of months make. It feels like yesterday I was sweating bullets. There I was in Dhaka staring at a dead LaCie harddrive – three months old, full of important footage, and not turning on. I decided that, after over a year in the field, now was probably as good a time as any to take a much needed break. I returned home to find a renewal bill from my webhost that I couldn’t afford. As nice as they are, they were none to eager to sponsor something that wasn’t a tax-writeoff for them.
I’ve been very fortunate that there have been people that have swept in from nowhere and turned rotten situations into opportunities. The first was with the support of a company called Media Temple. If you’ve heard of these guys you know they are one of the biggest hosting companies out there. They host Adobe, ABC, Time, Starbucks, Toyota, Warner Brothers, and Sony. They generously offered to partially subsidize the hosting costs. Uncultured.com is now hosted with them and they foot part of the bill.
The switchover allowed me time to try some new things – like a new look for the site. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been spending time making a new logo, header images, and layout for this site. These past couple of weeks reminded me of why I absolutely love working on this project. Whether it’s going out in the field, helping hands on, editing footage, making YouTube videos, tweaking CSS, or making new logos – I love every aspect of this project.
I couldn’t have done this alone – I have to thank Patrick (the same Patrick whose donations were used to sponsor Jack in the Chittagong Hill-Tracts). Patrick was able to help me with some of the more complicated technical stuff a n00b like me couldn’t handle. I also gotta thank Morgan (FlawedArtist) who helped with some feedback on the header images I made (as well as with help trying to renew my Flickr Pro account). And, of course, my parents who (once again) dipped into their savings and helped me pickup a new harddrive at Costco so that I could get things rolling again.
The best is yet to come. And this new look is just in time for Blog Action Day too 
