Progress

The websites appear to be secure again, and they should hopefully be back to pretty much normal shortly. What a waste of time. On the positive side, I'm finally upgrading Armeniapedia to the latest version of the script which will have a few nice additional features like easy to put together photo galleries. It also should attract less spammers for reasons entirely too dull to explain, but which will make my life easier.

This coming week will see the opening of a tourist information office in Dilijan which I've been working on. It should be a nice little place, though I'm not totally happy with the location. The government here really needs to allocate prime spaces to this sort of thing. In town there will also be a bike path, rentals, signage and likely a hiking trail from Parz Lich to Goshavank. That the info center will have pretty good internet too, something routine for us maybe, but a really big deal for a town with virtually none. It will be available to tourists and townspeople for a fee.

And finally, I'll mention that the third Armenia-Diaspora Conference takes place Monday to Wednesday. There are a slew of accompanying expos, roundtables, events, all topped off with the independence day holiday on thursday. The dram has already shot up in anticipation of all the dollars. A good time should be had by all...