I'm house-sitting for someone next week for about eight days. This person has a separate guest house on their property that I will be checking out too. If it looks good, then I'll be moving into it over the next few weeks, so looks like the house-hunting is just about over. Best part: it's in South Tampa, not far from Arnold's place (and work). I'm going to start working on SCS017 again tonight right after I read a script that Carl sent me (sorry, been busy man).
Category: Development
Hmm…
Looks like I'm not getting all of the old blog posts. I would surmise that Archive.org only scrapes the page and doesn't do deep link inspecting. I had an option set to only display the five most recent entries on the old site, so I'm only getting five entries per month. But, I guess that's better than nothing. Maybe I'll have some old entries somewhere else. I've gotten all of 2004 and 2005 now transferred over to the new site here.
Old Blog Entries
Ok, I spoke too soon. After crossing my fingers, rubbing the lucky rabbit's foot and the buddha's belly, I found all of the old site's blog entries on Archive.org. I'm spending time now copying the entries (manually!) to the site. So far, April 2004 is up here.
The Phoenix
"To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need." -Henry Hewes A while back I stopped supporting this site. A lot of things took over my life, and, frankly, I purposely neglected it. With the advent of Facebook and Twitter, why would I need to keep up on my own site anyway? Why deal with all that work and custom code? And to top it all off, I never wanted to market it, so no one really visited. The result: into the dark, dank corner of the internet it slipped. And was forgotten. Until one day, about a month ago, I wanted to get some data off the site. I literally hadn't visited it in over a year. And, lo and behold, the site was down. Glitch? No problem, I'll fix it. So, I logged into the admin console at the hosting company and to my horror I found the site was...
Evolution
I made a lot of progress on a website that Jeff and I are developing. Most of the work I’ve been doing is Adobe Flash-based, which I’ve never really done a lot of. The next step is to figure out how to make a Flash file data-aware. I’ve set up an entire development environment to test this. Devin sent me this just a few minutes ago: Some people...have the idea that evolution is a fucking system of... "oh i need flippers, i'd better grow some" type bullshit. :P It's more like "Oh shit look at that freak over there with the flippers hahaha OH SHIT I AM DROWNING OH GOD SAVE ME FLIPPER BOY". - Quote #95326 by Anonymous (Bash.org) I played World of WarCraft a bunch last night for quite some time. I’ve been trying to devote a few hours a week to it. The monotony of it all...
New Blog Look
I wanted to also mention that I upgraded the Blog on my site, and a lot of things defaulted back to the original ugliness. I'll be whipping it back into shape in the next couple of days.
Abstract Thought
Sickly sweet Pepsi. Acrid black coffee. Almost empty water bottle. Belly hunger gone for now, cashews helping. Upgrading suncoaststudios.com. Backing up data. Will upload DNN package. FTP. Book done. Render almost done. Increase farm. Moved websites. SQL Server started. Need to run cabling. Who buys the fax machine? Hank helping later today. Network switches are loud. Got spare mouse. Yelled at end-user. Tested video cards. Ordered power supply. Waiting on hard drives. Move coming soon. Need desks. Condition battery. Keys in the top drawer. DLL today. New voicemail! Stacking cables. Where’s VoIP? Tired. Sick Thought of the Day: Undigested mucous plug in the base of the throat. Gargle phlegm.
New Section
I’ve added a new section to the Digital Archive called Movies. This is the new framework that will house both my DVD collection (pending) and film reviews, which I have decided to start doing as of yesterday. Currently, there are three movies up there that I’ve seen lately: Man of the Year, Jackass Two, and The Pursuit of Happyness. The only one I’ve actually reviewed though is Man of the Year. The reason I decided to start writing movie reviews was, firstly, so that I could remember the films I’ve seen. There’s nothing more annoying to me as buying or renting a movie that I’ve already seen a long time ago and hated. I also began reviewing for those of you who want to see what a movie is about and what my thoughts are on it (not that I’m a film critic, per se, but sometimes I might have...
Slow Day
I got an early-morning call from my mom that my sister needed a ride home from the vet’s office. Evidently, her ride (a friend of the family) had to go to work and couldn’t wait around for her while my sister finished getting the paperwork finished for getting her cat’s nuts whacked off. I picked her up around 8:45am and we then went out for breakfast at McDonalds and then stopped off to take a look at a house they’ve been looking at buying. I put up a new section for my family today called the Wish List. It’s an area of the site that we can get to that allows up to build Christmas (or birthday, etc.) lists and then make notes on the lists so that we all know what we’re getting each other for said holiday. Of course, the person that entered their list into the system...
Hell Week, Better Weekend
Oh, there is so much to blog about today… First off, I got laid off from work this past week. My last day was Friday. I’ve been thinking about how I wanted to write about this major event in my life, and, for a while, I was bitter about it all. I even was opting at one point to write this nasty entry about it all. After giving myself a couple days to reflect on it all, I’ve decided to just state some simple facts about it. I was laid off Friday because my job was phased out. The software and most of the systems I’ve worked on over the past seven years have been going away this year, and the last big software package I supported is being shut down on December 1st. I was officially let go around 10:30am on Friday, and they gave me the option of...
