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Today was the day of the big compact car show that we've been waiting for since April. Are you ready for a massive pile of photos?

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• Written on 29 June 2003 & posted at 08:21 PM.
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Hello, all. Today was fun...I had the opportunity to recapture some of the sleep I've lost since I started working at the ultrasound desk and I slept in quite late. Simon and I lazed around the house and then went shopping. I got my lurvely new toy, a Kodak digital camera. Warning: these bastards have a web site that isn't Mozilla compatible at all. Don't even try it. The best part about the camera is that it's expansion slot is SD, which fits the thus-far-useless SD port on my laptop like a gluuurve.



We also went to the casino tonight, leading to a grand total of winnings approximating $150. Not by me, by my compatriots. I lost money, but not too much. It was quite enjoyable overall, actually. I don't go to the casino often enough. If I did, I probably wouldn't have as much fun, however.

Anyway, time for bed. Nighties.

• Written on 29 June 2003 & posted at 01:27 AM.
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I added a new feature to the site. At this exact moment, you can't see it. It's invisible — ssh. <whisper>It's underneath the the Everyday Visits list</whisper>.

It's a micro-blog for Ryan. Although it's a fully functional Nucleus journal, I've set it up so it fits in the sidebar and shows only one entry at a time. It still has comments. Basically, since Keddy has such an amusing perspective on the world, I figured that a little sidebar updated once a week would be pretty great. So if it works out, it's here to stay.

Let me know what you think (once it's up, of course).

• Written on 27 June 2003 & posted at 08:40 PM.
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• Written on 26 June 2003 & posted at 11:58 PM.
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Ah, Keddy, you post the best Voicemonkey messages [case A, case B, case C, case D].

I'm so freakin' tired. But I have good news. Due to excessive vacation day build-up, I'm getting a full-time paycheck for absolutely nothing. That's right, $1,041.75 (before taxes) for no particular reason. This means that I don't have to save up for my trips this summer, and I have some money left over. So, I'm buying myself a “dodgy” digital camera (though not nearly as dodgy as my current one, an $80 SiPix jobbie). It'll probably be the HP that's on sale at Radio Shack for $130. It's 1.3 megapixels or something (why the crap can't they just say the maximum image resolution??). I'd like one with Secure Digital expansion slots (since my laptop has one o them), but I think it's CompactFlash. Meh.

Pictures of my butt next week.

PS: I actually took some ticket things from work. So anyone who wanted a number, let me know.

• Written on 25 June 2003 & posted at 11:31 PM.
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So, I guess I should finally make a post about real life, as opposed to the non-stop geek fest that has ruled for the last week or so. As much as I enjoy geek stuff, it doesn't make for particularly interesting entries. Before I begin however, I'd like to point out that I have made a website for my Mom.

Anyhoo, I am now working full time at my new job, which is in the diagnostic imaging department of the IWK. More specifically, I work at the ultrasound admissions desk, registering pregnant ladies that really have to pee (“pregos”, as Keddy calls them), and/or kids that need ultrasounds for less reproductive reasons. I like the job and the people I work with, and the money is good. I'll be able to do all of the tihngs I want to do this summer, which rocks. I have a six-week hiatus from my old job while I do this temporary one, which is excellent, since I love my old job. So, life is good. I'm the vaguely hostile person that says “Number thirty-five...(one second passes)...Number thirty-five? Number thirty-six...”. You know you love me.


Take a number.

• Written on 24 June 2003 & posted at 09:48 PM.
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The new server is up, and it's real fast. Rejoice! And comment, to test everything out.

John, regarding your earleir comment about the missing comments, ignore that. Things were pooched and now they're good.

• Written on 23 June 2003 & posted at 11:44 PM.
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Yay! This time tomorrow, ShinyPlasticBag.com will be running on a new server. Well, sorta new. It's my old desktop computer. Contrasting specs:

Old Server (Murray):
- Pentium 166 MHz
- 64 MB RAM
- 2.0 GB hard drive

New Server (Trinity):
- Celeron 466 MHz
- 256 MB RAM
- 13.0 GB hard drive

So, more speed, more memory, and much more hard drive space for useless stuff. Yay for me. The blog won't be nearly as slow anymore. :)

• Written on 22 June 2003 & posted at 11:42 PM.
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Our front tires were a little low on air, so Keddy and I went to Irving to re-inflate them. Keddy discovered that the air hose had a nice little stick thing that popped out when you squeezed the air trigger. He repeatedly played with this, for a minute or two.

For some reason, it was good.

• Written on 22 June 2003 & posted at 10:10 PM.
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Hello. Regarding the paucity of updates during the last two days, I provide my apologies. The good news is that Simon is here and hasn't gotten so freaked out by us that he wants to leave yet. Yay! Plus, Aussie “lollies” are good, too. All went well with the bedroom that Maazer worked on so much, and Simon has had his first donair. Sometime soon, poutines will get thrown in. Yay^2!

Nick lent me his scanner tonight, so I can finally get to moving my old 1999 journals into a more mallable digital form. Most of them, I daresay, will not be public, but some of the more amusing entries may be. Looking back on them, I find them fairly hilarious, because a) I have changed so much, and b) I haven't changed at all. Life's funny like that sometimes. I also recently discovered a collection of funny moments on IRC, from late 1998. Some are hilarious, some are totally geeky, and some of the jokes are so inside that I've completely forgotten what made them funny in the first place. Life's also funny like that sometimes.

Today (and by today, I mean June 21st, which is ever-so-technically yesterday) marked the fourth anniversary of my car accident. I can't believe how time has flown by — I feel like I was sixteen yesterday. More accurately, the years of my life feel more like days...yesterday I was nineteen, the day before I was eighteen, and so on. If I ever get some sort of crazy Kurzweilian brain implant, I'm going to have a lot of fun reminiscing. I have no idea if I spelled that right.

Anyway, I'm going to go to bed, since it's somewhat late and I don't want to have another day of waking up at twelve. It's not really as fun as it used to be.

• Written on 22 June 2003 & posted at 01:41 AM.
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Welcome to Canada, Simon!

• Written on 20 June 2003 & posted at 01:41 PM.
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Click the logo to download version 0.9.0


First of all, update your runtime files by downloading this. Ignore the name, it's what you need.

I am mildly amused to annouce that a workable version of Spoogle is now available. I've decided that individual components are far easier to work with and update than my traditional do-everything suites. In the download, you'll find spindexml_add.exe, which is used to create new indexes, and spoogle.exe, which is used to search through them. You'll also find footer.html, header.html, and style.css, which are used to customize the look of Spoogle results. If you aren't a web head, the default files should suit you well enough.

The files are stored in 100% valid XML, and I swear I will never change the format again. Index with impunity! The browsing component will come soon enough.

• Written on 19 June 2003 & posted at 08:34 PM.
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I have almost come up with a solution for my Spindex problem. Spoogle is good, Spoogle is here to stay. But I still need an index browser. And I still need an index creator.

Or do I? I spent some time today working on SpindeXML. It's going to be a very modular program, as opposed to Spindex. There will be a program to browse indexes and a program to create them. And Spoogle will be used to search them.

What makes this worthy of a new name is a new file format. I know, I know, I have so many. This is the final one. It's XML based, so it's incredibly easy to modify and parse, and it's actually pretty clear to the naked eye (using a web browser to view it gives a tree structure that resembles the original folder that was indexed). I would write a convertor to convert my .index files to .xml files, but I added one field (timestamp for folders) that isn't in the old format, so I have to re-index them all. Sigh.

Anyway, anyone who likes XML (ie Taylor) especially might enjoy the file format, which is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<index name="index name" root="e:\" description="index of e:\" version="4.0">
<folder path="" date="7:59 PM 06/18/2003">
<folder path="name" date="8:00 PM 06/18/2003">
<file name="somefile.extension" date="8:01 PM 06/18/2003" size="1024 bytes"/>
</folder>
<file name="info.txt" date="8:01 PM 06/18/2003" size="256 bytes"/>
</folder>
</index>

And in case you're wondering why the index version is set to 4.0, it's because it sort of is. My indexing programs were:

1. X-Search (one filename per line, no details on files)
2. X-Search II (basic meta data retained)
3. Spindex (folder structure and most meta data retained)
4. SpindeXML (folder structure and all meta data retained).

The only thing this is missing is the saving of file attributes (hidden, system, etc). I don't know if I want them, but I probably will someday. I should just include them and save myself hassle later on. :)

• Written on 18 June 2003 & posted at 11:08 PM.
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• Written on 18 June 2003 & posted at 01:07 PM.
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Today (and by today, I mean yesterday) was interesting. Executive summary:

I woke up a lot later than I would have liked (I think it was 11 or so), showered, and watched The Price is Right (best show ever). I spent the afternoon cleaning up the downstairs bathroom. The evidence of a massive battle I waged against the ants the day before left many ant casualties and a goopy residue from the Raid. We also have ant traps now, although I'm not sure that they'll work since I kind of killed them all. I haven't seen any ants in their since. Meh.

Steve fixed the closet doors in the foyer, which have been derailed for eons. This led to a general cleaning of said closet (old shoes and Christmas decorations, anyone?) and the fixing of our vacuum cleaner, which had a tangle in the cord which prevented it from coming out of the vacuum, and made it fairly useless. A vacuum with a 3 foot radius isn't much good.

Later in the afternoon, I discovered that our fridge had ceased functioning. As it stands, we are no longer “fridgid”, and a repair guy is coming tomorrow. Why is every appliance breaking down at once? I think it's some sort of general strike. Stupid Freedom for Unappreciated Cleaning & Kitchen Appliances Union. I guess their acronym describes their attitude towards us at the moment.

Tonight led to the fabulous I Wasn't Involved Peanut Butter Ball event. They should be cooled off by now, but I'm not really into the idea of eating anything sweet at two AM. I take pleasure in knowing that Steve and Ryan both made themselves sick by eating too much sugary peanut butter mix. Ah, the misfortune of others.

Anyway, I have a fairly early day tomorrow (due to the fridge repair guy, who I shall forever refer to as Larry, for no particular reason), and work at three. Humbug.

PS: Does anyone know if the Greek Fest has already happened? I can't remember if it's a spring thing or a summer thing.

• Written on 18 June 2003 & posted at 01:59 AM.
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For emphasis, I repeat the title: holy crap, it's hot. At the moment, it is currently 296.65 degrees Kelvin. Which is 23.5 degrees Celcius. I think people should use Kelvin more often ... it makes Canadian weather less depressing.

Steve and I are busy cleaning the house. Last minute stuff, fixing stuff, etc. The closet doors now function as doors, as opposed to giant hunks of wood that fall on people when they try to access the pile of shoes we no longer wear and Christmas decorations. Yahoo. Unfortunately, it looks like my beloved laptop table may be doomed. Sigh. Life sucks sometimes. I really like that table.

Anyway, I forced Steve to climb into the attic and retrieve my old journals from the Big Box o' Memories for me. It's pretty great. I'm going to scan them and enter them here once I get access to a scanner. It includes the Scotland Chronicle, ie, my journals from when I was over there. Fun stuff. Mundane journals from interesting places.

I am now leaving. Bubye.

• Written on 17 June 2003 & posted at 03:50 PM.
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Hey, Strong Bad...I brought back your fondue pot.

I love Homestar Runner. I love Strong Bad. I love the whole lot of them. And this week's email did not disappoint.

I have a temporary-ish solution to my CD index problem. I wrote a search engine for my indexes called Spoogle. Don't make fun of me. Anyway, it's a lot faster than Spindex and it shows results as a giant HTML table. I'm going to have to program another Windows Explorer clone for the indexes, though, cos I miss that feature already.

Anyway, I must go. Too many blinking, chiming Trillian windows open to be able to concentrate on a blog!

PS: Let us all mourn the loss of Kitta's tagboard. It will be missed.

• Written on 16 June 2003 & posted at 11:46 PM.
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Sigh. I love Microsoft. But I don't like them very much right now.

For some reason, my most beloved program ever will not work. It's a .NET program. I've installed the .NET Framework, so theoretically, it should work. It doesn't. Since I never plan on touching .NET again, I don't plan on installing Visual Studio (which would probably solve the problem). But I need this program.

The program in question is Spindex, my CD catalog. I have 91 CDs and despite the fact that I have the contents of the first 30 or so memorized, locating more recent stuff requires organization. So, what do I do? I have three options:

Option the First: Reinstall Visual Studio and say goodbye to a gig of hard drive space.
Option the Second: Rewrite Spindex using Visual Basic 6.0.
Option the Third: Come up with a new solution.

Option the First doesn't sound good at all. And Option the Second wouldn't be fun either — the reason I actually coded Spindex in .NET in the first place was because VB 6 doesn't handle the Windows XP look and feel all that well, and I wanted Spindex to emulate the look of Windows Explorer.

What can Option the Third offer me? I considered writing a program to convert the index files to a more logical format, such as XML (right now they are very strange and I can't even remember how the format works), and then coding a search engine sort of thing with PHP. However, my server is slow, and I would want to be able to search while offline.

I think I will go with a search engine style, however, and write something in VB 6. Later on, I will rewrite the Windows Explorer view. The priority, however, is searching. Can anyone come up with a good name it, or should I stick with Spindex (which is short for Shiny Plastic Index, by the way)?

Bye.

PS: I got a job. Wee! Full time for six weeks, and then I go back to my current weekend only job.

• Written on 16 June 2003 & posted at 11:14 AM.
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So, Taylor began his great trek to Chicago yesterday. I meant to post about it, but I was too busy with the whole formatting thing.

Check out his site and listen to his audioblog — he's posting tons. It's a great marathon (one blessed with God's protection, apparently), and it's also very humorous. Gotta love the limmericks.

(Blink fans gotta stick together)

• Written on 15 June 2003 & posted at 02:48 PM.
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Well, I'm all done formatting my hard drive. The following things were not backed up:

• CuteFTP sites
• Recently downloaded software (Trillian Pro, StyleXP, etc)
• My music

Only the last one is a bad thing. I did indeed back it up, but it got fucked up at some point and removed from the hard drive I backed up onto. The recovery software I've tried doesn't see it. Oh well. It's not like there was anything irreplaceable there. Good thing I just burned 4 new data CDs, huh?

What are we doing tonight?

• Written on 15 June 2003 & posted at 12:10 PM.
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Thanks to Taylor and StyleXP, I now have a sexy new desktop. Mm, pie.

By the way, Tony wants you to know that his site is back up now. And he wants you to go visit it. So...go visit it and make him happy.

• Written on 13 June 2003 & posted at 10:29 PM.
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Since VoiceMonkey doesn't provide a way of showing the last n entries in a mailbox, I decided to make use of the every-single-message playlist they do offer and write an RSS 0.91 wrapper. It's called Voicemonkey-Feed. Creative, huh? Anyway, here it is for anyone who wants it. If you use Nucleus, the best RSS parser around is NewsFeed. You can find it on the Nucleus plugins page.

VoiceMonkey-Feed is really easy to setup as long as you have half a brain. So, if you're looking for that sort of functionality, go crazy with it.

Later!

• Written on 13 June 2003 & posted at 12:57 AM.
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I think the Voicemonkey game is a very bad idea. I don't like guessing who is leaving me messages. :)

Okay, think logically.

It's female. I don't recognize them from real life.

It's obviously someone online then. Who visits the site?

1. Dotgirl: Nope, not her. She left a message earlier.
2. Kitta: Well, she was only here once and the message lacks an Aussie accent.
3. Adri: She's wandering the four corners of the globe at the moment, sans Internet.
4. Diva: It has to be you!

Now, unless it's some stranger on my site trying to mess with me, it has to be Maureen. So...is it?

• Written on 13 June 2003 & posted at 12:29 AM.
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This is the coolest thing ever! Thanks to VoiceMonkey, I now have a virtual answering machine of sorts. If you call 1-888-870-6116 (toll free) and enter to mailbox 0343, you can leave me a message, and seconds later it shows up on the Internet. Give it a go and leave me a message!

It's free to try for the time being. If it actually gets used, I'll pay for it when the time comes. Let me know what you think.

All that info, with a link to the latest message, is shown on the sidebar. I'm working on some code that will link to the last five entries. For the time being, you can listen to all of the entries in ascending or descending order.

• Written on 12 June 2003 & posted at 02:36 PM.
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Tonight was fun and pretty messed up. Details:

This evening I drove around with some people in Pugs' car. Mike found a car he's interesting in buying out in Sackville — it's a 1991 Mazda MX-6. Power moon roof (what it is that distinguishes this from a sun roof, I will never know), power windows, air conditioning, standard transmission. Great condition, too, but 265,000 km on it. The price is something like $2,000, though, so it might be worth it. Who knows?

Later on, Pugs and Nick and I drove around aimlessly, and managed to get pulled over by the cops on the way to Mic Mac Mall. Pugs was rather freaked out, but the cop had only pulled us over because he saw the laptop and thought Pugsley was watching television. He said my laptop was kickass. :) Anyway, all went well with that, and we found out that you can drive after midnight with an N on your license as long as there is someone in the car with a full license. Score. Following our adventure with law enforcement, Nick let us into the mall so I could pee. It's really weird being in a completely deserted mall. But we got to see the wonders of the female bathroom. It smelled less like urine than the guys bathroom, but it had creepy metal boxes in the stalls. The toilets were actually super-toilets, capable of completing a flush in less than a second. Crazy.

Anyway, I'm going to bed due to excessive sleep deprivation. Tomorrow I have to fix the dryer situation. Since our current dryer has been on its last legs for about three years, we've had a backup in the basement. It's yellow and ancient and very 1960s, and thanks to Joey, we know that it had a new drum installed on August 11th, 1982. However, it doesn't have a plug, so I have to rip the one off of the old dryer and splice it on the “new” one. Sigh. At least I'll finally be able to do my laundry. My backups are almost depleted! Poor me.

• Written on 12 June 2003 & posted at 01:27 AM.
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Yahoo, my site now has a favicon. That means when you bookmark it (ha) you get the little bullseye logo instead of an angry little dragon icon.

Must stop watching daytime television.

• Written on 11 June 2003 & posted at 03:57 PM.
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I just finished mowing the lawn. Yeah. Me. Outside. And actually doing something. It wasn't horrible, oddly enough. My recollection of lawn mowwing (mowing? hmm...) is that it was a lot more work than it actually was. Maybe I was just lazy. It's nice outside, and it smells very summery. It's a lot of fun to mow down plants, too. Stupid weeds.

We have an electric lawnmower, and it hates cutting through grass that's too thick. For some reason, as it sputtered along this afternoon, I had a recollection of blowing a fuse many summers back while doing the front yard. I distinctly remember it because a) it was the day after I tried to make a car fly and b) I had to ask Ewan (my strange, pot-growing, hippy neighbour) for a fuse. It's weird that we remember everything, but we don't always remember that we remember everything.

Day time television sucks.

• Written on 11 June 2003 & posted at 02:23 PM.
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Hiya. I'm eating chicken. You know how I feel about chicken. It's the Sobey's crispy stuff, too. Mm, chicken.

It's *really* nice out today. Finally. Check out the weather report — it's 20 degrees here. Of course, it's supposed to rain again tomorrow, but...meh. I'm loving it for now.

And Simon leaves for BC tomorrow! Yay! 10 days until we get to watch a warm-blooded Aussie shrivel up in eastern Canadian weather. Mwahaha.

I have to go mow the lawn, though. Bye.

• Written on 11 June 2003 & posted at 12:13 PM.
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First ... mobile ... post ... EVER.

• Written on 10 June 2003 & posted at 12:49 AM.
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Hello. How are you all doing? If you're reading this, I hereby request that you post a comment saying hi or something, just so I know who is here. I don't trust my counter (I wrote it myself and I have a feeling it's being a bit — a lot — too generous regarding reloads).

I went over to TJs house tonight. It's weird...he's my age (maybe a bit younger, actually) and he's married, has a house, and a kid due any minute. Funny how peoples lives move at different speeds. I am more than happy to be at home for a few more years. And the thought of marriage at this point makes me queasy. Too much responsibility for me. I'm only 244 months old! :|

I'm on a really, REALLY weird music kick. Somebody stop me. I'm listening to the White Stripes like mad, as well as Oasis. I've also got a smattering of Garbage, Bush, Nirvana, the Vines, and Fuel mixed into my current playlist. I am one weird person when it comes to music.

I can't believe I have this Garbage song in a playlist. It's been forever since I've actually listened to it. For some reason, I find music is able to attach itself to events with little effort, and it becomes impossible to remove that attachment. It's like Nutty Putty and t-shirts. Most of the time they're happy memories, but you never realize the attachment until the memory is no longer happy.

Mom has purchased a Microsoft MN-520 802.11b network card for my laptop. I had asked for an 802.11g, but the guy at the store told her it wasn't compatible with 11b. This is contrary to the FutureShop site. She's going to take the 11b one back and ask someone else to see if the guy was wrong or the web site is wrong. I'd rather have the 11g one (Linksys Wireless-G), since it can do 11 Mbps through 11b and 54 Mbps through 11g. Either way, wireless Internet will lead the way to some humorous posts in downtown Halifax. I'm going to go wardriving sometime this week (maybe not Monday, but Tuesday for sure). It sounds like the perfect activity for me — I love driving around randomly. Why not do so with a purpose? I've got some maps of the Halifax Regional Municipality as PNGs, so I'll mark out the hot spots on the PNGs and post them online.

I must learn how to warchalk, too.

• Written on 09 June 2003 & posted at 12:08 AM.
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The following was discovered on YouJustBreathe.com (link).

Continue reading “Health Tips”...

• Written on 08 June 2003 & posted at 10:14 PM.
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Ugh. Work is going slow today, I'll tell you. My sleeping schedule (that's sked-jull, not shed-yool) is all out of whack nowadays, so I'm lying awake until 2:30 am every night. GRR.

I tweaked the date format on the web site a bit. I was looking through some old entries (the result of a search for the word “finger”, as I tried to figure out how long I've had a bandaid on my hand) and had no clue what year they were from. So, now the blog shows the year of a post (and the day of the week). I also changed the item footers to show time in a more useful form (ie 11:09 PM instead of 23:09). Yay for Nucleus and its unending customizability. Also, yay for Apollo for becoming the newest Nucleus user.

Mom is still in New York, desperately trying to find the building from the 10th Kingdom. Apparently, there are lots of similar buildings next to Central Park. Who knew? I think it was also the Plaza Hotel in Home Alone 2, although I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I remember that movie.

Anyway, if all goes well, I should have quite a bit more server space in a few days. Mike is buying a 60 GB hard drive, and he's giving me his old 13 GB drive. Since the server currently has a 2 GB drive in it, that's a big improvement. I've been feeling the pinch of not-enough-hard-drive-space on it lately. It's also been making a lot more noise than usual (hard drive wise — every time somebody posts a comment on here, I can hear it grinding away in the basement). I'm really debating putting FreeBSD on Trinity, which is much faster than Murray, but I'd miss having the use of the computer for normal stuff.

PS: Feeds are now up for the blog (RSS 0.91, RSS 2.0) and Linkpool (RSS 0.91). Share the wealth and add Linkpool to your site!

• Written on 08 June 2003 & posted at 12:17 PM.
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I'm in the process of adding an RSS syndication function for LinkPool. However, it's not working right (it's being displayed as a web site instead of as XML — but if you save it, the file validates perfectly).

If anyone has any experience with this stuff, lemme know.

• Written on 07 June 2003 & posted at 06:00 PM.
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2 Fast 2 Furious was AWESOME. It was actually better than the first one — much more plot, much more driving, much more destruction. Oh, and much more pretty ladies. The leading girl was disappointing, however, because she looked like she got hit by the upswing of a 2x4 and had a giant mole. Ew. The girl who played Suki was cute-cute-hot (by Mike's classification system). Oh, and she's exactly one year older than Mike, too. There's a good site here, and the movie's site is here. I'll forgive them the pop-up based nagivation system since it's so nice.

Anyway, in the humorous news, Tony got a $(2^7) speeding ticket. Heh. Let us bask in the glory that is his misfortune, and then feel sorry for him. He got it because he didn't come to a complete stop at a 3-way in Colby. Murphy's Law. Needless to say, John drove excessively cautiously on the way home. One step away from turning the engine off at each stop sign. Stupid Tony. First the scary porn, then the ticket. Bad week for you, I guess. :)

Oh, and our dryer has died. I'm sure this will turn into some major melodramatic event for me, so stay tuned.

• Written on 07 June 2003 & posted at 12:59 AM.
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• Written on 06 June 2003 & posted at 03:23 PM.
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This is kinda cool. Strangely entrancing.

• Written on 06 June 2003 & posted at 01:51 PM.
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Last night, I had the strangest dream. It was all about someone I've never really met, and a book (or poem) she had written called December Peasant. For some reason, it was incredibly sought after by a group of weird people. I spent the entire dream running with her and the rest of my friends, trying to avoid the wackos. The weird thing is that there has never been anything, book/poem/song/story/movie, called December Peasant. I don't know why, it's a good title.

I spent last evening driving to Western Shore and back in a veritable monsoon. A little hydroplaning here and a little hydroplaning there and you get one unpleasant ride. I just *love* spring, don't you? It's almost summer, though. The rain should finally give up, and if my weather prediction skills are worth anything, we're going to have a longish summer.

Tonight is the night. 2Fast 2Furious is now out, and I'ma be at the 9:45 PM showing. Be excited for me. I can't wait. :) See you all later.

• Written on 06 June 2003 & posted at 12:28 PM.
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I'm just going through my journals folder in my bookmarks and seeing what's changed in my less frequently visited sites. I'm also falling in love with a few that I'd forgotten, and saying goodbye to some that have left this world. I'm kind of sad to see angel of hope go, since she usually had something interesting to say, and had such a nice layout. I'm all about layouts these days. Don't ask why.

Anyway. This entry is really just here to say hello to Thursday. My Mom leaves for New York in 31 hours. Her flight leaves at 8 am, so I'll have to have her there by sixish so she can get through customs. Boo. I'm going to fall asleep at the wheel. :) Not really...I'm bringing Keddy and Steve with me. If you wonder why that matters, you have obviously never been near them. They're crashing upon my pad tomorrow night (technically speaking, tonight, I guess) so they can come for the stroll and keep me from wandering into the media/another car/an airplane (don't ask, I'm sure I could manage).

We filmed a car commercial tonight. Yesterday, I had a vision of a humorous car commercial based on Funk-a-tron. It was a blast to make, although I was getting sick of driving up and down the street by the end of it, and the daylight was fading way too fast for our liking. Steve should have it all edited (editted? No, edited. Gotta love w.bloggar's spell-checka) up by tomorrow morning. If you want the spoiler, read on.

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Um, I can't find the extended post editor in this bloody thing. Stupid learning curve.

Continue reading “The Lights are Blinding”...

• Written on 05 June 2003 & posted at 01:12 AM.
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Look what I found on Tony's FTP server!

School Girls Sex Beauty Preteen Pron Cute Hidden Camera Dbz Sailor Moon Hentai Rape Lolita Asf Mov Fuck Young Uniform.mpeg.xml

• Written on 04 June 2003 & posted at 10:40 PM.
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This is great! I just found something super-cool on the Interweb, thanks to Maureeny. It's called w.bloggar, and it's an offline post editor for all of the major blogging tools, including, conveniently, Nucleus.

It's so pretty! I'm very impressed. If only the HTML menu element actually said HTML instead of Html, and the spell check actually had words like “blogger” in it, it would be absolutely perfect. You can save stuff on your hard drive and upload it later, or upload right away. The tag highlighting is great.

At any rate, it's a lot faster than using the web interface, and it saves me the effort of saving stuff to text files and uploading it later if I get inspired while offline. Mind you, I'm rarely offline.

I just need to figure out how the drafts feature works a bit better, and I'll be all set.

Anyway, there's something on TV about Erin Brokovich, and I'm going to go watch it. It's interesting. I love evil corporation stories.

• Written on 04 June 2003 & posted at 03:07 PM.
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I'm very confused as to why my mom buys the National Enquirer. I'm even more confused as to why everyone else in the house reads it. I'm just as guilty of that as everyone else, so I guess I can't really comment on that, but seriously. Worst attempt at a magazine EVER. Check this crap out:


The caps and bold were actually in the article. I guess the National Enquirer doesn't know that a family name doesn't make you a terrorist automatically. What fucktards.

• Written on 04 June 2003 & posted at 09:06 AM.
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Today was probably the most productive day of my life. We got so much stuff done in preparation for Simon's arrival!

1. Steps finished. They just need a wee bit more sanding.
2. Living room de-dustified and cleaned real good
3. Custom light fixture complete (pictures once Simon arrives).
4. Bed painted.

Tomorrow, I hit the kitchen and bathrooms, and bring the bed in from the outside, since it's drying at the moment.

We found out shortly after we painted it that it's actually a rather valuable antique. So basically, we turned a valuable piece of furniture into a useless piece of junk. Oh well, it looks nice. :)

Pugs came over tonight, which was cool. And rare, for that matter. We drove around, listening to...Funk-a-tron. I love that song. If I had to guess, I'd estimate that I've probably spent 6 - 7 hours in the last day listening to it. It's just THAT good. Seriously — get yourself a copy and wear it out.

I'm going back to Kitta now.

• Written on 04 June 2003 & posted at 01:29 AM.
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I forgot to mention that I recoded Linkpool. It was starting to get a wee bit lethargic, and since it's on the sidebar, it was slowing the whole site down.

Instead of a weirdly formatted text file, it now uses a MySQL database. It's faster and easier, once I learned the basics of MySQL of course. I plan on adding ratings for the links, either by a “rate this link” button or by keeping track of click-throughs.

Source code available for anyone who wants it (see the Linkpool).

• Written on 03 June 2003 & posted at 02:19 AM.
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Tonight was totally and utterly a Til I Come night. Minus one person, it was almost exactly the same as an evening late in July of 1999. Stupid memories. We even drove through some of the areas.

What reminded me was the music — not a particular song, but a feeling. In 1999, that song was “9 PM (Til I Come)”. Tonight it was “Funk-o-tron”, the best song I have heard in a really long time. It was a stupid, do-nothing night, but with a song that great on loop (for more than an hour — from when I first heard it until I dropped Keddy off), it was pretty great. We even got to play the chaos game twice. We entered Colby by Blockbuster and ended up back at my house before we hit the loop. I love the chaos game.

Anyway, that's about it for tonight. I'ma go find me a copy of that song.

Continue reading “Tilley Comes”...

• Written on 03 June 2003 & posted at 01:41 AM.
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I've burned a new CD. Yay.

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• Written on 02 June 2003 & posted at 05:14 PM.
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I would hate for my blog to become a “hey, look at this” sort of deal, but hey, look at this. Kozo is a sumo-wrestling hippopotamus.

I also forgot to link to this great file that I found on Chris Pirillo's web site a few days ago. It's funnier in context, but it's still pretty great. :)

Also, check out Kikkomaso. It's so terrible and happy! (View the original page)

Metallica sucks.

• Written on 02 June 2003 & posted at 04:16 PM.
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Ever since I got on my hardcore nostalgia trip, I have been thinking a lot about Kurzweil's predictions on the sort of mind enhancements we can expect in the next few decades, memory in particular. I always used to think that this would be fantastic — you'd never forget a single thing!

Imagine, however, the downsides. All of the sights you never wished you seen, or conversations you never wanted to overhear. All of the scary things on the Internet, too. Sure, they might be able to make an erase function, but how would that work?

If you erased something, you'd still be thinking about it, so it would go right from short-term memory back into long-term memory. You'd have to erase your short-term memory, too, and that would leave you feeling disoriented and a bit clueless.

I guess the good would outweigh the bad, though.

• Written on 02 June 2003 & posted at 12:45 AM.
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Best error message ever:

Not Found
The requested object does not exist on this server. The link yo' ass followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or da server has been instructed not let yo' ass has that shiznit.

• Written on 01 June 2003 & posted at 04:05 PM.
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Hmm. Weirdness. Simon's Kath & Kim link (scary, by the way) is on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's web site. ABC.

But we're more familar with this ABC, the American Broadcasting Corporation. Weirdness.

I wonder how many acronym's and stuff there are that will cause utter chaos when Simon get's here?

Nice usage of the Linkpool, by the way, guys. We've had a link every day for four days in a row. Whee. :)

I have to go work at lightspeed so I can dash over to see Mom sing in 23 minutes.

• Written on 01 June 2003 & posted at 09:42 AM.
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