I once was a blue haired freak

What with the milestone of turning 30 and all.

30? Really?

LOLCATS amuse me. I find that many of them make me smile, but few actually make me laugh-out-loud.

This one did:

moar funny pictures

Well maybe not spammer exactly, but damn close.

I bought something from the disney online store on the 17th. Since then, they have sent me promotional email daily. Aside from my order/shipping confirmation, I don’t want to receive mail from them. (Especially not daily.) So, after the first message, I followed thier “take me off your mailing list” instructions. (followed the link, confirmed my address, yadda yadda)

You have requested to unsubscribe [redacted]@[redacted].com from all types of future commercial email from Disney Shopping, Inc regarding its products and services.

Please press “Confirm” to proceed.

After clicking the confrim button, I get this little gem:

The request to add [redacted]@[redacted].com to the Do Not Email list has been recorded. Please allow up to 10 business days for your request to be processed.

Wait, what? 10 business days!? Why the hell is it going to take 10 business days to remove my address from your mailing list? And in the mean time, you’re going to keep flooding my inbox? (Yes, I do consider daily promotional message from the same vendor a flood.) This should be an AUTOMATIC PROCESS, folks.

Ice Temple, originally uploaded by Riceman3.

beautiful

I’m just playing around with a new flickr/wordpress plug-in. I found this photo in the process and I felt like sharing it.

Well, it looks like (my part of) the DNS issues DreamHost is having have been (partially) resolved.

I wonder if it had anything to do with me going into the web panel and adding a new sub-domain. Probably not.

In other news it looks like their off-network status page is still being DDOSed

I woke up earlier than normal today, and decided to to head into work, even though I didn’t really want to. I figured the sooner I got in the sooner I could go home.

So far it’s been what I expected, not terribly busy - but enough to keep me (mostly) occupied. Fixed some errors, worked on some documentation, logged in to remote machines to monitor current processing jobs, did a bit of training. Ho-hum.

Paul and I went and had lunch, and drove around looking for a place to buy him a new office chair, we paced a furniture store in the area that looks promising, so he’ll head over there after work. Then we came back to the office. Turns out there was some luau or something at the office that we were kinda sorta invited to, (I love being in the red-headed-step-child department) so we missed out on free food. oh well.

My step-dad is hanging out with Justin today because our day-care is closed for a family camping trip. He called a few minutes ago to let me know how things were going. (And to ask for the code to unlock the TiVo so he could watch something besides Blue’s Clues or Dora.)

That’s it so far. I imagine the rest of my day will be go home, make dinner, do some housework, put the kid to bed, read for a while, maybe play some WoW, then go to bed.

Pretty exciting stuff, no?

Thanks to Wil Wheaton for being proud of the kind of nerd he is and reminding me of the signifigance of the date.

And through the magic of editing the post date, I can cheat and say this was posted at 1:59 (instead of 17:56)

There are some schools of thought that one should never (or almost never) delete old blog posts, or even create substantial revisions without providing notice of the change (and access to the original text.) I do not really feel that way. One of the things that can make publishing on the web (a blog, a video, a plain old web site) is the fact that it is a living thing. It’s easy to make changes and improvements.

Of course it’s not as easy to hide those changes as one might think. This is also a good thing. It helps keep people accountable.

Ease of updating is one of the most powerful things about the web.
That power should not be wielded indiscriminatly.
If nothing else one should be accountable to oneself.

I’m going through the archives and cleaning things up. Fixing spelling errors, adding titles to entries, (There are over 100 that just have a time-stamp as the title. An artifact of the port from g-blog to WordPress. I had a bad habit of not entering a title when posting.) fixing broken links, and removing some of the useless cruft.

For example: there are entries that are marked private that are never going to see the light of day. Nothing bad, but I had another habit of leaving notes for myself in the blog (One example was birthday gift ideas for my step-father) that the rest of the users (or the general public) didn’t need to see. I don’t need them anymore, so out they go.

I’m tired. I’m up too late to be writing about this coherently. I suppose I could save this as a draft and come back to it later, but whats the fun in that?

I’m toying with the idea of moving this blog to a new home. Namely http://hooloovoo.net (instead of using the blog.hooloovoo.net sub-domain.) Over the last few days, I’ve come to realize that I have no interest in updating (or even maintaining) the design/content of my old site.

The only substantial change I’ve made recently was adding a rule to my .htaccess file to redirect http://hooloovoo.net/blog to this site. Prior to that, I updated the homepage (and did a design refresh) in 2002, added the blog page (syndicating g-blog.net) in 2003. I also added an eBay directory last year for self-hosting auction images. (But I never linked that to the rest of the site.)

My old website has languished for 4 or 5 years. It’s time that changed. There’s nothing on the site content-wise that I can’t easily port into WP as a Page. So I think that is what I’m eventually going to do. For now, I’ve added a couple more rules to my .htaccess file, which is most likely how you got here if you just tried to visit http://hooloovoo.net.

(Tangent - I should clean up my category list now that I have control over it. Do I really need a “Testing GLUE” category now that this site is no longer on GLUE?)

Okay, I’ll admit it: When I was a kid I would occasionally try a sip of my dad’s beer. (Usually, it was Budweiser) I didn’t like the way it tasted then, and I don’t like the way it tastes now.

Just a few minutes ago, I took a sip of a Monster Energy Drink while sucking on a Wintermynt Blast breath mint.

Those two items together sent a taste-sense memory rushing through my brain: I was 12, and was making a disgusted face after just having tasted my dad’s beer.

blech - I won’t be doing that again.