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This one’s for Mark

Friday, May 25th, 2007

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?

Happy Π Day

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

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)

:)

Cleaning Up the Archives

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

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?

State of Flux

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

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?)

Recreating childhood flavors in strange ways

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

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.

I’m sure everyone posts something like this at some point…

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Akismet seems to be working very well for me, only 3 4 spam comments have gotten past it since I migrated to WP (in mid January,) all of which ended up in my moderation queue – so they never made it to the blog. The two most recent were this morning.

I’m not sure why they came through tho, since the only appearant difference between them and a bunch of the recent messages Akismet caught is the link they were trying to promote. All the others were porn-related – these was about jeeps. (I think… I didn’t actually click the links to find out.)

I don’t get that much traffic, but these stats are still interesting to me:

Caught Spam

Akismet has caught 1,917 spam for you since you first installed it.

You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day. :)

Either that, or I just deleted everything Akismet has identified as spam.

*crickets chirping*

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Maybe I should stop waiting for something to write about and go find something to write about instead…

D’oh! upgrade

Friday, February 16th, 2007

I just updated to the latest version of wordpress. My template customizations appear to have been wiped out. good thing I have a backup. I’ll put everything back the way I want it later tonight…

brain dead UI

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

“Click Finish to begin installation.”

Wait, what?

The blahs

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

I have nothing to say right now. At least nothing I feel is worth blogging about. I’m not even sure anyone is reading this besides me, and that is really ok. At least I still have my archive available. I should go now.