Monthly Archives: April 2008

jQuery and Tablesorter in Action

April 29, 2008 – 7:46 pm

I finally had time to get around to fixing the little problems I was having with the dev version of our Dedicated Servers page. The functionality was fine; it just looked really dumb for a second or two as the javascript loaded.
Click here to see it in action.
As can be expected, I ran into some [...]

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Special Announcement, pt. 2

April 28, 2008 – 5:01 pm

oceanisdrowning’s “Taken For Granted” is in final stages of consideration for inclusion on some weird compilation called “Rock 4 Life”.
Whoa.

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Special Announcement!

April 28, 2008 – 11:33 am

Today I wrote some PHP. It wasn’t much - just 5 lines to pull up a different image in a header if a user came from a specific URL. But still, that felt good.
Sunday I’m going to an open house along with Jalpha. It’s a nice 3-story all-stone 100-year old McMansion in Hyde Park.
I have [...]

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new discounted future abandonware for hobbyists announced!

April 26, 2008 – 8:44 pm

As an Open Source kinda guy, it’s hard to read this and not LOL just a little bit.
“We are aiming to remove the barriers that hobbyists and academics have faced in the past, by allowing them access to the best software and hardware that can be developed…”
Oh? You mean, correctly, the barriers that hobbyists and [...]

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awesome.

April 25, 2008 – 7:58 pm

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done!

April 25, 2008 – 12:41 pm

The new home page is up. There weren’t really any issues with it except that the banner rotation function I wrote was taking longer to download than I expected. I fixed it, though.
Last night I downloaded and installed Kubuntu 8.04. I hated it so I took it back off. Then I installed Fedora and it [...]

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Why I completely suck at blogging…

April 23, 2008 – 9:47 pm

Preamble:
This document explains why I suck at blogging.
Narrative:
So…here it is, the answer to the burning question of why I suck. And, well, I truly do suck at blogging; there’s no doubt about it.
Summary:
I suck because:
1. I’m too lazy to pepper my entries with links
2. I don’t care to write techy entries about techy stuff
3. [...]

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it has to be said…

April 22, 2008 – 6:55 pm

So the latest trend here seems to be that if you own a specific make of car, you go out and get a gigantic sticker with that make’s logo on it and put it on your back window.
I’d like to say, first off, that the Dodge logo looks like a vagina.
So, all these big truck dudes [...]

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Captain Insano

April 21, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Sunday, Cliff and I went to Ernie’s for brunch. We were having our typical pseudo-philosophical conversation, which is why I love Cliff.
As we were checking out, Cliff was talking about how he believed most people were inherently too weak-minded to control themselves (and thus people want control subconsciously). I asked him if he’d read Leviathan since [...]

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Things Fall Apart

April 21, 2008 – 8:33 am

Last summer, Cliff and I (and many others) went to a wedding for some peeps we knew. It was nice. They had a lot of meaningful stuff to say at the wedding and whatnot.
I found out Saturday they were already divorced and had been for a while.
At the end of the day, most marriages I [...]

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