Brandon's Blog

11/8/2005

Hmm

Now that France has begun suspending human rights,  it will be pretty interesting to see if anything comes up on this website about it.

We may pull a Phil Collins and see someone’s “true colors.”

11/8/2005

Ha ha

Groklaw

Ha ha

SCO

Ha ha

Stoopid.

11/7/2005

Well...

The new template is hot, but I can’t get sections to work.  So, the “Sigma” link at the top doesn’t work right now.  We’ll work on that.

I’m happy, though.  Very nice.

11/7/2005

Success

Okay.  Top link is working.  100% satisfied, and I’ll probably stay with TxP indefinitely now.

11/7/2005

Crazy Hippies

Wife Swap today was The Italians vs. The Hippies.  Pretty funny.

Personally, I can’t imagine growing up in either family, but I’ve seen a lot more of the Italian method.  I just couldn’t deal with all the yelling.

Better than eating (and smoking?) grass all day.

11/6/2005

Shuttle

Well, my faxed transaction to Shuttle is in the process of clearing, which should result in a shiny new motherboard in my sweaty mitts by the end of this week or the beginning of the next.  My poor computer is off, because I don’t want to do any damage to my beautiful CPU.

Needless to say, I’m seriously missing the PVR.

In my recent trend of iconoclasm, I’m starting to research blog software that might motivate me to drop Textpattern.  Geeklog is a contender.  Drupal appeals based on technology, but I know I wouldn’t be happy with ease of use.  Geeklog powers Groklaw, which is frequented often by open source nutties.  On the other hand, Drupal powers KernelTrap, which is one of my preferred haunts.

The problem with these is that they are more like CMS solutions than blog software.  They build community websites, not post boards.  I don’t need all of that, so it seems like a lot of weight to put on the server for nothing.  I think I’m just vain and would rather see some enhanced theming capability on both the user and administrative side.  Textpattern is a relative infant in the field, so maybe all that’s coming.

Since you all don’t get to step into the bedroom and see what I’m seeing as I type this, the admin theme is just-brighter-than UT orange, and it drives me batty.  The external theming is largely done by cutting and pasting, which is really not sexy.

By the way, the Apache filter that was crimping my style yesterday is called mod_security, and it can suck it.

I don’t know why Speakeasy doesn’t serve H-Town yet, and I don’t have a landline number to check for Norman (that’s not University VoIP).

Anyway… back to football.

11/6/2005

Kristin

This is a bit offtopic for the rest of the blog, but I think this will be more effective:

Kristin, why don’t you mess with your blog?

11/6/2005

Flight Risk

I’m considering dropping my hosting company, TextDrive, for Dreamhost next year.  Edit: I’m having trouble getting this line of text past some sort of filter TextDrive is apparently running over Apache, so I’m going to write the sentence backwards (I kid you not, this is really hacking me off): ”.me killing really is Uptime”

What I’d like to do is self-host, but without a static IP and managed DNS, I’m SOL.

News in that way: FreeBSD 6.0 is out with a modernized logo and high sex appeal for Brandon.  Linux was great for hardware compatibility (well, not for ATI, but whatever… no bitterness here, no way!), but FreeBSD just looks like the Right Thing for a server.  I guess I could use my future OS X box as a server…  Close enough to a BSD.

Amityville wasn’t great, but it was alright.  I would give it creepy, but I would be a bit stingy with scary.  If you have a haunted house thing, it might be scary.

11/6/2005

Amityville

It seems like The Amityville Horror is going predictably, 40 minutes in.  No big surprises, except that some of the visual work is pretty effective.

The blonde chick from Alias is a knockout.  Fortunately, Amityville didn’t earn its R rating the easy way at her expense.  She’s doing a good job.  The husband is kind of a buttmuncher.  We’ll see how the seocnd half goes.

11/4/2005

Yeah

Two freezeups and $192 later, a new Shuttle mainboard is on order.

So much for “repaired.”  Such things normally take money.

Feeling at the end of my rope while actually having everything controlled to an extent that would please the worst micromanager is weird.  Maybe mentioning it here will make me stop it.

Maybe putting this Accounting test away tomorrow will get rid of it.

Anyway, off to write the formula sheet.

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