October 26th, 2005 12:10pm
#64
You bet your Coulo
by: daniel
After several months of completely ignoring this site, I was reminded of it's existence about a week ago and decided to see how the old thing was holding up.
Turns out we got hit with a bunch of spammers for a bunch of different online casino sites, a number of them in spanish it seems. Sorry for those of you who would have found them entertaining, but I've already removed them.
They were quite polite, though. Kept heaping innocuous praise on my site, mentioning how "informative" it was, and so forth. That was about the time I realized they were full of crap.
May 3rd, 2005 2:07pm
#63
Urge to redesign... rising
by: daniel
What can I say? I have neglected the website. So much so that I feel like paying for the domainname and the hosting is a waste of money. The only thing anyone ever uses is the webmail. Sure it's cool to have an e-mail address with your last name in it, but due to our last name being so easily mispelled the ease of being able to tell people "my e-mail is really easy, it's just my first name at my lastname dot com!" is countered by the immediate need to spell out our lastname to make sure they get it right.
But I suppose that is true of any e-mail address. It just seems like more people pay attention to the spelling of the name and not the server. Anyways, I feel a redesign coming on for this site. I have no real ideas for said redesign, but I am getting sick of looking at the state the current site is in. I tried before to come up with a redesign using mostly CSS (go to vanhiel.com/weblog.php for a peek), but I found out rather quickly that Mac's webrowser Safari handles CSS layout much different from Internet Explorer: so even if I use the things I did in that redesign, I'd still have to redesign the redesign in order to get it to work in IE. Plus, it would really help if I had my computer within 20 miles of where I am living.
I am also considering purging this blog and starting over, but I see no real reason to. Having all this in the blog doesn't hinder anything, and with the latest expansion of the server space for the site from 100MB to 300MB, there is plenty of room on the server for the old blog entries.
Who knows? perhaps working on brian's productforge site may inspire me to really make this site here smashing... even if nobody ever looks at it.
April 1st, 2005 9:17am
#62
Buzz-Kill
by: daniel
Comedian and Actor Mitch Hedberg, 37, Dies
Please please please please PLEASE let this be an April Fool's Day gag..... please?
December 11th, 2004 11:21am
#61
This should be Brian\'s List...
by: daniel
Brian’s Xmas Wish List
-($50) Halo 2
-($20) “Freakonomics” by Levitt and Dubner (pre-order, it’s not published
‘til May)
-($50) Really cool bottle opener like this one:
http://www.mossonline.com/product-exec/product_id/29081/category_id/376
-($80-$100) Bluetooth Headset: Sony Ericsson HBH-300 Akono Headset or the
Sony Ericsson HBH-660 Bluetooth Headset
-($350-$400) Handheld VOR Transceiver: ICOM IC-A23 or Vertex Standard
VXA-700 Spirit.
-($20-$40) Alkaline battery case for whichever Transceiver.
-($50) Nice Screwdriver Set
-($60) MS Flight Sim 2004
-($400) Used/Refurbished Viewsonic Airpanel 110 or 150
-($50+) Wireless networking stuff
-($400?)Used Aeron Chair or a Allsteel Model #19 Chair
-($400) 19\\\" Flat Screen LCD Monitor
-($200?) Small touch screen monitor
December 11th, 2004 11:18am
#60
Not-so-secret Santa
by: Donald
My Christmas wish list
The Lord of the Rings - Three parts: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two
Towers & The Return of the King
Tools from Amazon.com
- Delta ½ HP hollow chisel mortise #14-651 $230
- Porter Cable 12” dove tail machine #4112 $110
¼” jig for above #4114 $43
- Bessey Angle clamps WS-6 $50
- Fast Hand 3rd Hand support jacks 3Hand5 $70
- Porter Cable Narrow Crown Stapler #NS150A $150
September 20th, 2004 5:00pm
#59
D.A.N. phone new
by: daniel
Well, I finally got fed up enough about my cellphone never working in the house and got myself a new one. YAY! I don't have to go outside anymore to get my voicemail! As many of you readers (the both of ya) may know, my use of the cellphone dropped off dramatically when I moved because the blasted thing wouldn't get a signal unless you were a good 20 feet outside in the backyard. So my use of the phone faded and I started giving people Brian's home phone# as my main contact. Well, what made you finally do something about this? you may ask. You can thank Ivan for that one.
There I was, Thursday afternoon and working on my freelance project when the power gets knocked out. So there I am, in an electrically-challenged abode, looking after a couple of cats who seem to regard the hurricane remnant outside as just another loud TV show, and I start getting calls on my cellphone. I also discovered that Brian has no regular phone lying about. He has these new-fangled cordless jobs that need electricity for the base-station (and all his old phones piled up in the basement have the same problem). So I got no landline, and i am not about to step outside in the Tempest. So hours go by with me just twiddling my thumbs in the candlelight (if there's one thing Brian & Leslie do have is candles) wondering who could have called.
And there you have it. The proverbial last straw. So yesterday, I dropped by the cingular store, and after a brisk 45 minute wait (well, brisk for a cingular store) I told the guy behind the counter my tale of woe, and he set me up with this nifty little marvel of modern technology you see before you.
Trouble is, now I have to rewrite my custom ringstyles again... Oh well, small price to pay for a usable phone.
September 2nd, 2004 3:53pm
#58
Outdated
by: daniel
Seems the code I changed only affected the date in the blogger display, not the stuff that ends up on the page. But, I discovered, whilst flipping through the code, that I can put images in here!... I think.
I'm testing it with this post.
Behold: a jpg!
September 2nd, 2004 12:59pm
#57
I can change baby!
by: daniel
Bought a CSS book and a PHP book and have been boning up on how I can redesign the website. So expect to see some random changes popping up here and there for a bit. Yes, I can field-test most this stuff on my home computer (even the php), but there's something to be said for checking it against the real thing, as it were. Also, I'm having fun going through the structure of the PHP this blog application is written in.
Check out the new format for the post-date.