A bunch of us were chatting yesterday about ICANN’s new TLD policy, wherein companies can buy custom TLDs for tons of money, such as .google or .microsoft. Peter Harkins, over at push.cx, maintains that this means ‘WWW’ will never die. The thinking is that now we’ll need a way to indicate the start of a [...]
You may recall I like cute cat pictures with captions. I’ve been really into viewing the voting pages lately because there’s LOTS more pictures every day that you don’t get to see otherwise. Unfortunately these pictures don’t have individual links given with them so I couldn’t paste into relevant conversations, and lets face it, every conversation can be relevant to a cute cat so I hit this problem daily. That is, until now. Have a go at this page. Ugly as heck, but leads to cuteness.
To use it, lets say you’re browsing the voting page when you find something adorable. To get its link, right-click on the picture, and copy the image’s location. Paste that link into the URL field on the vote_link page, then hit ‘Find’. At the top you’ll be given the first link you gave (to make sure it’s working), and the link I generate to its individual page. Click on the second ‘here’ and there’s your link!
If you’re like me, you like things orderly, but hate having to clean and wait until things get way out of hand and frustratingly hard to use until you do so. My desk is a prime example, I set it up really nice and neat, and just two months later its overflowing with random change, pens, a bottle of “Cheese”-Wiz and other assorted crap. Its starting to bug me so I wanted to clean it, the trouble is all the loose stuff ends up in one pile. Clearly just dumping everything into the same cup isn’t making things neater, its putting it into a smaller container. Then I was cleaning my gun and reloading the ammo dry box when I noticed something, 30-30 rounds are about the same diameter as a pencil and the tray they came in (from Remington, I can’t speak for other brands) looked almost like a pencil holder. Intrigued I put the rest of the 30-30 rounds away and started putting my pens and some dry erase markers into the (empty, of course) tray. They all fit! I’ve got regular pencils, pens, mechanical pencils, dry erase markers (the small kind) and even sharpies in there now. It is weighted well enough at the bottom that it doesn’t randomly fall over, and because its a nice long tray it sits alongside the edge of my cubicle, out of the way yet easily accessible! This little win has given me the drive to start cleaning the rest of my desk up and hopefully I can find some other little tricks to keep it clean this time.
So, I popped into my favorite IRC channel in the middle of a coversation about some new browser game. I paid it no heed and went back to replaying the Brood Wars campaign in preperation for SC2. Then someone offered to toss me an invite and I decided to try it. I only got through 4 rounds before I had other things to do, but I’m hooked already. This is bad because those of you who know me and browser games… productivity goes waaaay down.
So, if you’ve never read this blog before, quick fact: I have issues with my school’s networks. I’ve been kicked off them before for “SSH brute forcing” a server set up to BE brute forced. I’ve been denied various requests for accounts being transferred to me due to being a student and the the administration not thinking I need said account. I’ve had money paid to other people with almost my same name because the administration was too lazy to use my email address…. or something, still not sure how that happened. Moral of the story, there’s a lot of annoyances I deal with regarding this network, though its probably mainly my fault for being the way I am.
Now, for the lighter side of things, fun times that can be had with large networks of computers.
I don’t think I’ve said it publically yet, so a little heads up, I’ve gotten my first contract as “Three Planets Software”. Rather (I hope) easy site in PHP/MySQL and some other goodness, but you’ll hear more about that later when I put out a call for Beta testers. So I coded up all the login and registration pages two days ago, and now am working on some other fun stuff. Some fun stuff that required more than one user to test. Ideally, more than 10. I did *not* want to sit in phpmyadmin creating 20 dummy users that would only be used in testing, so I turned to perl.
Lately I’ve been really frustrated with myself over the issue of time managemet. I’ve never been very organized, and a habitual procrastinator. But this semester I’ve had an awesome schedule, only class two days a week, so that I could work the other three. Well, it turns out I played much more games than working, and time not spent on games was wasted Internet browsing. To quote Trace Adkins in “I Want to Feel Something”: “Damn it all to hell I’m done, ‘Cause I don’t like what I’ve become…” Now, he said those words in regard to relationship issues, but that song (a favorite of mine for a while) kinda spurred me to realize I’m fed up with wasting so much time when there are people my age that spent free time coding and are millionaires now. Not that I just want money, but something to feel proud about. 8 straight hours of WoW, or Quake 4 (if you haven’t played Q4… go get it, now) yields absolutely nothing, whereas 8 hours of coding would give me a site for Three Planets Software, which still needs one. So here are my resolutions: