Tonight I was trying to convert the old custom quote system I used for #arc to qdb just for fun. I was trying to find out the code used by qdb.us/bash.org but came across this peice of code called OSQDB.

Here’s an exerpt of code called whenever a new quote is added.

$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM quotes ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1");


while ($count = mysqlfetcharray($get)) {
    $tempid = $count["id"];
}
/* Increment the id */
$newid = $tempid+1;
$sql = mysql_query("INSERT INTO quotes SET id = '$newid'");

I have to say, I’m totally surprised at this game. I was told before hand it was a pretty decent game, and it did keep me entertained for the week I rented it.

Now the game, as the anime, is very repetitive. I didn’t find it too bad, but I ended up not finishing all the optional missions because I got tired of the racing missions.

Outside Free Comic Book Day @ Elfsar
Originally uploaded by halkeye

Free comic book day yesterday was kinda cool. I got a bunch new books which will hopefully get me interested in comics (again).

There were so many people there though, including a few in costume. I wish I got a shot of supergirl and two face. Those are still awesome costumes, I’m totally impressed.

I’ve been playing around with some new jquery/javascript this week.. All has been going well, i’ve been learning just how bad UI is lately.. I wish interface worked still in the latest versions, UI is extremely slow, plus the documentation currently does not fully match the code (well actually they might, but we are using an older version of UI due to the fact that the new ones are less functional).

Snow at the skytrain
Originally uploaded by halkeye

look at the awesome snow we had this morning
it so barely is noticeable.

xbox live cards
Originally uploaded by halkeye

Someone explain these to me. I mean I understand not wanting to give your credit card to xbox. I sure didn’t. There are so many stories of bad things with people being unable to un-associate cc#s and accounts, people racking up bills, etc. Plus if your account gets hacked, they get access to your CC.

So I went out and bought the pre-paid cards. They are much easier to use, and I think safer. Except they are totally one time use, and after that.. they are done, you just toss them out. And they come in huge plastic cases too. I think this has to be like the biggest waste of packing i’ve had all year.

Sad.

Least now I can download games from live.

Wow, Tin Man is… well it has zooey… Well I have met all the characters, dorthy, tin man, guy without a brain, and I’m sure the heart guy too.

It’s really .. out there. Reminds me alot of the new Flash Gordon. I’m not really sure which is more..lamer..

It started off so bad, but its gotten a lot better, every time it starts to feel right and entertaining, something new and weird happening.

they keep talking about “The Oh.Zee.”, as in the outer zone, but it sounds very WB like. We’ll have to see what episode 2 is like.

This being sweeps week, and me being sick for now.. 6 days, I’ve had the chance to watch ALOT of tv shows. It was really interesting to compare the pre-air to the one aired this week of both reaper and bionic woman. I knew reaper was replacing a cast member, and you could easily tell all they did was replace the scenes with the one girl in them (she wasn’t in any of the expensive ones anyways). Now bionic woman, they replaced a good chunk of cast, characters, and even minor plot points.

I’ve recently been preparing sites to move to drupal 5 for the new awesome server I got. I mean I could set the thing up using php4 and make all the old sites work and such.

Anyways, during this process (and I’m having fun really playing with drupal 5 this time), I decided to setup the log parsing program, awstats for both and zannen (since those are the two major upgrades i gotta do first).. Its suprising to see who’s linked to hiscifi.com, but even more surprising is the people (some I actually know) who use zannen.ca as a source.

On the new server I’m going to be organizing things a lot better. I’ve already setup a secondary dns server this time (although i’m going to probably switch it sometime when I can find a “buddy”), and I’m going to be setting up a stats vhost for people to check their own website stats. Its going to be pretty awesome once I get there.

I’m sure there will be some tech posts as I go.

So I’ve been working on and off now for a bit trying to upgrade HiSciFi.com. Work to be able to re-enable comments and the like. Also been setting up stats tracking for my own interest (mostly to see where traffic is coming from and how much that site is using).

do androids drea of electric sheep?

I’m going to have to say thats the best search query yet… I mean mike has some really.. disturbing one, but I think this is a pretty random one.