The Nameless Site

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).

Anyways, lots of people pop in #jquery and ask questions.. which is good, ’cause i learn about new plugins or ideas, etc. But there are a lot of people who just can’t figure out how to ask a question.

Examples of bad people:
* <yoav> guys i’m stuck tryin’ to get an ajax form to work with jquery and codeigniter <yoav>stuck as in it’s not working
(i’m surprised i can’t find more in my recent logs)
or my fav, and i can’t find an example from my current logs
* <someone> Can I ask a question?
* <someone> I have a question (in which the reply is no, thats a statement)

Between those and the people who know next to nothing about javascript, css and html, expecting that jquery will be really easy and needing to be hand held through every little step is really frustrating.

I gotta setup some irssi aliases now to point to http://reactor-core.org/irc-help.html (which I just found)..

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. Even with all the changes, it didn’t seem all that much better, although the flow of the story didn’t seem.. chunky like before, now really smooth flow between things.

Now, I did watch a couple season openers too, CSI, How I Met Your Mother, Simpsons, House, random other ones from dvds (Red Dwarf, Beast Wars), and I have to say, none of them even could compare to the season opener to Stargate Atlantis. Man that was a good one, It makes it worth while having to wait the 6(?) months for the cliffhanger to end, well… endish.

Go Atlantis! I already couldn’t wait to see this years season after Joseph Mallozzi‘s QA session at Anime Evolution this year, and I’ll defiantly make the effort to keep up to date and not try to watch them in batches like I have other years.

Oh, before I forget, Heroes was pretty awesome too, but I think Atlantis had a better season opener.

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.

Its my new favorite show.. its hard to find a drama, specially a fox drama that i’ll watch once, let alone multiple times but i’ve watch drive eps I have many times now.. MANY!!!
Only to find out on the way home tonight that it has been canceled..

Seriously.. WTF..

I hope another network picks it up. I also hope that Direct to dvd becomes a more viable solution as this tv network thing really sucks.

Least stargate got a good run eh?

Sweet. All upgraded to drupal 5..0 now.

I think I’ve lost some posts over the years.. I can’t seem to find my code monkey post :(