Rantfest is broken in a couple of different ways right now. First off, the twitter stuff is dead. The maintainer of the library I was using handed it off to another guy, he brought it more up to date, and in doing so changed so much that how I was using was broken all to hell. Since I don't feel like messing with it right now, I am not. And the other major way rantfest is broken right now, is apparently posting on individual pages...posting on rants is fine, but posting on pages is broken. After pouring over the code for awhile, I managed to break posting all together. I since reverted back to the previously broken state and I am leaving it as is for the moment. I will get back to it in the next couple of days.
WoW: Introducing Eshne's Uglies [WoW] [Games]
Posted on: 2009-06-15 22:56:11[ 7 comments ]
There were so many good titles for this pick but "I thought big shoulders went out in the 80's?" and "Thank God I am a healer because someone's eyes are getting poked out." were on the top of my list. This is my paladin, Eshne, and her new, ugly ugly shoulders. And sadly, they are some of the best in the game, so I won't get to retire them anytime soon. They are just so damn ugly I had to post about them.
Another Opera Post [Computer]
Posted on: 2009-06-15 16:11:09[ Add comment ]I kinda hate the fact that it has been so long since I updated...even more that my update is just going to be a link to someone else's content. But I have been an Opera lover since my first year at VU (late 97-early 98) and I found this article refreshing in a Firefox/IE loving world: 8 Browser Innovations Started by Opera. And yes, the last paragraph of the article talks about why no one knows about/uses Opera.
The Barnyard [Humor] [Misc]
Posted on: 2009-05-22 19:24:46[ More - 2 comments ]Normally I don't like to embed videos, but most of my audience will probably enjoy this. This is senior members of the Loogootee High School band having some fun at their last concert. The freak on the far right, Rook, is currently stealing some bandwidth in the other room.
ArtRage Happiness [Computer] [Images] [Design]
Posted on: 2009-05-15 13:49:47[ More - 2 comments ]
I recently fell in love with ArtRage again and decided that I needed to give it a shout out since I only ever mentioned it in passing. ArtRage is a ground up painting program. But by saying 'painting program', I don't want you confuse it with MS Paint, Paint.net, Photoshop or, really, anything else. Unlike everything else I have seen, ArtRage strives for realism in application: brushes have a finite amount of paint on them, painting one color over another will bleed the colors, and understands pressure (assuming you have a device that does) and acts accordingly.
Meta DnD: Like Father Like Son [Family] [Humor] [DnD] [Games]
Posted on: 2009-05-11 01:49:08[ More - 2 comments ]The wife and I hit LGT to visit the families today. Her family had a full compliment of blood relatives (plus me, I guess) and my family was us and the parents. Great fun by all, yada yada...not why I am posting. I am posting because something awesome happened today, and it just hit me a few minutes ago.
Let there be botnets. [Security] [SPAM] [Computer]
Posted on: 2009-05-09 13:53:18[ More - 3 comments ]Last night, right as I was about to pass out, I got the familiar click from my phone telling me I got a text message. I picked it up, read it, saw that it was comment spam on this page (because every comment gets forwarded to me via text message), deleted it, and layed back down. About 30 seconds later, I got another one, which I expected. I don't know why, but everytime one gets through, two more tend to follow. So I picked up my phone only to see there were 7 messages waiting to be read. As I was reading the message "You have 7 messages." my phone clicked again...up to 9 now. I sighed and set the phone down. After a couple of more clicks I had to do something. I got up, turned captchas on for all the posts, and set about deleting messages. I checked the log and between 3:38am and 3:47am, I had 114 attempts to comment on my page. 14 of those went through. And these attempts came from about 50 different ipaddresses. It seems we are getting some botnet love.
About pages are bleh! [Annoyances] [Misc]
Posted on: 2009-05-02 12:54:12[ More - Add comment ]I was doing some searches on Google ealier; wings, teeth, you know, the normal stuff. And I remembered they added a new feature awhile ago called Google Profiles. Basically, you pop on, give them your name, fill in the blanks, and include a bunch of urls that you want to claim. Then any time some searches your name they will get your profile at the bottom of the page. It really isn't terribly exciting, as you can see by looking at my profile. But it was staring at the Bio that I blanked. There is something about About pages or Bios that I just can't stand. I recently rewrote the About page here, and it was fairly draining. I guess I think I am just too boring to put into words, and every time I go to fill out an About page I get slapped in the face with just how boring I am.
