Whats I"m Up To

9.29.2005

I'm freaking out

As I mentioned in the last post I've become a fan of Digg.com I found a way to send my site news articles that I like from their site to mine. So I added a link to the page I made for it. All i added was a link keep that in mind, no way for it to affect anything, coding wise. Since I tried uploading the new version of the menu file, everything has been wonky, i tried moving code around cause it kept viewing the page wrong, and showing errors. Then last night everything finally worked, so I was happy. Now all of a sudden, the site ays the menu file doesn't exists and I can't view it. Yet when I goto the FTP where I upload the files.....its there, and no matter how many tomes I add the file it still says its not there, And I'm getting really pissed.

Hopefully its just a simple server problem, and i will fix itself, cause it worked last night....and now it doesn't and I havn't chaged anything.

9.26.2005

Konfabulation!

Hey all I've been trying to clean up my computer a bit. Make it pretty get rid of the fluff. Also my iPod "Jynx" works again, after I found an insanely easy fix to what I thought was a serious problem. Okay now I'm taking an aside to the story I was just taking an aside to.

Ok, so after I got home from my ill fated vacation which was fun but cost me $340 in money I thought I was going to have. Jynx's scrolling wheel for some reason, just stopped working. Which makes the iPod pretty useless. So for all this time I've been meaning to get over to the Mac store, so I could get it fixed. I finally get there, and they take one look at Jynx and told me they couldn't touch it because its an HP iPod. I mean it took me long enough just to get there, and now they can't touch it. So I go to the HP site to see what I have to do to send it to them to get fixed. What the site leads me to is common problems, and so all I had to do to fix it was flip the "Hold" switch back and forth. So I am happy, yay. And kind of feel dumb cause I should have done this months ago. And now back to the previous story...

Now that my iPod works again, I can finally listen to Podcasts, which are my new favorite thing, its like all I have been listening to for the last week in my car and at home for that matter. I loves it! The ones I've been listening to are "TWiT"(This Week in Tech) which is hosted by most of the old cast from Screensavers, one of my fav shows on TechTV before they got swallowed and digested by the terrible G4. So I've been getting lots of new tech info and finding cool new sites from them. I also listen to Gamespot's "The Hotspot" weekly gaming news report, "Ebert & Roper" for movie reviews, "Fanboy Radio" for comics, and "Diggnation" from Digg.com for fun and interesting news.

I thought you all should know I've got the Podcasting bug, I just thought it would be a great way for Matty N and I to do the long awaited Conservative Dorks, just have to get a mixer, and another decent microphone. That looks like it would be a lot of fun, basically I believe I got it all set to go....just have to actually do the show, obviously. I'll try to keep you all updated on that.

And now that I'm back to what I was originally going to talk about first. While listening to TWiT, they mentioned something like the Dock in the Mac OSX, it was called Konfabulator I thought I'd check it out. It wasn't what I thought it was but its a lot cooler than what I thought it was gonna be. Basically Konfabulator is something that lets you run what they call "Widgets" on your desktop. Widgets are like small applications, that enhance other programs, makes things easier to find, or are just fun. The Widgets are all really spiffy looking. I currently have one that shows album art for whatever I'm playing in iTunes, and also can act as a iTunes controller. I have that set to be always on top so whatever I am doing I can control iTunes without having to call it up. I got one that acts as a nice little to do list on my desktop, then in the special area i have ones that auto load the new comics for CAD, MegaTokyo, and Penny Arcade. I even found one that check the cheapest local gas prices. Its a lot of fun I found lots of interesting widgets on the site. Plus so far it seems to use barely any resources. No slowdown at all, did I mention that everything looks cool in it. Feels very futuristic in a way. I highly recommend it, at least for a try. Plus Yahoo just got it, so it is newly free.

All for now, hope you enjoyed the stream of thought style writing I did today, I could have gone back and edited it to make it make more sense...but screw that for now. :-D

9.23.2005

New Site

Hi Everybody, Yanni here, some slight news. I'm workin on a new website. Its for my local comic book shop Aquilonia, if he likes it. Been goin there for years and it stinks he doesn't have a kick ass website. So I'm building one. Its coming along ok so far, got a working desing up now, the banners except for the one of the right are all placeholders, me and my fellow webdesigner Heno are both currently in the process of making some kick ass banners for that site. And I'm working on the content even now. And I'm kind of motivated at the moment, maybe even Matty N's Conservative Dorks project might even get off the ground, after I get this going.