10/29/04 01:28 - ID#31360

My new Sidekick2 is here

My new sidekick2 arrived today and while the look of it is ultramodern and chic, I hate the new keyboard. It is to small for my big thumbs. At least it records voice now.

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10/28/04 05:29 - ID#31359

Sorry Twisted It's Too Dangerous

After reading my students essay today, I decided that I cannot be friends with (e:twisted) anymore, lol. So much for generation text and the age of the internet.

This is a quote from the student's response:
I feel the internet is like a whole separtate life. This social barrier things work fine if you keep your internet life on the internet. I don't think meeting people on the internet is the best thing to do because you never really know a person. Asking a guy you think is 18 about a book you read and meeting this guy who turns out to be a 46 year old guy is not something you want. So the internet does break social barriers but it is best to keep the internet people you know on the internet not into your real life.

Sounds like maybe he had a bad experience.

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10/28/04 03:32 - ID#31358

I love the new server

I am so excited to see that this server at monsterhosting.ca

has had as much uptime as promised 99%, knock on silicon. Is still have one more account with th eold hosting co at Globat (slowcrap.com) and as usual that site is down today. When I called India, they once again told me they knew about the problem and were working on it, although it took the woman 10 minutes on hold to determine they already knew about it. I cannot wait till the day when I never have to deal with them again.

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10/28/04 02:14 - ID#31357

Blog for billionaires?

Billionaires for Bush. What is this about? I assume it is just a satirical piece.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

10/27/04 04:59 - ID#31356

I have to go to bed - More inbound links

But I needed to finsih some homework first (a texture for a curtain) and then decide to check the inbound links one more time for fun. I found a link coming fromthe site of Dr. Halavais, the professor [inlink]paul,2312[/inlink] I asked to be on my thesis committee.

From what I gather, hHe is teaching a class about blogs

. He used our site as on of the examples for setting up blog feeds in a program called bloglines

. The program could be useful to those of you who read the site via the RSS links.

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10/27/04 04:41 - ID#31355

Freaky

SO as usual I was following the links that lead to our site when I found devilfinder.com - what's weird is that they have of our most personal images catalogued on their system. I wonder why or how that happend. Go to

and type in elmwood strip. If you are pretty connected you will know every person who's picture shows up. I like this one.

The site says that they are not responsible for content and that all images were found on google, yet I cannot find these images on google. Can anyone else?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

10/26/04 12:28 - ID#31354

I'm glad my school makes WMDs

Dear Mr. Bush,
I found the WMDs and this time they are being created right at my school in Buffalo.

This

has all the info. Who would ever think the guy next to you in the cafeteria might be making WMDs when he is done with lunch. What a weird mix of a medical school (supposedly helping people) and a WMD creation laboratory (mass killing machines).

This is precisely why I would never feel comfortable taking a position at a big research university and exactly why I stopped thinking about VR. It can't imagine what other even more sinister projects are being conducted on campus.

According the the article, A team led by University at Buffalo researcher has received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Navy to develop "a next generation all-electric warship that will revolutionize the Navy's use of weaponry and manpower," according to the Navy and the university.

According to the article, Standard shipboard electrical systems currently are unable to distribute this immense electrical power to all parts of the ship, making it impractical to use certain advanced weapons and sensors that require a lot power, according to the Navy.

The Navy plans to have the ship operational by 2012.

I believe those advanced weapons might be WMDs. We should get the UN right away. Hans?

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10/25/04 04:31 - ID#31353

Finally I have another Advisor

Dr. Halavais agreed to be my one of my thesis committee members. I am so excited about the opportunity to work with someone who is truly interested in my topic of study. I guess this means I am really going to end up graduating and possibly enjoying writing my thesis.

He wrote: What an exciting project. Yes, I'd be happy to serve on your
committee, and look forward to talking with you about your work.

Now I just need to decide between asking Trebor or Loss for the third member. I will have to start working on the paperwork now.

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10/27/04 12:06 - ID#31352

Goodbye Globat.com

For the last year this site was hosted on Globat.com. Two weekd ago I switched the site to a new server at monster hosting

. It was not that they had a better deal, in fact it was more expensive, but what they did offer was reliable service, knowledgeable customer service, and most importantly PHP5, XML, soap, imap, pspell, and pdflib support.

So I figured it was all over with globat.com and their crappy service untill today when I noticed they debited my paypal card for $90.00. I never even gave them my paypal account, so I have no idea how they thought it was acceptable to debit from it for another year of service. Even the customer service rep was perplexed. She said you originally paid with a visa and there wasn't any indication of a paypal account on your account. Her name was Cathy (251) and she was the only knowledgeable customer service rep I ever spoke with at globat. I mean they promise you the stars in terms of products and services but my experience with them was shitty (I actualy chose another word but the spell check insisted on shitty so I thought I would go with it) customer support, tons or errors, no notification on server upgrades or scheduled downtime and irritation upon irritation. Not to mention that all the tech reps pretended to be Americans with names like Debbie and Suzi when they had the thickest Indian accents. That kind of deception makes me so angry. I got so sick of spelling out each word I was saying because they could not understand even the simplest problems.

So Cathy was an American and maybe all of billing is. Thank you Cathy for being so understanding. She was able to credit my paypal account almost immediately with confirmation #DXPVAMTIV ( for the record).

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10/22/04 11:35 - ID#31351

My Day and the Email Code

Today was a rather action packed day. I woke up about ten minutes before I had to take Terry to work. I was feeling kind of low because I was stressing about this stupid Safari javascipt bug and about the imap module freaking out after the transfer. The imap module is the part of the site that reads the emails that people send it from their phones or other places.

Since the upgrade, it hadn't worked with attachments which had to end soon because I am getting my new sidekick which can mail voice recordings to my journal soon. It was the only part of the site PHP code that I did not program entirely from scratch and it was killing me to try and fix someone else's crappy script.

I decided to just sit down and address the issue straight up starting at line 1. Within two hours I had a perfect working solution that is well commented and also helped me understand exactly how the imap_fetch_structure(); function is structured in PHP. I love PHP

in case it is not obvious. So now you can email images to your journal from any picture phone again or even from your desktop computer!

This was the exact reason for the little lull in my journal. Without being able to send images from my mobile I was always sad. Hopefully life will get better now.

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