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I think I REALLY need to pick up a book on mySQL soon. I’ve undertaken the task of trying to set up a developement server here at home. Now that’s a pain in the ass! I have PWS set up without issue. I then installed PHP and that’s working fine (finally). Now, Ive installed mySQL. [...]

Well, I’m going to be futzing around with this image crap… hopefully I’ll figure something out. Well, the first pic of my fat forehead is black and white. B&W pics seem to take thumbs just fine. The color pics, on the other hand, aren’t so forgiving. I’ve tried playing with the resolution of the picture [...]

Well… I had some work to do with code for deleting images that I upload via the web (opposed to standard FTP). I was removing the database entries for the images, but I wasn’t actually deleting the images themselves. It wasn’t a major problem unless I was testing things. It was a real bitch to [...]

Well… this is the first day that I’ve worn *real* jewelry in my septum since I stretched and put the 4g plug in it. It’s finally looking *big* to me. 6g didn’t look impressive at all. Well… here’s a blurry pic taken by myself. I look like hell… but it’s better than nothing. Enjoy. :)

Well, it’s Friday. I can’t say that I’m sad to see the weekend. It’ll be nice to unwind. Yesterday I got some bad news. The company I work for is being acquired by another company. And as a result of this transaction, my position is being eliminated (read as: I’m getting laid off) My termination [...]

I did A LOT of changes to the site today. Again, like most of my changes, you probably won’t notice any of them. The main thing is the file structure. I had to change a lot of things around to make it scalable and organized. I find that I just keep on adding new features [...]

Here’s something that I got from Nick’s LiveJournal. When you type two words into Google and have a single page returned to you, then you’ve succesfully “Googlewhacked”. I’ve found two combinations thus far: Infintessimal & Donut and Astrologically & Witticisms You’d be surprised how entertaining it is. Well… I guess more obsessive than entertaining… but [...]

Well, my computer is running rather smoothly right now. I’m somewhat surprised, actually. Up until recently, there hasnt’ been a time that I recall that there wasn’t *some* sort of problem with it. I know that I definately have learned a lot since networking them, and it’s given me quite a bit of insight into [...]

I came to the conclusion a long while ago that people, in general, are inherently stupid. Take today for example. It’s the first of the new month, so all of last months subway passes no longer work. This happens every month and has since monthly subway passes were issued, probably over 10 years ago. So [...]

I’m definately tired. I tried to go to bed *early* last night… that didn’t work. I woke up at 2:00 for some strange reason and a couple other times before 7:00. Definately sucks. It’s left me particularly exhausted today, and it’s only 10am. In other news, both of my lobes are now at 3/4″ – [...]