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Well, I’ve turned at least one of the webcams back on. I’m not sure of the second one because it slows my computer down a lot. Maybe I’ll turn it on when I’m not doing that much. Either way, it’s been about a month since they’ve been on. Seems that Mariah doesn’t like living under a microscope 24/7. Hmmm… we’ll have to find some compromise there.

Not a whole lot is going on right now. I got some food and I’m VERY full. Ugh… makes me want to go to sleep… even though it’s only ten of eight.

Well, I’m going to mozy around here a bit. I have a few things that I have to try to do tonight. Though you’ll probably see my ass sitting here watching TV or fucking around on my computers.

And just for fun, here’s a few images…

I spent some time today screwing around with headers and footers. I’m pleased to say that they’re both working excellently! Actually, the main page is now running with the new header and footer without issue.

I had to spend some time futzing around with it though. Here’s the deal for the programming types: PHP has a function called virtual() that allows you to run scripts through it. Sorta like an include() statement that will execute a script and then include the script’s output where it’s called. Overall, pretty snazzy.

Well, it turns out that the virtual() function calls scripts relative to the current working directory and not from their absolute paths. So, in my home directory, I can call the script similar to this: virtual(“cgi-bin/perl_script.pl”); without issue from the header. But – when I use the header on a page that’s not in the home directory (such as my webcam page, the file that was being looked for was http://www.crazyted.com/webcam/cgi-bin/perl_scipt.pl – obviously the wrong one.

So what I had to do was fancy little programming to assertain the current working directory, figure out how many levels it was from the home directory, and then pad ‘cgi-bin/perl_script.pl’ with the corresponding amount of ‘../’s needed to point to the cgi-bin directory.

It seems like a shitload of work for a little Perl script (actually the “Countdown To…” script on the left that you see), but I came up with an elegant way to do it in about 10 – 15 lines of code that will work from any directory on my site, no matter how many levels it might be away from my home directory. I’m quite pleased with it and it’s portability. Oh, and for referance, my webcam page is working with the header & footer as well. I used it to test it out.

Now don’t you feel enlightened? :-)

Starting sometime next week over the course of a week or two I have some big changes planned. Unfortunately for everyone, I don’t have any aesthetic changes on the board right now. The vast majority of them are going to be getting rid of the .shtml files and replacing all of them with .phtml files where applicable and using .htm files whenever the .phtml files are not needed.

I’m also going to be making some header and footer templates to cut down on access time and redundancy. Right now, I have all of the same information captured for the layout on every page. Let’s say for just 10 pages, that’s a lot of “wasted” web space. While I have a shitload of space available on the server, there’s no reason to take up all that room if I don’t have to. Plus, if I want to change the look of the page, in theory, all I have to do is change the header and footer and the content will format itself to the page settings. It won’t go *that* smoothly in practice, but it’s a hell of a lot easier than re-formatting 10 separate pages – believe me!

That’s about all that I have planned thus far, but it’ll take a while. Oh- I guess the funny thing is that to get all of my pages to reflect the new header and footer scheme I have to go in and edit each of them separately. It’s the last time I want to do it, so it’s not looking as intimidating as it normally would.

And if you’re wondering, it’s the page-by-page editing that keeps my page looking the same for so damn long. : )

FYI: The site will be up and running at all times during these changes. No worries there!

Well, I got the laptop that Larry hooked me up with running on my network with no issue. Very cool. It has a small HD, so I don’t have a lot on it, but I’m working within my limitations. I do need to get some more RAM though. 16M isn’t going to cut it for long. Even another 32M would go a LONG way. (I’m used to 256+ on most of my machines)

One thing that I’m curious about (and don’t know how to do) is set up a file transfer from my main computer to my laptop. I can set up basic network shares, that’s not the issue at all. Specifically, I have my webpage files kept on my main computer. My laptop is going to mainly be used to remotely work on my site when I’m not at home or commuting. So, I’d like a small batch program possibly that I could easily run that’d copy files from my main computer and overright any files on my laptop in a specific directory. Anyone want to lend me a hand with that??? It’d be GREATLY appreciated!!!

Oh, and one more thing… as soon as I get my laptop up and running and everything installed, guess who has ceremoniously taken it over… yup… her.

Eh – she’s cute so I’ll let it slide… this time.

Well, I’m back at work today. I really don’t want to be here. Oh well. Not a hell of a lot I can do about it. It’s weird though. I figured that at least some shit would have happened since I’ve been out for over a week, but practically nothing has happened at all. I guess it’s a good thing.

I have a bunch of little things for me to take care of that I’ve been working on all morning, but it’s hard to stay focussed when it seems that it doesn’t matter a damn bit if I get 1/2 of my work load completed. It’s not condusive getting work done for me. I need motivation to complete tasks, else they don’t get done. Not good.

In other news, nobody has really mentioned anything about my labret. I’m rather surprised. A few people did say the liked it, but other than that, it seems to go unnoticed. I think Mel said it best when she said, “It looks like it’s always been there. It just fits.”. If that’s why people aren’t commenting, then I would have to say that it’s a damn good thing. Some piercings just don’t look good on some people. That’s all there is to it. I’m just glad this one works.

Well, I added a new feature to CrazyTed.com. If you check, you’ll notice that on the previous entry, there’s two pictures. When you click on them, you’ll get taken to a full size picture of the thumbnail.

I’ll possibly encorporate a pop-up window to display the image in a few weeks, but we’ll see. Either way, it makes it considerably easier and more convenient for me to upload images to my site. Since I got a digital cam for Xmas, I’ll undoubtedly be uploading more and more images anyhow, so I thought it’d be a great feature to implement to save myself time and effort. On top of that, given that I’m so lazy, I know if I didn’t do it, I probably wouldn’t upload that many anyhow.

It’s a means to an ends : )

The past week’s been busy, and I’ll talk about that later, but I just wanted to throw up some pics of Mariah’s feetsies so some people (actually, Mark) could get a look at them.

Peace

Well, today was good fun and rather productive.

First thing, I shaved my goat… no, not goat as in farm animal, but goat as in facial hair. See…

The second thing is that I have a new piece of jewelry adorning my chin where the facial hair once was. See…

And just for fun, here’s some extra bonus pics with some blood… because you all love that shit : )

Mariah did the piercing this evening in my bathroom. I think she did a great job and I like how it looks. I’m still a bit weirded out by the lack of chin hair, but that’ll be coming back soon. The feeling of the metal inside my mouth also feels weird, but as soon as the bit of swelling goes down in a few days, I’m guessing that’ll feel better.

Thanks baby – you did a great job!

…and all that crap.

Well, there’s only two day to xmas. Unfortunately, I still have shopping to do. It’s not a lot, just one thing for my mom, but it’s still shopping and I still have to face the crowds and the mall. Boo to that!

I think laundry is also planned for tonight – another big boo!

But I think there might be some other fun mixed in there. We’ll see : )