Goobz (the server that hosts this site) is back up and operational. But for how long? Guess I shouldn’t complain too much, seeing that the hosting and support is all free. But, I wouldn’t be me without complaining. Sorry if you came to the site between Feb 9 and 10 and couldn’t get in.
Author Archives: mstroud
Crappy DSL
Pacbell decided yesterday to kill the login server for all of Northern California and Nevada for over two hours. Nice of them, eh? If that wasn’t enough, tonight most addresses on the West coast fail to resolve on either ping or tracert. So much for gaming. Sometimes I really hate DSL.
Short Post
Still plugging away here. Mail services are working better so watch out, another newsletter may be headed your way soon. Which reminds me, a newsletter upgrade (to handle HTML) is overdue. Better get cracking on that.
And no, I haven’t added any stories or movie reviews yet. They are coming. Just you wait.
Suckage
I’m not one to rant, but this work stuff is for the birds. Really! What do you do when you are just so tired of the same old same-old that when the next thing happens you snap? Well, if you are me you rant. Not sure that it does wonders for my social standing but I feel a bit better.
In any case I’m about to the point where being a cashier at Target sounds really good, or at least less better than the gut wrenching stress of the current job every week. If only I could fix that pesky cost of living thing. Hmmm.
Another Update
Hooray! I now have my blog doing double duty, both as a personal log and as a general news display engine. My life is complete!
Stuff
I played a bit this weekend. Some Empire Earth, some Ghost Recon. But mostly I just tried to keep my PC running. And that’s the key to it all, isn’t it?
After some thinking I’m starting to wonder about the future of entertainment in the home. It is sure to be great, but I’m not sure how it should all work out. Will people besides me want to have all of their media available all of the time? I hope so.
New Year – New Stuff
First off happy new year! Now that that’s out of the way it’s time to make some resolutions. Here they are:
That should do it for now. If I come up with other stuff I’ll post it here. Oh, and you can expect to see a lot more changes once I learn MySQL.
Holidays
I can’t say that I did much over the holidays but I guess I had that coming. I have had the opportunity to see a few movies, and most were pretty good: Spy Game, Miss Congeniality, One Night at McCool’s, and Requiem for a Dream.
Finally got my two new games up and running and they are great. You should go play them (if you have days to give up): Empire Earth and Flight Simulator 2002.
Site redo
There is nothing that sucks more than updating a site and finding out that it all doesn’t work. That’s what happened to this site last night. I now have it mostly worked out, so it should be functional again.
Man, something has to be done about those relative paths!
Weekends
Just got back from seeing Lord of the Rings and I have to say that it was great. Long, but great. Definitely recommended. I should qualify that I haven’t read any of the books, so that may have an effect.
Had to take someone to the airport this morning, leading me to wake up at 4:30AM. Bloody hell, that’s too damn early! Tomorrow is certainly going to be key for sleep catchup.