Well, not a whole lot has happened, so not really much to post about.
So, yeah, there are more pointless search queries in the log. Yes, it captures the requesting IP, so I know exactly who did what. I can probably implement bans for some of the not-so-respectful IPs too.
So, on Saturday, I ended up sleeping in much later than expected, and after going out to get gas for the lawnmower, it was already getting dark. I never do get used to the time change easily - I had expected at least another 2 hours of daylight. Can't mow the lawn after sundown, so ended up just leaving then to pick up Josh and run to Anthony's house. This time I finally remembered to bring his Hysteric Blue single back to him =P
When we got there (Sheetz food in hand), Anthony was playing the newest incarnation of Tony Hawk in 720p glory. Goddamn. Our HDTV isn't exactly old, but I want a new one now. Aside from the jaw-dropping visual quality, the game itself seemed... hard as shit. Definitely the biggest reminder of why I don't play skateboarding games.
After that, we ended up playing SC2 on his X-Box (also at 720p), SSX3 on his PS2 for a bit (the 480/525p mode on that doesn't look nearly as good), watched an ep of Twelve Kingdoms, watched some of the HD WMV9 demos from his PC via the DVI input (it was like watching something in a small IMAX theatre), and then watched Anthony play Max Payne 2 (holy shit that looked damn good). Not necessarily in that order.
Ended up sleeping around 5am (though Josh didn't seem to get much sleep at all, despite getting the bed). Next day was cut somewhat short as I needed to get home fast to actually mow the lawn. Damn lawn. =P
After mowing the lawn, ended up running to Best Buy with Josh (while rushing there to get in before they closed at 6, only to realize that in November their hours extend to 7 instead) and picked up Haibane vol.2, before finally dropping him off back home. I got home, showered, took a nap, and watched Haibane after everyone else went to sleep.
Yep, that was about as interesting as it got the last few weeks. I've been working a lot, and it looks like I'll probably be working every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday for a while. I'll be mad if I have to work Thanksgiving, though. I'm still thinking about Frank's offer for an opening position - the money would be appreciated, but I would probably have serious problems waking up in time for an opening shift. x_x
I tried to change around the template a little to fix a problem with IE not letting you scroll down past the length of the sidebar. That broke the site pretty well, so I ended up not doing anything. This site may be a hack of the template MT came with, but if anything's breaking it, it's probably IE's broken implementation of CSS. Needless to say, I haven't used IE in quite some time, so I had forgotten about the problem, as it doesn't occur at all with Firebird or other Mozillla-based browsers I've used.
Well, I use Avant Browser and it still does that. Only the first update and then a little bit of the following one loads.
TWELVE KINGDOMS!!!!!!!! I saw that in a hotel room while I was in Japan in 2002!! It was the only good thing on, unless you like soccer anime. -_-;;I only knew what the title was because it was in Chinese, but when I asked my friend Hiro (who is not an anime fan), he didn't know. Who produced it?
It's based off a series of novels (not manga). NHK planned 60-some episodes but cut it off at episode 45, either from Youko no longer being the lead in the next arc, or there not being enough new material in the novels to work off of. Two DVDs are out in R1 so far...
And if I recall correctly, Avant "Browser" is just a frontend for IE. Most "browsers" use IE rather than actually making their own rendering engine.
Posted by StarCreator at November 4, 2003 03:15 PM