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2500th visitor

I would just like to congratulate Sarah on being my 2500th visitor on May 1st at 14:38:37, which is about 2:40 pm.

BTW, Sarah, did you change your AIM name or block people or something? I never see you online anymore.

nick

Currently…

I have the blog running at what I think is normal, the poll is fixed, and the counter is back up after some glitches after my work.

Again, as you probably noticed, the blog was moved from /blog to the root level of the site, as well as receiving a new theme (that will be tinkered with, but remain largely the same for a few months anyway). All the pictures and stories and such were removed from the site, though they will return eventually. There is, though, now a nice search field in the sidebar.

Current plans are to add a few WordPress plugins, then get to work on a few pages, a todo list being one of those.

Any comments, questions, suggestion, feel free to email or comment.

nick

Updated

So, big updates. You may notice the address of the blog is now right at the root of the site, rather than at /blog/. I am moving some things around in the constant hope that a little more work now will save me some later. The problem of course is that I am constantly coming up with new ideas like this so there is always more and more work.

Anyway…

Last night when I was going to bed (too late by the way) I remembered I hadn’t slept there the night before. No, I slept in my backyard, as it dropped to nearly freezing, in my tent. I set it up Wednesday evening and slept in it for the night. I wanted to air it some, and make sure it was in good condition for camping which will begin soon. With my sleeping bag though, it really wasn’t too bad.

Uhm, still no grades. I guess thats it.

nick

Done!

My last class for the semester was today, I am done until August. Yay!

I sold all but 1 book back, for a total of $130, for over $500 worth of books. Oh well, $130 is better than $0.

Now that I am out of school, I can begin some of my projects, one of them being blog work that will commence very soon. The poll has been being flaky, and my fixing it isn’t helping much, so that will certainly be on the list. Anyway, if the blog/poll/site/etc… do not work on one of your visits, don’t be alarmed.

Grades aren’t back yet, I am very sure of an A in everything but machining and CAD, since I didn’t do a particularly hard CAD final project (in my opinion anyway) and I didn’t finish all the machining projects, but I am still fairly sure of at least a B in both of those.

I think that’s it for now. Happy summer.

nick

He Puts the Sip in Mississippi

So, whats been happening…

Last Wednesday I worked at the new Library, very cool. Set up 24 new computers there, and left many more still to be hooked up. Will be back there this Wednesday as well. Wednesday night Molly attacked a skunk and got sprayed. Having watched that episode of MythBusters, I knew baking soda, peroxide, and dish soap works better than tomato juice, so thats what I used.

Friday I worked, as did I Saturday, though Saturday I opened because Dan and I switched. Yesterday Jenn and I watched the SuperBowl, and made buffalo shrimp, buffalo chicken strips, chili cheese nachos, and pepperjack sticks (like mozzerella sticks, but different).

Today, I am working, then go to Delta for interview with Ferris admissions advisor, then CAD, then home. Tomorrow, of course, will be electronics, then speech, then home. Wednesday will be, as I said, work at Wirt. And Thursday will be lunch at OGW with Scott, then electronics, then machine tools, then sleep. Friday, I start at Wirt during my regular work hours.

I had hoped today would be slow, since we have been telling people for 2 weeks we closed on Saturday, but due to school being canceled everyone sent their kids here for me to babysit. Oh well, I still managed time to blog, so thats something.

So, since I have the Ferris appointment today, I was going through all me requirements and transcript, and found a goof in my planning. I am 1 credit short in one of the Gen Ed requirements for Ferris that I wanted to get done at Delta. Whether I should sneak in next year, or take a cooler class at Ferris (like Japanese or Russian), and some housing qustions are on my list so far, but I need to think up more later.

I have more pages on Google now, seems to go up every few days. Is exciting.

I got my state and federal tax refunds in on the 1st and 3rd respectively, and financial aid rebates are awarded tomorrow. Plus, I get paid on Friday. Woohoo, goodby credit card (sadly, not all of it though).

OK, thats all.

Will work on getting a new poll sometime soon.

nick

Yay, Google

First, in case you didn’t know, this is #345, so 350 isn’t far off.

Second, on Saturday I received my Vice President’s List award letter. No fancy certificate, but it’s something. At least I was full time, part time only gets a post card.

Third, I am, as of 1/20/2005, FINALLY on Google. I submitted a sitemap and it seems to have worked. Only seems to be the main page of my site right now, but at least that’s something. Maybe all the blogs will make it up over the next month or so. Then again, maybe I will need to finagle more. On a side note, holy shit, finagle is a properly spelled word.

So, here are some cool stats:

term: position

hooji: 3
hooji blog: 1
nslyax: 35

That’s where I fall right now. Not exactly great page ranks, as those are about the only searches I found myself under, with the exception of copy – pasting from site to google search form.

Computer lab closes Feb 4, and will reopen Feb 13 or 14, I don’t remember. In between I will probably get a lot of work though helping to move and set up.

Ok, that’s all I suppose. See you in a few days.

Notes

A few of notes for you.

First, I did some looking, and the PowerBook has been named so since October 21, 1991 when the PowerBook 100 replaced the Macintosh Portable. It did not have a PowerPC until August 28, 1995. it is, therefore, Apple’s oldest brand name, as the Power Macintosh name didn’t debut until March 14, 1994, the iMac on May 6, 1998, and the iBook on July 21, 1999. It is one of their most recognizable brand names as well. So, with all this, I think we have a reason to be pissed if the name disappears, and I know I am not the only one who will always think of Apple’s high-end laptop as a PowerBook, no matter what name they put on it.

Second, after fretting and writing for a few hours this morning about my Oral Comm. class speech, I accepted my fate and went to leave for school. On the way outside I realized just how slippery it was, and decided that since I have gone to Delta before only to find the campus closed on my way in, I should check one more time. Sure enough, Delta had moved from a delay until 2:00 to all day closure. So, I get to go through all the worry again next Tuesday.

Third, to the person who commented at 7:17 AM EST on 1/16/06 (you know who you are), I consider that post to be spam, and if you do anything similar again, you will be banned form the site. I know you are a frequent visitor by your IP address, and am sure you don’t want it to come to that. Keep comments on topic, please. I like comments, I enjoy receiving and reading them, especially since none of you have blogs for me to read.

Sorry

Anyway, that’s all.

Oh, wait, I wanted to also mention, I like Craig Ferguson.

nick

Happy 2006

First of all, quickly, sorry about any blog issues that were experienced today. I upgraded to WP 2.0 and had a few small glitches.

On to the point though, Happy New Year. Yes, it is that time again, 10:41pm, and that means just 79 minutes till 2006.

If you have any resolutions for 2005 that you have been putting off till the last minute, the good news is you still have 78 more minutes till then, The bad news of course is you have wasted about 525521 minutes so far.

Also, it is the time to make new resolutions, unless you consider yourself perfect, or have just accepted you will fail on them anyway.

As for my resolutions, last year I clamied I would

  1. Keep Room Clean
  2. Get in Better Shape
  3. Do better on the blog

Well, my room is not clean, so that didn’t work. I am in slightly better shape, definately lost a few pounds an even an inch here and there, but not my long list of coast guard requirements I had. Better blogging has been accomplished as well, though I did get a little lazy over the past month or so.

Overall, I didn’t do bad. I got better grades, and found a job, and may soon have a car. Thats something.

For next year, I have this

  1. More biking
  2. Get own car
  3. Keep grades up

Yeah, they seem lame, but unless I keep them easy, I will never accomplish them. Hell, I couldn’t even manage to keep my room clean.

So, anyway, a Happy New Year to you all, and I will see you again in 2006.

Oops

Sorry, I have been neglecting my blogging duties.

Christmas went by without too much issue. Jenn and I went to her parents on Friday, her grandmas Saturday, then back here to my grandparents Sunday. Lots of cool gifts from all around, including a lantern, clothes, and cash.

Suchyta is in town for christmas, so I saw him Monday. He burned me a Tiger DVD so I upgraded to 10.4 yesterday. Having fun with that. It’s faster because it’s all newer, better formed code, and I erased HD so bitrot is fixed, but is also slower sometimes due to higher memory use.

So, since I had to reboot to install (actually, like 5 times, as I install, upgrade, install, upgrade, etc…), I lost my uptime. I did manage to wait for a bit of a milestone though: 45 days, 3 minutes. That comes out to November 12th at 10:07 PM as my last restart. In that time, I downloaded 1.8GB of data, uploaded 425MB, read 42.5GB from the HD and wrote 48.5GB. Now, I guess I need to shoot for 60 days.

I am waiting to hear on new job as a tech page at Bay County Library. YMCA just isn’t for me, and the 2 I applied for at Delta’s library didn’t sound promising, most were taken already. Beth Rye at BCLS sounded like I have a good shot though. Should know tomorrow.

My final grades came out as A, A, A, A-. Not sure if I mentioned that. I am needless to say a little proud.

WordPress has a WP 2.0 Release Candidate out. That means sometime soon I will be upgrading from WP 1.5 to 2.0. Not sure if I will mess with the RC beta or not though.

There is probably more, as I haven’t blogged in a while, but can’t think of anything now. I will post again if I think of anything though.

In case I don’t blog again within the next 3 days, Happy New Year.

nick

Happy 3rd Birthday iBook

Yes, the ibook is 3 today. It has held up rather well too. It could certainly use some more RAM, and it lags at playing MPEG4 due to an aging video card, but it’s not doing too bad.

I switched over to the new template. If you notice anything funky, let me know. I will do work on it here and there as time passes.