site news

You are currently browsing articles tagged site news.

Movement

November 5, 2006 | No comments

Jennifer and I are all done moving. We actually were last weekend. I would have written about this sooner, but Charter just got our cable set up seven hours ago. We are liking it so far, but would even more if it were clean around here.

Regular (or even semi-regular) readers will notice that everything has been shut down around here for nearly two weeks. My hosts moved their DNS server addresses, but neglected to make this known to me, so joshie.surber.us hasn’t been pointing at the right server. Worse, everytime I filled out a support ticket, I was told that it “should be working now”. I finally guessed what was wrong my damn self.

Tags: , , ,

Anniversary

October 29, 2006 | No comments

Jennifer and I went on our anniversary trip to Six Flags yesterday. We had a great deal of fun, though we hurt like hell now. I would estimate we walked about twelve miles (~20 km ) yesterday, and those coasters hurt a lot more than they used to when we were younger. It was worth it, though, just to spend a day with my wife.

Today we are moving. It is going to suck since we have a lot of stuff that is heavy and our muscles are sore, but we gotta do what we gotta do. We have until Tuesday to get out, but we aren’t gonna be doing anything on Halloween, as that is Jennifer’s favorite holiday.

My host seems to have munged their bind settings, so subdomains aren’t working at all, not even www.surber.us. I have temporarily moved everything, and may wind up doing so permanently anyway, but it still sucks as joshie.surber.us is the domain I have given everyone and every site to use. Not to mention I would like to keep all my personal writing (such as it may be) where it isn’t easily found by future potential employers searching for my name. Oh well.

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Changes

September 13, 2006 | 3 comments

The most noticeable of my changes is that I finally broke down and started carrying ads. Please feel free to click them — I need money.

I also got rid of my skins… I now force the Star Trek look upon you. Sorry if you don’t like it, but I doubt many people changed it anyway. I haven’t tested it in Internet Exploder recently, so if anyone uses that and can mail a screenshot to me (joshie@surber.us) I would appreciate it.

I also cleaned up my CSS and am now a big fan of CSSTidy (with an online interface available for you webdevs).

I just got my review at work. I ranked pretty average, which pisses me off, but Home Depot makes it just about impossible for anyone to get better. I will try to on my next one though.

My anniversary is on 29 October, and I have requested a four day weekend for it. My anniversary at work is 14 November, so I won’t have any vacation time until after my wedding anniversary, but I sure can cheat. I am taking my vacation the week after Thanksgiving.

Again, I point out my birthday on 4 October, and again I link to my Froogle wishlist. Hint hint. ;)

Tags: ,

Photos

June 19, 2006 | No comments

Now that Google has given us a photo album I have taken all my non-pornographic pictures out of iPhoto and put them online.

View my photo album at picasaweb.google.com/joshiesurber/. And be sure to add it to your bookmarks, subscribe to the RSS feed, flag me as a friend if you have a Google account, et cetera et cetera.

I just can’t wait for the Mac version of Picasa so I can manage photos even easier. For the first time I am envious of you Windoze people. (Not by much, though).

And everyone quit posting comments that you want photos, dammit!

Tags: ,

LCARS

June 9, 2005 | 1 comment

I have my site back up (finally) and doing what it is supposed to be doing (mainly running under TxP) again. I am also introducing a new (to this site) look: LCARS.

On Star Trek, LCARS is the Library Computer Access and Retrieval System, and has one of the most beautiful interfaces ever designed. It may be a work of fiction, but there are lots of places you can enjoy it now. My favorite is LCARSnet, though it requires Flash. It is well worth installing Flash if you don’t have it, though.

If you are viewing this on Lynx, you will notice another improvement; I am now using markup that is more logical to the end user than the browser. This may make it more difficult for a browser to recognize a list of navigational links as a list, but is that worth making “alternative” browser users to scroll through half a page to get past my navigation? I really don’t think so. (An attitude I believe I first heard thrown in under a positive light by Aaron Broodman — yes, that Aaron Broodman — though it may have been Scott or Cameron ; I don’t remember.

Anyway, enjoy! And let me know about any problems you have.

And welcome to the future!

Tags: ,

« Older entries