The Latest Obsession

Becca and I have been been watching a lot of TV on DVD lately. Well, DVD and downloads, we watched several seasons of Scrubs which were downloaded. And we have just started watching Lost on DVD from the the rental place.

So, if you will notice the "recent phots" link along the side, you will see that it's still stuck on some older pictures. I don't know how to get the stupid thing to update.

I should probably take this time to point out what Becca and I are really intrested in right now is Hiking and Camping. If you want to see what the two of us want, and what I just want, check out our/my wish list.

NetPizza

Here's the greatest idea ever. You order your pizza online, but wait! There's more. Not only is the pizza delivered as soon as you order it, you can recieve 3 at a time. When you're done, drop the empty pizza boxes in the mail and NetPizza will send you back 3 more fresh Pizzas for only $14.99 per month! It's genious, pure genious. You can't have it, that's my idea.

What is the point again?

What is the point anyways? You build a dynamic content site, it has all of this data in the SQL Database, and it's being pulled into XML file and then loaded into a flash app on a page. Fair enough. Only problem is there are some >100 menu's with multiple items in each, and no admin interface was built. Some of these rows have descriptions that exceed the character limit for enterprise manager. Which means in order to update those items, I'll have to write a SQL update statement for each one. ... No, wait actually that's all wrong, apparently updating these has always been such a pain that last time, no-one knew how to do it, and instead of updating the XML from the database, we now just pull from a static XML document and that's the only thing that needs to be updated! Wonderful! What a waste. Sheesh!

Teh Flawk

It's a little weird that all of a sudden people will start ditching the underground champion of browsing browsiness for this newcomer known as flock. I just started picking up a few brief mentions of this tool a few days ago. Now I'm trying it out, it uses the XMLRPC protocol to have a built in "blog this" feature. It also has built in support for del.icio.us. The idea, I suppose, is that people are tired of throwing bookmarklets into their toolbar. So now these great websites/technologies/memes that have gained popularity over the past year(s) are being integrated directly into this browser. I also see one big advantage in this piece of software is that it has the ability to just drag and drop images from your flickr account into the blog editor pane. It then generates a little thumbnail and lets you set the alignment and other things for it . It's actually quite a nice feature, perhaps I shall start using flickr a little more often. There is also the possibility that I might start posting a little more often. But don't count on it.

Video Blogging

The waaaaaaaave of the future!

Here's a test video, it's not entire lame.

I'm going to see how videoblogging with wordpress and feedburner is goin to work. Let's hope it's not terrible.



OK, my test with iTunes as the subscriber worked well, feedburner seems entirely capable of managing my feed. But, now that I'm in the advanced edit screen in WordPreess I see that I have the ability to add my own enclosures to the default wordpress feed, no, scratch that, it will automatically add an enclosure whenever I link to a .mov file. Hm, this is interesting.

There I go thinking again…

Sometimes I don't think there is any way that clients can get any slower and less cooperative. Then that phone rings and there is always someone on the other end ready to prove me wrong. Dumb clients don't surprise me anymore. It's the tenacity of the idiots out there that surprise me.

Given a fair chance, Battlefield 2 will own your life. Just thought I would give fair warning.

Also, everyone who is interested in preserving a copy of a DVD movie that they own would be wise to check out DVD Shrink. It's very nice for obtaining a full length high quality copy of a feauture film DVD at just the right size to fit on a 4.7gb DVD-R. Very useful indeed.

No, bad villagers, bad….

I knew when Becca and I got married some things would change. I would start eating better and she would start hiking and doing outdoorsy things. This is the arrangement that was understood. I knew it would be difficult to adapt to living with another person that is so close but I didn't count on the whole actually enjoying doing things together. I thought I would come home and play my computer games and she would... I don't know cook and clean some more stuff. Sure, we only have a one bedroom apartment, but I figured she wouldn't have a problem with staying home all day and just taking care of my stuff. Boy was I wrong!

It's our two month anniversary and it's all I can do to keep her from playing my computer games all the time! And wouldn't you know it, she practically pulls me up the mountains when we go hiking, and we go hiking a lot now. My parents have visited and Becca's sister has visited (the "dreaded inlaws"). It was fun having people over.

We are still searching for a church, I don't know what we're going to finally settle on. It seems almost impossible that there is a church out there that we will feel comfortable at. There are just so many things that combine to make the right church. Some have quality preachers, with little emphasis on evangelism or salvation. Some are so enormous we doubted that we would ever see the pastor, like those brave souls who watched the image of the great Oz, we watched a church service on a video screen, the service could have been transmitted from the moon for all we knew.

Right now Becca is getting ready for a nice dinner at Carrabbas, we have a gift certificate to there. I highly suggest that you ask for dinner gift certificates as wedding presents. We have no money to go out to eat normally, so these make it really easy to get out of the house and do something we both love, eat.

Becca is still searching for a job, we are seeing that the job market in Colorado Springs isn't exactly the most welcoming. We spoke with several people last night at a friends birthday party who told us stories about being in the same place. It would be harder to keep from being discouraged if I didn't know that there were some great things in store for her. She has unique gifts that I'm sure will bring her some great satisfaction. One of the things that she is starting is volunteering with ISI. Internation Students Incorported, Becca has a real heart to serve interational college students and she is starting to really get involved with the people and activities that ISI has to offer. We hosted a foreign student for one night last week. It was interesting... she was from India, and very sweet, I'm really glad we had the opportunity to do that.

I've been taking so many pictures with our new camera. Every time we go hiking we take a few shots. I will have to sort through and upload some of the best ones. I still haven't finished uploading the honeymoon pictures. Alright, time to wrap things up. If things go like they have been this will be the only post for the next 6 weeks. I always have so much I could say, but I never really feel like distilling it all at once.