The Rest Of The Circuit

09:58 am - Hellllllooooo December!

I don't know about you all, but these months are FLYING by, it's ridiculous! I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving, and for those of you that don't celebrate it, I hope you had a lovely November!

Not to much happened on the developement side of Scribbld this month, but our systems administrator/developer (morgan) is feeling a whole lot better. She would like to thank everyone who sent her well wishes! It's much appreciated!!

That said, we're going to attempt to work on a few new features mentioned in scribbldsuggest. Not sure which one's we'll be tackling right away, but we'll figure something out!

We're also in the process of hooking up with a decent ad network, which we like and hope you will too, we definitely WILL NOT be putting ads on journals, but we'll keep them on the main site instead.

Also, calling ALL web designers and developers, we're looking for more site schemes! We're giving away paid and maybe even permanent accounts for site designs! So if you like doing that sort of thing, show us your stuff!! It must be in code (no PSDs) and should be unique! Feel free to send either jimmy or morgan and PM on the site with your stuff or any questions you might have :)

Thanks & have a wonderful December everyone!

jimmy

02:43 pm - Loud Twitter You Fail!

I am not sure why LoudTwitter isn't updating on here anymore, it's rather annoying. I might have to contact the dev of the application to see what's up... 

Current Mood: infuriated

jimmy

11:31 pm - Daily Twitterings

• 06:17 updating Scribbld and working on a few projects... #
• 06:41 is doing mail server backups...it's been awhile lol. #
• 07:03 has definitely noticed a significant decrease in spam, yay. #
• 13:40 is getting ready to head out to my parents! #

jimmy

06:16 am - Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Stay safe & have fun!

Current Mood: exhausted

jimmy

04:26 am - Daily Twitterings

• 09:13 it snowed like crazy here! #

jimmy

04:55 am - Daily Twitterings

• 10:38 is going to get on Xbox and make MY OWN avatar person! #
• 14:44 Lovely, just lovely -- twitpic.com/ki4a #
• 21:33 Watching the dark knight with Emilie. #

jimmy

05:14 pm - Busy Busy Busy!!

 This week went by so quickly. I feel like I just got out of the SF & DGD show last Saturday. Been really busy at work as usual. I haven't been doing much consulting at all lately. I might have an appointment on Monday, but who knows, depends on whether or not I feel like it I guess. I've been sick, I think I caught it from a certain someone, blech! Oh well, I think I am actually starting to feel better, it feels like it's just in my head now. Nothing that some medicine and tea can't fix.

I've got a bunch of new games, so I've got to update the master list. I am thinking about just ex-ing off a bunch that I know I will never touch again. I played some Crisis Core this morning, was fun. I really do like that game, I actually might boot it back up once I finish this entry. So emilie is going to be gone for pretty much all of the next week which means I'll be alone here at the apartment all week! I don't know if I'll be able to figure out what to do!

I almost bought the WALL-E DVD today, but then I figured if I am actually going to buy a movie that it might as well as be on Blu-ray. Especially a movie like that.

Been talking to this guy (raf ) who does a bunch of Scribbld's CSS, he's really cool. He became friends with morgan  and then I met him through her. Definitely a geek genius! Poor Morgan has been going through a lot lately, but I won't go into to much detail, I'll let her tell her own story if she wishes.

I'm really enjoying this backlit keyboard, I'm sitting here with music playing on AppleTV in the dark working on various computer projects and I can see my keyboard perfectly fine. I think it would be really cool to pull it apart and replace the white lights with red or something, might even make it better on the eyes in the dark.

A lot of kids (okay 3 but in like the span of 2 weeks) having been dying at the University, it's definitely a little sketchy and it sucks. I don't/didn't know of any of them personally. Also my friends boyfriends brother died this past week so that was definitely not fun. I believe he was a grade above me in high school, I didn't really know him, or was friends with him, but it's pretty close to me...not sure I have much else to say about that subject.

I played some Resistance this afternoon. Definitely a fun game and it's just got a really good amount of difficulty to it, where I can stand it and it's not too easy and not too hard. Really well done, I definitely want to get the 2nd game.

I am really digging the NXE. Morgan and I share an account so it kind of sucks we can't have 2 avatars/characters, but that's understandable, you're not really supposed to be sharing an account, but considering I log in every other week or something it made sense for us haha That and she had been working on a game back when we first got Xbox and she didn't create her own account or forgot to log into the one she created so now she doesn't want to loose those gamer points she accumulated haha. Go figure...now my character is some blonde haired chick...

I haven't really talked to makkintosshu or Keith in a few weeks, it kind of sucks, but it just goes to show you how crazy busy we all are. I haven't even played GoW2 with either of them, suck!

Tonight, I think Emilie and I are going to watch The Dark Knight and maybe WALL-E...maybe some BECK too. It's rather cold here, it started snowing like crazy today! Anyways, I think I'll jump into Crisis Core and attempt to figure out why PSP doesn't support WPA2 as an 802.11x encryption protocol...grrr....! 

Current Mood: cold

jimmy

05:10 pm - look what i can do!

As usual, another blog entry I forgot about...I would say this is about a week old...

Wow, I feel like I've not written in here in forever...

Last night I went to see Senses Fail w/ Dance Gavin Dance and Sky Eats Airplane and some other band...it was amazing. I've really got to buy another Canon point and shoot. My poor SD200 is pretty much useless...I might see if there's anything Clifford can do too it, maybe replace the flash or something.

Today I spent some time working on some site-wide CSS, although I didn't get much done. Tomorrow I am planning on getting the search box on the navigation strip working better. I think we might post some site contests for layouts (both of site and my journal) and give out free Paid Accounts to those that are worthy...I'll post more about that as we figure out some more details.

Current Mood: good

system

05:10 pm - [Schedule Downtime] Monday, November 24th, 2008!

Hey all, we'll be pulling the database server offline this coming Monday for approximately an hour to run some software updates on the system. I shouldn't expect it to take the full hour, but better to allocate the extra time just incase!

The update will start at 9am and run until 10am EST.

Thanks!

jimmy

04:24 am - Daily Twitterings

• 18:36 is finally home from work, ready to pass out, might get some Xbox in tonight...if not, then at least The Dark Knight. #
• 01:02 loves how the cats take advantage of the Xserve and sleep on it (mmm warm!). #

jimmy

04:23 am - Daily Twitterings

• 15:14 is very IMPRESSED with NXE - except my avatar was created a by a girl who wouldn't let me create my own, GREAT! #

jimmy

04:29 am - Daily Twitterings

• 08:21 And the work starts! #
• 10:35 is logging some issues in Things. This software is amazing! #

jimmy

08:21 am - It's Been Awhile...

Wow, I feel like I've not written in here in forever...

Last night I went to see Senses Fail w/ Dance Gavin Dance and Sky Eats Airplane and some other band...it was amazing. I've really got to buy another Canon point and shoot. My poor SD200 is pretty much useless...I might see if there's anything Clifford can do too it, maybe replace the flash or something.

Today I spent some time working on some site-wide CSS, although I didn't get much done. Tomorrow I am planning on getting the search box on the navigation strip working better. I think we might post some site contests for layouts (both of site and my journal) and give out free Paid Accounts to those that are worthy...I'll post more about that as we figure out some more details.

Damn, never finished this entry...oh well :P

Current Mood: working

jimmy

04:34 am - Daily Twitterings

• 13:56 Time for a shower... #

jimmy

05:46 am - Daily Twitterings

• 14:48 is going to Senses Fail w/ Dance Gavin Dance tonight w/ @morganwestfield! It's going to be awesome! #
• 18:26 We're heading off to SF and DGD!!! #

jimmy

04:25 am - Daily Twitterings

• 10:02 Yay!! - tinyurl.com/5qvy9b #
• 12:59 is getting ready for a consulting appointment at 2PM in S. Burlington. #
• 22:19 The Mamiya Brothers is hilarious! #

jimmy

04:39 am - Daily Twitterings

• 11:08 rather quiet day at the office, setup bosses MBP with new Brother printer... #
• 14:01 is working on a few web issues... #

jimmy

04:27 am - Daily Twitterings

• 09:12 Updating the Scribbld Top 5. #
• 09:20 is paying bills, my favorite... #
• 10:10 @morgant I did! But I also saw this tinyurl.com/68cqzd . Guess I'll have to do some testing! :) #
• 10:32 is annoyed Adobe applications fail to work after a migration, now I've got to un-install and re-install, bleeh! #
• 11:25 also notes that the Cisco VPN client needs to be re-installed after a data migration... #
• 11:41 is trying to figure out how one of these Analytics profiles got attached to my account and how to get rid of it!! #
• 11:53 is not so sure about the zooming/pinching of text, it's kind of annoying at the moment. #
• 15:31 is wrapping up the day...yahoo! #

jimmy

04:24 am - Daily Twitterings

• 07:24 is freezing cold... #
• 09:05 is at UVM. Too cold for me today, at least it's pay day :) #
• 10:19 is working on a bit of web stuff, updated Transmission, made sure MySQL wasn't running binary logs, and thinking about getting some food. #
• 13:52 Without iChat Matte installed, iChats windows/bubbles are horrible. #
• 14:40 @majornelson Nice :) #
• 15:46 @morgant Is that the Paid Backpack? Ark and I use Backpack but we don't have nearly the amount of features yours does lol. #

jimmy

04:21 am - Daily Twitterings

• 09:53 @flyingpiaffe WTF?! #
• 11:59 Been a good Monday so far, getting a lot of work done. #
• 13:41 is compressing some mail server backups... #
• 14:52 is rather annoyed at how shitty the color is on the new MacBook, thinking about returning it... #
• 18:49 has just compared the old MacBook and new MacBook displays, apparently I was freaking out because the new one is a lot brighter... #
• 20:30 is relaxing tonight. #

jimmy

02:44 pm - Scribbld Update, GoW2 Completed, MacBook Setup

morgan although broken wristed has worked very hard with me on updating the Scribbld code base to the latest version (as of yesterday). One new thing i really like is that it automagically snags the latest song from your Last.fm account and plug it into the update page and also the update page (rich text editor) now works in Safari 3/Webkit. I am very very happy with that. It only took us about 45 minutes to an hour to upgrade everything which was really nice.

I beat GoW2 over the weekend. It was a tremendously amazing game. I have a feeling I might play through it another time because I didn't do it with makkintosshu or Keith. I haven't really heard much from either of those guys lately.

Wrath of the Lich King comes out this week. I am excited, although I don't know why since our Warcraft server won't be updated for some time.

I've setup my new MacBook and I am thinking about returning it already because the color is absolutely horrible. I never thought I would be one to bitch about color issues but this is absolutely horrible. I might have to run through the calibration thing again...The whole display looks all washed out, the colors are sucky. My old black MacBook was much better then this. I do enjoy the backlit keyboard though. It also feels really nice when you're typing on it though.

So today, not much happened minus the database maintenance and code upgrade. I'll be heading to the barn in a bit. One of the horses/boarders that had been there for like 8 years left this weekend. Sucky! I might go riding today...depends on how I feel.

Hrmm, I just played with the brightness on the MacBook, colors are a bit better now...

Ah, well, I'm out!

Current Mood: accomplished

jimmy

12:55 pm - Blow

Fred Jung: Money isn't real, George. It doesn't matter. It only seems like it does.
Young George: Are you gonna tell Mom that?
Fred Jung: Yeah, that's gonna be a tricky one.

Current Mood: full

system

10:03 am - Emergency Database Server Maintenance

Please watch:

http://scribbldstatus.tumblr.com !!

jimmy

04:32 am - Daily Twitterings

• 20:04 @RealaT That's awesome! :) #

jimmy

04:29 am - Daily Twitterings

• 13:06 Cleaning up the apartment, thinking about starting my WiFi project. #
• 20:28 Working on a the Scribbld/DramaJournal dev image... #

jimmy

04:29 am - Daily Twitterings

• 12:27 is using the AC in November... #
• 13:34 MacBook Black For Sale! tinyurl.com/56jpue #
• 18:14 Got a bit of Resistance in...surfing the web... #

jimmy

06:27 pm - Quick Update

We've got Gears of War 2.

Going to see Senses Fail & Dance Gavin Dance on the 15th - WotLK comes out soon!!!

Umm...I got one of the new MacBooks! It's sexy...although still in the box. Probably won't set it up until next week when I have time.

Old MacBook for sale:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=250321656992

Current Mood: happy

jimmy

04:20 am - Daily Twitterings

• 07:53 Gears of War 2 - very soon!!! #
• 13:02 Just got back from lunch with Emily, had an awesome time! #
• 15:05 Yahooo, Emilie's burning Dead Space for me! #
• 22:47 @morgant - Haha you're crazy! #

jimmy

04:30 am - Daily Twitterings

• 11:02 Finished up a bit of web work...time to surf some sites to learn about building accessible websites. #
• 13:10 Customizing the look of TextMate and Coda... #

jimmy

10:52 am - New Funeral For a Friend

Boy am I glad all this election stuff is over and done with. I don't care who you voted for, but I hope everyone voted.

I've been working on beating Resistance as the second game is either already out or very close to releasing (sometime this week). emilie and I have also been playing LittleBigPlanet which is a lot of fun.

Not much of anything else is going on. I am supposed to go out to lunch with a good friend from high school tomorrow, that should be fun.

Current Mood: busy

system

09:46 am - Paid Account Changes

We've made some changes to the paid account structure. In order for people to purchase Extras (extra user pics) you'll need to have a paid account. We recommend that people purchase a year long paid account if you're going to get the extra user pics since they run for a year. If you were to purchase a 3 month paid account and 100 extra user pics, they would only be good for 3 months as they're only valid while you have an active paid account.

This change also means that instead of gaining 25 userpics (from the normal 75 paid to 100 total), you'll gain 100 or 200 (for upto 175 or 275 userpics).

Thanks!

jimmy

04:30 am - Daily Twitterings

• 07:36 Got to the bus a bit early... #
• 09:48 is thinking about selling my MacBook and getting one of the new MacBooks <3 #
• 10:03 tarring up some mail backups! #
• 14:04 is getting some real work done...oh HTML newsletters how I love you... #

jimmy

04:24 am - Daily Twitterings

• 09:39 Just got the LittleBigPlanet players guide, can't wait to rock that with Emilie tonight. #
• 16:26 picked up Resistance again and played a little bit past where Keith and I got too like a year ago :P #

jimmy

04:28 pm - So Incredibly Busy

More busy excuses coming...I barely have time to use Twitter let alone Scribbld. I got my hands on LittleBigPlanet a couple days earlier then the scheduled release so emilie, morgan and I have been playing a bunch of it. I also grabbed the players guide today since I was up in Burlington with my car. I had to go up there to put in my hours since I forgot my time codes. Oops...

Everything else has been really good. Helped Morgan with some of the CSS and design of her new blog:

http://www.tehgeekgirl.com

I suggest giving it a quick peek, it's got lots of fun things in it!

I'm really digging Secret and Whisper, I really cannot stop listening to them. I think we're addicted!

Got to head to the barn in a little bit, then I think I might have to pick Emilie up from work but I am not sure haha.

I just finished watching Harmful Insect, awesome movie, really messed up, but I liked it a lot.

Current Mood: happy

jimmy

04:36 am - Daily Twitterings

• 12:10 Breakfast and then the barn :D It's a nice day here! #
• 14:35 Back from the barn, getting a bit of work done, then 360 time. #

jimmy

04:20 am - Daily Twitterings

• 10:22 Hello weekend! #
• 11:40 forgot my time codes at so I can do my timecard this weekend...fuck. #

01:17 pm - Happy November!

Hey kids!

October has come to an end, it feels like I was just posting news for August and here it is, November already!

First a bit of news about one of the system admins, morgan. Last week she was in a car accident, she hit a deer. Fortunately she's okay, but her car is complete toast :( That said, our backend development is going to slow down as she's only got one useable hand to type with (she broke her wrist). I personally wish her the quickest recovery and hope all goes well. She'll be taking a break from Scribbld coding for the next month or so.

In other news, we had almost 100% uptime last month, there was about 15 minutes of downtime due to a small power outage. This month we're going to be running some software updates on our database server, but we'll post a date and time when we get closer to doing so.

We hope you're all enjoying using Scribbld and we want to thank anyone who refers their friends, family, co-workers to our little spot on the Internet! It's very much appreciated. We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween and we hope you have a wonderful November!

- Scribbld Administrators

jimmy

04:09 am - Daily Twitterings

• 09:57 @morgant - They're going to put you in a Spandex outfit again LOL. #
• 12:57 Starting to get a bit hungry...@morgant's food sounds good...maybe I should go back to working at Small Dog haha #
• 15:40 Getting ready to head home, yay for the weekend! #

jimmy

04:08 am - Daily Twitterings

• 12:01 Just found this awesome new band (to me) - Secret and Whisper. Check em out! #
• 14:35 had some lunch, worked with my todos in Things, cleaned up a bit of the apartment, now I'm doing some web stuff. #

jimmy

04:08 am - Daily Twitterings

• 10:15 For some reason one of my scripts decided to change the name of a function within it and stop working...WTF?! #
• 10:34 Having a feeling that I am going to freeze to death today... #
• 13:21 The Internet connection sucks today and it's getting rather frustrating. #

jimmy

04:06 am - Daily Twitterings

• 13:54 just noticed how not cute this one chick from high school is...lol. #

jimmy

04:08 am - Daily Twitterings

• 14:11 Heading out to get some laundry done. Will probably snag CS4 MS. #

jimmy

04:12 am - Daily Twitterings

• 18:23 Back from the barn, looking for something to eat... #

jimmy

04:03 am - Daily Twitterings

• 15:36 About to head off to my parents for dinner. #
• 17:16 Watching some TV show about the paso fino...why can't we have this channel at home!? #

jimmy

04:06 am - Daily Twitterings

• 07:57 Has been busy, no time for Scribbld, Twitter, FaceBook, etc... #
• 09:14 Some people are too stupid...haha. #
• 12:11 thinking this macbook pro needs a new battery. #

jimmy

04:05 am - Daily Twitterings

• 07:42 Heading out to work! #
• 11:34 Tarring up some mail server backups since it hasn't been done in weeks, oops... :( #
• 11:50 Carrying around this MacBook Pro is really no different (weight-wise) - so there's a plus...I think it's starting to grow on me! #

jimmy

04:04 am - Daily Twitterings

• 09:50 At UVM, getting hammered with work requests. #
• 14:42 Doing some web site maintenance...trying to adjust to this MacBook Pro...dunno if it's going to happen. #
• 18:07 Home finally. Just working on a few things, then it'll be time to relax! #

jimmy

04:04 am - Daily Twitterings

• 14:31 Fixing some server issues...too many today. #

jimmy

04:03 am - Daily Twitterings

• 15:01 Bedroom closet cleaned, Things updated with new ToDos. Food shopping next?! #
• 16:41 Back from food shopping, lunch eaten also...barn soon! #

jimmy

04:03 am - Daily Twitterings

• 14:57 Having some weekend server issues, parents just brought over some fresh raspberries though! #