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Family day weekend / updates

Jett — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:53:02 +0000

Just a couple updates in case anyone actually reads my blog. I noticed this morning a weird issue with blank page loads in wordpress, which I attribute to a bad caching plugin. I’ve since switched to a new plugin an the blank page loads seem to have disappeared. I have also re-added ads to my blog, for which I apologize. Since leaving MRX, I’ve lost access to my free server, and am now paying for a server to host my blog, so I’m hoping to somewhat offset the costs.

In other news I had an awesome family day weekend up in Sauble, and while Nathan decided not to sleep at night, it was still somewhat restful and relaxing. I got some starcraft 2 in with Forrest and realized exactly how much I suck, but we still had a good time. We also decided to make an iOS game, so I’m likely going to make a page for it here. I have my doubts I’ll actually finish it, but who knows.

Semi-quick update

Jett — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:35:04 +0000

So, I just added OpenID support to my blog, which I hope will encourage more people to comment.

I fixed the stupid problem I was having with tank by re-installing Ubuntu. Since I no longer have any optical bays, I had to actually set up Ubuntu over a netboot install, which was kind of cool. If I have some time, I’ll post some instructions on how to do it in case anyone’s interested.

Scribefire

Jett — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:02:09 +0000

So, just set up scribefire (http://blog.scribefire.com/help/getting-started/), hopefully it’ll help me stay in touch a little more, and maybe actually blog about things I like…

New projects

Jett — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:06 +0000

So, I’ve been insanely busy the last few weeks, and haven’t taken any time out of my busy schedule to write anything of interest here. I’ve been really busy with work and life, but I won’t bore you with the details of that…

I will however, take a few seconds to introduce a project I’ve decided to work on (as if I wasn’t busy enough already). As you know, I play WoW fairly regularly (World of Warcraft for those un-educated). There are many resources for the game, and a LOT of addons amongst various sites. Keeping your addons up-to-date unfortunately can be quite the chore, and so some wonderful people over at WoWAce (www.wowace.com), have written a small program to search through their site and find updated addons. Unfortunately, they wrote it in .Net, which obviously doesn’t help us Mac users out there. In comes the Java WoWUpdater: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javawowupdater a small project I’ve taken on, to port the WoWAce Updater to Java allowing it to be truly cross-platform.

I’ll keep you all posted on my progress, but for now there isn’t much to show or tell. If anyone’s interested in helping me out on this project, and knows anything about UI design or Swing, I’d be most appreciative of the help.

Well thats it for now, have fun everyone!

WordPress Upgrade

Jett — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:30:27 +0000

Well, you may or may not notice I’m now running WordPress 2.3 on my site. The upgrade went very smoothly, and I’m hoping it fixes my theme problem I’ve been having. Only time will tell, as it apparently is random, if it happens again, I’m going to go hunting for the source of the problem. I’m really hoping it doesn’t though, as its going to be a pain to diagnose.

I’ll have more to write about later on a small project I’ve undertaken (and no, it has nothing to do with computers for once).

Fixed Website

Jett — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:12:39 +0000

Okay, so, recently I’ve been having this really annoying problem, where my wordpress homepage would just come up blank. I kind of ignored it, but I knew it had something to do with themes causing problems. For some reason, every now and then my blog’s theme gets set back to “default”, I’m still not 100% sure why, and after spending a good amount of time trying to “fix” it. I just ended up removing the “default” theme and doing a symlink from my theme’s folder to the old default folder, that way I can at least keep my blog up.

I’ll definitely keep hunting around to try and figure out why, and post here when I do find out.

In terms of life stuff, been super busy, as per usual. I think I’m going to be donating a bit of time to helping out my new guild on Norgannon with their website, but thats another story for later. For now, its back to work.