Auughhh! What a day. I hate every site I am working on at the moment at work. One site has too much text and the Flash file doesn't scroll to accomodate the extra text so the contact info gets pushed off the bottom. Another site just stopped working over the weekend. I spent most of the day trying to troubleshoot that but there is no reason it should be breaking based on the fact that it worked last week. And another site is suppose to be streaming from a 3rd party streaming service but it's not even when I try the example fla on the 3rd party's support page. Add to that the fact that Trillian sent me an update notice that upgraded me to a completely new build and when it started asking me to create an account I just wanted to go back to my previous version and all my groups and chat alias I set up for everybody were deleted. And then I stepped in a puddle and got water in my shoe. Time to call it a day.
Finally finished F.E.A.R. That is one creepy game. Just hearing the scary music could make the hairs on my neck stand up. The story line was pretty twisted too. I don't think I will be playing the sequels because I'm not big into spooky in my videogames. Think I'll go play some Super Mario Wii for a bit.
Took a trip to Tahoe to see Pete the Meat for New Years. On the car ride up the portable DVD player and two smaller video players broke so the kids had nothing to watch. Now a little over a week later, the mp3 player one of the kids received for Christmas is also broken. Looks like my magnetic personality is going to be strong this year.
It's nice to find some tutorials on how to do stuff on the Linux server are not that difficult. I found SiegeX's DHCP Server Howto a couple of days ago and it's so simple a newb could do it. I like to think I'm slightly higher than a newb because a lot of the stuff in the tutorial made sense and I was able to get it up and running in a couple of minutes and had the whole internal DOH! Network using dynamic IPs instead of static ones. Makes for a lot easier time getting connected to the network.
Talked to NOPAL the other day about the future of the web developers like me at work and he had some reassuring words that I will actually get to code some stuff again instead of fixing third party developers stuff. That's good to know.
Been playing a lot of F.E.A.R. lately. I don't think I've ever played a game before that would make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. There is so much creepy stuff going on with Alma sneaking around. Download F.E.A.R. Combat for free if you want to check out the multiplayer part of the game. If you like it, pick up F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon for only $117.48 from Amazon.com. Wait. What? $117.48??!! Dang! It MUST be a good game to be that much money!
Wow! The new year isn't starting out too good with news that relatives are moving away, friends are divorcing and already moved, and old friends and family extended family have passed away. Technically most of that stuff was in 2009 but I am just hearing about it in 2010 so it puts a dark cloud on 2010. Hopefully things will improve.
Just got back from hanging out with Pete Da Meat for a couple of days at his house in Tahoe. It was just like the old days of NHL Hockey on the Nintendo 8-bit when I got to pummel him repeatedly on Mario Kart Wii.