The next two weeks are tough. There are soooo many things we gotta do with school. It seems like all the teachers ganged up and went, “Yeah, lets piss off those damn kids and give all the unit tests and mid-term tests within a 2 week period. Hell, let’s throw in some assignments too.”
I know it, they’re all against us.
I went out and bought a new hard drive today. A nice WD 160gig S-ATA drive 
I’m so dumb too. My mind was somewhere else… I installed the hardware, then the RAID controllers, but it wasn’t showing up. I started thinking I was forgetting something — and I was. Duh, it has to be formatted first. 
Tomorrow I’m going to install Windows on it. It’s a little more tough because you’ve got to load extra drivers onto a floppy. Maybe I’ll just slipstream the drivers along with SP2 onto a CD. Depends on how lazy I’m feeling.
It’s about time for a fresh install anyway 
I’ve got a cold, and it makes me sooo sleeeeeepppy…
Chroder.com recently hit the 10,000 page load mark. Woo!
Canadian money is cool I got some new twenties (as in, the newer designed ones) and took a pic of them. They’re so cool, all colorful and shiny Click.
Well, it’s the weekend! Woo I can catch up on sleep now. Why the hell do all things start in the morning?
I wonder if there’s a study or statistic about the percentage of the population that are “night” or “morning” people. I’m definately a night person. When I wake up, I’m grumpy for a good 45 mins.
The last two weeks have been really busy, I think it’ll die down soon though. School is taking up a huge part of my time, which I really really hate. Then on the side I try to get as much work done on things that need to be done (DB3 mainly) while trying to maintain a life
Nothing bad about being busy though, makes you appreciate being not busy once you get some time
Of course, playing Pool with Dave is fun
Thought I’d add a cool little emotion up top, represents the daily mood. If anyone cares Click on the little caption under the image to read about my complaints
Also got rid of the “post overview”, moved Google ads to bottom. Cleaner IMO.
Well, our new name is Outershift (that’s Outer Shift, not Outers Hift :-P). Doesn’t have “soft” or “ware” in it, but it’s a dot com and it sounds cool
So whenever we release anything, it will be under the name of Outershift. The DNS’s haven’t updated yet, so I put up a little temp page to show off my leet placeholder clickety.
I was just fiddling with mod_rewrite, so if you saw lots of error pages that’s why
The reason being, I wanted to put all the files for chroder.com into a different directory and have all the URL’s rewritten to it, that way my home directory is nice and tidy against all the other addon domains I’ve got.
But it didn’t seem to want to work!
Well, I ordered the free SP2 on CD from MS about two weeks ago, and it came in today.
I don’t know why I ordered it, but I did and it’s here :-P.
Today was the first day back after the 4 day weekend, and we didn’t feel like doing work again in programming class. Today, I went above and beyond the last “version” of the Tubgirl popup script. The only real change to the script was a little bit of code I added to randomly focus different windows (which combined with the lag of the slow school computers, made it very difficult to ALT+F4).
To be extra annoying, we set the “Active Desktop” (where you can specify a web page to act as your desktop) to a custom scripted web page. With the background of the web page identical to the real default background on all school computers, you couldn’t even tell the difference. With some tricky JS, I got the popups to begin in 5 second intervals. This time the popups were full screen too.
So we all had a good laugh, again. I think I need to stop now, though, because if the school finds out I’ll be banned from the computers.
I found this site today, isn’t that super cool! There have been countless times where I want to sign up quick for something — now you can! Stick in any email and read the mail instantly, no more signing up for multiple hotmails
Well, it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow. But since it’s Monday and everyone has to go back to work/school on Tuesday, we always have our Thanksgiving dinners on Sunday.
So my grandparents came, Kelli and Ryan stayed too, then my parents and me. The dinner was pretty good, though I’m not a big fan of turkey (I’m a steak person :-P). Nonetheless, I ate a lot
So all you fellow Canadians, I hope your Thanksgiving will be great. And for the Americans, get with the times — Thanksgiving is in October!
I registered my-specs.com tonight.
I’m going to set up a site… Well, it’s quite a stupid idea but it might just catch on. People are always putting their computer specs in their signatures on computer forums, so I’m going to make it so users can create a list of their computer specs and they can use a generated image in their sigs. Beside being used for that, they have a place that lists all their stuff. So when they post a “I need help”, they can link to their my-specs profile and list it all.
So a pretty dumb concept, but low maintenance and it might catch on.
I’ve got an extra vBulletin license hanging around and I need a use for it. Any idea’s?
Those are the things that would be the best, but I can’t think of an original topic that fits into any of them.
If you have any idea’s, let me know!
It was so funny… In programming class, doing nothing as usual, we set Tim’s browser page to Tubgirl (if you’ve never seen tubgirl, trust me, you don’t want to. I don’t want to link to it because it’s really nasty and it might actually upset some people.). And when that loaded, his expression was priceless! I wish I had a digital camera with me at all times
So hoping to really freak him out, I wrote a small Javascript that would continuously open Tubgirl in new windows (the school hasn’t switched to Firefox yet, so it’s their fault!). We saved the filename as a .jpg (thus, it would be .jpg.html etc) so he really didn’t know the difference. He went to click on it, and wham! Poor Tim, frantically trying to ALT+F4 all those 200 Tubgirls (which were opening faster then he could close), simultaneously trying to shutdown the computer as quickly as possible. It was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
The thought about the Tubgirl site is utterly disgusting, but it’s kind of like an inside joke.
Good ol’ Tim, always takes it so well 
I’m excited, DevBox3 is really coming along. It looks really good so far, just a few more hard-core days of work and it’ll be up for staff beta testing!
The design has changed since last time I posted up screenshots, so hopefully there’ll be something new for everyone (well, excluding Tim). It is just super duper cool
Anyway, that is all. Move along…
This is a repost of one I did a while ago and deleted, but I like it so I’m going to post it again!
I was fooling around with CSS and Javascript and eventually started to mix the two into PHP. Using two frames, one spanned 100% of the page (thus, it’s like there is no frame) and the other one just there to load new bits of Javascript. The form posts data to the other frame, which is a PHP script, and PHP works out Javascript depending on the information it received. Within the HTML form (the main frame), we have hidden div’s that contain error messages, when PHP find something that doesn’t validate, we output Javascript to un-hide those div’s and thus display the error messages. Look at the bottom of this post for a working example. (more…)