I’m shocked. Really.

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Generally, I’m not much of one to take pleasure in others’ misfortunes. However, I do have to admit that it does my little Mac-lovin’ heart proud to be walking around Seattle, WA — just down the road from the pit of despair itself — and to see every newspaper stand in town featuring a headline in large, bold type, across the entire width of the front page proclaiming “XP VULNERABLE TO HACKER ATTACKS”

Windows? XP? With bugs? Naah. You’re kidding. No way. I never would have guessed.

Keep in mind, this comes from a company that, when they were advertising the then-upcoming release of Windows 2000, their sales brochure triumphantly proclaimed that Win2k “includes tens of thousands of bug fixes from Windows NT 4.0!!!” (Note: For those that may think I’m mis-remembering or flat-out making this quote up, many more citations can be found with a quick Google search.)

Excuse me? Your marketing scheme for your new high-end ultra-reliable ultra-secure server operating system is to freely admit that your previous high-end ultra-reliable ultra-secure server operating system shipped not just with bugs…not just with a few bugs…but with tens of thousands of bugs?

Yikes.

New blog software – MovableType

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Okay, I’m finally up and running! This kept me up longer than it should have, as I’m supposed to be packing so that I can head up to Alaska right after work tomorrow, but it’s done now. I switched my weblog software from NewsPro over to Movable Type. Took me a bit to get everything set up and configured right so that it didn’t require re-coding this entire page, but everything seems to be up and working now.

There’s a new comments system to play with, and in general a lot more features for me to experiment with. I’ve still got some cleaning up to do — for instance, the archives aren’t online yet, nor do I know if I can enable the search or e-mail functions the way I had them just yet, but I’m looking into it. I’ll get to that some other time, though — at the moment, it’s time for me to pack, and then get some sleep.

That’s more like it

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Okay — finally figured out the tricks to the css code I was working on, so now the site looks like I was aiming for way back when when I started this whole redesign thing. It’s a fairly minor change from what it’s been for a few months, but I like this a bit better. It’s about time I got it figured out…managed to do it without screwing things up this time. :)

Two more projects coming up — the first is going to be changing the .cgi I use to post news to Moveable Type, as it’s got a fair amount of features that my current .cgi (NewsPro) doesn’t have, or if it does, they’re not quite as smoothly integrated. Secondly, finally going through the rest of the site and actually getting all the pages using a consistent look — something that I just haven’t gotten done yet. Ah, well.

But for now — time to head out, get some food, do some shopping, and other fun things along those lines.

Hasta la bye-bye.

Site fixed, new addy, and LOTR

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Okies — first off, I was able to restore this main page from a recent backup, so the page is back to normal again.

Secondly — www.djwudi.com is active! Yay! I’ll go ahead and leave the old djwudi.dyndns.org addy active for a while, but the preferred address for my site is now www.djwudi.com. Woohoo!

Lastly — just got back not too long ago from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In a word — incredible. I’m not sure I can get much more than that out yet, a more detailed review will have to wait, but…. Well, I enjoy fantasy movies, and they’re a lot of fun, but this is the first time I can remember that a fantasy film was that good and true to the spirit of the genre, completely sweeping you up in its world and carrying you along the entire time. Just wonderful.

And it’s going to be a long year until the next part….

Argh…

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Well, I was experimenting a bit with the layout of the site, and managed to more or less hose things fairly well. So…things don’t look quite right at the moment. I’ll try to get them straightened out as soon as I can, but not sure when that’ll be — tomorrow night is Lord of the Rings, so I’ll be home late. Grrrr….

Two quick things

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One silly that popped into my head: why is the plural of box ‘boxes’ when the plural of ox is ‘oxen’? You just have to love the English language, don’t you?

Second thing — Moulin Rouge! Yay! Picked it up today at lunch…now I just can’t wait to get home so I can watch it. Future project: creating my own 2-CD soundtrack by running my DVD’s audio output into my computer so that I can burn the entire movie to audio CD. The official soundtrack is certainly wonderful, but there were so many other songs that I wanted to be able to listen to…and now I’ll have them! Woohoo!

Six months in Seattle!

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Woohoo! I was just about to go to bed when I realized that as of today (well…the 16th), I’ve been living in Seattle for six months! In that six months, I’ve found a solid 40-hour a week job with good possibilities for getting permanently hired on with Xerox at some point in the future; I’ve found a cute little apartment right near the Capitol Hill district; I’m earning enough money to be able to afford a high speed DSL connection to the Internet; and I’ve found myself a really wonderful girlfriend.

I think it’s official — I’ve managed to duck the Hellraiser chains that drag so many people back to Alaska when they try to leave.

Finally! New mixes!

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Well, since Candice is currently in Anchorage for Christmas, I’ve got some time to kill for about a week until I head north, so I’m using the hours to finally get the mixes I’ve made since I’ve been down here converted to .mp3 format and posted on my propaganda page. I’ve just posted Difficult Listening Hour v2, Torimix v2, and Mission Accomplished. If you give them a listen, please let me know what you think!

I’ve got more to get posted too…hopefully there will be at least one or two more up today.