Recent blog entries for garrett

I haven't updated this in a long while.

I guess I just did. (:

Woohoo.

I now have website themes on my homepage; a result of staying up a bit late a few evenings ago, writing a bit of web code. It's thanks to some nifty use of PHP, XHTML, and CSS.

Changes, etc.

Today, we had to take Occy.Net down. This makes my home page currently inaccessable. You can read the scoop on the site.

In the mean time, I am working on getting another place to host my web site and e-mail.

In other (unrelated) news, Comcast finally switched away from using @home in my area. As a result, half the 'Net is slow (packet loss & bad routing) and the other half is unaccessable. Unfortunately, my connection is also unstable, so I have pinged out a few times on IRC already.

Now for the good news of today: I have updated my Advogato diary finally! Woohoo! (:

An entry here has been long overdue. Too long.

Strangely enough, there isn't much to say at the moment.

Oh well.

Long time no post. (:

I've been busy working on the next generation of Linux.com. It's going to really rock. It's going to feature tons of CSS niceness and still (somehow) be compatible with Netscape 4.x. It already meets these goals on the development site. *grin*

So anyway, enough about work.

I've updated my personal web site a little bit tonight. Fun stuff there.

Now for something totally different:

Mozilla. It's the hype of the day. If not, it's at least the topic of discussions and rants on a few of the IRC channels and mailing lists that I am on. I think it's a good thing. There have been many speed improvements and bugfixes over since the 0.8 release alone, and many more to come shortly around the corner.

Sure, you might not be a developer of Mozilla directly, but there are ways you can help... Report a bug. Don't forget that Tuesdays are bugdays, afterall! (Drop by #mozillazine on irc.mozilla.org and report, report, report!)

Anyway... I really should post more often.

Wow. So when I was outside today, I stumbled across three bears. You don't mess with bears, espcially cubs with parents.

Anyway, I kept my distance, but took a few photos, as I had my camera on me. Luckily nothing else happened. *grin*

I should have the pictures up on my website soon.

Long time no update. I guess I need to start posting stuff here again.

Anyway, I did a minor modification to LinuxArt today... Just a little change.

Not much else is happening right now. Been really busy working on Linux.com related things, and also recently pushed LinuxGram.com live.

I'll post more news as it happens. *grin*

Well, I decided to release a new spiffE today!

You can get it from e.themes.org.

If you run Sawmill instead, get spiffMILL.

What's new? Well, both support something speacial called "spiffomatic", which is a nice color scheme maker. You get to "theme" the "theme" with different color schemes. Of course, Enlightenment's spiffomatic support is a bit more, as it has more window states, its own weird menu stuff, and also epplets. For Sawmill, it has focused and unfocused window support.

It's very cool stuff.

Well, it looks like ScottyO commented about Xach commenting about an article. ScottyO claims that Xach's comment would have been fine on a site like Slashdot, and not on Advogato.

Here's where I disagree with ScottyO... If Xach mentioned something about Natalie Portman, hot grits, "first post", or just plainly said, "this sucks!", then, yes; that sounds more like a common -1 Slashdot comment. In my opinion, Xach's comment was adaquate for this site, as it pinpointed exactly what Xach thought. It was his opinion, and he's entitled to that. Also, Xach suggested how the article could be written better through constructive criticism.

I think Xach is justified in his comment, personally. Also, I think the article was a nice effort, even if it was not perfect. If it benefitted someone, it was worth publication.

So. This was an odd day. I swung by the post office for a few reasons today. Oddly enough, despite the fact it's a national holiday (St. Patrick's Day, interestingly named after St. Patrick, a Saint in Ireland who drove out the snakes, according to the story), the place was open.

While I was waiting in line to talk to the postal worker, my eyes started wandering around the back wall. Tons of multi-color forms flowing about, pamphlets, flyers, and a nice little FBI wanted poster holder on the wall. What's this? The top item on the FBI list was some guy who resembled me a bit (but with the addition of a scar on the bottom lip, and some tattoos -- both of which I do not have), since I haven't shaved in a couple days. I then turned around and hoped that no one would think I was the FBI wanted guy.

I stopped by the stamp machine before leaving. I tossed in a couple bucks to purchase -- stamps, of course. After the second dollar, I realized that the standard stamp book was sold out and all that remained were some flowery, "Valentines day" stlye stams (complete with lace). Pressing the eject button was to no avail, as it said that I must purchase something before getting money back. I was stuck. I ended up buying some envelopes instead.

Second stop of the day: The Bank. No, this had nothing to do with any FBI picture (*grin*). I just had to tend to my accounts, as boringly usual. I did, luckily, get "home banking" info, which should turn out to be very cool.

I stopped by a sub shop, picked up a turkey and avacado on wheat with salt and vinegar chips, snarfed it down, ran a few more errands, and returned home. I've been working since.

By the way: In case you're still wondering (for some reason), I've never been in jail, never had a traffic ticket, and I still have the little tags on my matresses.

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