I Left the Stage Because I Thought I Had to Shit

Trying out Windows Live Writer on WordPress

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

This is to see if WLW actually will work on my WordPress-powered blog on my own domain. If this fucks up my page I may get pissed. Then again, I probably won’t care too much since no one else reads this shit anyway.

This editor seems to be pretty good so far. Adding different accounts to it was quick and painless. Right now I have this one and my Windows Live Spaces account on it.

EDIT: It certainly does work. For some reason it saved this as a draft the first time I clicked Publish, but eventually it really published it after I did it once or twice more. I’m gonna try to insert some video and see what happens.

Yeah, using the Insert Video plugin I grabbed I embeded a video off some video site and it worked just fine. Now to see if I can insert a video I uploaded to the server via FTP.

Nope. Not so simple.

_josh

Site updates

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

I updated to WordPress 2.3.1 the other day. It fixes over twenty bugs and some security issues in WordPress 2.3 as well as some other things I could care less about.

I updated to phpBB 3.0.RC7 today. It let me type in my FTP details and it updated files for me, which I thought was pretty cool. I have no idea what it fixed and I don’t feel like looking.

_josh

Canon Updates

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Today I ran across some Canon updates:

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / EOS 400D firmware v1.1.1 can be downloaded here.

You’ll need the Canon EOS Utility to install the firmware update if you don’t have a CompactFlash reader (other than the camera itself). You’ll need your “Canon EOS Digital Solution Disk” that came with your camera to install it, whether you want to use the version on there or the update below.

Canon EOS Utility v2.0.2 Updater can be downloaded here.

• Click on “Drivers / Software” (it’ll make a pop-up).
• Click “EOS Utility 2.0.2 Updater for Windows” or the radio button next to it.
• Scroll to the bottom (or press End on your keyboard).
• Click the “I Agree – Begin Download” link.
• Scroll to the bottom (or press End on your keyboard) again.
• Click the “EU202EN.exe” link to start downloading the file.

I’ll probably pick up one of these for my XTi. It’s basically the same as the kit lens I have, but with image stabilization for only $200. After looking at the EXIF data for my pictures and seeing that most of them are taken at 18mm, I also want to grab one of these wide muthafuckas. That one is almost $700 so I might have to wait until I get a sugarmama to do that.

_josh

Site updates, moving, Bellingham

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

I’ve been modifying the crap out of  the already modified theme I’m using. I wanted to make sidebars on either side. Seems to be working ok. If something looks fucked (like the header image–that’s a placeholder), I’m probably still working on it. “Nothing is fucked, man.”

Moving sucks. “Moving sucks.”Packing, moving, and unpacking all that you own is tiring, boring, and close the bottom of my list of things I want to do. What makes it more lame is when you move to an apartment because then it’s inevitable that you will have to move at least one more time. Once everything is unpacked it starts to feel like home. I was actually surprised at how I went from hating my new apartment for the first couple days to actually liking it, despite its shortcomings as compared to my old one. This new one saves me $235/month just on rent, plus it’s just over a mile from work, so I can walk to work in about 15-20 minutes depending on how many lights I have to stop at along the way (there are at least half a dozen between). Something that makes moving worse is when you have to order something right before you move. Do you have it sent to your old (current) address or to your new one (that you haven’t picked up the keys for yet)?

I ordered the last online ticket for the Atmosphere show on TicketsWeb. The reason I say I got the last one is because I had one in my cart and it wouldn’t let me add anymore. Then after I checked out, the site said “there are no tickets available for the show you have chosen” and later you couldn’t even click on the link to buy tickets for that show. So I ordered that last ticket and had it sent to my current apartment even though I would move out that following weekend. I then went to USPS.com and filled out the Official Change of Address Form™, which I’ve become accustomed to in the last few years, moving after one-year leases are up.

The next day I found out that I would need to drive to Bellingham to get 2 more tickets for E&L. “I had 2 hours to drive almost a hundred miles in rush-hour traffic.”The place that sounded like they had the most tickets available out of the 3-4 places that had tickets to the show said they close at 7pm. At 5pm I got some money out of the ATM in building 25 and headed out. I had 2 hours to drive almost 100 miles in rush hour traffic. It’s a good thing I don’t have a problem driving over the speed limit because I was riding with the governor whenever I could (i.e. ~110 in the Altima 2.5 S). I saw a few cops before they saw me and a few more that already had someone pulled over. I finally got to the place at 6:55pm. I bought 3 of their last 6 tickets. I got an extra one because I figured I could have someone else go with us or sell it if I couldn’t. Come to find out they don’t close at 7pm but at 8pm. Whomever I talked to on the phone: thanks, dick. I don’t want to know what kind of trouble I could have gotten into if some hillbilly-ass cop would have clocked me doing 100+.

Monday, the day before the show, I waited until after work to contact anyone because I wanted to check my new mailbox in Bellevue one last time and contacting them and also call my old apartment complex to see if they had received anything for me before freaking out. I sent an e-mail that evening, with the show being ~24 hours away, and I’m one ticket short. The next day, with nothing but an autoreply that was basically the FAQ off their website, I called the old apartment complex in Redmond and the post office. Nothing. It was a pretty shitty day so far; ticket is MIA, my VPN shit stopped working, and I had a bunch of shit to do. Then, it was like the sun came out after day of pouring rain: the Superdome memory swap I was working on went through with no problems, there was an e-mail in my inbox from TicketsWeb saying that they had canceled the other ticket and had me on the Will Call list (which is what I would  have suggested they do anyways since I didn’t have the ticket yet), and then I got my VPN stuff working again. At ~5pm the old apartment complex calls my office to let me know that they just received my ticket.

I’ll talk about the show later.

_josh