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The Best Laid Plans

Dinh — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:55:13 +0000

Due to some unexpected car troubles, looks like my savings account will be empty and I will not be able to go skydiving for my birthday.

Back-up plan is currently a Yosemite trip and to tackle Half Dome. Hit me up if you are interested and/or have suggestions for alternate plans involving any items on my bucket list.

Fantasy League

Dinh — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:39:31 +0000

I have minimal-to-casual interest in sports, so March Madness doesn’t mean much to me. I would much rather bet on this bracket:

(From Indexed.)

Zombies all the way!

This particular bracket reminds me of a random Tweet I made a while back about how

Zombies:Vampires::Science:Religion

Feel free to wrap your head around that as you study for finals.

Dusting Off The Cobwebs

Dinh — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:11:03 +0000

A few days ago, I asked for access to the IPhi website again because I had been talking with some people and felt motivated to do some updates.

My first stab at things was an extension for the wiki to automatically link common articles, but it did not go as planned. I managed to fix things, but it really showed me how rusty my coding skills have gotten.

After service on Saturday, I went to sleep for about 18 hours, not including Daylight Savings, and woke up to find that the IPhi website was down. My first thought was that I had accidentally done something to the website, since I keep my keyboard and mouse on the bed and often fall asleep on or near them. Sleep-hacking?! It’s possible; stranger things have happened.

Anyway, found out it was an external attack and consulted with the webmasters on a game plan. Took a stab at a fix, but again, I was too unfamiliar with things to actually fix anything.

Sometimes, I wish I had stuck with CSE. Can’t wait to get home and try again, though. Oh, and good job to the guys who actually got things working again.

Weekly Twitter Updates for 2010-03-14

Dinh — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000

What's up with the tooltip notifications on FB now? The icons at the top not enough? http://ff.im/-hhSwo #
Dammit Dreamhost, giving me trouble right after I recommended you to someone. http://ff.im/-hkLxw #
Anyone in Davis have a jack or ramps I can borrow to do an oil change? http://ff.im/-hl0Rp #
I got into the LEGO Universe beta! Now if only I had the time for it. http://ff.im/-hlpSH #
Iron Chefs, retarded Vikings, leafy drinks, and Thai fries. A good night indeed! http://ff.im/-hnwc8 #
@visforvivie I did not. I hear it was heavenly, though. in reply to visforvivie #
@mushrew Someone else suggested that. Too bad I got ramps from Adrian already. in reply to mushrew #
Officially a regular. Got free samosas with my lunch today. http://ff.im/-hpjpF #
Car overheated and CEL turned on. Good thing I had half a jug of coolant in the trunk. http://ff.im/-hsXVO #

Housekeeping

Dinh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:16:32 +0000

You may have noticed that I’ve been playing with some new themes the last couple of days. There was one that I liked, but it was so simple, it didn’t even have comment support. If I wanted that, I would just stick with Tumblr.

Seriously… my big gripe with Tumblr is the lack of commenting. Well, you can have add-ons like Disqus, but they don’t work very well. The only way to talk about someone else’s post is to re-post it and write a little more under the quote? That’s the same reason I hate long e-mail threads in traditional e-mail! (And one reason why I love GMail.)

Anyway, I’m pretty happy with this theme, but I might be playing around with it a little more. I’m also cleaning up plug-ins in the background to change the speed and functionality of the site. For one thing, I’ve switched my RSS feeds to Feedburner.

As always, let me know if something doesn’t work the way you think it should, either by commenting on this post or shooting me a message if the site is down. (Sorry to anyone who tried to access it between 12 and 8 this morning.)