Tales from the Geek

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July everyone… Hope you all are having fun and not doing stupid things with fireworks… If you are an IT support guy I have the funny video for you… I’ts been around a while and I just haven’t posted it… It has some adult language and is NSFWish its great…

www.thewebsiteisdown.com

Sigh… I hate to stock market sometimes

Well it may have been my fault but I had my house downpayment money in my IRA.. I had gotten it close to 10k and in one week it dropped to under 9k yay me… I’ve started working on the wedding website some more getting the layout finalised and backend written for the guestbook and RSVP system… I still have to go and set up the registries with my other 2/3rds but we haven’t had the time to do it… so hopefully we can do it soon….

I have also been working on my hosting website… got the basic packages set up for purchase… Basic, Blog Basic, and Silver still have gold and dedicated left… Tested taylors with the blog basic last night and for some reason it broke PHP for just his site… so I had to go through and update PHP and that took till 2:45AM only to turn around and wake up at 6:30 to go to work… I gotta stop doing this to myself… oh well… at least it somewhat works now…

Finals are finally over

I know it has been a while since my last posting, but I have been busy prepping for finals and other projects. One of my projects is the website for the wedding… Right now I am developing the RSVP backend so that people can RSVP online saving us money and saving paper. It will also help track guest numbers for more instant feedback. I did this with my brother’s site and it seemed to go over well, so I am improving the process by adding a unique registration code based off two parts of the information for the guest. With this code, they will RSVP making sure all their information is correct, if they are attending, and if so how many. This will also help with addressing the thank you cards to send back. As of right now I have the creation of the regcode and saving the information into the database working, but grabbing it back out to display isn’t working all that great. I know the SQL is correct, but the PHP is giving issue in not passing the variables… one more thing to do this week I guess…

Car Stereo Goodness

I have created a new page to show the progress and step by step guide on how to upgrade a Ford Fusion Stereo. So far I have only installed the rear door speakers, but the headunit shipped today so I will be doing that very soon. I am also doing Kristie’s stereo (shes getting one with built in Nav) in her Edge. so I’m sure I will take some pics of that as well.

In other news, the area was hit with tornadoes last weekend, luckily I came through unscathed. Atlanta on the other hand saw an EF-2 Tornado downtown. Thank the Lord no one was killed. Some of the video from security cameras is amazing. To date there is only one photo that caught the tornado. Here No its not the cloud in the middle, thats actually part of the wall cloud. If you look to the left of it right by lit spike of the Bank of America building, you can faintly see the tornado itself. The weather channel has a bigger image Here and includes a slide show

Tomorrow (3/19/08) another round of storms are supposed to come through, so wish us luck!

Free me from this academic hell!

Here I am, sitting in class, dreading every moinute that goes by… I have people in the class that are making things wayyyyy to complicated than it needs to be… trying to be smart only to be shot down by the professor since they are talking about the wrong thing… but here I am sitting here trying to keep my mouth shut… if not I would be telling them to shut up and listen… but I digress…