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March 30, 2004

A call to all musicians ()

by fluffy at 11:26 PM
Project - Two is finally live. If you want to participate, now is the time!

March 28, 2004

Shipwrecked conversation ()

by fluffy at 04:07 PM

March 27, 2004

Guitar Center ()

by fluffy at 02:17 PM
So, the local Guitar Center is finally open. So today, I met up with Paul (who I also call Ringo, and is back in Albuquerque until the 5th before he goes back to Japan until July) there, to check it out.

March 26, 2004

Nice end to a productive week ()

by fluffy at 10:15 PM
Unwilling thrustiness into the role of home-front tech support aside, I think this was a good week.

March 25, 2004

Work, work, work ()

by fluffy at 11:33 PM
After spending 9 hours working on PHP+SQL for an eCommerce package, the last thing I need is to get home to find that my parents' network is all FUBARed, and then end up spending 3 hours trying to troubleshoot that.

And then it all just turns out to probably be their crappy NAT router anyway.

How about that ()

by fluffy at 01:48 PM
I saw on BoingBoing that Rusty has finally decided to do something about the troll problem.

A bit too little, too late, I'm afraid.

March 23, 2004

Woe unto the New Mexican driving through Ohio ()

by fluffy at 07:42 PM
Ohio has decided to give special license plates to people who have been convicted of DUI.

Unfortunately, they just happened to choose the same color scheme that New Mexico has had for the past 20 years...

Mitigating bullshit ()

by fluffy at 06:57 PM
So, I went ahead and just worked with the existing codebase. Every time something was braindead or fugly I "refactored" it. Within two hours I'd rewritten all of the shit which had taken this other guy two weeks to do.

ARGH ()

by fluffy at 12:15 PM
Although in the long run it'll be creating new, decent code, in the short run I have to hack some functionality into this FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT that the previous temp wrote.

It is absolutely HORRIBLE - bad PHP, bad SQL, bad HTML, bad user interface, bad programming practices in general, and totally monolithic, undocumented, and full of wacky code duplication. It also reeks of security holes.

But this is just "proof of concept" work I'm doing this week, which means I "need" to just use the existing code, since he "already paid for" this horrible crap.

UGH.

March 22, 2004

Since I'm coding SQL professionally... ()

by fluffy at 09:47 PM
I decided I should learn how to do a proper inner join.

Which I did. It's actually pretty easy. It also made me realize that I was being really stupid in using phpbb_fetch_all calls for the "recent discussion" list, so I rolled my own SQL, which does a very elegant and sexy inner join to get all of the data formatted perfectly right off...

yay, work! ()

by fluffy at 08:48 PM
So, at 8:30 I thought I was running late to my first day of work, so I started to drive like a bat out of hell.

March 21, 2004

I'm awake, right? ()

by fluffy at 06:01 PM
The user registration spam happened while I was not-asleep on the couch, stuck in a sleep paralysis/hypnagogic hallucination loop.

So when I finally forced myself out of it and made my way back to my computer, and saw my email dock icon indicating 444 new messages, I had to make extra-sure I wasn't still inside the loop.

Fortunately, the strongest cue that I'm having a hypnagogic hallucination is that my vision is in letterbox format.

Really.

Stupid fuckers ruining the Internet for the rest of us ()

by fluffy at 05:37 PM
trikuare.cx/forum was just hit by a mass-registration-flood script, in some sort of attempt to DoS my server (or at least make the member list useless). It failed to do either thing, but it left me with 222 bogus user accounts, which had absolutely no effect except for spamming me with activation requests and message bounces. Go figure. Fortunately they were all easy to clean up (I mean, it's not like doing DELETE FROM phpbb_users WHERE user_id >= 47 is all that difficult, and of course I also have strong email-fu). Unfortunately, this makes me realize that I need to do something to make it not happen again.

March 20, 2004

574th Entry Spectacular: Open House ()

by fluffy at 10:09 PM
Today I looked at houses, specifically townhouses, since it looks very likely that I'll have a permanent position soon. (No, not with the VoIP provider I'm temping at starting Monday. To anyone who wants to keep their sanity: Never, ever look at the Asterisk codebase. It's horrid.)

March 18, 2004

Freejazz II ()

by fluffy at 10:55 PM
So, tonight I jammed with Cosmic ReBop. It was fun.

T610: First Impressions ()

by fluffy at 12:03 AM
Well, it fixes all of the problems which I had with the R520m.

Unfortunately, it adds in a whole buttload of problems of its own...

(Last updated: 3/18/04 10:16 AM)

March 17, 2004

Guess who has a job ()

by fluffy at 04:47 PM
The answer is ME!!!

March 16, 2004

I don't think I got the job ()

by fluffy at 10:41 PM
He wanted someone with more direct SQL experience. I'll find out tomorrow, in any case.

Oh well, it was a fun interview anyway.

Matter/antimatter ()

by fluffy at 10:45 AM
Those of you who read my weblog back in the Kuro5hin days would probably remember my ultra-conservative crazy psychobitch aunt (my dad's sister). You know, the one who (at the time) believed that all gays and transsexuals should die of AIDS, and that freedom of information was only for terrorists and criminals. Well, she's only gotten crazier and more conservative over time.

On the other side of my family, my mom's sister's husband is a die-hard liberal.

They are both about the same age, and they are both Always Right, and have no qualms about proving it.

They are both coming to passover seder.

This should be interesting.

March 14, 2004

(Yet another) new phone ()

by fluffy at 10:57 PM
Looks like I have a short-term (1-month) PHP/SQL gig starting sometime next week. Woo. Writing phpbb_integrate pays off.

So, I finally ordered cellphone service for Albuquerque, along with a shiny new Ericsson T610 from Amazon for $-75 after rebates. Woo. (So it was actually cheaper to do this than to just transfer my existing service, and I get a much nicer phone too.)

March 10, 2004

You got your game theory in my webdesign! ()

by fluffy at 06:34 PM
You got your webdesign in my game theory!

March 09, 2004

Albuquerque winter ()

by fluffy at 12:37 PM

March 08, 2004

Hidden costs ()

by fluffy at 01:44 PM
Well, I already got an offer on my house, for $79,500. So I thought I'd be making like $11K on it. Nifty. But then things added up fast.

Finally found an OSX theme I like! ()

by fluffy at 01:00 AM
I have finally found an OSX theme which is actually a suitable Aqua replacement. That theme is Latium.

March 07, 2004

Freejazz (, )

by fluffy at 12:38 AM

March 06, 2004

Welcome to Albuquerque ()

by fluffy at 10:52 PM
(From February 29.)

March 05, 2004

Disclosure statement ()

by fluffy at 11:11 PM
I am fairly certain that all of my code and everything else on this site is Y2K-compliant.

iTunes and official ogg support? ()

by fluffy at 02:30 PM
I was poking around inside the iTunes resource files, and came across a couple of interesting icons.

March 04, 2004

Interesting ()

by fluffy at 11:58 AM
Someone just tried to reset my password on my dyndns.org account. So either someone really wants the username "magenta" for some reason (even though the username never actually shows up anywhere aside from the person's configuration file), or they're trying to take over trikuare.dyndns.org (which is just a pointer for my own convenience, and currently not even in use) for some reason.

Some people are weird.

March 02, 2004

Two songfighty things ()

by fluffy at 01:50 PM
Remixfight featuring a baker's dozen remixes of Sunny Day is up. It is the awesome. I especially like Dr. Kong Balong, Mental Anguish, UnDesirable, Omnitechnomatrix, and Fourstones. Prank Monkey's is funny, too.

Also, Niveous wrote a silly fluffy porcupine theme song. (The "it's blinking" stuff is a reference to my forum avatar. I hope.)