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Apparently someone that received one of the aforementioned handouts decided it would be a great idea to add insult to injury. The guilty party scanned the handout containing all of my contact information and posted it to the armpit of the Internet, 4chan's /b/ board.
It's amazing how long you can spend safeguarding your privacy, yet how quickly those barriers that you've erected can be broken down with one fell swoop.
Some wonderful people decided to hand out roughly 150 flyers containing my name, phone number, e-mail and IM addresses, and Skype name to various people on campus. Now that I'm receiving a deluge of phone calls and e-mails IMs and Skype requests, I figured I'd let everybody know that I may end up changing my phone number and e-mail address if things keep up like this.
Thanks a lot, world.
I've already had a few requests for a copy of the crowbar image I was using while my blog was down, so here it is:
It feels nice to have some time to spare and catch up on things. I've been quite busy recently, with family, life, work, and school, and the sheer volume of what's been going on had put me off from taking the time to write a blog entry about anything. For those that have kept up with me via e-mail, AIM/iChat, Skype, and the like, bear with me for just a moment.
Things start in mid-April, where I had been working on a series of videos for the senior comedy event at school. This was, more or less, the only time when...
For those experiencing difficulties with the blog these past few weeks, I offer the following explanation which I am fairly sure is not RFC 2616-friendly:
'Twas the Night Before Christmas, at my Family's House.
There were no sounds of stirring, save the click of a mouse.
For 'twas just like a childhood Christmas except
I'd forgotten the hours that normal folks slept
Merry Christmas, everybody.
I woke up this morning at 7:30 to my alarm clock, which I had no memory of setting. To the right of the time display was a Post-It note that read, "Take batteries off charger in basement."
I've concluded that I have a very strange way of giving myself reminders.
Upgrading to Subtext 2.1 on this server was a rather painful process. Database operations take forever to complete due to the 233MHz CPU, causing the web-based installer to time out... So I ended up pulling the SQL scripts from Subtext's SVN repository and installing them manually, which took somewhere around five or six minutes.
After installing the scripts in the wrong order twice, I got it right and found out that Subtext 2.1 is miserably slow. It takes just over a minute and a half for the site to compile down to HTML now. Be glad for caching and NGEN, or...
Yesterday, Antony showed me a Mii version of me, created using the Mii Channel on his Nintendo Wii.
I can't say I've ever seen myself in Mii form, so I'd say this is pretty cool. Thanks!
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