Adventures in Zephux

Today, right after work, I am going to look at a rental house. I’ve been in the on campus apartments at University of Louisville for 6 months and I don’t want to be there all of next year. I found a house really close to campus and my job and it’s also really cheap (really too good to be true, I’m wondering what’s wrong with it. That’s why I’m taking a tour today). I was in an apartment for a year already before I went into on campus housing and I have to tell you… I don’t like them. Apartments are horrible things to live in, no loud music, no loud movies, no explosives. When I went into my search this time I was sure to only look at houses. No way am I getting involved with anything other than my own living space this time around. My brother is graduating high school this year, so he should be moving in with me in really early June I hope. He is also going into engineering… but I think, unlike me, he actually intends to be an engineer. BORING!

I’m stoked about actually getting to see this thing. If it looks half as good as the picture I am going to put a deposit on it immediately, I think. It’s rather large (1060 sq. ft. for two people is quite a bit of room) and, like I said, it’s right next to campus. I will literally be able to walk to class in the mornings. (I think Google maps said it was 0.7 miles from my classes lol, am I have a pretty nice bike) My only dilemma is getting all of my stuff from Cincinnati to here… I have a pickup, but that’s a lot of furniture and gas is $400 million a gallon. It’s going to be a couple of expensive trips, that’s for sure. It sucked moving it all from my apartment here back to Cinci when I went into the dorms. And I moved everything myself: dressers, tables, beds, couches, you name it… difficult because I’m a kripple. I really don’t want to do it again, but hopefully this is the end for a while, that would make me feel much better.

They kept me pretty busy at work today, so I didn’t really get anything done. I was trying to hook up this new wireless adapter I got (some usb edimax with a huge external antenna) to see if I could pick up that rogue wireless signal down the street (my EEE won’t grab it, my intel card in my Dell gets it alright though), but installing new hardware in Linux is a b*tch. So, that was a no go while I was working. I need a lot of free time to figure it out. Wish I was working on something fun

     Yesterday, I had stated how I was done with KreepyIndividual.com and was currently working on the new layout for KiPCs.com… False. I got more wrapped up in Kreepy Individual than I had intended. I started really looking at it and decided that I didn’t like how it was all square, so I made images to make the whole column look rounded. I like how it turned out (still needs a little work, my gimp skills aren’t phenominal). That got me looking a little more indepth into the code and I realized some of tags that I was using, <center> for instance, were far beyond deprecated. So, I ran my index.php page through the W3C XHTML Validator and I had something like 100 errors. Wow, that’s a problem.

     However, I trudged through it this morning and got my index page down to NONE! My homepage is now 100% XHTML and CSS valid. Which is good, I guess. Looking back, the time might have been better spent doing something else, like the KiPCs layout I was talking about, but it was entertaining anyway. The big green text that said VALIDATED made me feel a little better about my work. Now, I only have 20 or so more pages to do (which should honestly be a breeze now since the actual layout is validated and that’s where 80% of all the code comes from) and then I will have a fully valid site.

     My goal for today is to write my review of the His Dark Materials Trilogy, that I finished reading last week, and to write my long overdue review of the movie Jumper. I think my site is in dire need of some more content, as it seems to just be hopelessly floating. I would like it to, eventually, soar. I’ve got a few more articles to write, but if anyone has an ideas on some problems for me to solve, I’m more than open to suggestions. Some more tutorials never hurt. There is a place for that in the forums, actually. It’s hard to keep me on one project, can you tell? I desperately need to complete BitDestroyer before my brother throws some sort of hissy fit. I told him to stop complaining so much and just learn how to code so he could help me, but no… He would rather me do it. Well, that’s fine, but that also means it will get done on my schedule, and that doesn’t look promising since I already did the major outlining code of it, it’s just small, tedious work now and that’s usually when I get bored and the project never gets completed. So, good luck to you my beloved child, but you may not ever really exist. (False again, it is functional… kind of. You can connect and exist on the map, but there are no processes running nor do you have the ability to move or do anything. That counts as existing, right?)

     We will see what happens as the day moves forward. I do have some actual work to do, here, at my job, but after that I will get started on one of those reviews. I would like to see atleast one of them posted before 3pm.

     Isn’t the internet a scary thing? Most of my life is now virtual (lies! ha! But it is a dream). I want to document pretty much everything that I do (but I’m a lazy bum, so unlikely that this dream will ever see even a glimmer of the light at the end of the reality tunnel). So, I have set up this blog for the mundane stuff that can’t possibly be considered interesting enough for a randomness. This is just to document what I am up to on a daily (or not so daily, as it will become, trust me) basis. I will start with now.

     I am still working on a complete redesign of all of my sites. Kreepyindividual.com just saw it’s new template come to life. I officially installed all of my new code yesterday (still working out a few kinks) and almost everything seems to be functional. I don’t think I lost any content (a magnificent feat, that’s how you know that your modular site is really modular). I didn’t have to change any actual pages, just all the layout code, so I guess I coded it properly, that was the plan. I am now working on KiPCs.com, which is my business website for KreepyIndividual Personal Computer Systems and Kevin C. Kurtz Computers (the service side of things). Yes, I am an uber-geek; don’t make fun of me, it’s rude.

     So, that is today’s (and probably a lot more than just today) project. After that I would like to get the BitDestroyer site functional (kreepyindividual.com/bitdestroyer), it has some content now, but I need it to look good… It would also help if I eventually finished coding BitDestroyer I suppose… Definitely couldn’t hurt anything. It was coming along okay, but then I found myself a new lady friend and have been rather distracted for the last month (hence, not a single KI post in all of February), but I thought the new layout would kick it up a notch and I posted several new pages that I was withholding for the new event. (I think I will use this to post more personal stuff, I don’t like to talk about anything really personal in my randomnesses, the site was never meant for that, it was supposed to be a geek site… my personal life (or lack there of) should not be involved… much).

     I guess only time will tell if I actually use this or not, but either way, WordPress is some impressive software. I highly recommend checking it out if you are in need of a blogging package. I discovered this from fredart.com (the guy who owns MegaTokyo, my favorite online comic). He uses this as his blogger as well. Thought I would give it a shot.