I've finally made some serious changes to my website management. Although it may look the same, virtually everything underneath has been rewritten. I don't want to list the complete set of changes but the following things were of the most importance.

• I've eliminated the user authentication required to post and moved to a moderated system.
• I've decided to show my categories lists. Previously I used them only for my own personal tracking.
• I've added RSS2 feeds to posts, comments and categories.
• I've added a cookie to only track your names for login.
• Moved entirely to a mod_rewrite based navigation.

There must be a few dozen bugs or quirks I have yet to fix, so for the next few days or weeks, I don't know if there will be any disasters. I'll be parsing my 404 messages for a month or so at least.

Open wide the doors to spam, random posts, and hopefully a nicer experience at this site.

Edit: (10/4) I had some comments being swallowed up due to errors with the database. Should be fixed now.

Posted in: Website,

Someone I know once worked at a hardware store and during the summer a few years ago, like any other summer, there were gas grills on sale. So he convinced his father to buy one. His father apparently thought they were a bit too pricey but after some negotiation and discounting, a sale was finally made.

The grill was rather large so I helped him out to transport it and assemble it. Overall it appeared to be a fine product without any serious problems. However upon inspection by his father, he noticed a tiny dent on the lower storage tray. Although not visible unless closely examined, his father found it unacceptable and rather blemished for the price he paid. Functionally, the unit was perfect. Anyways he went back to the store to see if he could get a replacement storage tray or some sort of compensation. Fortunately for him they were able to order one free of charge.

Some weeks later, the replacement tray arrived. After picking it up and showing it to his father both of them were finally satisfied. To conclude the matter his father told him: "Good! Now keep this good tray in storage and leave the dented tray on the grill."

Posted in: Life, Philosophy, Funny,

The New 7UP is now 100% natural. Somehow it doesn't taste any better. If you let it sit for a few minutes it's worse than club soda.

How about that Sprite? I see very bizarre Sprite commercials with multi-color sumo wrestlers.

Remember in 1991 when Cindy Crawford unveiled the new Pepsi logo? Well, I remember it. Why couldn't 7UP (or Sprite) just do that?

Or they could have somehow utilized the stolen Coke formula. But I've always preferred the taste of Pepsi over Coke (nothing to do with the aforementioned supermodel).

Ahh the mysteries of the carbonated refreshment world.

Posted in: Random,

So the best way to convince your girlfriend to marry you is to run across the street naked.

Other serious questions are also raised, can I shoot at any unclothed person on the street? Did his girlfriend say yes? Was the gun man shooting at anything in particular? Would a woman do this to convince her boyfriend? Would she be shot? ... Or maybe this only applies in Ann Arbor. I'll have to think about that.

Posted in: Philosophy, Funny, Random,

Apparently today should be the end of the world or something like that. Seeing as the 666 is the mark of the beast or something like that and today is 06/06/06 based on some gregorian calendar or something like that. To that effect the remake of the 1976 classic horror movie The Omen was released today. I just thought it would be funny to note that I watched the original movie for the first time exactly 66 + 6 days ago. Imagine that. And if I am so lame, I could also wait a few minutes or so and post this at 6:06 Central Time! But I think I made my point.

Posted in: Movies, Random,