June 3rd 2009
Name Project
I work as a cashier. I take in about $600 cash on average every night. That means I see a lot of money.
Every once in a while a bill will have a name written on it.
I write that name down.
I post it here.
- Gary
- John Arnold
- Timmy/John
- Jazz
- Eric D
- Catherine Smith
- April
- Gary Glass
- Larry T
- Vickie
I’ll post more each week. If only I could find a convenient way of taking pictures at work >.>
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May 11th 2009
Fixwurk!
My Wordpress theme must be perfect until I create a new one.
Things fixed:
- Upgraded Wordpress to latest version.
- Added security keys… for security.
- Installed Askimet, a spam-catching plugin.
- Added styling for code examples in body text.
- Finally created a Custom 404 page. Well, it already existed, but Wordpress/my server won’t recognize a custom one unless the .htaccess file is modified. I must learn to surf the WP documentation better.
Here’s what you can add to your .htaccess file in your root directory:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
This processes the error file along with style and such. Keep in mind that .htaccess is in your root folder - If your blog is elsewhere you’ll need to add the relative path from the root directory. As such:
ErrorDocument 404 /blog/index.php?error=404
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May 3rd 2009
Youtube hates XHTML 1.0 Strict
It really does. It took a mindmeld to figure this out, mostly thanks to this guy: Gary @ Pento.net.
The Problem:
<object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jItz-uNjoZA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jItz-uNjoZA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object>
- Embed is not supported.
- Multiple parameters are poopy.
The Solution:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/jItz-uNjoZA&hl=en&fs=1" width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jItz-uNjoZA&hl=en&fs=1"></param></object>
- It’s better to combine multiple call tags.
- This code is much tidier than the original.
- Fullscreen and “script access” are unecessary.
- Values shouldn’t need to be mentioned more than once.
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April 10th 2009
I love …..Little girls?
This song from Oingo Boingo has invaded my brain. And I like it.
I figured I would infect you, too.
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February 26th 2009
Winter break!
It’s winter break and I have done nothing. I had a brief 5-hour foray into the board game Descent. (DOOM, essentially.) I have lab reports I need to be doing but I’d rather just sit and internet all day. I put these things off because I know I can get away with putting them off until the last minute. Riot, my fanlisting collective is functional but the image needs to be re-sized and a background needs to exist before I can even begin to promote it.
Spiders. They all move as one!
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February 17th 2009
It’s…. Alive!!
That’s right. I’m back in motherfuckin’ action. Take that, internet!
Currently working on my fanlisting collective which will be located @ http://fan.d3adly.net.
Also working on new layouts for everything. I will miss this one. 
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March 22nd 2008
Oh, great day!
Results of D3adly.net’s web page speed report from Website Optimization.com:
- TOTAL_HTML - Congratulations, the total number of HTML files on this page (including the main HTML file) is 1 which most browsers can multithread. Minimizing HTTP requests is key for web site optimization.
- TOTAL_OBJECTS - Congratulations, the total objects on this page (including the HTML) is 3 which most browsers can multithread. Minimizing HTTP requests is key for web site optimization.
- TOTAL_IMAGES - Congratulations, the total number of images on this page is 1 . Most browsers can send multiple requests, which can speed display of multiple images.
- TOTAL_CSS - Congratulations, the total number of external CSS files on this page is 1 . Because external CSS files must be in the HEAD of your HTML document, they must load first before any BODY content displays. Although they are cached, CSS files slow down the initial display of your page.
- TOTAL_SIZE - Congratulations, the total size of this page is 14078 bytes. This page should load in less than eight seconds on a 56Kbps connection - or 3.41 seconds. But there’s always room for improvement.
- HTML_SIZE - Congratulations, the total size of this HTML file is 5320 bytes, which less than 20K. Assuming that you specify the HEIGHT and WIDTH of your images, this size allows your page to display content in well under 8 seconds, the average time users are willing to wait for a page to display without feedback.
- IMAGES_SIZE - Congratulations, the total size of all your images is 5992 bytes, which is less than 15K. Ideally each image should be less than 1160 bytes, to easily fit into one TCP-IP packet.
- CSS_SIZE - Congratulations, the total size of your external CSS is 2766 bytes, which is less than 4080 bytes. This will fit into three higher-speed TCP-IP packets.
- MULTIM_SIZE - Congratulations, the total size of all your external multimedia files is 0 bytes, which is less than 4K.
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March 21st 2008
Plans, other things (cont.)
I would like to start my own business. I feel it’s finally time I start applying the skills I already have to make myself money. I could design websites for people, or make my own. Practice some more, you know? My current job doesn’t pay nearly enough as it should, and I must say, sitting on my ass for a few hours and making money sounds great. I need to get this “Web 2.0″ idea down. Great sites these days have this similar look - white background, bright, fluorescent colors, dropshadowed buttons, the Arial font. Think Flickr.
Have you been to Musicovery? One of my cow-orkers showed me this. What a wonderful thing! I don’t feel like explaining it because it’s so awesome! Go there! It plays music!
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March 21st 2008
Plans, other things.
Wonderful! Not really! Pants!
Shmee shmee shmee.
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January 25th 2008
Job Troubles
My boss informed me today that the company is considering using volunteers to do basic shift work - conversing with customers logging people in to Smartlaunch, our game center user management program, and possibly operating the register. Currently, this is my job aside from fixing many hardware and software related problems that might arise. This is disconcerting because:
- I can’t do computer work constantly for 28 hours a week. There’s only so much any person can do, and our computers don’t particularly have any problems because I’ve fixed most of them already.
- I would have to supervise this volunteer.
- Wages have already been decreased for all employees to 7.15/hr - minimum wage. (I was making $8.15/hr while doing tech-related work.)
Therefore, with only doing computer related tech work sparingly when problems arise, and doing so at minimum wage is officially putting me in the poverty box. The only reason I’m still doing okay is the fact that I get about 56 hours in a paycheck. That’s doable.
I started looking for another job about three weeks ago when I heard about the wage change, the market sucks though. I’m seriously worried.
Life is super lame sometimes.
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