Jeff

new digs

So on Friday, I migrated my server from using Ubuntu 10.04 as the OS to Arch Linux. Even though Arch is not a distro aimed at stability, it is the distro I live in normally. I have grown to like a lot of the features of the OS (mostly that it doesn’t try to change the normal conventions of Linux) and it is much easier to work in because of this vanilla base. I am hoping to move some newer things into the site over time, like using LESS as the basis for my CSS. The Django stuff now uses WSGI and I may move from Apache to NGINX in time. I am going to try and fix up the Journal side of the admin stuff and then try to move onto rewriting the frontend of the site. I don’t know about redesigning it, but I will try and clean up a lot of the code base. I also need to move to using markdown in all my entries. That may be a project for next weekend.

In other news, we got our wedding bands this past weekend, so all that is left for us is to book the hotels and flights. The Grammy’s were last night (it was pretty weak IMHO) but I did discover a good band. It is this British folk band called Mumford & Sons, I have been listening to their album for the majority of the day, becoming quite the fan. Anyways, hopefully I can get to the frontend of this later this week.

I know, I know

I know, I have slacked on updating this for WAY too long. Most of the few (if any) who read this have spoken with me in the past few months. They know why I have postponed (read: slacked) updating this. I am now engaged and living with my fiancee. I went through a job hunt to move up here and then have been working hard at the new job since August. I have turned 25 (a big quarter of a century) and think I am in a pretty good place. I have not had any fast food or soda all year (check one for resolutions) but have pretty much died on working on Dominion. I think the issue with that was the complexity of the various actions of the game. My current project (read: ambition) is to rewrite the administrative side of this website and overhaul the codebase. I need to put it into version control, something I have talked about but never done. I will probably do that and then begin cleaning up much of the cowboy coded sections of the site. I will probably (hopefully) update this on the progress.

Okay, done with the mind dump. This will probably not be the last entry for another 6 months, so hopefully you return to read more. If not, shrug.

catch up

So this is going to be a large mass of info vomit. I have kind of neglected updating this for a while (almost 3 months in fact) so this is a long time coming. My one excuse for this delay is I was moving this site and my dad’s over to a VPS that hopefully gives better performance for loading stuff and I don’t have to depend on a less than dependable home ISP to host the stuff. So this should be getting read from my VPS, I need to update my dad’s site there before pointing his DNS to it still…

Kim graduates in the next few weeks. We get to live together pretty much from then on, which will be nice. The first time we really get to be around each other without constant chaos and stress (school and long distance). It will be nice tasting the future and getting used to it. She got a job so she will get to stay in the US, even though there is still a bunch to figure out in terms of visas for stuff, but that is all a nice hurdle to have to overcome. Hopefully everything works out great in these next few months :).

I realized that I am over a year behind in posting images to this site. I also realized just how crappy the UI design of the gallery is. I will probably find some time in the next few weeks to overhaul that. But that will come after I have revamped my desktop. I have wanted to move to XMonad for a while, but due to some technical hurdles (the nVidia XOrg drivers don’t support Xinerama easily, meaning I lose two monitors) I have been slow to make the change. I am going to try and spend some time soon trying to get past that and dive into a more productive system. Then I shall try and draw up a not sucky UI and set that up and then migrate over the images from Japan, Frisbee, and the other random ones I have.

I should probably write a follow up when I have a better organization of my thoughts. Sorry about this sudden and messy pile of info being vomited onto your browser…