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Site Updates – no. freaking. wai.

Monday, February 21st, 2011 at 8:59 pm

Last time I did any site updates was Oct 28 apparently. It’s been 4 months (1/3 of a year) -_-;

Let me first explain why there were site updates:

I’m supposed on-call for work today. What this means is that if I get a call to do work, I have to be available to do it. Now, generally on a day like today, where I’m on call, I would wake up at 9am. Check my work email. If all’s good, go back to sleep for 30m or 45m (wake up via alarm) and check my work email again. After waking up at 9am, and then again at 9:30am, I woke up and checked my email and then…

*cold sweat* my home computer freezes (rare for my Windows 7 nowadays). I restart but the thing fails to bypass the boot screen upon restart. I can see the boot screen fine so my graphics card is okay (not like last time :/). Hard Drive failure? CPU overheat? I assume the latter, despite having 6 fans. I open the case and the inside is a dust ball. Usually I clean it before it gets to this state, I must have been lazy lately. Anyways, I turn off the computer, give it a good compressed air + vacuum + cool down rest….restart it and it’s okay. Whew! :D
It’s 10am now….but due to my *cold sweat*, I’m wide awake. Losing a computer is bad enough but since I’m on call, and today’s a holiday, if I couldn’t get my computer working, I might have to go in to work! And my comp would be broken for at least a day or two…anyways, luckily that didn’t happen :)

It’s 10 and I’m awake but still mentally sleepy…I was bored, going through my recently organized bookmarks, and I decided on a whim to update my site (too sleepy to study, must stay quiet as Z’s still asleep, my options for stuff to do were low).

*11 hours pass, more computer cleaning was done, naps, eatings, watching Edward Scissorhands, image resizing and stuff….leads us to now*

So, site updates:

  1. Unsecured my Resume section. Partly because I couldn’t remember my own username/password and had to check my inline code every time I wanted to see it. Partly because I was originally worried that people were stealing the format but now I’m not worried so much about that…
  2. Finally updated my Links section! It’s not perfect, I still want to write blurbs for every site…but…well, I accomplished a lot so far. Go check it out! :D

What do I have planned for the rest of the month…

Saturday, February 19th, 2011 at 5:44 pm

This month has been pretty much a terrible development month…it’s been like 19 days and I’ve done nothing.

I’ve played some Marvel VS Capcom 3…enough that I need a bit of a break from it.
I’ve played a lot of DOTA…Z vowed to stop DOTA til she’s done school so I’ve been playing a lot less…it’s not as fun playing alone
I’ve stopped blogging…nothing to write about really. Lots of complaints but no one who wants to listen :) It’s been a personally difficult month but nothing I really want to share…

I plan to finish my Social Network post ASAP…and do that before I start reading my new ASP.NET 4.0 book. Compared to how long it took to finish my CSS book, I’ve made snail’s progress with my OOP book. Hard to learn when I didn’t feel like I was learning anything. So I gave up on that. I wasn’t going to make any progress anyways, giving that up was just a matter of time really. The momentum from my CSS book only carried me so far. I have a new ASP.NET 4.0 book. Well, I sorta always had it (digitally) but I really can’t/couldn’t study off something online. It’s just not the same.

So my plan is to catch up on shows today, maybe blog my Social Network post, and then open up my ASP.NET book and start studying.

Also, I do really want to update my links section…I’ve started following a number of (anime/game/toy/technology/comic related) blogs lately and I’m getting a bit disorganized. I need to centralize the links.

I have much to do but sadly, I’m quite sleepy….*yawn*

Marvel VS Capcom 3

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 at 11:08 pm


No time to blog! Playing Marvel VS Capcom 3 :D Very fun playing Zero (my favorite MMX char), Phoenix,etc. Just beat it once. Going to try to unlock more stuff/play different people

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Accomplishments #4.5 – Mid February 2011 Edition

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 at 12:01 am

Terrible 15 days of unproductivity. Terrible. Terrible. I should punish myself but that does not sound like it is in my best interests so I won’t.

Shows / Movies

Books & Manga
Street Fighter: The Ultimate Edition Book 2 – complete

warrenshea.com
Finish my Social Network post….you stupid procrastinator (by you, I mean me). – in progress

Gaming
Finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) – to do

Web Development and Design
Object Oriented Book (Finish?) – to do, have not read anything in 15 days
Start HTML5 and ASP.NET book – to do

Other

Notes
I partly blame the pain I’d been experiencing since Feb 4. Man, has it been 11 days already? I’ve missed 2-3 days of work outta the last 5 as well as missed today because I went to UWaterloo. Falling behind in work. >_< Right before a big deadline. I need to get my ass in gear but I find I'm just so terrible unmotivated/distracted with other things lately. Playing a LOT of DOTA in my free time. Z's gotten pretty good lately and we've been playing a lot together, working on our teamwork in game as well as real life.

I’ve realized that I’ve had the OOP book open, on my desk for 15 days, w/o touching it. I’ve got good intentions but…you can’t get anything done with simply good intentions alone!

Because of the recent health related issues, I’ve been blogging more which is a nice side effect. I was worried from January that this blog was on the death bed…but maybe I just needed a bit of a break. I notice as my web development reading went down, my blogging (as well as my DOTA) went up. Sorta as expected. Well, except for the DOTA. Without the health issues, I wouldn’t have so many posts though. I haven’t been walking to work lately. The pain in my abdomen is aggravated the more I walk so I definitely did NOT walk to work this month. I totally, now that I haven’t walked to/from work in so long, really appreciate and love that walk to work. Getting my brain going to write/blog/think, etc. Like driving alone…your head just….wanders off to a nice place. I can’t wait until it’s warm and my pain is gone and I get back to normal.

I Pikachoose You! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Monday, February 14th, 2011 at 5:30 pm

I Pikachoose You!