Twev1701.net 2002-2012

Storm Bearing Down

Trev — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:52:22 +0000

So we’ve got a storm headed our way. There is no doubt about that. What is in doubt is what we will get? Snow? Ice? Rain? All three? Only time will tell.

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Meds

Trev — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:20:57 +0000

I went to work this morning feel like total ass. I had no voice, was congested beyond belief, had a headache and severe sinus pressure. I lasted a whopping 2 hours before I threw up the white flag and went home. On my way home, I called my doctor and got an appointment for later this morning. My self-diagnosis was confirmed — sinus infection. So, I am now on a sough syrup and an antibiotic. This is great since I am off this weekend and won’t have to miss any work. What is not so great is the fact that we are planning on recording Episode 43 of Growing Up Geek this evening.

How does one record a podcast when one has no voice?

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Resistance Is Futile

Trev — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:45:40 +0000

I have been fighting off a cold for the past 2 months. This morning, I have officially lost. I’ve got the chills, a cough, mucus coming out of everywhere, and a general feeling of ‘blah’. I feel so crappy that I even stopped at the store on the way home from work and picked up some cough medicine.

As I write this shivering under my blanket, Jackson is next to me and he’s sick himself. He has diarrhea and won’t eat. Thankfully, it’s not the same thing I have. Probably just a small stomach bug.

I can’t wait to get him down for the night so I can go to bed myself. Normally I would think about taking a day off from work, but I can’t since we’re short staffed.

Oh well…

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Can’t Sleep

Trev — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:18:01 +0000

I had great plans to be in bed at a reasonable hour tonight. As you can tell by the time code on this post, it is not a reasonable hour and I am not in bed.

Insomnia and I are not strangers. In fact, I have always been a night-owl. It used to be the norm that I would be up until 3am nightly, get about 4 hours of sleep, and have a full and productive day. Sadly at my age now, that is no longer an option. The older I get, it seems the more sleep my body requires.

One positive note on not being able to sleep is that it gives me time to clean out the DVR.

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My Current Desktop 02-01-12

Trev — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:11:46 +0000

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Simpler Was Better

Trev — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:24:24 +0000

I don’t know why but I have been thinking about web services that have gone the way of the dinosaur lately. Of all the web services that have come and gone, the one I miss the most is TextAmerica. What was TextAmerica? It was a photo sharing site. More specifically, it was a moblog hosting site. It was simple, it was sleek, and it did its job just fine.

TextAmerica was a place where you could just upload photos from your phone via email and it would simply display a thumbnail with the title. That’s it. No tags, no location data, no sets — just your pic and a title. It not only made uploading pics easy, but it made it addictive as well.

I have been a Pro member of Flickr since 2006. I have over 3,000 photos on that site. And yet lately, I haven’t been uploading pics because I just don’t feel like going through the hassle. The method of uploading has been relatively unchanged since 2006. That’s a royal pain the in the ass. I want a system like TextAmerica where it’s simple and works beautifully.

I downloaded the desktop version of Picasa tonight with the thoughts of maybe moving onto that platform to post my pictures. I’ll play around with it more tomorrow night. I could go back to Buzznet, the very first service I used for a moblog back in March of 2004, but that really seems extreme considering I left them because they really started to suck. I just logged back into my account over there and they’re not much better then they were when I left in 2005.

I am off on Wednesday and Thursday. I think I may have to devote some geek time and investigate this issue further. Either way, I have a feel this was the last year I pay $25 to be a Flickr Pro member.

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That Was Short Lived

Trev — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:58:29 +0000

My stomach is back to ripping itself apart and I once again find myself on the toilet. I should have known better… No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Hungry Like The Wolf

Trev — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:15:11 +0000

My life is run on irony.

My wide and I have a mutual agreement when one of us is sick: one sleeps on the club and the other gets the bed so each person can get a good night’s sleep. Last night I got the bed, so tonight I have the couch. I finally get to sleep only to be woken up about 20 minutes later by my stomach. It was an intense pain. Sitting up, I realized it wasn’t nausea. It was actually hunger. Not having much to lose, I ate a muffin and a handful of tortilla chips. Much to my surprise, they tasted great. It would appear that I finally got my appetite back. However, now that I have eaten, I’m wide awake. So now I’m sitting here, catching up on the past 2 months of ‘Sanctuary’ on the DVR, waiting for the first shift to get to work so I can call in sick. I’d actually consider going in if it wasn’t for the fact that A) my shift start in less than 4 hours and I haven’t slept yet and B) even though I feel fine now that may change once my body Tatars to digest the food I just ate. So, I’m going to call in and take an extra day off.

For me, I’m going to watch another episode and then call into work.

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Down and Out

Trev — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:40:37 +0000

Well it’s finally happened. The sickness I have been fighting for the past 2 months has finally won. Unfortunately to win, it did have to call in reserve troops in the form of a very nasty stomach virus. Nearly half of our store called in sick with it yesterday, and I have a feeling the other half (me included) called in sick today.

Right now the virus is somewhat at bay I am not giving it any ammunition. I haven’t had anything more than a handful of crackers to eat in the past 20 hours. Also, I haven’t had anything to drink in over 12. This has kept the virus from emptying out my system, one way or another, like it was for several hours last night.

Unfortunately, it looks like Jess maybe coming down with the bug now. In fact, both of us are on the couch right now, huddled under blankets, watching ‘Captain America’.

As for a return to work tomorrow, this is questionable. It really all depends how I feel. I do get a distinct feeling that I may be taking a 2nd day off so that I feel better for our planned ‘date night’ on Friday.

For now, it’s back to the movie.

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Celebrating 10 Years

Trev — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:05:11 +0000

2012 marks the 10th Anniversary of this site. There’s a long story about how it started off as Twev1701.com, then was FORCED to move to Twev1701.net. If you’re really that interested, you can read about it here. What’s more important then that is that it’s been around, regardless of the name, for 10 solid years.

Back when I first started the site, a program like WordPress didn’t exist. What I used back then was a series of scripts called NewsPro. It work very well except for one very important things — no database. All of the posts were stored into one large file that was then parsed and displayed on your site. This was fine for me back in 2002 when I was making mindless posts about this and that. However, I soon realized that it was a mistake the first time I moved to a different program. None of my old posts were transferrable. In fact, this would be true for a great many years. It wasn’t until I moved to MovableType that I had a true database backend. Luckily, when I finally settled into WordPress, I was able top transfer all of my old MovableType posts over. It’s taken many years and searching various hard drives, but I have managed to salvage a good number of posts from my pre-MovableType days. Unless I find some great unknown file somewhere, the earliest post I have a permanent record of is from April 21, 2002.

So what is a guy to do to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this site? I’m honestly not sure. So, I decided to have a little fun. I went back and grabbed a bunch of old headers that I still had from the last 10 years of site designs, and loaded them up into this design. Every time you load a new page or refresh the page, you’ll get a random header form the past. I even dated marked them with their debut date so that you can see when it was from. This was actually a fun, if not daunting project. It was a great going back and looking at not only all of my old designs, but through all my old files as well.

So what’s in store for the next 10 years? Who knows. I started this site because I always wanted to own my own site that was controlled 100% by me. I never imagined back in 2002 that it would still be around 10 years later. I think I’ll close out the first decade of this site fittingly with this…

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