A Quick Update On Things In General
Classing Sheep (from The Commons)
I've been putting off getting my next PHP post up for awhile now. Things just seem to keep getting in the way. At work I've been either out or working through my lunches, and at home I've been busy with budget stuff and Emily looking for a job among other things. Part of it is that I wasn't able to get access to all but the most standard ports for internet traffic at work, which stopped me from doing any MySQL stuff. Anyway, I've hardly forgotten about my project. I've had an opportunity to work on some PHP stuff at work for our website. So at least things haven't fallen completely by the wayside this last couple weeks.
I figured to keep the site active I'd put this post up, and talk about a variety of random stuff in it. One thing I'd like to talk about is the pictures I've been using for posts. Anyone who has been visiting my site regularly will have noticed the old-timey photos I've been using. These are all from The Commons, a repository of public realm photography housed on flickr. It's tons of fun to peruse if you've got a bit of time to kill. All sorts of interesting archival photography. I like switching between looking up photos of famous events in history and thinking up more obscure searches to see what comes up.
In other news, I'm nearing 100,000 track plays on last.fm. There's a link to my account in the right column. I've been on last.fm for years, and it's pretty fascinating to look back through what I've listened to. All sorts of different kinds of music. Plenty of new artists I've discovered because of last.fm's recommendation engine.
On the videogame front I haven't been up to much. My grand idea to become a Master ranked 1v1 StarCraft 2 player hasn't really gone anywhere. I just can't really bring myself to commit the time and effort to go after it. I haven't even gotten myself reranked for season 2 in any bracket. SC2 isn't going anywhere though, so I could certainly get back into it this summer. Team Fortress 2 going free to play makes me want to install it again and see if Emily might play a bit too. It would be fun to play an FPS together, but it's not really one of her preferred genres. I got through some more campaigns of Shogun 2 at least, which was fun. Keep meaning to play some Shogun 2 multiplayer.
With my now unlimited bandwidth (through Distributel) I've been catching up on various shows through Netflix and other online sources. I'm on a pretty tight budget for the next while to pay off my credit cards, so not really in a position to be going out to pubs, other events, buy new videogames and so on. At least this should afford me plenty of time soon enough to push through the last half of my PHP book, get a bunch more posts up, and keep improving the site.
I suppose that's it for now. Can't think of anything else I'd like to say. The next PHP post is partially written, and I expect to finish it off this weekend, so stay tuned!
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