weird people visit this site.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under google
I was just checking over some google analytics stuff, and checked the keywords that people who ended up on this blog used to search… here’s a quick selection:
- detour1999
- 1999.com
- first time in the ass
- google and friends and people
ok, ok, wat?, ok…
seriously wtf? hilarious.
-d.
the new version of PDT is awesome.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under nerdly, tech-i-use
One thing that I should remember to do (in addition to my tech-i-use page) is get the RSS feed for releases… then I wouldn’t have been three days late to the PDT 2.0 party.
I’ve moved one of my dev machines to PDT 2.0 (eclipse 3.4) and so far it’s pretty cool (it fixed my issue that I had been having with PDT 1.0 (eclipse 3.1[?]).
I’ll report back when I’ve used it a little more, but my first impression is that it is as good as the old one, and Eclipse loads in almost no time, relative to how it used to be.
Also, I’m using the “press-this” tool for wordpress, it’s pretty nice.
excellent.
-d.
new wordpress.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under nerdly
I updated to the newest version of wordpress now that I have a relatively steady internet connection, and I have been mesmerized by the changes. Seriously, I have just been playing around in the admin panel for about 20 mintues just checking out all the new features.
I must say, I am incredibly impressed. This is an amazing administrative section that really allows me as a user to have less of a barrier to blogging.
Hopefully, that means that I will do it more…
Also, I now realize that I had some drafts saved from a while back. Ha! Who knew? I’ll try to finish up those and post them asap.
being without internet
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under nerdly
is a pain in the ass.
I am on vacation for the first time in ages, and for the first time in longer than I can remember I have been mostly without internet.
So, I had to do something about that.
Using this sweet app, these directions and FoxyProxy I am now writing this on my laptop on the blazingly fast 3g connection of my G1 (~400K down/~150K up)
(in reality, all internet feels slow to me now that I am used to the 100MB fiber @ work. However, I still use the shared 56k line at my parents when I’m there, and I’m happy to know that I’m significantly faster than that…)
so, happy xmas to me, I’ll be able to code and waste time on the internet on the train this weekend.
Phones and such.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under nerdly
I got an iPhone a while back, and I must admit that it is one of the nicest examples of consumer electronics I have ever used.
I’m writing this post on it right now. I never would have dreamed of writing a blog post on my old mda (even with its full qwerty keyboard…) it was just too slow and cumbersome.
All that being said, I went ahead and preprdered a G1 android phone the other day. I doubt that it will replace the iPhone. But it will be incredibly nice to compare them side by side. (and, admittedly, I’m a he’ll of a lot better at java than I am at objective C, so that will be fun, too.)
I look forward to writing more on the subject, once I get the G1 in my hands.
The survey…
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under Uncategorized
A List Apart’s yearly “survey for people who make websites” is up.
I took it. It took about 5 minutes to fill out.
I love data, so all of you should take it too.. (if you make websites)
werd up.
-d.
Welcome to 2007, Dylan…
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under Uncategorized
So, I got off of my lazy ass and installed Windows Live Writer.
I’ve heard from so many people that I should try it out for blogging, but as I mentioned above… I’m really lazy.
First impression: it’s pretty nice, I guess.
Second impression: I essentially stopped using almost all software made by microsoft about a year ago, because I generally couldn’t afford it, and there were equivalent or better OSS or free alternatives.
as it turns out, I think I prefer non-msft style. It just took me 10 minutes to figure out how to get to the edit source… The layout is just not conducive to how I work anymore. Weird. I was a msft-only guy for close to a decade… and I lost it all in less than a year.
And I’m all right with that.
Firefox 3: thoughts and impressions.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
Well, I did my part.
I just installed the latest Firefox as part of download day.
My first thoughts (I haven’t looked at ff3 since and early beta…)
- I miss my bookmarks that all got deleted (meh.)
- I miss(ed) firebug. (getfirebug.com v.1.1 v.1.2 works just fine)
- I miss(ed) firecookie (http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/firecookie-05-beta/ v0.5 seems to work fine)
- Firefox no longer crashes fatally every time I close it. (seriously, every single time I closed it)
- Startup and shutdown are INCREDIBLY fast compared to ff2.
- I miss my themes… and mozilla.org is a little swamped right now, so I can’t get a new one. However, the default theme is really not bad at all.. I just miss my old one.
We’ll see how well it deals with being left running…
hopefully I’ll never see memory usage of 1,268,300k ever again.
I’ll update with more as I remember things.
Update:
I upgraded to ff3 on my macbook.
- Colorzilla needed to be upgraded ColorZilla v2.
- Bookmarks transferred just fine…
my life as a sitcom.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
So, I’m getting married…
For some reason there are a bunch of people that share my and my fiancees names, so I was unable to get dylanandsarah.com or any variation on that… out of frustration, I found a URL that fit my mood.
myfuckingwedding.com
awesome.
in a fit of brilliance, my wife-to-be suggested dylanlovessarah.com. Acquired and set up. Rock.
in a fit of general stupidity, I had extra invitations printed (in comic-sans…) that told people to rsvp @ myfuckingwedding.com… to send to my friends who would undoubtedly find it as hilarious as I do.
Today we found out that at least one of the “informal” rsvp cards was inadvertently sent to one of Sarah’s cousins.
Hilarity ensues.
gChartPhp - sometimes life gets the best of you.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under google, nerdly, programming
yeah..
I haven’t touched gChart in months.
Realistically, I’m not going to… I’m just way to swamped at work.
If someone wants to take over, lmk. I’ll gladly add you to the project.
Otherwise… who knows.
-d.