Archives for December, 2004
BlogAid for the Tsunami Relief Effort
Posted on December 31st, 2004 @ 10:31 PM EST
Andy Budd has come up with a wonderful idea and has created a website at www.blogaid.org.uk to help out with the tsunami relief effort in Asia. If you have a weblog you should make a pledge to donate all proceeds made through your website for the month of January to help those affected by this terrible disaster.
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Finally Upgraded to Movable Type v3
Posted on December 30th, 2004 @ 1:16 PM EST
After many months, I finally got around to upgrading Movable Type to version 3.x. I had been putting it off because I was using six separate weblogs for various sections of the site and the 3.x version only lets you have three weblogs. In order to have more than three, a license is required which costs $69.95. I’ve been using Movable Type for around nine months and never had to pay for it. It’s one thing to charge a fee for commercial use, but why they decided to charge a fee for personal use is beyond me, especially when there’s many other publishing platforms available that are free.
I developed a standalone content management system using PHP/MySQL where I can easily update various sections (Bookmarklets, Bookmarks, DVDs, Favorite Movies, etc.) of the site. The only weblogs that I am now using is one for posts and another for the Photographs section.
The upgrade surprisingly went very smooth and it only took around 10 minutes. I haven’t come across any problems but if you stumble upon anything that isn’t working properly, please let me know so I can fix it.
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Meet the Fockers
Posted on December 28th, 2004 @ 10:15 PM EST
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My wife and I saw Meet the Fockers tonight. It set the record for the best Christmas weekend opening ever by earning $44.7 million over the holiday weekend which had previously been held by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Since Meet the Parents is one of my top 20 favorite movies, I couldn’t wait to see the sequel.
The Byrnes family along with Gaylord Focker (Ben Stiller) take a road trip down to South Florida to meet the Focker family who are quite the opposite of the Byrnes. The tables end up being turned around at the end of the movie when Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) is the one who does not belong just like Greg in the first movie.
Overall, it was pretty good, although I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first one. If you liked Meet the Parents, then you should definitely go and see Meet the Fockers!
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Merry Christmas!
Posted on December 25th, 2004 @ 11:35 AM EST
Merry Christmas to everyone! My wife and I are staying home for Christmas this year which is nice because it’s the first time I haven’t had to travel over the holidays in 10 years. We’re going to steam some oysters and enjoy a few beers later this afternoon. Tomorrow, my in-laws will be here and will be staying with us for a few days.
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Style Master CSS podGuide
Posted on December 14th, 2004 @ 10:18 PM EST
I can’t believe it’s been over a month since my last post! I promise that I will start posting more frequently! westciv has released a portable edition of their Style Master CSS guide which can be read on an iPod. This will certainly come in handy in the future.
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