Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 -- DV Info Net just added a bunch of "crew member" badges
that those of us who follow the site can use to spread the word, so I stuck one over there on the left. The three of you who visit
my site on a regular basis (I'm kidding, of course; I have no repeat visitors) will now be permanently reminded of the
best video site on the internet. Take a look some time if you need advice about video production, and be sure to join the forums.
Bam! Word spread.
Monday, October 26th, 2009 -- Hot damn! Couldn't afford the hosting package I had with my last provider, but I was able
to find a replacement in the form of BounceWeb, and I just finished getting this place
back in business. The DNS change propagated in about thirty minutes, which was a pleasant surprise; all in all the whole thing was
over in a matter of hours, with only a few minutes spent researching mp4 MIME types (turns out the key here was adding video/mp4v-es
with an extension of mp4 to get the files to download properly). The site's back online, and I'm paying less than I was before, so I'm happy.
While I'm in an updatey kind of mood, I've got some Velvia 100 slide scans up over at Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itendswithtens/tags/velvia/
I plan to upload them here, as well, but I'm saving that for a redesign of the photo section, which is a little disorganized now.
None of that's happening tonight, though, it's too late. Keep an eye out, I'll get around to it sooner or later.
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 -- Over five months for this one, not bad. I'll see if I can hit six or seven next time.
DV Challenge 17 is up and running, "make a trailer
for a feature film". It's been on for a little while now, actually. This is the second weekend of a month long contest and I've yet
to get started. Got my idea all worked out, kinda sorta, but I haven't written or shot anything yet, so it's looking like another
last minute disaster. Wish me luck.
The short I was gearing up to make in the update below turned out to be a real piece of something, feel free to learn more about it over on
the Movies page.
Quick note, check the Twitter link over on the left if you're interested in hearing me spit out sub-hundred and forty character messages
about exactly what degree of jack squat I'm involved in day to day.
I guess this page is just going to get longer and longer until I figure out a way to archive old news items. I threw in a few hyphens
to make it a bit easier to read, but beyond that don't expect anything. Most full on blog software is too much hassle for such a simple
site with updates this infrequent. Over two years of this nonsense fits on less than two pages. Besides, it's nice being able to decide whether
or not I want you seeing everything I've ever said here.
I'll be rejiggering the layout of the movie page sometime soon; it's getting a little cluttered, plus I have more detail and so much
more behind the scenes material than would have fit in the message board threads where the films were first discussed that I need something
a bit cleaner. The movies aren't all that great, but there's more than likely a lesson or two to be gained from all my nitwit mistakes, so keep your
eyes peeled, you might learn something. Challenge 17 being what it is, of course, may put that off 'til late October, maybe even November.
I'm sure you're heartbroken.
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009 -- Looks like it worked! I'm up and running on X7 Hosting now,
and there were no problems with the switch. Here's hoping it stays that way.
Fun stuff, DVC 16 just started up,
and I actually have an idea I like. Something I really like, it turns out, and I put it together within only four days of the theme
announcement (though this time it's a prop requirement, not a theme). That's a personal record. Goes to show why I never get anything
done for the usual ten day contests.
Watch this space, because in early May you might have something worthwhile to watch.
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 -- Gasp and surprise, two updates in the same week? One day apart? Could you have imagined such a
world? I did some more Googling and testing, and figured out how to get this page to work in all the browsers I have access to. It
worked before in everything but IE6 (and if I fixed it there it would go screwy in Safari, Opera and Chrome), which my site stats
tell me a lot of people are using, so I looked into it. After much consternation I'm happy to report that a completely valid, pure
CSS approach made itself evident (had to get rid of an overflow : auto and accomplish my design with padding instead), and though
I had to get rid of the border around the site content, it was probably stupid anyway, so no big deal.
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Monday, March 9th, 2009 -- Took a few days longer than I'd planned, but the gallery is up! Hit the photography section to see
what's up.
As usual, I spent hours over engineering the page, only to find this photo gallery sample,
demonstrating just how stupid I can be. Using display : inline inside of a paragraph tag for the photo page made the whole thing work the way I
wanted it to in every browser I've yet tried. Amazing how complicated you can make this stuff when you don't know what you're doing.
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 -- Just over a month since the last bit of news; I'm getting better at this.
Just a quick layout update, I finally got around to figuring out CSS floats, and redesigned this place to work the way I'd always
wanted it to. If everything goes according to plan, all this crap should resize along with your browser window. All you web designer
types can keep screwing around with PHP, Javascript, AJAX, Ruby on Rails and whatever the hell else you're into these days, I'm content with
my little victory.
The damn pages even validated when I ran them through the parsers over on W3.org! I'm not one to put those goofy
stickers all over the site, it just made me happy to find out I'm apparently adhering to some sort of standard. I have priceless,
invaluable content here, you know? Got to make sure it's accessible by as many people as possible, lest they be deprived of my
genius.
Also working on a little photo gallery, give me a few days.
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 -- I'm Flicking now. Got a few pictures up,
go take a look unless you want to hurt my delicate feelings.
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008 -- Back in business! After some IP address confusion with the shared server my site's on, a few
changed passwords I hadn't heard about, and a gripping, edge-of-your-seat FTP file permissions drama, this place is up and running
as it's supposed to. That is to say, nothing's happened as far as any of you are concerned, and I have no interesting news. Except,
of course, that the Youtube links on the Movies page were broken (reuploaded the videos, never updated this site) and have been
replaced. This time, I've joined the twenty-first century and embedded them in the page (view them on Youtube if you want the high
quality versions).
Anyway, the server issues--or "The Troubles", as I've taken to calling them--were quite trying, and I'm happy to report that the
staff at CI Host/Hosting Support were nothing but help. Thanks to Ryan, John, Daniel, Alex, Josh, Chris, Ian, and Bill for spending
so much time on all this.
Took an awful lot of work to get some dipstick's worthless homepage back online, and I can't imagine they get paid enough to put up
with the likes of me all day.
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 -- Ow. Had a garage sale this past weekend, got to sit outside in the sun all day. Wee! Really, it's
good for my skin, to get burnt to a crisp every now and again. My face and arms still hurt. Skin cancer, here I come!
In less life threatening news, I've been playing Audiosurf since it was released on Steam, and
have only just done something worth showing anyone. Check me out playing "Come On" by Andy Hunter.
This, it seems, is my life. Jealous?
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 -- Listen up, you miserable bums! I'm on YouTube. Yeah,
I spell it with the capital T. Deal with it. Now go check out my stupid movies.
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 -- So there was a friggin' tornado in Brooklyn today. An EF 2, or some nonsense. Whatever,
I just have some stuff to show off. Do your standard right click and save here, the files are pretty big ('specially that last
video). Left 'em full quality so's you could get the full effect.
We noticed some heavy rain on the LIE on the way in. Harmless enough, and it
looked pretty damned cool rainin' sideways.
Eventually, after reaching a dead stop, and heading back up the on ramp to the service road, we reached the root
of the problem. I think the owner might need new upholstery.
Of course, some people had no trouble at all, and just rolled right on through.
You like that? It's like the links are right there, in the middle of the sentence! Obnoxious, I know, I'll stop now. There
are more pictures and a bit more video, but nothing really worth uploading. There was also a video of the ride in, with all sorts
of rain and oddly silent lightning, but at five and a half minutes and over seventy megabytes, I don't think anyone'd be interested.
Let me know if you really want it, I can always stick it up for a while.
