I’m almost through with the spring 2008 semester and I couldn’t be happier. Next week I have finals and after that I have training for one of the jobs I’m getting this summer. (I got a phone call a couple days ago asking if I was still interested in this local internship, and I definitely am, so I’ll probably be working around 60 hours a week - but such is what I have to do to pay for college, I guess.)

Anyway, I’ve got a blog post saved for Tuesday/Wednesday depending on the circumstances. Quite angry that it’s not going to be going up Monday - you’ll understand after you read the blog post. I’m sorry I can’t provide more details right now.

Anyone else catch the most recent episode of “The Office“? I hate (love?) how the last few episodes have left be longing for more at the end of each one. Spoilers ahead, beware… Read the rest of this entry »

Just thought I’d make a quick post about this awesome Web site I’ve found: Pandora.com. You can create your own “radio station” to listen to - for free! You “thumbs up” songs you like or “thumbs down” songs you don’t. I’ve been listening to it frequently lately because of the lack of a good alternative rock station here at university.

Any interested parties can view my Pandora profile here.

I love, love, love Wordpress version 2.5. The new “update automatically” link for outdated plugins is simply amazing. Now it will be so easy to keep up-to-date with everything like I mentioned in my last post in relationship to the recent hacking on my hosting account. I’m still not sure if I particularly like how they’ve moved around and reorganized things but I’m hoping that I’ll grow to like it. Yay for Wordpress!

In other news, certain individuals have been contacting me in regards to both link exchanges and affiliation. Read the rest of this entry »

I apologize for all of the mess that you might have saw this morning (and the mess that my fanlistings are still in). My site was hacked because I had a Coppermine installation that I had not used in over a year and had completely forgotten about - until I saw the mess this morning, looked in my raw access logs and tracked down the culprit… Please let this be a reminder to everyone: delete any scripts that you do not use, update any scripts that you do use with the latest updates, and update any plugins you use. Because I forgot to delete that crappy Coppermine installation, I now have to look through every single PHP file and delete a section of code that the hacker appended to every single PHP file. I have at least 10 PHP files for each of my 52 fanlistings on top of all of the Wordpress files I’ve already updated that I still need to fix.

I’m going to use my handy ReminderFox Firefox addon to remind me to check things for updates once a month or so. I would advise everyone to do the same.

[Edit 1:52AM Sunday, April 20] I’ve managed to clean up everything, I think, from this site to all of my fanlistings, my Q*bee quilt, and my portfolio. If you see any weird things going on please let me know. [/Edit]

I got up around 10 a.m. so that I could get some homework done (and that I did - around 50 pages of Archaeology and two chapters of Psychology), and then I made some macaroni and cheese for lunch. I sat down at my computer to see what was in the news, and lo and behold, I find this: Obama’s Religious Rhetoric Puts Faith in Spotlight.

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