2005-03-28
New Error Pages
I felt like making an improvement today so I threw in new error 404 and error 500 pages.
Status Update
In case anyone is wondering why I haven’t added anything new to my site or blog, it’s because I’ve started spring cleaning my room and my hard drive. This year, I decided to completely re-think how I organize my computer so it might take a while.
2005-03-23
GTKtalog
Unless you’ve met me in person, you probably don’t know this but, I have over a thousand CD-ROMs. Up until recently, it wasn’t much of a problem since I could just remember which CD held what and where it was. But then I needed something from one of my misc-junk CDs. That showed me how much I really needed some kind of index for them. I put it off for months because I didn’t want to have to index all of my CDs by hand.
Today, I decided to look at it from a new angle and I realized something. Geeks are lazy and geeks have lots of CD-ROMs. Therefore, someone else should have already written a CD indexing program. It turned out that it was already installed as part of my default Mandrake Linux install.
GTKtalog is a Linux/*BSD-only CD-indexing marvel. Drop the disk in, click “Add CD” and it’s off. It even reads the metadata from music files (eg. ID3 tags) and dives into archives to index their contents.
With my books freshly cataloged and my CDs cataloging as I type, I’m feeling pretty good. Now all I need to do is find (or write) a way to keep track of a bookmarks list so massive and complex that a folder hierarchy is almost useless. (I have an idea for a database-based system but I don’t want to reinvent someone else’s wheel)
2005-03-20
Fanfiction – “War On The Main Line”
Title: A Late Bet Entry – War On The Main Line
URL: Direct Link – Florestica
Author: Dragon Claw
Source: Ranma 1/2, Ah! My Goddess
Rating: 4/6
Type: Self-Insert
Length: 5 Chapters and 3 Omake so far
This kind of reminds me of the stuff you get from Jared Ornstead. It’s funny, original, and doesn’t fall into the problems that most SI fanfics do.
It does have some problems with fanon Akane but I think that the good points outweigh them enough to make this a worthwhile read.
2005-03-18
New CSS-based Site Theme
Well, I decided to throw in the CSS-based theme before writing the new templating script. There is a bug when viewing the image gallery but I hope to have that fixed soon.
Review – “When The Last Sword is Drawn”
Mibu gishi den A.K.A. “When The Last Sword Is Drawn”
Yet another asian materpiece in which key plot elements are delayed until they will have the best possible effect. This historical drama is excellent and, as with My Sassy Girl, I will give it the best possible score.
As my friend Gabe said, “This is better than ‘The Seven Samurai’. That’s just famous because it was really good for it’s time. Go watch this, dummy!”. As my brother says, “I can’t watch North American movies anymore.” I agree with both of them.
I’m no authority on Samurai movies but I’m willing to take a risk and agree with a user review I saw on IMDB. Best samurai movie ever.
