Eriq’s Blag

Not really, but writing a plugin to display them on the correct days does. I just spent most of the day and morning working on this thing. Pretty much I can add names and birthdays to the database and then a box appears up at the top of my blog when one of those birthdays occurs. If it’s still before the 22nd then you will be seeing said box above this post right now. Now I just have to ask if my friends are ok with having their first name or nickname, their age, and birthday plastered on the internet, I assume they won’t mind since it doesn’t really tell much about them, other than, obviously, their age. I got stuck for a long time trying to get the stuff showing up on the correct days and displaying the right time, when I fixed one thing the other broke and I spent a good while trying to figure out what I had done. Of course it was one of those stupid errors that you don’t see because you thinks it’s right, but it’s not. Turns out I was trying to shove a month in the form of a string into a parameter that wanted a month as an int. I’m too tired to do any more.

Today had my History and poetry finals. History was ok; that is, I thought I did well, until my teacher came to my poetry final and told me to come to study hall when I was done. i thought it was because my second essay was near complete shit, but then that doesn’t actually make sense, he wouldn’t give me time and force me to fix it. No, it turns out that I missed a entire page of multiple choice questions and he didn’t want to have to take away all those points, so he let me finish them. It makes sense that I missed some because when I was taking it, I reached the end of the first set of multiple choice and was surprised because it hadn’t taken me that long. Poetry on the other hand was horrible, we had to prepare 3 outlines for different essays before hand and we would be told in class which to write. Turns out that we got to choose, unfortunately I didn’t really know what to write for any of them, so It came out as complete and utter shit. Too bad since it’s worth 100 points.

Today, instead of studying for Trig, which I will likely regret, I wrote a plugin that makes a list of bands that I have had stuck in my head and displays the latest one beneath the site title. There is also a page that display the list accessible on the sidebar or by clicking the name of the current band.

Huzzah! Hopefully I’ll think of something to make, because I really want to program. If I can’t think of anything to make in Flash, then maybe I’ll add stuff to the site, and if I can’t think of anything for that, then I’ll just watch TV.

A while back my dad complained about the amount of profanity I use in my posts. I don’t really give a shit, but since I had nothing better to do, I made a censor plugin. Visitors have the choice to either turn it on or leave it off. The censoring part wasn’t that hard (especially since that was the example on the WordPress site), it was the turning on and off that took a while.

I’m sick, it’s midnight, I’m going to wake up at 5 tomorrow because my brain thinks we’re still on daylight saving time, aaand I still have to finish this fucking bio poster.

Oh and my dad says that I should cut down on the swearing, but he doesn’t have to read this, so I think not.

Shiny!

Red vs Blue, arguably the best machinima series…ever, has finally reached its 100th (and last) episode. If you have never seen RvB, then you should know that there’s this thing called the ‘internet’ and your using it right now. So, if you haven’t seen it watch it now…all 100 episodes…it should only take, maybe, the better part of you day…GO!

So on Friday, my boss (Reggie) decides he wants a web cam in the computer room so that he can keep an eye on us. His web cam is almost the same as the one he gave me, but better. Now, when he first gave my web cam I was all excited, but then I realized that you had to sign up for an account on this stupid site to use it as a web cam, what bullshit. So after some fruitless searching for an alternative, I gave up. When Reggie asked me to set his camera up as a web cam I was doubtful I could find anything. I search for a long while with little luck. But then, 1/2 an hour before I went home I stumbled upon this: Yawcam.com. It was a miracle, a free-ware java web cam server! Unfortunately before I could figure it out, my father came to take me home. I’ve been playing with it for the past three days and I finally figured out a way to get it to work. There is probably a better way, but this will have to do for now…

It’s 5 days to Halloween (including Halloween) and I haven’t done anything to prepare. So I made this:

While working on it this happened:

I get this a lot from Cinema 4D. But thankfully I didn’t lose much.

I think it turned out pretty good. The face took forever.

Oh yeah, and I turned my Guestbook back on.