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sharanI once again have time to post. The one big project I'm working on is in limbo because they didn't quite think through some changes before they gave them to me (I told them that section was somewhere in the database/tool that we have no idea how to access, but apparently they forgot). And it's one of those slow weeks so there's not much else happening here. In fact since it's so slow they told me I can get Friday off (it's a half day anyway) so it looks like I'm heading up to Baycon a day earlier than I expected with my roommate. The money would have helped with the dealer's room, but at least now I'll have a little more time to recover from the trip before the con starts.
I've actually been busy the past couple of weekends working on Rockers Online. The weekend before last I finished copying all the bands into a temporary database table so I could put them in the new layout, and this weekend I made the Concert Listings database driven and the entered 699 tour dates. With all the mindless copying and pasting into the datatbase I've been doing I've been catching up on a LOT of TV as I go, including the entire 1st season of Alias. It's nice to have time to really work on the site, and it's definitely paying off. Whenever I make a major update my traffic pretty much doubles. I went from about 3000 visits a month to getting 2200 visits last week alone. If I keep this up I should be back to the 3000 visits a week I used to get a few years ago. I just let the site go way too long without updating it.
Yesterday I managed to register for Calculus 2 at Santa Monica College this summer. The only problem is, the counselor I talked to thought the office to buy parking permits closed at 5 and that I could buy one online, but then I found out you HAVE to buy them in person and they're open until 8. *sigh* I guess this means another trip back there. At least it sounds like parking there won't be as bad in the summer as it is during the year.
I also have a new N-Gage QD. Another one. I've had so many problems with the old one it has to be defective (everyone has trouble hearing me when I call from it), and T-Mobile were offering a free one so I figured it was worth a try. Once I see if this one's better I'm sending the old one back to Nokia for repairs. I actually paid full price for that one, so it's frustrating. Well, it can't hurt to have 2, especially since at E3 last week they were showing demos for Sid Meier's Civilization for N-Gage which comes out in around September, and that's definitely a must have! It's the only mobile version of Civ so I'm really looking forward to that one! I might even take a break from The Sims Bustin' Out for that one;).
BTW, I've also been attempting to play The Sims 2 with University (I preordered The Sims 2 before it came out, but I never did get a chance to install it until about a week ago). I say attempting because the damn thing won't go very long without crashing my entire computer! It played for hours fine the first night, but then it crashed and since then I haven't been able to get it to go long without crashing. I even told people from EA at E3 when they asked if I play it;). Apparently I'm not the only one with this problem. They blame the crashes on other running processes, but when they're trying to tell you to kill all your processes besides taskmanager and explorer.exe just to get it to run that's just sloppy programming. I might have to try my desktop instead of my laptop, since last time it crashed my video card drivers, and there are no new versions of those available.
I'm so glad they got me a UPS here. The power blinked while I was writing this and I got to watch a lot of other people here disconnect from AIM while I was fine:).
I've actually been busy the past couple of weekends working on Rockers Online. The weekend before last I finished copying all the bands into a temporary database table so I could put them in the new layout, and this weekend I made the Concert Listings database driven and the entered 699 tour dates. With all the mindless copying and pasting into the datatbase I've been doing I've been catching up on a LOT of TV as I go, including the entire 1st season of Alias. It's nice to have time to really work on the site, and it's definitely paying off. Whenever I make a major update my traffic pretty much doubles. I went from about 3000 visits a month to getting 2200 visits last week alone. If I keep this up I should be back to the 3000 visits a week I used to get a few years ago. I just let the site go way too long without updating it.
Yesterday I managed to register for Calculus 2 at Santa Monica College this summer. The only problem is, the counselor I talked to thought the office to buy parking permits closed at 5 and that I could buy one online, but then I found out you HAVE to buy them in person and they're open until 8. *sigh* I guess this means another trip back there. At least it sounds like parking there won't be as bad in the summer as it is during the year.
I also have a new N-Gage QD. Another one. I've had so many problems with the old one it has to be defective (everyone has trouble hearing me when I call from it), and T-Mobile were offering a free one so I figured it was worth a try. Once I see if this one's better I'm sending the old one back to Nokia for repairs. I actually paid full price for that one, so it's frustrating. Well, it can't hurt to have 2, especially since at E3 last week they were showing demos for Sid Meier's Civilization for N-Gage which comes out in around September, and that's definitely a must have! It's the only mobile version of Civ so I'm really looking forward to that one! I might even take a break from The Sims Bustin' Out for that one;).
BTW, I've also been attempting to play The Sims 2 with University (I preordered The Sims 2 before it came out, but I never did get a chance to install it until about a week ago). I say attempting because the damn thing won't go very long without crashing my entire computer! It played for hours fine the first night, but then it crashed and since then I haven't been able to get it to go long without crashing. I even told people from EA at E3 when they asked if I play it;). Apparently I'm not the only one with this problem. They blame the crashes on other running processes, but when they're trying to tell you to kill all your processes besides taskmanager and explorer.exe just to get it to run that's just sloppy programming. I might have to try my desktop instead of my laptop, since last time it crashed my video card drivers, and there are no new versions of those available.
I'm so glad they got me a UPS here. The power blinked while I was writing this and I got to watch a lot of other people here disconnect from AIM while I was fine:).
