Well I noticed my blog entries have cut down since I decided to keep the blogging to more of a personal level - but then again who needs yet another news site anyway - and lets be completely honest (I am a big boy I can take it). It is very highly doubtful that you are heading over to my humble blog to get the latest news stories in the gaming world anyway 
It’s Sunday afternoon and I randomly decided to take a moment and blog about my weekend, and other recent happenings.
Today was an interesting day to say the least. For starters, I was in charge of a pretty big change at work - the task at hand was to change a single server which currently houses about 5 live websites, as well as the databases for those webistes and about 15 or so windows applications (and even an access 97 database ’application’) to be split into two brand new beefier servers. One for those websites, and the other for the database server. So that involved updating all those sites to run against a remote database and updating all of the applications to point to a new database server - and just for some extra spice we upgraded from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. Today was the fall out from that change this weekend - which actually had very little issues, so job well done i guess!
Next on the plate was this little site called UnlockTheAchievement.com - it seems to be a bit popular, maybe you have heard of it? I knew it was going to do pretty well, but it has surpassed (at least my) expectations…I am just glad that the code all works - though the server has had its trouble off and on, I don’t think it is code related. The server has been hit with a pretty good amount of traffic from, xbox360fanboy.com, xbox.com, digg.com as well as the 40 some community sites which are hiding the images as well as promoting the site. From that site has been a pretty good amount spillage over to my blog here (I have never had this many visitors!) as well as 360friendspot. Both of them are hosted on my shared hosting plan - which apparently is taking a pretty big performance hit from the new found traffic (oops!).
…If you code it….they will come
Just realized I haven’t posted anything on the blog lately, which got me wondering why that was. Especially with all of the new GDC news - the blog should be exploding with info! Long story short, I have just been busy I guess. Doing some major code changes at work during the day - and filling my nights with some coding as well :-) You might have seen me respond to one of your support requests at 360voice (boy you guys submit alot of support requests!), or you might have noticed the recent rollover changes on your challenge page on the 360voice front, and in relation to 360friendspot - it went through some pretty major (background) changes which I am working on it here and there - we are still battling a DNS issue - so if you cant see the site (like me at the time of this posting) its because somehow the DNS got out of wack again - so I had to ask ZaaM to update it again, I really am begining to hate DNS issues.
I also just re-built a LAMP server in my house to play around with - mostly to try out Ruby on Rails. It’s a bit different but interesting. If I ever really get a handle on it, maybe some new tools will show up using Ruby on Rails
Finally my wife accepted a new job, starting tomorrow - so we have been reorganizing the office - mostly taking out her work stuff that she no longer needs - and rearranging my desk area with the new found space.
Hey Squid you skipped a week again! Yeah I am aware, but this week of all weeks I have a pretty valid excuse, perhaps a few. I joined a new site officially, a site is moving, and unfortunately a site is dying. This should be an interesting update.
So I just realized that I haven’t posted about my trip last weekend to hang out with Steve (Fatty Chubs) and Trapper (ChangeAgent) from 360voice.com. That’t not entirely true actually, I did mention it in my Status Report, but at the time of that post I had not uploaded photos.
Friday Evening after work I headed to my wonderful small time airport awaiting my flight to Chicago. The flight was like most flights these days delayed, but luckily they offer free internet service in the airport. So I was able to pass my time with Zelda: Phanton Hourglass on my DS (I still haven’t come close to finishing this game - I am such a slacker), and randomly browsing forums and chatting with friends etc.
Keeping with the robot versus non robot theme I felt the title of this post was fitting, one of my favorite movies when I was a kid was short circuit. I will never forget towards the end of the movie because it got me in a ton of trouble at grade school. We used to have a movie day in which we could bring in a movie from home and watch it in class - I brought Short Circuit. Which passed whatever requirements the teachers had in place, but at towards the end of the movie Norton Crosby says “Holy Shit” and Number Five follows with “No Shit, Where see shit?”. Which followed buy myself and most of the 1st (or 2nd i forget) grade class quoting it over, and over.
So I have been thinking some more about what I should do for the personal touch here at my little blog home for those of you that actually stop by and read my ramblings, and I am spinning around some ideas and questions - perhaps you have some input go ahead and leave it in the comments