Soo... it's been awhile.

Been busy with a lot of things.

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First up I finished a website. It is for my guild in World of Warcraft.

http://www.shockwavegaming.net/

Everything was designed and coded by myself. Instead of just doing my thing, I thought it'd be good practice and worked with the members of the guild in making a site they all thought looked good and liked. I also skinned eqDKP and got some experience skinning VBulletin for the first time. I thought the vBulletin skin came out exceptionally well.

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JQuery.

Probably just a tad late to the scene but I've finally gotten around to poking around with it and learning some JavaScript. Was never a big fan but you can really do some cool things. I also need to do some more experimenting and make the plunge with AJAX.

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I consider myself very stupid for not having done this sooner. I finally got around to setting myself up a local test server. Had some fun installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL.

Man the time I've wasted developing the way I used to. Every save: drag, drop, upload. Man I hated it so much but didn't want to edit straight on the server either so I always just stuck with it.

Being able to test everything locally is just simply amazing. (Damn my procrastination.)

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I have a lot of projects on the drawing board so-to-speak, but the one I'm currently working on is a sort of ItemStats replacement. It is no longer managed and every time I set up a new website or do some poking around it causes a mass amount of headaches trying to get it to work.

One major feature that I want to make sure to include that isn't in ItemStats is an easy to use skin / theme system.

A little preview:

Should be fun.

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Lastly, finally got around to watching Lost. It never really peaked my interest enough to go and watch it, but one day I decided to check it out.

So far I'm a few episodes into season 4 having watched seasons 1 through 3. Seasons 1 and 2, I must say, were amazing. One thing I really liked was the way the story was told. The flopping back and forth between flaskbacks and what was going on currently, I really enjoyed.

As I started watching season 3, and the beginning of season 4 the show seems to completely die. The story just went in some terrible directions, a lot of the characters I enjoyed got killed off, and the changes in how the story were told all just made it bordeline unwatchable for me.

You'd think there wouldn't be much difference between flashbacks and flaskforwards, but man did it just seem so much worse. I MUCH preferred seeing bits of the past and how they affected the present, rather than seeing the future and watching the present unravel.

The only major thing that has been consistent throughout the whole series so far that was a major annoyance to me, was the roller coaster the characters were on. They constantly change from me wanting to slap the hell out of them and really being entertained and liking them. One episode a character will just be perfect in a sense and the next they're just obnoxious and annoying. I wish there was more consistency in the characters attitudes and actions. I suppose this could just be a major annoyance because I'm sitting down and watching several episodes at a time, rather than just one a week as if it was airing.

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I hope to do a little face lift to the site soon and overhaul a good portion of the code, but for now that's it.

I'll try and not let this blog collect dust for 6 months again D: Can't believe it's been that long already.

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Sooo it's been a while D:

Did a bit of messing around with mod_rewrite to make 'clean' urls. Should help the site get indexed better on search engines.

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Was channel chucking last night and landed on Comedy Central. An old stand-up of Christopher Titus was on. Reminded me of his old show Titus that used to be on fox till they canceled it. Which was funny as hell just as his stand-up.

Another show that was incredible that got canceled was Firefly. Which is hands down one of the best Sci-Fi TV shows I've ever watched. The movie with the same cast and left off at the last episode of the TV show was incredible as well, Serenity.

Why is it they always cancel the awesome TV shows yet leave on all the terrible crap that is reality TV shows and stupid repetitive sitcoms copying their predecessors that did all the same things just years before. Not saying there aren't any good TV shows still on, just always sucks they end up canceling the few TV shows you enjoy watching. Such as Murphy's Law I guess.

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Speaking of good TV shows still airing. Monk just started up again. Which I love. When they first started advertising the premier for Burn Notice, it didn't seem all that great. With the new season starting and they had marathon on of the first season I watched it a bit and it's actually pretty good. Sure there's a few more I enjoy watching from time to time but can't think of them at the moment.

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Any who hopefully I'll have the Portfolio part of the site done soon so I can actually start making and hosting some stuff.

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Aww man where to start... good 'ol saturday morning cartoons. Well sort of. Some were, but a bunch of my favorites I remember from being a kid weren't exclusively 'Saturday Morning Cartoons'.

The one that sticks out the most was Beast Wars. Man that show brings back memories. Loved sitting down and watching that show before school while eating cereal. My brother had all of his old transformers toys I used to mess with so guess that's sort of how I caught on to the show at that age. Looking back now the graphics make you chuckle but man was that show the shit back in the day.

Reboot was sort of similar. One thing I really remember about this show was all the 'To Be Continued..'s. Those always pissed me off. Always hated having to wait till next week to see what happened to whatever character.

Was always a fan of all the old cartoons too. Good 'ol Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner, The Jetsons, The Flinstones, Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and one of my particular favorites Top Cat. Man that's when cartoons were good. Top Cat was the shit. Loved that cartoon. Almost all of these were made before my time but there used to be this awesome channel Boom that showed nothing but all of these old cartoons all the time.

I so wish all this terrible japan-i-mation crap would disappear. I am personally not a fan of anime. I just can't get into the art style and usually off the wall stories. Only anime I ever sort-of got into was Afro Ninja. Was pretty cool. I loved the art style of that show. I've been told by many that most of the anime shown is the crap and there actually is good anime but I've yet to find it and remain skeptical.

Breaking away from the nostalgia and Saturday morning bit I must mention Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Oh man, that has to be one of the funniest fucking cartoons. Every episode has made me laugh my ass off. Aqua Teen Hunger Force has it's moments too. Family Guy is always great and used to love the old Simpsons back in the day. Sadly those are the only cartoons I can think of that are being made today or recently that I can stand to watch. Yet again I barely watch TV anymore due to the abundance of crap on it. Usually have it on for background noise though.

WTB old Saturday morning cartoons back. <3

Good times. Maybe I'll post another rambling about favorite TV shows in general later instead of just cartoons. Some good shows back in the day. Gogo MacGyver D:

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