I love, love, love Wordpress version 2.5. The new “update automatically” link for outdated plugins is simply amazing. Now it will be so easy to keep up-to-date with everything like I mentioned in my last post in relationship to the recent hacking on my hosting account. I’m still not sure if I particularly like how they’ve moved around and reorganized things but I’m hoping that I’ll grow to like it. Yay for Wordpress!

In other news, certain individuals have been contacting me in regards to both link exchanges and affiliation. Read the rest of this entry »

The weather here went from 70° Fahrenheit to dip below freezing and the transition was a pretty storm system. I took several pictures while on the way to an ACM meeting on campus although I don’t think I captured what it was really like. Hopefully you can tell a little bit, though. I’m no photographer

In other news, I didn’t do so hot on the test mentioned in my previous post. I didn’t get to study quite as much as I would have liked in part because I lost the flash cards I’d made and had to scramble to get all my notes together right before the exam. Oh well, it’s one exam, and I’ll just do better next time. I’ve got a lot of homework and such to finish up this weekend, including a term paper for psychology, so I’m going to be very busy. There are only 34 days left of semester and then my first year of college will be gone already. I know I said time flew in my last post, but it’s so hard to think that almost a year ago I was graduating… Oh well.

I’m sure that I will end up procrastinating all the aforementioned homework and have some “spare” time so I’m going to write a note to myself to finish up those brush sets that have been sitting around forever now. I’ve been slowly but surely working on updating my portfolio with a new layout and all the projects that I’ve completed in the past year (because I haven’t updated it in a year — how horrible…).

I’m really thinking about trying to put some of my new PHP skills in action and write some sort of a script - but there are already so many scripts out there for so many different things that I’m not sure what I could do that wouldn’t be repeating what someone else has already done. Any ideas? I’ve been having to work with PHP and MySQL with my work at the K-State yearbook and I wrote a script to handle a March Madness bracket contest for our university (for those outside the US: it’s a national college basketball tournament). It was quite fun even if it was a bit frustrating some times. Oh well, such is life.

I’m trying to get organized so that I can participate in the Blogathon this year, but we’ll see. I’ve wanted to participate for something like two years but it never works out. I figure if I get organized now then I should be able to get off work and such so that I can participate. And stay awake. lol

Edit: There are four new brush sets up! Enjoy!

The quiz in macroeconomics was dead easy and only five questions. I’m very happy about that. My geology class was pretty much horrible because the walk to and from the hall was freezing and the kids in the class were all a bunch of loud-mouthed kids who obviously weren’t there to learn.

On a good note, I’ve finished up part 3 of my C# assignment. Yay! I’m also supremely close to leveling up to level 25 in Perfect World. Hoorah!

So every time I attempt to get things ready here to move to the “big installation”, I get completely distracted by the likes of Facebook, Wikipedia, online news, and pretty much everything else on my computer. On the other hand, I’ve managed to keep blogging daily since January 1, so I’m really quite proud of myself. Some of the posts haven’t been very long or haven’t been all that interesting, but it’s a blog nonetheless. Maybe I’ll have to try to incorporate some photos in here somewhere.

I’m always looking for wallpapers for my laptop, Killer. Since it’s a widescreen, sometimes I have trouble. So I’m going to share here a few widescreen wallpaper resources I’ve found.

• InterfaceLIFT
• DeviantArt
• Vladstudio

I have some more somewhere but I can’t seem to find them at the moment. Anyways, there they are - I hope someone finds them useful in sprucing up their desktop.

Since today was Martin Luther King Day (MLK Day), we didn’t have school and so I spent most of today catching up on reading that I’d procrastinated over the weekend and getting some good game time in (Zelda and Perfect World, anyone?). Tomorrow morning I have to get up bright and early to get to Archaeology across campus. Argh.

I have three more programming assignments to complete this week… don’t let me forget, will you?