Just thought I’d make a quick post about this awesome Web site I’ve found: Pandora.com. You can create your own “radio station” to listen to - for free! You “thumbs up” songs you like or “thumbs down” songs you don’t. I’ve been listening to it frequently lately because of the lack of a good alternative rock station here at university.
Any interested parties can view my Pandora profile here.
I apologize for all of the mess that you might have saw this morning (and the mess that my fanlistings are still in). My site was hacked because I had a Coppermine installation that I had not used in over a year and had completely forgotten about - until I saw the mess this morning, looked in my raw access logs and tracked down the culprit… Please let this be a reminder to everyone: delete any scripts that you do not use, update any scripts that you do use with the latest updates, and update any plugins you use. Because I forgot to delete that crappy Coppermine installation, I now have to look through every single PHP file and delete a section of code that the hacker appended to every single PHP file. I have at least 10 PHP files for each of my 52 fanlistings on top of all of the Wordpress files I’ve already updated that I still need to fix.
I’m going to use my handy ReminderFox Firefox addon to remind me to check things for updates once a month or so. I would advise everyone to do the same.
[Edit 1:52AM Sunday, April 20] I’ve managed to clean up everything, I think, from this site to all of my fanlistings, my Q*bee quilt, and my portfolio. If you see any weird things going on please let me know. 
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I’m addicted to Facebook.com. (Don’t count on me adding you as a friend, though, because I’m really picky and routinely ‘prune’ my friends list.) Anyways, it seems like every hour (okay, every thirty minutes), I find myself clicking my bookmark icon for Facebook just because I want to see what’s happenin’. Even though I live a relatively boring and solitary life, I’m constantly wondering “what’s happening”. Is there something wrong with me? Hell yes. Do I care? Hell no.
I’m listening to Say Anything and that’s influencing my mental processes at the moment, so please excuse any weird outbursts that a song about laying in bed in boxers half-stoned with a pillow under my head…
As you can tell, this post is mostly just a post that I initially forced myself to write and now I’m rambling about.
I have a psychology exam tomorrow and I’m really not looking forward to it at all. It’s one of those subjects that seem easy up until they ask you a weird question that common sense can’t answer, or that common sense contradicts the actual answer. So we’ll see how it goes - I’ll just have to turn off “common sense” for this one.
I’ve just went through and updated all my plugins. That took quite awhile, and I deleted a lot of plugins that were laying about in the folder that I had never even used. This is actually the first time that I’ve ever bothered updating plugins. Do you?
I’ve got one really good idea for a new brush set and I’m throwing around a few more. Like I’ve said previously, if there’s any specific set you’d like to see or even a general type, let me know. I’ve made so many brush sets that I’m just sort of out of ideas at this point.
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.
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.
Okay, so, I had ordered all of my textbooks via Amazon.com because the price difference was so much that, even with the price of shipping included, books are incredibly cheaper online than in the bookstore. For instance, I need a Macroeconomics book that would cost $125 in the book store but I found it on Amazon for $62.50, with expedited shipping only making the grand total online $69.69. That’s a savings of $55.31. Unfortunately, I didn’t even know I needed said book until today because the professor had apparently been lazy and hadn’t notified the bookstore that that class required a book until at least a week or so ago. I am leaving for KSU on January 15th, and since I paid extra for the expedited shipping, I’m really hoping it will get here before then. I’ve sent an email to the Amazon seller about my circumstances and I really hope they will get the book out as soon as possible. I do not want to have to pay $125 for a book so that I have it for classes on top of the $69.69 I just paid for it online… Today is January 9th, and expedited shipping is supposed to take a maximum of 6 days, so as long as the seller reads my email and takes my pleas into account, I should hope it will arrive on time. Hopefully.
