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    Another rant – Bewere, it’s about religion.


    2009 - 03.31

    Let me start off by saying, I’m a very tolerant person of other people’s religious beliefs. If you believe in God, Jesus, Satan, Buddha, Allah, or whatever, then more power to you and I fully support your desicion to do so.

    But, there is -one- group of people I have a problem with, and it’s not even the religion itself, just it’s people.

    If, by now, you’re sitting there thinking “Oh god, this white trash American is going go wave his American flag, talk about how his country is the best in the world, and trash talk all the Muslims and call them all terrorists and whatnot.” then you ned to go take your hippy-self somewhere else, cuz you’re way off.

    In short, no, I’m not going to talk about Muslim. I know a Jordanian man down the street and he’s a pretty cool guy.

    No, this time, I’m going to talk about Jehova’s Witnesses.

    Surely, everyone knows who these people are, they are the fuckers that come bother you on your day off from work while you’re sitting and relaxing at home, and when you be courteous and actually answer the fucking door, they refuse to leave.

    But, alas, I didn’t have the pleasure of actual talking to these people, so I could tell them to piss off in front of their face.

    Today, there were two Jehova’s Witnesses prowling around the street, whatever, no big deal to me. If they bug me, I’ll just say “I’m an Atheist, and no, no matter what you’re not going to recruit me. Good day to you.” and shut the door.

    In fact, I didn’t even know they were on the street until I heard the front screen door slam shut, as it usually does when someone opens it.

    So, I’m sitting here, minding my own business when I hear this “BAM!” Of course, I jump up and look outside the window. What do I see? A random black man walking away from my house in a quick pace.

    At this point, I’m pissed, because it appears to be that someone, who I do not know, attempted to come into my house without permission.

    I go to the front door and notice something sticking out of the bottom of it. I pick it up, and it’s fucking Jehova’s Witness propaganda.

    At this point, I’m furious. This man scared me half to death by quietly (I mean quietly, normally you can hear it squeak when it’s opened but it didn’t even do that) opening the screen door and putting his trash in it, then let it slam, thus scaring me into thinking someone was trying to break in. I’m the only one home and everyone else is at school or work, so I know it’s not them else they would have called first.

    Anyway, back to the sketchy black man. As he was walking away (in a very fast pace) he saw me in the window, then he proceeded to make a call on his cell phone and continuously look back at my house.

    Now I’m in a rage. Why does he keep staring at my house while talking on his cell phone and trying to look at me through the window?

    Now I’m just hoping they come back, so I can tell them where they can shove that little paper they gave us.

    Oh, and by the way, if you’re a Jehova’s Witness, do the world a favor and stop shoving your bullshit propaganda and religious views down our throats. It’s called “freedom of religion” asshats, that means “I will pick what fucking religion I want to be in and NO you are not going to change that.”

    Anyway, after reading this over I figure’d I’d mention that IF this man would have just come to my door and knocked, all would be well. But no, he OPENED my fucking door WITHOUT permission then made it look even more skep by walking away while trying to look back and see my in the window.

    Another rant – Bewere, it’s about religion.

    The new FFCC website.


    2009 - 03.19

    I was working on the FFCC website for a little bit today, and decided I’m gonna add support for a shit-ton of stuff…

    So far I’ve got classes prepped for Twitter, Akismet, ReCAPTCHA, and Last.fm. I’m also planning to add support for Facebook (possibly, if I can find a use for it) and Flickr. As well as support for my new Network, which will be elaborated on some other time. The database will use MySQLi (of course) and I’m thinking of looking into XCache or APC for Opcode caching. I’m also going to build a template engine based off of Audentio’s, which Mike coded.

    But, for now I’ve started on Twitter and ReCAPTCHA. Both of which, are bugged, and I have no idea why. Lol.

    Twitter won’t submit status updates, and that’s the only thing it’s supposed to do, so that means the Twitter support does not work at all.

    ReCAPTCHA works partially, I can get the Captcha to display, but when I submit I’m always getting a failure… at least I think I am anyway, I haven’t exactly learned ReCAPTCHA’s response codes yet… or I just did something wrong in the submit method… which is highly likely.

    There’s also support for ReCAPTCHA’s mailhide module, but that doesn’t work because this server doesn’t have the mcrypt PHP module installed, so I gotta poke James sometime and see if he can install that for me.

    And, of course, integration with the forums is implemented.

    The original plan for FFCC was to use the Zend Framework as the backend but it would have taken more time to set that up than it would have to just code my own backend.

    Oh yeah, gotta go with pretty URL’s, since I’m actually getting relatively good at mod_rewrite.

    I’m also reconsidering the design of the site… I love the design but it’s not very versatile. So we’ll just have to see if someone wants to do a new design for me.

    You can see the new site here: http://www.ffcrystalcosmo.com/dev/

    Comments are welcome, of course, but one thing to keep in mind is the fact that the backend comes first… so NONE of the pages are done yet.

    The new FFCC website.

    Graphical Boot Screen in Windows Vista


    2009 - 03.09

    Found this kinda of cool.

    If you run Windows Vista and are tired of the bland boot screen do the following:

    Start > Run > msconfig

    Now, go to the Boot tab and Uncheck the No GUI boot box. Click OK and reboot your machine.

    I haven’t tried it on XP or Windows 7 yet.

    Graphical Boot Screen in Windows Vista

    w00t for Networking


    2009 - 03.05

    So yeah, my Dad’s having me import all of his old CD’s into iTunes on his laptop. While doing this I noticed something in the sidebar of iTunes.

    Almost like magic, a section called “SHARED” appeared. And in that section it said “Ryan’s Library.”

    I opened it and there was my library! All 1,300+ of my songs ready to be listened too. I forgot I had enabled sharing in iTunes for my Library. So, I authorized his laptop on my iTunes account and finally watched those Nightwish videos I purchased that refuse to play on my computer.

    Until I moved back into my parents house, I haven’t had a need to network anything. No matter where I was, there was only one computer. Now I have two plus the Playstation 3.

    As I check out all this new territory for myself, our network just keeps expanding. So far I’ve got my PC set up as a Media Server for all of my mp3’s that my Playstation can use. And now me and my Dad’s laptop are sharing both libraries, which puts us at a collective 3,000+ songs.

    Next comes Sharing his printer. Cuz I actually don’t have one.

    After that I gotta find other useless things to do with the network.

    w00t for Networking