We did some initial tests today on the redesign of the Pocono Record site, and all the data went right where it should, graphics laid out perfectly (well, with the exception of a few glitches with the CSS and the templates.)

See, any moron can do straight HTML, but to slice the design up into several templates, using a proprietary markup language, and make it work within a series of very delicate programs, blending with a dash of CGI and database access with the newsroom and AP servers…. now that’s finesse!

Damn, I’m good! :0)

well, you’ll see soon…….

So you see, my dear, while I’m happy that freelancing works out for you and pays well…. Moi? Working for a company owned by Ottaway Newspapers & Dow Jones pays better.

And you reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally have to know what you’re doing to get a job like that.

Christina turns 14 today

Things are going to be a little screwy on this site for the next few days as my webhost is no longer supporting ".html" extensions for Server Side Includes. Sure my .htaccess folder had been adjusted, but I still don’t want to put a strain on their servers….

So just bear with me here… as I write this, the people at the font site is like, " hey…WTF???"

Just bear with me here folks…(it ain’t easy changing the extensions of 618 files and all the connected CGI scripts!)

Yes, the album is coming along nicely, thanks for asking…;0)

From Virulent Meme’s “Taglines from 2000”

“Just Like Kottke, But Interesting”
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!!!

Aw CRAP!!! I just spewed my coke all over the screen when I read that from “Undeniably, The World’s Greatest Weblog”…which I am inclined to agree, since Graham is one of the funniest guys in CyberTown
(next to Moi!).

Of course, if I don’t get this cleaned up in time, that prick owes me a new monitor! :0)

The Blogger Crisis II

This is the main reason why I discontinued my MiScHiEf @nonymous project over the summer. (Which I’ve noticed Miz Kitty has finally forgiven me, and re-added me to her links…YAY!)

Has anyone else noticed how all the Pyrates are carefully dancing around the “I expect BETTER service if I PAY” subject?

Well, they got their server… and the “A-LisPyra Gang is now asking you to say this with me, over and over, until you start to believe it:

There IS NO “A-List”…
There IS NO “A-List”…
There IS NO “A-List”…
Oopsie… My bad! :0)

This Just In:
• Aaaaaa… SHADDAP!!!! and don’t encourage her! See, while she was busy elsewhere (for like, 10 hours…), Boris & I were on an IRC channel trading hacker software, and we decided to reciprocate links.

  Originally he had written: “Gets Mommy hot & bothered“, but she changed it on him.

• Take a Video Tour of Reis Home’s model, “The Katie”.
  I know, I know… it’s nowhere near impressive as Coldwell Banker’s”Virtual Open House” (Actually Zeldman & I had a great laugh over that site last year…). I used SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) for the RealVideo Presentation…. I need some input here.
• Congratz to rock band THEOADORE MUDDFOOT, for making Church Uv Manson’s Band Of The Month… they also have an interview with my CyberPal, Ian Rose.
• Leader Diva is warning all members that the Bejeweled site is owned by Microsoft, and if they’re caught there, they’ll be kicked out of the Digital Divas….THIS MEANS YOU!!!!
• For those of you that use “index.html“, “index.php“, or “default.asp” in your URL’s…CAN YOU PLEASE KNOCK IT OFF?!!?!!???
  You look like an IDIOT!
  It’s like giving your address out as: 123 Main Street, FRONT DOOR….
  …like, DUuuuuuuuuuuuUH!!!!!

  You don’t see this address as

  http://www.ericbrooks.com/whuzzup/index.php
  DO YOU??!!??

  Use this: /., this: ../., or this: ../../. to bounce around your directories…
  ‘Cause you’re making me NUTS, and I don’t like you as it is!!!!

Hope you’re happy, you freeloading bastards.

Jeez, I can’t believe so many people grumbling about being asked to help to contribute to what is the “Heart & Soul” of so many of their sites.

Well, this is the lamentation of many users who enjoy a “free” service, and then are suddenly asked to pay. Net @ddress did the smartest thing a few years back: They removed a ton of their features from their “free” version, and offered it in “premium membership”.

Faith made a great point: “The only “community” built by the Pyra folks is an elitist one that doesn’t embrace all the people who they now claim are overburdening their servers. Just look at the links lists of any Pyra person’s blog.”

Gee, Faith… if this remark doesn’t prove your point…. ;0)

My Proposed Solution:

Don’t use Blogger… I use a modified version of Matt Wright’s Guestbook CGI Script. It writes to a text file, which I call on it on my main page, and the monthly archive with Server Side Includes. Been doing it that way for almost three years. If I wanted to be extra fancy, I could create a .reg file with a shell command, so I can right-click and open my remote window.

Some of you are pretty smart… why don’t you abandon Blogger and get full control of your weblog. You will then stop clogging up their servers with interesting stuff, and allow those on the “A-list” to be able to blog about themselves more freely.

BLOGGER: Because the “A-List” hates you…)

Erika Nicole Brooks

Happy 8th Birthday, Erika

(Or something like that…)

Sayonara, Year 2000… you absolutely fucked up year, you! The Tribe called Brooks offers its one-fingered salute to your passing.

You fuck.

With my buddy Graham being beat up, and me getting a sweet, talented girl in a load of trouble with the way I clown around here… I am already in a bad mood and expect life to continue to treat me like a port-a-potty…

My 2001 Resolutions:

• Become an alcoholic.
• Smoke more.
• Treat everyone like they’re a pathological liar.
• Make a Digital Divas, Joe Jennett and a Jason Kottke “Shooting Gallery” game in Shockwave Flash, and see which one is the most popular with all the misfits in CyberTown.
• Develop Tourette’s Syndrome
• Get a hot-looking girlfriend.
• Become a better husband & father.
• Make Kaminsky’s life a living hell.

Nah… we had a pretty nice (and quiet) New Years here at home… that’s what you do, when you’re buried in snow and broke. Except for the last three, none of those resolutions were true. :0) HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!