I know I remembered to send a Valentine card to…. uh…. whats-her-name. :0)

“Personally, I think he’s just jealous…”
Tam, what the hell are you smoking…. and do you have any left??!!??

• Today makes the second day that the Tribe called Brooks have been stranded out here in Stroudsburg (we’re all staying at a hotel near the Pocono Record). The transmission blew on the van, and we have no way home (or I have no way to work, take your pick).
• Much to the disappointment of a well-known designer’s husband, the newly-designed Pocono Record site is up. Despite the overwhelming positive response from readers, my site, and a ton of marketing tests, this individual decided that he needed to write a few emails and tear a new asshole in me for my self praise….
• So let’s recap:
  • It’s been an unbelievably shitty week, with things going wrong , from the car… to almost a thousand dollars missing from our income taxes…. with no explanation.
  • I’ve been here less than a month, and have done what no other webmaster has been able to do since 1998…
  • Fought like hell with several departments to get the news on the front page (in case you forgot what the original site looked like.)
  • I am on my 15th hour here, working out all the bugs, programming glitches, and potential dead links….
  • And some jerk (who I had originally thought was one of that well-known web designer’s kids… with the way he was ranting like a little brat!), thinks I need to be taken down a few pegs…..
  • So you’ll have to FUCKING EXCUSE ME IF I FEEL THE NEED TO PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK FOR ALL MY HARD WORK.

Shit head.

• Just sent out another riveting edition of WHUZZUPDATE….
  
  
• Faith, don’t get used to this from me, but your design abilities are fine…. but like I said, freelancing don’t pay dick.Here is the formula, I’ve worked out:

  Hours spent on site + Price you pay on software (let’s all pretend we don’t go to Astalavista, okay?), times the Square Root of the cheap bastards who don’t understand why a website costs so much….when their nephew can do it for free…

   

  Equals = JACK SHIT
  It’s a fact of life folks…. unless you’re a damn good con artist, there IS NO Internet Gravy Train….

• Congratz to the winners of Davezilla’s Anti-Bloggie Awards. While I was kinda dissapointed for not winning in the “Biggest Jerk” category… I still contributed prizes and have contacted all of the winners to see if they want it:…………..At least 3 AOL 6.0 CD’s that I’ve collected in the pastmonth.
  So far, everyone has said “No thanks“.
  Jeez, you figure the old “Pyra gang” could use them as paperweights to hold their unemployment receipts, or something.

Well…. it was decided at the meeting today to hold off the new redesign until at least next week. (Gawd bless Corporate America!). This way the art department, publisher, editors and ad people (who were also hoping it would go up today) can test it over & over….

So what are your thoughts? I really wanna know.

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!!!!