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Phoenix: Reborn

Posted on Tuesday October 10, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

While it’s been powering my site for over three years now, I’ve mostly used the PHP/Myadmin in the back to make updates (making a front end interface seems even harder than the original scripting.)

But well…

TAAAA DAAAA! All done up in purple, royal blue and silver, it’s making my life so much easier. It even has a “Smart Installer” that does all the work for you (for a few modules so far).

After long thought I’ve decided to keep it proprietary and for select friends and clients only. Who needs the hassle of offering strangers support and upgrades? Besides and it’s so much easier for me to make custom jobs without worrying about hacker exploits after it’s open source.

Much gratitude to Master Programmer Kyle DeFranco for helping me with a few problems with my login section today. 😀
But hey, you want a political site, showcase, online store or real estate site made by me?

Talk to me…. 😉

That only took a week…

Posted on Saturday October 7, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

But I’ve finally taken some time to make a wordpress theme for this site.

My original wordpress blog was heavily customized, and of COURSE I never take notes to remember what I changed. (DUH).

In other news, the BOOBIETHON is in full swing. We at Problem Adults made an initial donation, and members are continuing to donate funds and photos. We even have the site done up with Pink Ribbons in the fight against breast cancer.

Die comment spammers, DIE

Posted on Thursday September 28, 2006Thursday February 15, 2007 by Eric Brooks

Pardon the appearance, but I decided to get with the times and upgrade to the latest WordPress to combat the ridiculous amount of comment spam I get here. Up until now, I had the ORIGINAL version of WordPress (and highly customized) here… and I can’t TAKE having to delete over 3,000 crap comments per day. Even worse is sifting through them to find the 2 or three legitimate comments.

Of course, the newest WordPress is a whole new ballgame, now it’s designed to use themes so I have to figure out how to design a look that’s uniform with the rest of the site and get all my other scripts to work on this page.

But hey… I’m a designer, and this is what I do, right?
So far my inbox has been incredibly grateful by the lack of spam. 😀

Next will be a rewrite of my guestbook and mailing list scripts.
Comment spammers… you are SO screwed now.

Tortilla Man LIVES!!!!

Posted on Friday August 25, 2006Thursday February 15, 2007 by Eric Brooks

Ya know… I should check my links more often.

Back in 2000, Richard Rubin hired me to design “Tortilla Man” (or at least that’s what I call him) and the “La Tortilla Loca” logo , and we were going to design his website next. Nicest guy you could ever work with. We lost touch shortly after that, and I assumed he never got a website done or the product out. So I put the project in my “Dead In The Water” section (Did I really write “indistry”??? JEEZ!).

Well… had I bothered to click on the link to www.latortillaloca.com in the last four years I would have known he did INDEED get a website. (And the guys at kt Webdesigns did a great job too.).

As Richard wrote me recently: “Eric, all is alive and well, we are selling 1,000’s of our tortilla warmers and the the logo you designed is still going strong, we are far from DEAD IN THE WATER’ as you state on your site.”

See what happens when you assume kids? LOL!

Well I think this is great news and if there’s anyone I wanted to see make a success of his ideas it was him! Congratulations Richard, and LONG LIVE TORTILLA MAN!!!! 😀
(Now I gotta move that out of Dead in the Water and make it a logo design entry.)

You know what is driving me up a wall?

Posted on Tuesday May 30, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

I just realized my front page still has “Happy Holidays” on it. WTF???

Happy Holidays?
Continue reading “You know what is driving me up a wall?”

Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted on Sunday May 14, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Whether your children have two or four legs, whether you inherited them by marriage, or you’re caring for someone else’s children as your own…

You are someone’s whole world right now. 🙂

Relax, it's mother's Day

Send a free Mother’s Day E-Card.

Designs by the incredibly talented Jann of Sweet Aspirations.

Get your FREE Easter / Passover E-Cards here!

Posted on Tuesday April 11, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

My apologies for the delay, but the E-Card section is back up! 😀

MySQL is doing things a little bit differently now and all of my home grown PhoenixCMS scripts are going to be needing some quick rewrites. But it was tried and tested with my sweetie pie sending mushy cards back and forth to each other all night, and it works like a charm (with a few new improvements)!

GET YOUR FREE EASTER E-CARDS HERE

Where else can you find pics of me as the Easter Bunny doing sick things to people’s mailboxes?

(Didn’t you find it a little odd that the Easter Bunny and I have the same initials?)

E-Cards are down

Posted on Saturday April 8, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

I’ve gotten a few complaints about the e-card section. Everyone is receiving an error message that it’s doesn’t like certain input. I think it’s tied to the new MySQL here, if you recall it now converts everything to UTF-8 and other surprises. I’ve been having a lot of problems with the way the date functions are working now.

Well, I’ve been meaning to rewrite the script anyway… so please bear with me here, and I apologize for any inconveniences.

Problem Adults withdrawal?

Posted on Friday March 24, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Hey all….

Yes the site is still down. The hell if I know why, and ~T~ can’t tell us anything because the hosting company isn’t telling ~T~ anything. (So take that site, multiply it by the number of all her clients… and now you know why that poor woman is close to having a nervous breakdown right now).

So, I guess it’ll be back when it’ll be back. I have a kid in the hospital right now, busy shuffling other kids back & forth and trying to keep a brand new job I just started… so frankly, I’m sort of enjoying the hiatus. I also know this kind of stuff happens with new servers, so we all can give them a little more patience and understanding as I’m sure they’re doing all they can… some sites have ALREADY returned, so that’s a good sign.

But one thing I do want to make clear… WE WILL BE BACK. I didn’t pull the site because I quit.

Believe me, when I’ve had enough of the place, I’ll just leave quietly. Too many people have invested a lot of time, money, work and energy into the clubhouse for me to do something that unfair to them. You’re paying for the hosting, all the games, and all the modules… It belongs to YOU.

I’ll mass-email all the members when it’s back… no need to keep driving yourself nuts by checking.

See you soon…
-= The Boss =-

Update 3/25/06: As of 6:30 AM…. we’re BAAAAAAAAAACK!

Three cheers for the Mighty ~T~!!!!

THE WEB GOD SPEAKS!!!!

Posted on Sunday March 19, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

… AND HE SAYS IN A LOUD BOOMING VOICE….

“Jesus Christ I gotta clean the loft today. What a mess!” OY!

My ash tray runneth over. I smoke WAY too damn much.

And cleaning comment spam out of here has become a full time job. (What’s up with the new shit that reads like gibberish?).

~T~ is moving us all on a new server so I’ve been tidying up and backing up all my MySQL data.

Don’t you wish you were me?
Sorry. The position of annoying & sarcastic pain in the ass on the web has already been taken! 😛

But man, speaking of WebGods… are my eyes decieving me? Did I just get a visit by the one and only Mz. Kitty?

I mean, damn… this woman is an internet legend! I remember a time where you couldn’t visit a blog or website that didn’t have her graphics on it! Well, of course I’m still here darling… with all these “Eric Brookses” out there clamoring for this domain name, I ain’t letting it go! 😀

I love when I get emails from some guy named “Eric Brooks”… they’re always amazed to find someone with the same name as them (look in the white pages, genius!). Wonder if all the guys named “Danny Gonzalez” go through this… I had three friends with that name growing up.

Is it me or do all guys named Eric Brooks think they’re the center of the universe? If I irritate you people even HALF as much as these guys do to me… I am SOOOO SORRY!

See a therapist! Maybe we can all get a group discount or something.

WHUZZUP!

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