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As a programmer, servers and server people sometimes get under my skin. A while back Dreamhost, my host, changed the way they do php includes, so now instead of something like lepslair/header.php I need to do ./header.php, which is fine and all because I never really did outside includes. But years later, as I am coming into more programming, and wanting to do somethings where I need to bring in things cfrom other sites, I see how I am limited in doing what I want to do.

The same thing goes for the sites I work on. Sometimes the server people don’t feel like installing perl modules, so I need to wait until they get around to it. I just love the ones who don’t understand what I want, or the ones who I ask to install something and they don’t even know what module I am referring to.

I guess sometimes programmers and server masters are just natural enemies

I finally got Krissy’s graphics card to work. I went from 256mb to 128mb. That’s all right, I don’t do much gaming on my PC anyway. Maybe if I get Sim City 4, but I don’t think I need a 256mb graphics card for that game.

In other news I have no clean clothes. It’s hot and I am not wearing pants to go out, therefore I am doing laundry and hopefully we’ll go to the movie tomorrow or maybe even later tonight when I have some shorts.

Has anyone ever been to Reunion Resort? It looks beautiful there, I’m just wondering if anyone’s had a chance to go there or not. I’ve never been to Florida, as the subject says, but I’ve always wanted to go. I’d ask my parents every year and every year they’d say yes, but we’d never go. So here I am 22 years old and I want to go. I don’t know if it is the fact that I want to go to go, or because I want a picture with Tigger. Gotta love Tigger.

Lately I’ve been keeping track of the Disney News and that just makes me want to go more. I’ve been thinking about how I could save enough money, but I think I’d need to pay off the credit cards first. If and when I do have enough though, I am staying in an Orlando villa.

The Chicago Tribune wrote an article on how the company BP was dumping water into lakes in Indiana. I’ve worked for a newspaper and took a couple journalism classes, and let me tell you that the information you read in papers or see on television is completely skewed and not totally objective at all.

First of all, they weren’t dumping toxic waste into Lake Michigan, it was treated water. The waste that they were dumping was completely within the legal limits and it wasn’t going to harm the people or the environment. The Chicago Tribune would have you thinking different though. They would have you believe that there was going to be massive effects to the environment. BP cares about the environment and is always striving to improve the quality of life for those around the factory, nature, animals and humans.

BP produces gasoline, diesel and jet fuel people need for their daily lives. The company is looking to hire 2000 contract workers during the modernization of their equipment. They plan on spending around $150 million dollars upgrading equipment, this way more people can have fuel at a cheaper cost, while not affecting the environment around the company. Everyone needs gasoline right?

The facts here are taken from the BP Whiting Refinery Fact Sheet.

I got Myspace message from my friend the other day. I haven’t seen or heard from him since eighth grade so I was kind of curious as to what he was up to. Apparently in he made it through high school with honors and went to Rutgers University with a full scholarship. He started hanging out with the wrong crowd in college, though. He started smoking weed and then moved on to cocaine. Huis grades dropped and he stopped going to classes. He was on academic probation for a while, but they finally kicked him out. His brother was able to convince him to go in for drug treatment. He’s been at Brookdale for the last few months, apparently he had heard about me through the grapevine of the computer science department (which is his major) so he decided to look me up on Myspace.

We leave so many people in our lives that we sometimes think whatever happened to them, I think it is human nature that we think the best things have happened to people, but the truth is that we don’t know. I know so many people who have died since high school, and I don’t know how many of them I would think a week, or a month before I heard of their passing, that they are probably all right. The truth is though, that you just don’t know how someone is unless you pick up the phone and call, or send an email.

I think the reason we don’t pick up the phone is because we are scared. Scared that if we call we find out that things aren’t all right. That something bad has happened, and it could throw off our entire perspective of how we perceive that person. If we find out that something has happened to someone we care about that it will somehow change our feelings toward them. That is the reason a lot of people don’t go to funerals, because they don’t want their last memory of the person to be laying in a coffin, they’d rather remember them for the full of life person that they once were, not this cold body in the wooden box.

I worked in a furniture before. I’ve worked at more than my fair share of retail outlets. I’ve never worked at a place like Gallery Furniture, though. They have vintage elvis collectibles, an indoore tennis court and a daycare to put your child when you are shopping. This isn’t your average furniture store.Houston furniture seems like a cool place to make a road trip for.

One of my favorite pieces that they sell is that desk. It is beautiful, L-shaped with enough room for two monitors, CRT or LCD plus it has draws so you don’t have to keep everything on the desk. It even has a place for the computer tower. That’s is definitely one beautiful desk, if I had the money I’d buy it.

They don’t just sell furniture, oh no. They sell electronics as well. You can go buy a whole theater room from one store. Pick up the television, the seating and the HDMI chords all at one stop. If you are going to be there a while, you can get a free soda so you don’t get dehydrated while walking around their huge showroom. Be sure to bring your peanuts though, so the local birds who live in the store have something to snack on while you shop.

If for nothing else, I would gladly make the trip down to watch the 450 inch television that is always on. I wonder if I went there with my Xbox, if they’d let me hook up and play some Halo on it. Now that would be a great gaming television. I’d love to be fighting the flood on a 450 inch television while having a free soda.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the future. I’ve been hanging out at the 401k retirement forums, just to get a good idea of what’s going on wiand what IO should look for when planning for retirement. I know I am 22 and thinking about retirement? Well I wanted to retire at 25, but I don’t think that will be possible at this point. Unless I get some crazy money soon.

The reason is because I don’t know what is going to happen with work, or paid blogging, or advertising, so it is better to be prepared than blindsided. This way I can have a grasp on what’s going on and what I need to do to be set for the future.

Never read the books. Never saw the movies. I’ve kind of been curious, but I never did see the big deal with Harry Potter. My stepmother was a big fan. So is my niece. I don’t know if I ever will read the book, or even see one movie, but I am still kind of curious.

I saw pictures of people lined up at Barnes and Noble waiting for this book to come out. I thought that kind of treatment was reserved for technology, but if people are waiting for a book, something that takes effort for people to enjoy, maybe it is worth checking out at some point in the future.

Krissy and I have been throwing around ideas for what we want in a house. We are pretty close on what we want, but the one thing that both of us want more than anything is a gazebo in the back yard. I like gazebos, they are good for when you want to go outside and relax, but not have to deal with the sub blaring down at you. They are also good when it is raining, how romantic is it when two people are under one in the rain?

We can’t really decide on a style though. We’ve gone from plain white to tikki style. We’ve gone from metal roof to wood roof. The size is also a variable. There are times when we agree that it should fit only two people and then there are other times when it should be big and have a table in there so we can eat under it. It’s amazing how it goes from this simple thing to this complex thing and then back to the simple idea again.

The latest thing we decided on, is that no matter how big or how small, it should at least match the house, somewhat. Of course in about twenty minutes that agreement could change yet again.

Everywhere you look it seems like someone in Hollywood is doing something that if they did it and they weren’t a celebrity then no body would even give it a second thought. I don’t normally like the whose cheating on who, or whose marrying who in Hollywood, but there are times when celebrity pictures have me intrigued to say the least. Images like Pamela Anderson with David Spade have me asking how’d that happen, but pictures like that is few and far between.

While I may not like all celebrity news, I do love reading up on my favorite actors. Sometimes it is hard to though, especially when Lindsay Lohan is clogging the headlines with attention seeking behavior.

I wrote before about how I bought Sonic Mega Collection Plus for the Playstation 2, well last week Sonic the Hedgehog was released for the XBox Live Arcade and I downloaded it yesterday. The game itself is what I remember, with the added bonus of moving without touching anything and enemies appearing out of nowhere. Seriously.

The game seems harder then the sequels, mostly due to the fact that Sonic is lacking the signature spin dash. It sucks, but I will keep moving forward to beat the game. At least with this version I can save the game where I am.

I usually don’t go to Best Buy often, in fact I like the concept, but the prices are sometimes a bit too high. The last few times I have ordered from Best Buy, I only got blank DVDs the last few times I’ve ordered from them. I have found a place that offers you coupon codes for most online stores, including Best Buy.

Right now they are offering a free carrying case with purchase of select portable DVD players. I’ve been thinking of getting one since I am always on the computer, and the television is behind me, and as everyone knows one of my great weaknesses is television shows on DVD. I’ll think about it, because it really is a good deal with this coupon.