It's been a while since I posted to this thing so I figured I should since so many people have been bugging me about it. (Lots of pics coming up) Let's see... Oh, last Friday the server that Antland is on was attacked by a new type of virus dealy in which any time a page was requested on the server, instead of serving that page, it would instead give the requestor another page that would install several viruses on their computer. I wouldn't have known except that I just happen to check blargg while I was at work. Much to my surprise, the second I loaded the page, I noticed it was not blargg, then Norton AntiVirus started detecting and deleting viruses like crazy. I was freaking out, as I didn't know what was going on. I thought maybe my site had been hacked or something but when I FTP'ed into my account I saw that all my files were there and intact. After reading up on the forums for my host, I saw that everyone on that server was having the same problem. I was pretty pissed, but mostly afraid that any one of my loyal readers might get hit when trying to visit blargg. Fortunately only antland.org was affected, and all my other sub-sites just returned a 404. The problem was eventually resolved (some 12 hours later) and I hope none of you got any viruses. If you did, please let me know.
Hmm, what else. Oh yeah, got some new DVDs, woo. Actually, it was only one, I got the Reno 911 Season 1 DVD. Good stuff, I can't wait for the season 2 DVD. Chappelle's Show Season 2 DVD comes out I think next week. I'll be all over that. While I was at Best Buy (waiting for my parents to finish up buying a new HDTV, DVD player, and entertainment center, I figured why stop with Reno 911, so I got the MegaMan Anniversary Collection which has MegaMan 1-8 and 2 arcade MegaMan games. It also has a lot of extras, but you have to unlock them, which I haven't done. Regardless, it's a great piece of nostalgia, especially if you love MegaMan like I do. It's kinda weird playing those old games on the xbox though. I also got the HD pack for the xbox so I can play my games in HD on the big tv. I have yet to do that though.
It feels good to be making money again, and now that I'm steadily building up some income, it's nearing time I build myself a new computer. I have some bills to pay first, so that hinders things a little. I was so happy I got a $502 tax return, however, over $400 of that was put toward car repairs. As you may or may not know, I few months ago I bought Ting's old car, a '97 Honda Accord. Had I known it was a lemon, I probably wouldn't have bought it (jk Ting ;)). The brakes were pretty jacked up though, as noted by the expensive brake job. It's great having a non-sucky car though. I don't miss the gimpmobile at all. Now I just gotta rice out my Accord. :)
The Gimpmobile (old, crappy car)
New Car
Hopefully my car will look like this eventually ;)
Last week I got a sweet ceiling fan, check it out, it has acrylic blades and a blue neon light:
Awesome!
It was difficult getting it though. We actually ordered it over a month ago from Home Depot. They said they were out of stock at the time so we got a rain check and they were going to call us when they got more in. Well, apparently they weren't ever going to get them in so we finally asked for the display one. We already got a nice discount on it from the start, then since it was the display, we got more of a discount, making it cost only $100. It took a little nudging though for them to give us the display but as you can see, we got it. It's kinda cool to just have the blue light on at night. It makes my eyes do weird things though. Now my room is almost like an arcade.
Last week I got the new Team Sleep album. It's amazing. For those who don't know, the deftones are my fav band ever, and Team Sleep is Chino (the lead singer from deftones)'s side project. It's kinda different from deftones stuff, in that it has more of an electronic and experimental element to it, but it's good stuff. Reminds me a little of Smashing Pumpkins at times. Anyway, I'm going to see them this Wednesday at Emo's on 6th Street. Anyone want to go? :D
And in closing, this past Friday was like Christmas. At work we got a brand new server from Dell, so me and my coworker were put in charge of setting it up since we were the ones gunning for a new server to begin with. We ordered the server on Tuesday and had been waiting for it ever since. When we saw that the package was in transit on Friday, we got very excited. Any time the door to our office opened, we immediately listened to hear if it was our server. When it finally came, we tore it open and immediately began setting it up. Neither of us had ever seen or used Windows Server 2003 so it was a new experience for both of us. Despite that, we got it up and running and got Exchange working for the most part. We just have to finish setting up Exchange mail and messaging and we'll be set. It was a lot of fun and a great way to end the week. I'd love to bring that thing home, it's a P4 2.8ghz with 512mb ram (soon to be 2 gigs) and 2 80 gig hard drives. Man I can't wait to build my next computer. Shouldn't be too far away.
Oh, one more thing. While looking at a friend's website, I got the idea to keep a list of my DVDs, so if you're interested in what I own, you can see it here. I also added a permanent link to it in the sidebar.
Since your parents bought a new HD TV, does this mean you get their old HD tv?
haha I wish. the one they just bought is a little 27" HDTV. the one we had already is a 59". the reason they bought the second one is because it's for the upstairs family room, whereas the big one is downstairs in the living room. I was looking for a cheap 24" or smaller HDTV but they don't make them that small for cheap, so I'm out of luck for now.