I have this huge problem of thinking big. My ideas and goals live in a world where money is not an option. The other day I caught myself using Google to research how much it would cost to employ a film production team; something small to be able to crank out video editorials, news briefs, and possible investigative reports. I am not sure if I suffer from megalomania or its the natural ENTJ that is coming out (Editor’s note: this sentence proves that it is megalomania). However, I hate giving up on my obscenely unattainable ideas because I don’t have those millions of dollars to make them come true. Read more →

I have continued my trend of watching all Star Trek series from start to finish (in reverse chronological order for the series, not the episodes) and the other day I finished The Next Generation. For me, this series in particular was the best of them all. Not only did I grow up with it and it played a key role in molding me into the human being I am today, but it is a pivotal series in the evolution of the Star Trek franchise. I think it had the same effect on many people, old and young, and still does so to this day. Read more →

I’m sorry. I have been irresponsible when it comes to social networks. Albeit I only use Facebook and Twitter I know that I have been selfish in doing so. Many of my followers on Twitter also are my friends on Facebook. By republishing 90% of my tweets as status updates I am doing a great disservice to those friends.

Unfortunately I am not alone in this crime. It seems like the vast majority of people with multiple social network accounts are doing this. It all boils down to laziness. We all want to publish our moments and thoughts immediately as they occur and we want these updates to reach the broadest audience possible. But is this the right thing to do? Surely we must have reasons for joining certain social networks, otherwise we wouldn’t be consolidating all of our feeds. As Maddox put it in a recent rant of his: Read more →

I gotta hand it to her, Jules Clancy is one simple Aussie! She has compiled a cook book full of delicious recipes that can be made with 5 ingredients in under 10 minutes. That’s right. 5 ingredients. 10 minutes. Even the laziest and most kitchen-incapable of us can make awesome and delicious meals with little effort. She has made this cook book free on her website in PDF format (I personally got it printed and bound at Kinkos cause it’s something you are gonna want to keep). I suggest you check it out. Granted some recipes are a bit of a stretch (celery and cheese for example. Your ingredients? Celery and some cheese), but most of them are pretty simple to make, and they are healthy. So give the minimalist kitchen a spin, download the e-cookbook from her website. And while your at it, check out the rest of her site for some more recipes, tips, and info regarding minimalist home cooking.

I’ve watched too much of the World Cup. How do I know? I can still hear the vuvuzelas going off in my head late at night when I’m trying to sleep…

As seen on Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/comment/24194767/

@3:00pm

Customer: “Hey, are you open?”

Me: “Sorry sir, we open at 4:30.”

Customer: “Not even for a drink?”

Seriously, people conveniently forget their brains at home whenever they go out.

Really Metra? I mean, REALLY?

Due to the slowness of my previous host (Dreamhost) when it comes to WordPress, I had to move this site to a more reliable host. Funny thing was that the solutions Dreamhost had on its wiki to make WordPress run at a reasonable speed wouldn’t work for me. The plugins they recommended wouldn’t install because of the server settings! Dreamhost support simply told me that my site was running ‘within normal parameters.”

Anyway, the migration worked with the exception of my theme. I had made the theme a looooong time ago, and it was designed to work with WordPress 2.6. We’re now at 2.9.2 and 3.0 is just around the corner. Granted I was running 2.9.2 with that theme before the host transfer, but it wasn’t supposed to work like that. Who knows what crazy code and loopholes the site itself exploited. The bottom line is that I gotta rework the entire theme from scratch, which shouldn’t be a huge problem considering I’m not designing something new. The only bitch is that I had built it upon Theme Toolkit, which never got updated to support WordPress beyond 2.6. Ah well, I gotta dedicate at least a full day to this. Maybe Friday so I can drink away the accumulated madness in the evening?

UPDATE 02/26/10@6:52pm: Turns out that my theme is immortal. Cache plugins seem to be the issue, being it Hyper Cache or WP SuperCache. Oh well, I can live without cache for now!