Something about saw dust that gets me all destructive.  First a server transfer, now this.  I've never been 100% happy with my design here at BetterThanEveryone and my buddy Jeff Couturier over at 10 Volt Media has been kind enough to hook a brotha up with a nice professional UX (user experience) spit shine.  I've know Jeff for a while since he used to be a co-worker and love the stuff he does.  Next time few times I'm in Chicago, I owe him literally a keg of beer. Here a few quick sketches he did for me.  I adore...

Why did I mount the skateboard axles on a lazy susan?  Hopefully HTML will let me explain this.  Imagine a top down view for the skateboard.   When neutral (not turning) the axles look like this: |----|   When turning in (lets say in is toward the top of the screen), the axles turn inward: /----\   When turning outward, the axles pivot the other way: \----/   And the pivoting wasn't a few millimeters, they rotate a inch so a fixed mount wouldn't work.  There may be a better solution out there but this was easy and could...

After much Zen meditating (or as normal people say, drinking beer), I've decided aluminum framing is the way to go.  Cheap(ish), zero welding, 1 bar should be enough to do the entire structure and then some, connectors are there, connectors are there to reinforce too.  Mounting brackets for everything. Basically, it is perfect.  Now I get to buy a drill press and band saw for my apartment too.  Power tools, every man's weakness.

I knew my background solution worked too flawlessly.  Always be afraid when you code something with no bugs in it.  I thought I tested this locally but it turns out I didn't since if you viewed an article, it would throw a hard exception.  I think it is since I did a Server.MapPath.  I remember adding that in at the very end so I'm betting I tested my solution before this was added in.  No matter what, I see 2 easy improvements I could do on that code.  1st is create a string for the Server.MapPath and the 2nd is...

I've been poking around SubText's SQL area and it can be done but not very effectively since how things get updated.  I can modify subtext_GetConditionalEntries with "AND DateAdded < getdate()" but when you update the post and want to modify the viewable date, this isn't enough.  So I thought the DateUpdated would work and it would work for the 1st time you post but afterwards, it updates with the current time, not the wanted to post time. SubText, in my opinion, as it currently stands cannot support future posting.  I'm not willing to modify the engine this much to add...

So I had a little video editing mental break down.  So I sent Rory Blyth an email since he was once a Channel 9 member over at Microsoft and generally awesome guy.  While I didn't exactly say Windows Movie Maker sucks per say, I'm not going to disagree with that statement either.  However I will say after Dan Waters, another ADE on my team, showed me some tricks with WMM, it sucks far, far less.  My one HUGE problem is the lack of multiple audio tracks along with if you alter the time line, the audio doesn't shift with everything....

I just added in my blog roll call for everyone who was on my old blog and added in a few more.  This layout has a few issues that are personally annoying me.  The search isn't rendering in IE properly and alter the rendering on the left nav I haven't totally figured out for some of the items. I still need to do the footer also.  I wonder if I bring my laptop to my aunt's house if I'll get in trouble.  That gryo code isn't going to write itself and is SO cool.  Damn you fun projects!

So I'm writing my updater app to fix the image problem I outlined and saw I actually have a problem with the SQL I wrote anyways.  The replace error on an Ntext datatype would still happen, but even if that error wouldn't happen, another problem would have happened. The problem of nothing actually happening.  I was replacing the same string with itself.  I needed the /image/ to reset the image tag back to the domain root. The code SHOULD be:begin tran Update subtext_Content Set [text] = replace([text], '<img src="images/', '<img src="/images/') select *...

Today I had my first major trouble with my car and it really wasn't its fault.  I got into my Acura TSX and tried to turn the key and couldn't.  I tried again, still nothing.  * insert swearing and colorful language*  Finally I give up and call Acura's road side assistance and the nice woman tells me to jerk my wheel.  I'm puzzled by this since it seems, to be honest, like a stupid and pointless thing.  Sure enough, I jerk it (hehe), and the key turned again.  Turning the key took way more effort than normal but it...

Ok, so this was a rather long, drawn out, painful process.  I actually blew one entire weekend getting this working. SubText itself is good, Wordpress too. Converting one’s data to the other kind of sucked. Nah, it really sucked.  I think I started this about a month ago but I'd give myself over 2 days of time getting this to work correctly. So I managed to get the conversion to work and I bet I pissed off a few of my friends while I was at it due to trackbacks. So here is my disjointed story on doing it. ...