Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

• Trying to enjoy Netflix streaming on my 360 but #Knology connection keeps fluctuating. #
• Four day weekends never last as long as you want them to. Sunday is almost over. Sigh. #
• I found three unabridged audio versions of "The Art of War" on iTunes. They range in length from about 1 hour to about 9 hours. Umm? #
• Was planning on watching "Watchmen" tonight but energy level is low and I can't devote my mind to it tonight. Soon though. #
• Oh by the way, I loved the Watchmen movie. So much. Hurm. #
• Just found out Netflix Watch Instantly has the uncut version of Grindhouse with the trailers intact. Sweet. #

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The Hendricks Pioneer Web site

One of the things I committed to doing when I started working at Clark Printing was developing Web sites for each of the three papers I serve as editor. Recently we launched the first of the three sites, this one for the Hendricks Pioneer. We currently have sites for the other papers but I will be working on updating those as well.

I have the whole thing based on WordPress, much like this blog. I have done some little tweaks here and there to make it work as a newspaper. Over-all I am quite happy with the results. I’ll keep you posted on when Tyler and Lake Benton have new sites as well.

Man this Web site is slow

I really dislike writing about this blog inside of the blog, it just seems a little more meta than I really want to be. That being so I feel the need to comment on something that has been bugging me. For the last few years the server has continued to bog down despite my best efforts to keep the database clean and everything else up to date.

I did a time count on how long it took for the site to come up this morning and it turned out to be 24 seconds and that was before the server even fully connected. It would be easy to blame my host but I’m currently running a WordPress build on another site through the same host with little to no lag.

I have come to the conclusion that I need to wipe things clean and start fresh. I am going to download the archive of posts and hopfully include them in the revamped database. I’m also thinking of pushing the blog to the top level of the domain (getting rid of the /blog/) as the main way of getting to the site.

Sorry for this “inside baseball” post but I just wanted to let the few people who care know that the site might be offline for a little bit. Also links might need adjusting. I’ll keep a re-direct file in the /blog/ directory so it shouldn’t break things too much, but we’ll play it by ear.

Hope everyone had a good July 4th, or Canada Day or whatever summer festival you happen to be celebrating this month. See you on the other side.

Update: It has taken a little work but I think I have cleared a lot of things up with the site. There might be some things that are still off kilter and I have disabled some of the older features but for now this will serve me pretty well. Things are a lot snappier than they used to be.

Because I know you care

I know everyone has been concerned about my Xbox, I know I have been. It has been nearly a month since my Xbox 360 was stricken with the dreaded Red Ring of Death. The flashing red lights mocked me while I was trying to watch some Netflix streaming.

For those who don’t know, the flashing Red lights on the Xbox indicates a hardware problem, a frequent problem for 360 owners. I had mine for a little more than a year before it went Red. That seems a little quick in my opinion.

It has been shipped and Microsoft has confirmed that it’s on the way back home. In fact according to UPS it should be back here Monday.

I know I’m not alone in the whole loss of my Xbox 360 for a long period of time and in the pantheon of problems this isn’t really a big problem but I do miss the ability to pop in a new game and have fun.

I have been playing my original Xbox off and on, going through some of the games that don’t play on the 360 but it just isn’t the same. Come home soon Mr. 360, we have missed you.