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September 20, 2005

I'm a Winner, Yay!

I don't think anyone that reads my blog keeps up with the View Askew Universe, beyond watching Kevin Smith's movies. If you did however, you would have seem my name at the top of NewsAskew.com [link] last night. I was one of the ten lucky people chosen to receive a free copy of the Mallrats 10th Anniversary edition which hit stores today. It makes me very happy that I don't have to buy it since I already own the original on DVD. I can't stand when studios release better versions after a film has been on DVD already. I don't mind as much with the View Askew re-releases because I know that they have gone above and beyond to come up with new content. They weren't intentionally holding back on the original release. I have yet to purchase 'Jersey Girl' and 'Sin City' for example, knowing that a special edition/directors cut is being produced (although Jersey Girl might not make it to fruition). Heres a direct link to the article on NewsAskew.

Speaking of the Askewniverse, Jason Lee (Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma) stars in 'My Name is Earl' on NBC at 8 tonight. Earl's brother is played by the guy in 'Mallrats' that couldn't see the sailboat. Watch it. It's funny. Not that I've..huh..seen it or anything. It is followed by 'The Office' with Steve Carell. I don't care much for him, but the show is great. Hopefully they'll have more than six episodes this season. Both shows conflict with 'Bones' on FOX. The pilot for 'Bones' didn't impress me much. I'll probably still watch it..mostly because I have too much free-time.

Since this turned into a TV entry, if you happened to see 'Surface' last night you may have noticed some bad stuff happening on Sullivan's Island in SC. Sullivan's Island is about five minutes from my house, but the filming is taking place about 3000 miles away from what I understand. The brothers who wrote/directed the show are using the town simply because their parents leave in the Charleston area. It's another show that has something to do with SC that will likely fail. It's more Sci-Fi channel than NBC. I don't know why all the networks keep trying these sci-fi shows. They rarely make it no matter how good they are.

I watch too much series television. In college I only kept up with the shows Maryment watched while I lived with Yoda..and I hardly kept up with those. Now I seem to watch at least half of it.

Posted by mhader at 5:46 PM | Comments (4)

September 19, 2005

Ayyyy Scalleywags!

I think Lisa summed up the weekend well, so if you want to know what I did this weekend, head to her blog [link]. I will fill you in on a few other things as well...

On the trip up, something, I'd assume a rock, flew up and hit my 9 month old windshield. What a way to start the weekend. The Jeep had to make it's first pilgrimage to the holy land with a busted up window. The odometer hit the 3,000 mile mark not long after the incident.

I was lucky enough to receive and install my security drawer before leaving so I didn't have to worry about leaving my possessions in the Jeep. I'll post more on the drawer later (including installation pictures). Probably on my Jeep page.

Today is the day to fly your jolly roger and splice the mainbrace while you hopefully stay away from Davy Jones's locker. Yes, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day [link] ye scurvy dogs!

Posted by mhader at 6:52 PM | Comments (2)

September 8, 2005

Lock Me Up

I ordered a security drawer [link] for my Jeep today (so I can actually lock some stuff up in the trunk) from 4Wheel Drive Hardware [link]. I've actually made several unsuccessful attempts to place the order online for several days. I've tried two different computers and even IE, which I only use as a last resort when Firefox won't work. I planned to call and place the order today, but I figured I'd email them to see if I could figure out what was wrong. I want to know that I can easily order from them in the future. Within 4-5 hours I received a response saying that they had found and fixed the problem. I was able to place my order and got a nice little discount to boot.

Posted by mhader at 1:39 PM

September 7, 2005

The Week in Review

Since the last post, I've been rather busy..for me at least. Last Tuesday the Aquarium released another sea turtle. I was actually able to make it to the release so I took a few pictures and placed them in the gallery (click on the 'Gallery' link to the left).

Thursday I actually had to work. Not much to say about that.

On Friday I laid out some plans for my new desk. It will be just under eight feet long and will have space for several monitors, two keyboard/mouse setup pull out trays, a spot for a laptop, and some storage space for everything else. It shouldn't be too expensive for the materials. It does however require that I replace my bed and buy a table saw. Which basically means it's another of my projects that is a long ways off.

Saturday I spent paddling with Jonathan in Murrells Inlet. For the PSA alumni, the landing is directly across the marsh from the 'Conch Out' beach house in Garden City. We paddled for about 4 hours around the marsh with a short trip out to the ocean side of the islands. The tide was real low when we came back in and the route we took didn't quite have enough water, even for a kayak. There was several times we actually had to get out of our boats and drag them through the mud. I was worn out by the time we made it back to the landing.

Sunday I did my aquarium duties and then helped (or is it made?) my mother clean out the laundry room to get rid of stuff that's been lost in there for ages. Needless to say, the task is still incomplete, but the laundry room looks better. The back room on the other hand gained a laundry room full of, dare I say it, crap.

Labor Day didn't really live up to it's name.

Tuesday I set up a secure wireless network in my mother's office downtown. It's interesting how different the router is than mine considering it's the same model. Aren't they supposed to change model numbers when they change a product? I like mine a lot better because you can tell a lot more by simply looking at the face. Mine has lots of pretty lights. Securing the router has gotten much easier for the average user. Security is on by default. This in good for the consumer, but bad for the wardriver.

I've also been spending some time working on some websites. One is irritating the living daylights out of me because I'm trying to make a company website that is xhtml compliant and have it look good in multiple browsers. IE is the devil. I thought I had it working well until I looked at it on my laptop. I had several settings that were based off of the DPI setting on the computer. The laptop DPI is set at 120 (the norm is 96 I believe) to make the fonts bigger. I've got everything mostly fixed now, but I still have errors in IE that I cannot figure out for the life of me. It works fine on my desktop and 120 DPI, but is messed up on the laptop at 120 DPI. Suggestions are welcome. I'll even send you a link to the test site (which is served locally on my computer).

I also fixed a ton of stuff on my personal website. By looking at it I doubt you'll notice much of a difference however. I decided that I would actually try to validate my site with the W3C. In the five or so pages I've fixed so far, I had over 1000 errors between them. Most are from the lack of parenthesis, case-sensitive tags, and not closing tags that don't really need to be closed. Others were just some bad code that got lost and left in editing. Hopefully I didn't mess anything up in the process.

This entry seems to be far too long. Sorry for that.

Posted by mhader at 4:09 PM | Comments (4)


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mhader.com blog gallery jeep the list hrc shots links about	Michael's Weblog « August 2005 \| Main \| October 2005 » September 20, 2005 I'm a Winner, Yay! I don't think anyone that reads my blog keeps up with the View Askew Universe, beyond watching Kevin Smith's movies. If you did however, you would have seem my name at the top of NewsAskew.com [link] last night. I was one of the ten lucky people chosen to receive a free copy of the Mallrats 10th Anniversary edition which hit stores today. It makes me very happy that I don't have to buy it since I already own the original on DVD. I can't stand when studios release better versions after a film has been on DVD already. I don't mind as much with the View Askew re-releases because I know that they have gone above and beyond to come up with new content. They weren't intentionally holding back on the original release. I have yet to purchase 'Jersey Girl' and 'Sin City' for example, knowing that a special edition/directors cut is being produced (although Jersey Girl might not make it to fruition). Heres a direct link to the article on NewsAskew. Speaking of the Askewniverse, Jason Lee (Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma) stars in 'My Name is Earl' on NBC at 8 tonight. Earl's brother is played by the guy in 'Mallrats' that couldn't see the sailboat. Watch it. It's funny. Not that I've..huh..seen it or anything. It is followed by 'The Office' with Steve Carell. I don't care much for him, but the show is great. Hopefully they'll have more than six episodes this season. Both shows conflict with 'Bones' on FOX. The pilot for 'Bones' didn't impress me much. I'll probably still watch it..mostly because I have too much free-time. Since this turned into a TV entry, if you happened to see 'Surface' last night you may have noticed some bad stuff happening on Sullivan's Island in SC. Sullivan's Island is about five minutes from my house, but the filming is taking place about 3000 miles away from what I understand. The brothers who wrote/directed the show are using the town simply because their parents leave in the Charleston area. It's another show that has something to do with SC that will likely fail. It's more Sci-Fi channel than NBC. I don't know why all the networks keep trying these sci-fi shows. They rarely make it no matter how good they are. I watch too much series television. In college I only kept up with the shows Maryment watched while I lived with Yoda..and I hardly kept up with those. Now I seem to watch at least half of it. Posted by mhader at 5:46 PM \| Comments (4) September 19, 2005 Ayyyy Scalleywags! I think Lisa summed up the weekend well, so if you want to know what I did this weekend, head to her blog [link]. I will fill you in on a few other things as well... On the trip up, something, I'd assume a rock, flew up and hit my 9 month old windshield. What a way to start the weekend. The Jeep had to make it's first pilgrimage to the holy land with a busted up window. The odometer hit the 3,000 mile mark not long after the incident. I was lucky enough to receive and install my security drawer before leaving so I didn't have to worry about leaving my possessions in the Jeep. I'll post more on the drawer later (including installation pictures). Probably on my Jeep page. Today is the day to fly your jolly roger and splice the mainbrace while you hopefully stay away from Davy Jones's locker. Yes, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day [link] ye scurvy dogs! Posted by mhader at 6:52 PM \| Comments (2) September 8, 2005 Lock Me Up I ordered a security drawer [link] for my Jeep today (so I can actually lock some stuff up in the trunk) from 4Wheel Drive Hardware [link]. I've actually made several unsuccessful attempts to place the order online for several days. I've tried two different computers and even IE, which I only use as a last resort when Firefox won't work. I planned to call and place the order today, but I figured I'd email them to see if I could figure out what was wrong. I want to know that I can easily order from them in the future. Within 4-5 hours I received a response saying that they had found and fixed the problem. I was able to place my order and got a nice little discount to boot. Posted by mhader at 1:39 PM September 7, 2005 The Week in Review Since the last post, I've been rather busy..for me at least. Last Tuesday the Aquarium released another sea turtle. I was actually able to make it to the release so I took a few pictures and placed them in the gallery (click on the 'Gallery' link to the left). Thursday I actually had to work. Not much to say about that. On Friday I laid out some plans for my new desk. It will be just under eight feet long and will have space for several monitors, two keyboard/mouse setup pull out trays, a spot for a laptop, and some storage space for everything else. It shouldn't be too expensive for the materials. It does however require that I replace my bed and buy a table saw. Which basically means it's another of my projects that is a long ways off. Saturday I spent paddling with Jonathan in Murrells Inlet. For the PSA alumni, the landing is directly across the marsh from the 'Conch Out' beach house in Garden City. We paddled for about 4 hours around the marsh with a short trip out to the ocean side of the islands. The tide was real low when we came back in and the route we took didn't quite have enough water, even for a kayak. There was several times we actually had to get out of our boats and drag them through the mud. I was worn out by the time we made it back to the landing. Sunday I did my aquarium duties and then helped (or is it made?) my mother clean out the laundry room to get rid of stuff that's been lost in there for ages. Needless to say, the task is still incomplete, but the laundry room looks better. The back room on the other hand gained a laundry room full of, dare I say it, crap. Labor Day didn't really live up to it's name. Tuesday I set up a secure wireless network in my mother's office downtown. It's interesting how different the router is than mine considering it's the same model. Aren't they supposed to change model numbers when they change a product? I like mine a lot better because you can tell a lot more by simply looking at the face. Mine has lots of pretty lights. Securing the router has gotten much easier for the average user. Security is on by default. This in good for the consumer, but bad for the wardriver. I've also been spending some time working on some websites. One is irritating the living daylights out of me because I'm trying to make a company website that is xhtml compliant and have it look good in multiple browsers. IE is the devil. I thought I had it working well until I looked at it on my laptop. I had several settings that were based off of the DPI setting on the computer. The laptop DPI is set at 120 (the norm is 96 I believe) to make the fonts bigger. I've got everything mostly fixed now, but I still have errors in IE that I cannot figure out for the life of me. It works fine on my desktop and 120 DPI, but is messed up on the laptop at 120 DPI. Suggestions are welcome. I'll even send you a link to the test site (which is served locally on my computer). I also fixed a ton of stuff on my personal website. By looking at it I doubt you'll notice much of a difference however. I decided that I would actually try to validate my site with the W3C. In the five or so pages I've fixed so far, I had over 1000 errors between them. Most are from the lack of parenthesis, case-sensitive tags, and not closing tags that don't really need to be closed. Others were just some bad code that got lost and left in editing. Hopefully I didn't mess anything up in the process. This entry seems to be far too long. Sorry for that. Posted by mhader at 4:09 PM \| Comments (4)