It's getting out of hand. So much to do and it's all just a big mashup of crap. It's gonna take days just to get back to where I can work on this. Bah! Time to go watch tv and get my mind off this for a while.

What's new with you?

i should get me a website..so i have something to take up some of this "extra" time i got lingering around here..

I've been super slow on the updates around here. Things have been hectic, crazy, good, bad, up, down, and pretty much everything in between for a while now.

Gonna be a new start pretty soon, and I'll be back to dedicating some hardcore time to the new version of this place (got a couple software projects on the back burner, too).

So expect things. Hopefully I'll deliver.

I've been super slow on the updates around here. Things have been hectic, crazy, good, bad, up, down, and pretty much everything in between for a while now.

Gonna be a new start pretty soon, and I'll be back to dedicating some hardcore time to the new version of this place (got a couple software projects on the back burner, too).

So expect things. Hopefully I'll deliver.

I need an FAQ so umm...ask me some questions.

Sorry I uh....don't get asked that one frequently enough.

P.S. Jerk!

Here are some smilies. They are new. They need names like :mad: or faces like :). Tell me some names for them.

:mort:

I'll probably just say :devil:... ]:)> ?

...and :angel: O:) ?

[Edit: I'm just gonna edit this post instead of continuting down the thread and burying crap. Even though it's a pain the ass to change :mad: to :mad: every time and such. Now I have another place to remember to do it too. Shit. Back on topic...]

:zombie: ? :uggghhh: ? :braaaaiiiiiiiins: ?

:durst: ? :douche: ?

dunno what to call it.

ditto.

Also, the less subtle version...



this one blows I'm not using it. How do I make a cricket that small?! Hrrrrmmmmm....
?

dunno

holy crap do i need to come up with more ideas for faces!

I recently got some criticism about the color scheme on this place. And I never really think about it I guess. It's been this color since like 2000 when I first made it (one flat file at the time). Then it went to this gradient crap and well...yeah, I'm pretty sick of it. So the new site will have a new template design. But what to make? I'm beginning with small alterations to see what works. I want some feedback.

So check this out and tell me what you think...and if you aren't a member and you're reading this...sign up and tell me what sucks about it. Thanks.

This is what I've changed it to so far. I don't know if I like it:

[userlame.com]
Click to make it bigger.

Here's a not logged in view of a thread (note the placeholder for profile images):
[userlame.com]

It's mostly the same. And the buttons on the new site will be different -- lots more content. And some will probably have dropdowns.

Tell me what's wrong with it and what needs to change.

Dum dee doooo

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Yep. No rest for the wicked. I think I'm devoting my weekend (Tue Wed) to the site again. Probably means I should have gotten some sleep last night but meh.

I really really want the new features to be up. I need to get my ass in gear.

You won.

userlame.com will be going down for approximately 10 minutes at some point this morning. I was really dumb in setting the server up and got a couple cords wrapped around where they need to be unwrapped from. Those being the power and KVM cables. Be back shortly.

userlame.com will be going down for approximately 10 minutes at some point this morning. I was really dumb in setting the server up and got a couple cords wrapped around where they need to be unwrapped from. Those being the power and KVM cables. Be back shortly.

Still working on the site. I've been spending ungodly numbers of hours on it. I'm making it completely modular, skinnable, etc. I think I may release the code as a full CMS. It'll have all the features when I'm done. It's a lot of work.

I. Want. This. [money.guardian.co.uk]

Still working on the site. I've been spending ungodly numbers of hours on it. I'm making it completely modular, skinnable, etc. I think I may release the code as a full CMS. It'll have all the features when I'm done. It's a lot of work.

I. Want. This. [money.guardian.co.uk]

After being gone for quite a while, I've brought the webcam back. I'm not sure if I'll keep it as a main section of the site or at all after the updates...so if you wanna spy on me do it now [userlame.com]!

I still need a tongue sticking out smiley. Man I'm lazy.

I just got the cam back up so I'm not sure if it's still working (it should be), but the last 24 hours of the cam should be archived here [userlame.com]. And if you're super-onethreethreeseven you can find archives of the last week.
[I just looked...evidently it's been archiving all morning and I didn't even know it. Hah]

After being gone for quite a while, I've brought the webcam back. I'm not sure if I'll keep it as a main section of the site or at all after the updates...so if you wanna spy on me do it now [userlame.com]!

I still need a tongue sticking out smiley. Man I'm lazy.

I just got the cam back up so I'm not sure if it's still working (it should be), but the last 24 hours of the cam should be archived here [userlame.com]. And if you're super-onethreethreeseven you can find archives of the last week.
[I just looked...evidently it's been archiving all morning and I didn't even know it. Hah]

So things have been kind of crazy for me lately. I haven't worked on the revamp of this place at all lately. My apologies. I'm going to dedicate this weekend to coffee and code. Last weekend I did that I got a lot done. Let's hope I can do that again.

I can't hardly stand coming to the non-dev site cause things are so nasty. Bah! Incentive to get to work!

Well, it's Sunday morning. It's the weekend. The desktop is still out of commission (I should just make my own live cd with what I want on it). I'm going to try to get some stuff on the site done today. I'll at least try to get through the boards so I can concentrate on the new stuff next weekend. With a handful of luck, and selling my soul for about $3.50, the desktop should be back up next weekend.

Next week is payday. I can buy a bag of coffee saturday night for after work. Time to sweat out a weekend in front of the monitors.

I have to get to work! I'm being lazy!

Well, I've got a bit of a problem...my desktop's hard drive is dying fast. I'm writing this from the lappy which is gonna have to be my main machine for a lil while. Till I can afford a hard drive anyway. Which is gonna be a while. again.

BUT that doesn't mean I'm gonna let work stand still. I've gotten through re-implementing members, sessions, and a few other important things. My goal for this weekend is to get through implementing the boards and all things associated with that.

The goal for next weekend is to start the work on new features. I'm hoping to have the new site up and running by the beginning of next month at the absolute latest. We'll see.

Anyone wanna send me a hard drive? >180G please (I've a lot of stuff on the drive that's dying and I'd like to get it off). Just email me for my address. Ok great thanks.

Now it's time for some sleep. I'm friggin exhausted.

Well, I've got a bit of a problem...my desktop's hard drive is dying fast. I'm writing this from the lappy which is gonna have to be my main machine for a lil while. Till I can afford a hard drive anyway. Which is gonna be a while. again.

BUT that doesn't mean I'm gonna let work stand still. I've gotten through re-implementing members, sessions, and a few other important things. My goal for this weekend is to get through implementing the boards and all things associated with that.

The goal for next weekend is to start the work on new features. I'm hoping to have the new site up and running by the beginning of next month at the absolute latest. We'll see.

Anyone wanna send me a hard drive? >180G please (I've a lot of stuff on the drive that's dying and I'd like to get it off). Just email me for my address. Ok great thanks.

Now it's time for some sleep. I'm friggin exhausted.

So I woke up today and came to do a few things before leaving for work when....no userlame.com! It's gone! Didn't take long to find the culprit though. The situation was resolved by just swapping out the power supply. Although the only one I had to swap it with is a piece of crap with a fan that's mostly broken. The power supply that just died was a replacement for this one. So I need a new one.

From the logs it looks like the site shut down about 2:05 today. Back up and running by about 5:30.

So I woke up today and came to do a few things before leaving for work when....no userlame.com! It's gone! Didn't take long to find the culprit though. The situation was resolved by just swapping out the power supply. Although the only one I had to swap it with is a piece of crap with a fan that's mostly broken. The power supply that just died was a replacement for this one. So I need a new one.

From the logs it looks like the site shut down about 2:05 today. Back up and running by about 5:30.

morning and I got home from work a bit ago. I've got some coffee in me and I think I'm ready. I'm dubbing the next 3 days The Weekend of Code. I've been very busy at work writing stuff down I want to do for this site. It's great to get paid for doing that. So here are my two clear goals for this weekend:

Complete!
1) Write a sort of perl mail filter daemon. All it's gonna do is listen for connections from this site to send out emails for it. I thought of a good way to do this that will make sending templated or custom mail from this website much easier. I could write this in php, but I think it will be easier to write this way for now, and I think it'll be fun.

2) Re-write this site. I'll be working on my dev server installing php5 and completely re-writing this place. The way it came to be the way it is now was over a period of years working on the place at random, adding something here and a feature there. It's pretty hacked together in its current state. I'll be using some yummy OO goodness where I've wanted it (because it just makes sense!) and basically making the whole thing a lot slicker. At some point, I may generalize and release all the code as a way to add forums/membership to a site easily. But that's the future. This is now.

Number 2 is going to be very time-consuming. I have no delusions about finishing it this weekend. But I want to get a good start...at least halfway through. I have the design pretty well laid out on the backs of about a billion crossword puzzles (I do them at work).

If you're curious about what new things will be on the site, check out this thread [userlame.com]. It will grow as time goes on. And by all means, suggestions are appreciated! If you want to know about what I'm writing/how I'm writing it or anything post a question on the tech boards [userlame.com], and I'll answer it if I can. If you're not a member you can't post, so go register [userlame.com]!

Well, time to start another pot of coffee. Here goes.

Shit is going well. I got a lot done over the weekend and I'm continuing on. This place is gonna have a big makeover when the new site goes live. It's userlame 2.0. See how I can be witty and hip there? I'm awesome.

I've thrown another updated on the site cause I think it's useful enough to warrant it. You can now preview posts before you actually submit them. Now, try to remember: in order to do this you must click the button that says "preview." Got it? Click "preview" to preview your post. I hope this was clear.

Also, this will probably be the last new feature update for a while. I'm going to be re-writing (really just re-designing/implementing) everything on the site, so that's gonna take up most of my time for a good while. But when that goes live, things should improve a lot.

So I've thrown a few updates from the dev side of userlame.com up live. I like them and I kinda wanted to share. Check out the boards for the nifty new previewing functions anywhere you see a thread listed [there's even a couple on this page...scroll down to a post with comments and look near "Last post:" for "(Show preview)"]. It gives you a sneak peek without having to open a thread. I like it. There were some other random things updated to work better. There will be more in the works.

Also, all posts will now be made into one of the boards (there isn't really a "main" board per se now). Chosen posts from all those boards will go up to the main page. I put a lot of hacks in to make that work. :\ Should work ok though. So join the site and post something interesting and I may stick it up on the front page. Whoopie. I'm gettin kinda tired now. I think it's time to sleep some.

G'night.

So I've thrown a few updates from the dev side of userlame.com up live. I like them and I kinda wanted to share. Check out the boards for the nifty new previewing functions anywhere you see a thread listed [there's even a couple on this page...scroll down to a post with comments and look near "Last post:" for "(Show preview)"]. It gives you a sneak peek without having to open a thread. I like it. There were some other random things updated to work better. There will be more in the works.

Also, all posts will now be made into one of the boards (there isn't really a "main" board per se now). Chosen posts from all those boards will go up to the main page. I put a lot of hacks in to make that work. :\ Should work ok though. So join the site and post something interesting and I may stick it up on the front page. Whoopie. I'm gettin kinda tired now. I think it's time to sleep some.

G'night.

I'm not so sure why I keep posting site news since no one seems to actually visit here, but whatever.

So evidently about a half hour after I left for work last night, userlame.com went down. It's been happening randomly since I moved into this apartment...the power just randomly blinks off for about 2 seconds. Which is really weird cause it did that in my old apartment when I first moved in too. Lasted a few months there. Now I move into a different apartment, same building, and the same thing starts up again.

P.S. Anybody wanna buy me a couple UPSs? I really really could use them. Power outages are only ~2-3 seconds and it really sucks that that takes out my server.

I'm not so sure why I keep posting site news since no one seems to actually visit here, but whatever.

So evidently about a half hour after I left for work last night, userlame.com went down. It's been happening randomly since I moved into this apartment...the power just randomly blinks off for about 2 seconds. Which is really weird cause it did that in my old apartment when I first moved in too. Lasted a few months there. Now I move into a different apartment, same building, and the same thing starts up again.

P.S. Anybody wanna buy me a couple UPSs? I really really could use them. Power outages are only ~2-3 seconds and it really sucks that that takes out my server.

This board will be populated soon. There's some updates in the works and they will be made live before long.

This board will be populated soon. There's some updates in the works and they will be made live before long.

Well, the site made it back up. And I lucked out with IP/DNS issues. As in, I didn't have to bother.

I am so. tired. Gotta go to work now.

Well, the site made it back up. And I lucked out with IP/DNS issues. As in, I didn't have to bother.

I am so. tired. Gotta go to work now.

The site will be going down tomorrow, May 31st [ed: hrm, today's the 29th...I guess I meant Tuesday the 31st] at some point. It should be back up on the 2nd of June. DNS propagation may delay the time before you can actually get to the site and whatnot, but it should work eventually.

I've been moving crap all day. I'm friggin tired.

The site will be going down tomorrow, May 31st [ed: hrm, today's the 29th...I guess I meant Tuesday the 31st] at some point. It should be back up on the 2nd of June. DNS propagation may delay the time before you can actually get to the site and whatnot, but it should work eventually.

I've been moving crap all day. I'm friggin tired.

Attention attention. userlame.com [userlame.com] will be going down for a brief period sometime nearing the end of the month. Providing there are no ip changes and dns problems (a very real possibility) there should only be about a half hour of downtime or so. I'll provide an exact date as I have it. I wouldn't want all you avid readers (reading what? I certainly don't know) to freak out without your fix, so I'll keep you posted.

After this downtime, userlame.com [userlame.com] will be found about 20 feet up (and maybe 30 or so feet south) of where it currently resides.

This concludes the announcement. Thank you for your attention. You may now go back to whatever it was you were doing.

Attention attention. userlame.com [userlame.com] will be going down for a brief period sometime nearing the end of the month. Providing there are no ip changes and dns problems (a very real possibility) there should only be about a half hour of downtime or so. I'll provide an exact date as I have it. I wouldn't want all you avid readers (reading what? I certainly don't know) to freak out without your fix, so I'll keep you posted.

After this downtime, userlame.com [userlame.com] will be found about 20 feet up (and maybe 30 or so feet south) of where it currently resides.

This concludes the announcement. Thank you for your attention. You may now go back to whatever it was you were doing.