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Archive for May, 2006

Journey to the Center of the Mind

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 in Randomness

Why name an entry after an Amboy Dukes song? Because I wanted to post about some of the random stuff I was thinking, and that song popped into my head. It tends to just do that. It must be The Nuge. You don’t say “no” to The Nuge.

The Detroit Pistons are [...]

One Ghastly Day

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 in Rants

Perhaps the worst thing about today is that there really isn’t any good reason why it all went so wrong. Burdened by a near-total lack of motivation to do much of anything, I accomplished little in the way of work. Part of it is due to how humdrum and tedious my current task [...]

Oddball Number Six

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, May 29th, 2006 in Site

“V6, come to section J immediately.” Ha — I had to trot out another Doctor Who joke for today’s launch of Oddball Update 6.0, just to pay homage to the version 4 announcement which began similarly. Anyway, welcome to Oddball Number Six, bearing absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to Cylon Number Six, about which [...]

Redesign This Site in Ten Minutes

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, May 25th, 2006 in Life, Randomness

No, that’s not the latest ridiculous task I’ve been saddled with by a client or anything like that. It’s the thought I had just now as I was sitting here, looking at this site, and browsing the web for examples of what other people have done with their blogs, design-wise. I mostly don’t [...]

New GTO Photos Posted

Posted by Chief Oddball on Sunday, May 21st, 2006 in Cars, GTO, Photography

Apple and I conducted a fun picture-taking session this evening after dinner, and the result is a new gallery of GTO photos highlighting the new window tint I just had installed. It was a beautiful evening for capturing some images, and most of them came out really nicely. We shot some in-car video [...]

Mission Accomplished

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, May 20th, 2006 in Life

I think I managed to get more work done on Saturday than I did for the last several weekdays. Since this morning I’ve been trying to make some progress on my list of side work, and actually accomplished quite a bit. In fact, one entire project is now done. Tomorrow I’ll be [...]

It Comes with the Territory

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, May 19th, 2006 in Site

Seems like whenever I move my site to a new web host, whether by choice or by some extenuating circumstance, I start getting in the mood to redesign it. Granted, it doesn’t exactly need redesigning again, but I’m no longer infatuated with this look. I’m thinking it’s time for something cleaner, lighter, smoother, [...]

Server Move Complete

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 in Quick Takes

If you’re seeing this, it means I’ve moved Oddball Update to a new web server and your ISP is now pointing you at the new location. If you’re a regular reader, please drop me a comment here and let me know if you think the page loads are faster, slower or about the same.

We Are Mired, Mired I Say

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 in Rants, Site

I thought (hoped?) it was just me, but the performance of the server my web domains are hosted on has really gone to hell lately. I noticed I’ve got one vote for “Frakking Horrible Loading Times” in my sidebar poll, and I certainly don’t blame ya, because I completely agree. Such is the [...]

Better Than Oxygen

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, May 15th, 2006 in Life, Randomness

Recreation: It’s Better Than Oxygen.™ Sure, you won’t asphyxiate if you don’t perform some recreational activity every few seconds, but partaking in such activities sure has a way of revitalizing you like nothing else. Not even canned oxygen, like 7-11 is going to start selling in Japan. Frankly, I got all the [...]