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There’s very little I can even string together at this point. Lisa, Brian, and Mark got to see my full range of emotions during the Eagles unbelievable victory today over the Pack. I shout a lot of things during the game that I wouldn’t want to be held accountable for, so lets just say that I’m a tad enthusiastic 😀 . Next week will be the third consecutive NFC Championship Game I get to root for them, and hopefully this time I get to look forward to the Super Bowl. This game was too much of a nailbiter, and certainly didn’t help my stomach situation.

I ended up staying home Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I was all set to go back in the way I felt Thursday night. Then I woke up Friday morning around 5 AM. I won’t give you the details, but there was no way I was going to work. That afternoon, however, I got a wonderful surprise from Lisa. She bought me a gift from Amazon.com and had it shipped directly to me so I got to spend the rest of my day building my new toy:

Today she’s risking life and limb to spend time with me (oh yeah, and her heat went off last night so she’s stuck here 🙂 ) and make me soup. Not that she really minds having SSX3 readily available to her:

I don’t know what’s making my stomach feel worse: this virus, or waiting for my Birds to take on the Packers tomorrow.

Wow, just realized I hadn’t even saved my password to this site on my desktop computer. I’ve actually done all my posting here from other places since the reload. I’m sure that’s only interesting to me 😛 . Anywho, poking around the web looking for some information on a few odd bands I’ve downloaded music from, I stumbled across the site for Scanty Sandwich. It’s a cool house band (really just the one guy) who did this awesome song called “Because of You” featured on a Fatboy Slim mix album. Check them out if you’re into that kind of music, otherwise just go to the site to see what they’ve don with flash. Although some of it is a tad overdone (I hate sites that resize my window) I think they’ve done a pretty cool job of creating a virtual home.

I’m finally starting to feel better, but I actually had to take a sick day today. I’ve eaten one small bowl of rice since lunch yesterday, but I might be ready for another. Lisa’s only been by for a little bit because I really don’t want her catching this thing. I don’t mind colds or even flus, but stomach virii are just nasty. The best thing to happen to me was just to lose it all this morning over the toilet. Sure it’s not a pleasant thought, but sometimes your body just needs to get rid of the bad element, no matter how disgusting it is. Anywho, we’ll see if I make a full recovery for work tomorrow, but I certainly needed the rest for today.

Alright, I got the nice permalinks going. I found out why my .htaccess wasn’t working (thanks to another blogger who had a similar problem). Now the archived posts will have URIs like http://neverhood.net/archives/2004/1/5/cool-permalinks rather than some cryptic call using a number and a question mark. Hey, I’m excited.

As I already said, WordPress 1.0 is finally here. I got it up and running this morning and everything looks cool, so I’m now looking forward to exploring all of its new little nooks and crannies. Multi-category posts would be my new feature of choice, but I’m also looking forward to the comment moderation (no offense to any of you, but spammers are lurking somewhere out there 😉 ). Of course my first real work will be to redesign the site (almost from the ground up) to get away from this default look.

OK, so I’m not really in black (well, my desktop case is), but I am back. I finally re-installed my system and just got the website back up and running. Sticking with the whole Red Hat theme I decided to switch to the Fedora project. With the release of Core 1 the installation was a rather easy transition from Red Hat Linux 9, so I’ve got no real complaints outside of the difficulties I had getting MySQL to work. There’s a definite feel of continuity here and that’s made transfering configs rather easy.

I didn’t really get to try out any new flavors as I planned, but I doubt it would have been much of a contest. SuSE charges money for their distro ISOs, so that was really only an option for work. As much as I wanted to try Gentoo, all of my attempted installations failed. I’d still like to give it another try but I probably won’t be switching thebox again anytime soon. And then there was Debian. No offense (since I know how popular their distro has becaome), but I just couldn’t make it past the setup. It was horrendous to say the least. They are light-years behind in this area, and that simply killed it for me. So it’s Fedora all the way (for now).

Next (tonight or tomorrow morning) I’ll be blissfully upgrading to the long-awaited release of WordPress 1.0. Oh it’s an exciting time for me indeed 🙂 .

I’m very antsy these days waiting for my coming break (Unigene shuts down for the week between Christmas and New Year’s 😀 ) as it will give me a lot of free time to work on projects sitting idle in my mind. Re-installing my server on the Linux distro of my choice will be primary, as well as a total (or near total) redesign of my website. Along with those comes the edition of some real content to this blog involving far more writing than I have “put to paper” in years. I have a desire to improve my writing and the only way to do that is to force myself to write more.

Early last month “photo” Matt made a resolution to write 1000 words a day. While I’m certainly not keeping up with that pace, it has begun to inspire me. I am beginning to feel this need to post as frequently as possible in an effort to make it more natural. I can already feel the effects of the last two weeks where I’ve been creating longer entries and posting them more frequently. If I can add in some articles or full-fledged reviews, well, who knows where that could lead…

Oh yes, and I too would like to have more links in my entrees. *looks up at single link in current entry and shrugs*

Okay, normally I’m opposed to skipping version numbers, but in the case of Winamp it seems like the right decision. I’ve used Winamp since the early days of MP3s (and for you n00bs that’s the 90s, not 2001 😉 ), but I was very disappointed with version 3. I went back to the previous rev since they were still supporting it, but I began to look for a new media player. Well, I have to say that my search ended right were I started it. There are just so many things they did right here I can’t even list them all. Bringing back the old Playlist Editor and making a far more sophisticated Media Library are major points. I’ve never been one to have my apps organize anything for me. I put my files where I want them to be, but this library is very simple to use, and I’ve actually started to use it.

Along with the libray, they’ve also really streamlined the whole Internet Radio/TV thing. I was more than pleasantly surprised to double-click on a link and find myself watching a stream of REM @ Sessions. Now I’m sitting at working listening to an 80’s station broadcast from God knows where. This morning I tried the ripping features and had a CD done in about 6 minutes. That’s good enough for me.

To put it another way, I’ve actually purchased the Pro version. I rarely pay for software, so that’s gotta say something. Now I just have to get around to buying a 200 GB hard drive for my server to rip my entire music collection 🙂 .

Okay, here’s a quick rundown of the weekend. Big campany holiday party on Friday. Had a great time with a little overdose on beef, beer, wine, and dancing – more on that later. Had to fight traffic to pick up Lisa from her company party in JC. She won a digital camera! Yesterday it took the two of us and Joseph almost 3 hours to get to Steve and Sandy’s thanks to “emergency” road work. Unfortunately allergies drove us away early. Now Lisa and I are about to battle traffic to get to the mall, then her aunt’s place in Long Island. Joy to the world, these holidays can be such a mess.