I realize that it’s been a while since I posted to my blog and it’s something that I want to be better about in new year but it’s very difficult for me to get excited about anything that’s going on right now. I find that I’m doing a lot of work for my company and while I enjoy that it tends to keep me from doing many of my hobbies like blogging. 2011 has been a blizzard of activity and I’m sure it will only continue into the new year.
On that note; Happy New Year everyone..
I’m still very keen on creating my own custom blogging software as I posted previously and it’s something that I definitely am going to get around to but its slow going. I’ve been working on it about an hour each night if the time is available.
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Final Update: Okay.. I owe a huge apology to the wordpress folks.. After doing a bunch of digging this isn’t a wordpress bug at all, but rather a server exploit that someone used to edit a good portion of the .php files on my site in order to inject their shitty obfuscated iframe crap. There were files that were edited completely outside the realm of wordpress, on my server that the wordpress user didn’t even have access too.. So wordpress is completely off the hook! Sorry guys.
Now having said that I’m still planning on making my own blogging software for funsies.. but I am not feeling as much pressure now since I now know how to purge the iframes off and wordpress isn’t to blame.
Update: Click the image to the right to see the highlighted code that got injected into the site tonight.. I have no clue how it got in there and am actively taking steps to figure it out.. it’s magically there one second then a refresh shows its gone.. I have tested my codebase thoroughly and I can’t find it anywhere, nor can I find it in any of the javascript that is being called.. Either way, Please don’t install or run anything that you download from my site. Note: I’m deactivating all extra plugins for the time being until I figure out whats causing this.
As many of you know, I am very much my own special kind of nerd. I enjoy doing many a’geeky thing that others wouldn’t even dream of. To be honest, I think all software engineers have to be a bit brain damaged just to do their job. Recently my own affliction has been leading me down the path of writing my own blogging and content management system.
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If you buy just about any product and have an issue with that product, you have a reasonable expectation of being able to take that product back and get a replacement. Example; Buy a TV and it doesn’t work, you return it and get a new one.. Or return it and get your money back. That new shirt not fit quite right? Take it back..
Not with software. With software once purchased you’re stuck with it. There is typically a very strict “no return” policy, and this sucks. It’s to the point now where most stores wont even take back unopened software. Once the transaction is done, its done.
So if you get that software home and it just plain doesn’t work, you’re hosed. You’re just out that money, and you have absolutely zero recourse other than to not purchase that companies software any more. That’s where I’m at with Ubisoft.
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I’m pretty strong supporter of Adobe products or at least I think I must be because I have purchased Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects as well as upgrading each many times. I’m on my 4th or 5th iteration of photoshop at this point and after some quick and dirty math I think Adobe has gotten well over $5000 of my hard earned money over the years. These are all for my own personal use and because as a software engineer I think software piracy is just wrong. Even so that still hurts a tad.
Recently Adobe announced that they would be offering their software at rental subscription prices and I was excited! What a great idea!! But did they do it right? I don’t think so.. but they are so close!
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Ibanez Mandolin
I have always enjoyed wood working and have done a bit of wood turning in my time. And as I have mentioned before (more than once), I have always wanted to play an instrument of some kind.. Recently it occurred to me that there was no reason I couldn’t combine these two activities..
To that end, I decided to try my hand at becoming a hobby luthier (a maker of stringed instruments) and make myself something to play.. I went back and forth considering all the options and decided that for my first instrument I’d like to make a Mandolin. ( Dulcimer was a close second and I’ll likely make one of those in the future, as well as making a Viola if I can manage to do this with any proficiency. )
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Frozen Synapse
I have always been a huge fan of the turn based tactical isometric games such as Jagged Alliance, JA2, Xcom..etc.. For whatever reason that style of meticulous gameplay always appealed to me, but I had always assumed I was alone in my passion because those games never seemed to last very long in favor of first person shooters or real time strategy games..etc..
In fact, the industry as a whole has completely moved away from turn based game play, which I find to be a shame. Well thank god there are awesome independent developers around to fill the void!
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