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South Tampa Magazine. I used the CakePHP framework to write the back end of this site. Admin panel allows for editing of content pages, listings, categories, editorials, and editorial campaigns. Design by Fourthdoor Creative
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Rental Companies Suck
Recently I purchased a new car from Kuhn Honda/VW in Tampa, Florida. After driving the car for a couple weeks, I had to put it in the shop. While it was being worked on, I was put in a rental car. The extended warranty I purchased for my new car covers a rental car for up to $35 a day. That is where the problems started...
The first rental car they gave me was from Hertz Rental on-site at the dealership. Since I don't have any credit cards, I was forced to put a $100 "refundable deposit" on my debit card. I kept the rental for a couple days and expected that, upon returning the vehicle, I would get my $100 back. A few days passed, and the money was still not in my account.
The next week, I had to put my car back in the shop again. And again, I was put in a rental car. This time, Hertz was closed, so they sent me to Budget Rental. At Budget, I was forced to put an $85 deposit on my debit card. I was told, by the man at the counter that "we don't actually...
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Portfolio
I finally put a portfolio together. Check it out!. That is all.
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8 Months Later
I'm out of my sister's house. Got a roommate. Still at the new job - not so "new" anymore. Haven't posted in a while. I've been lazy. I'm going to try and shift the focus of the blog (this site) away from me and more to tech stuff. So let's do that...
I added an extra little feature to the comments a couple nights ago to combat bot spam. There's a new field on the 'Add Comment' form that should be ignored. The tip even says to leave it blank. Somewhat confusing, I know but hopefully it will help prevent the bot posts. There's another new security measure, but I'll keep that a secret ;)
Next is a fun JavaScript problem(?) I ran into today that has to do with variable scope and for loops. Basically, the browser is getting confused between two separate for loops in two separate functions that use the same iterator variable....
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I'm Back!
After 3 LONG weeks I've finally got all my computers back online! A lot has happened since I moved and I probably won't remember most of it, but I'll try...
The move started out about as shitty as one could imagine. I had to put Kate down the first day I was here. I still miss her. I'd had her since she was born and she was my first real pet. I bought her food, I paid for her vet vists, and everything else a pet owner does. She was the sweetest cat. Unlike her offspring, she never hurt me even when she was playing. She was the best. It was a very tough decision to have her put down but even the vet said that her chances were slim and what would most likely happen is I could drop up to $1,200 and still end up with a dead cat. I cried like a little baby over it but I feel better about it now. I was able to bring her home (Andrea's house) and give her a "proper" burial next to one of Andrea's cats. I'll miss you Kate.
The new job ROCKS! The people...
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Yeep
Screw you, cab company! I've got my own ride, now. Who knows for how long, though. Dave came down on Saturday and helped me out. Thanks, Dave! Everything seems to be running fine now. It's nice to be able to drive places.
My headphones that I've had since 9th grade finally broke a few days ago. I don't think there's any way to fix'm. They had a good run. I'll get some more soon - headphones are cheap.
I still haven't heard back from Apex. That's some headhunter place in Jacksonville. A guy from there called me a couple weeks ago and sounded pretty interested. I wonder if they know I live in Daytona and can't really move.
I saw some crazy candy today. Check out the pictures here and here.
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Anyung!
Still cabbin' it to work every day but this guy Eric has been giving me rides home in the afternoon - very cool of him if I might say. I'm not even sure if I'm on his way home or if he's just being nice. Either way, it's greatly appreciated. Saves me $10 a day!
I am so sick of Hawaiian Tropic! It seems like that's all I've been working on for the past two weeks. They're picky bastards, too! Anywhere products appear on the site, they must appear in order of volume (4 ounces, 8 ounces, etc). There are some headers that apparently have four ounce bottles of some sort of tanning concotion but they're supposed to be the eight ounce bottles. Honestly, who is going to notice? I didn't and I had them next to eachother in Photoshop at 300% zoom when I was editing them. The only difference I could see was the caps on the bottles were different sizes. It was so minimal! I barely even noticed it - do they honestly think that visitors to the site are going to notice it?! Insanity, I...
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Whateva
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Moving is Over
I'm finally in. I've learned a few things over the past couple weeks...
- Moving will always take longer than expected.
- Driving a UHaul towing a Jeep isn't as hard you'd think.
- The lady at the UHaul place is an idiot.
- BizAtomic was VERY organized!
- Apple + Left Arrow = Back button in Firefox.
- No matter how much money you feed the dryers here, they will not start unless securely closed.
- St. Augustine can be quite dangerous.
- Starting the new job was nowhere near as intimidating as I expected.
- Coldfusion is like programming "lite" - Rufus could learn Coldfusion.
- Traffic lights in Daytona take FOREVER!
- I can't order Dominos after 9 PM because my I have an out-of-area area code.
- Flash can be fun.
- There's a dead port on my wireless router.
- Every third time I order something from BestBuy, it will inevitably be on...
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Software Update
Ran software update and got new iTunes, QuickTime, and 10.4.4. I wasn't really expecting anything exciting. Fired up the old blog to fix a couple problems and I have HTMLArea in Safari now! Awesome!!! Not quite. There are still some weird little bugs that I'm just finding out about. This is the second time I've entered this post. Now I know that you can't switch to HTML mode.
Moving sucks. I Packed the bookshelf tonight. So much more to do. Moving day is approaching quickly.
Wrote a little shell script to clean up the jEdit backup files. Makes navigating in Finder much easier.
I'm stoked about the new job. Also scared to death. I'm sure everything will work out. It's normal to be nervous, right?
I think I'm going to check the blog into CVS tonight. Maybe install a couple for some friends - let 'em break it :) Night.
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Moving
It's been a while since my last post.
I finally met Amy. Seems like a really nice girl. She has a great house in a really cool neighborhood. Maybe a block from the water, nice trees. Really great place. We decided on a date that I'd move, everything was starting to work out. When I went back to work three days later, I put in my notice. I Also notified my landlord that I'd would be leaving in two weeks. Two days later, Amy calls and tells me that she's getting another job in TAMPA and the room won't be available anymore. Nine days before I'm leaving, she's telling me, essentially, I'm homeless. I basically had one day to find an apartment because nowhere is open on Sunday and I have to work like hell this last week. I am supposed to start the new job next Tuesday so I need to be down there this weekend. I did manage to find a place and I overnight-ed my application and deposit tonight. With any luck, I'll get in. I was pretty pissed with Amy but it looks like it's...
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CSS Bugs, Free (il)legal Music, etc
Lots of stuff...
Week started off learning about a CSS/display bug in Netscape 8. The site I was working on was a fixed width and height centered in the viewport with a scrollable div that contains the primary content. I had to add a "overflow: hidden;" to the BODY tag to prevent IE 5.2 Mac from displaying unneeded scrollbars on the site. Doing that caused random rendering issues within the scrolling div. More often than not, anything inside a P tag would cut off about a half inch below where the P starts. Once in a while, the page would render correctly, but I'd say 90% of the time it was wrong. The content was there, it seemed to be hidden behind something though. If I could select something on the page and drag down, whatever was in the P would scroll! Most peculiar. Removing the "overflow: hidden;" fixed the problem. If anyone else has this problem, I hope this was useful :)
Pandora is back up with 100k...
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What's Goin' On
I've done so much on this in the last week. I stayed up until 8:30 AM on Saturday writing code. I have a serious problem :) Hopefully, in the next week I can get an installation script written and people can test it. Let me know if you'd like to help beta test.
So I'm like 95% sure that I'll be taking the job at Zgraph but I still haven't made arrangements for SOMEWHERE TO LIVE! I was supposed to meet Kelly's friend, Amy, last week but those plans fell through. She wasn't at work yesterday so Kelly couldn't get her number. Today, Amy was at work, but for some reason, I still don't have her phone number. I'm not really sure what's going on. I guess that I'll be going to Daytona this weekend with Kelly and Mark to meet her. I don't know how I feel about being stuck in Daytona all night though if Kelly and Mark decide to stay there. I certainly don't want to drive my decrepit old Jeep down there. I don't feel safe going over 55 in that...
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Looking Forward
Well things are finally starting to look up. I had a job interview with a company in Daytona today. Seems like it went pretty well. I should know whether I've got the job by the end of the week. That drive was hell though. An hour and a half a tank of gas to get there. I belive I'll be moving if I do get the job. There's nothing keeping me here :)
[* edit *] I'm no better than her if I leave this up [* edit *]
I think I'll go poke around myspace for a while. G'night.
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A Week Later
Thanksgiving sucked. I spent it sitting around my house drinking all day long. Very depressing. Geoff came down so it wasn't so bad. We had Krystal for Thanksgiving dinner which was quite disappointing. I was really looking forward to having a "real" meal for Thanksgiving. On top of staying in this shithole, my car started to knock very loudly. I wonder how much longer it'll be until it just falls apart while I'm driving down the road. I'll be driving it to Tennessee at the end of this month so hopefully I'll have all the problems taken care of before then. I'm going to Dave's house on Saturday to fix all the things that are wrong... at least I hope.
Well, it looks like it's finally over with Kitten. She was supposed to call me last night an explain what the hell is going on with us, but of course, she didn't. God only knows what her excuse is. Whatever.
I talked with Stacey for a few hours last night and we made plans for her to come see me on her...
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No Thanksgiving For Me
Well, it looks like I'll be staying home for Thanksgiving. My car is busted and I'm broke as hell. Oh well, I didn't want to make that drive anyway. I wanted to get out of here, but that drive - my god, it's terrible.
I was supposed to go out with Kelly, Mark, Liz, and Chris on Saturday night so they could all meet Kitten but that fell through (not because of Kitten). We ended up hanging out here drinking and listening to music. Rachel was here installing software when everyone came over so she hung out. She got a little too drunk and ended up sleeping in my recliner for the night.
I'm really sick of sitting at home every night watching TV. I want to go out and do stuff, meet new people, have fun. Unfortunately, there's no one worth meeting and nothing worth doing around here. This place will kill me if I don't get out soon. I'm not a hermit. I like to socialize. I like going out. I need to find somewhere else to live and soon. If I stay here much longer, I...
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Finally, Music!
After not having a stereo in my car since I got it 6 months ago, I finally installed one in it tonight. Well, I mostly sat there while Josh rigged it up to the fuse box. Someone really rigged this fucking car before I had it. They added a switch under the dash that, for some reason, turns on the backup lights... Not the tail lights, just the backup lights. They also hardwired the stereo into the fusebox because they must've done something to fuck up the normal stereo plugs. I say that because the normal stereo plugs don't work anymore - that's why we had to hardwire it back to the fusebox again. Quite a rig, but it fits with the rest of the damn thing and it works so I couldn't care less.
Over the weekend I installed the shades in my bedroom after having them for 2 weeks. What a pain in the ass. If I could find the asshole who invented the square headed screw, I swear, I would murder them with my bare hands. I had such big plans for the weekend... Mostly cleaning the...
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Evening Post
I did some more work on my blog. It's coming along quite nicely. Got trackbacks working, finally. It wasn't too difficult once I wrapped my head around the whole concept. Pretty cool idea.
Kitten is really sick. She called in to work today and has been laying around watching Napoleon Dynamite all day long. Lucky her. Work was awful!
For some reason, any client who had a relatively new version of our E3 software were suddenly unable to take credit card payments. We found the problem and fixed it but we lost our whole day because of it. Strangely enough, the issue never occured before today. Everyone was completely bumfounded. Must've been some configuration change when the new firewall got installed.
I'm still looking for a new job. I sent my resume in to Digg not too long ago. I saw a post...
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Evil White Chalky Man
Well I got my car home. It's still somewhat broke down but at least it won't get towed. Talked with Kitten. Apparently, I did piss her off on Friday night. She called on Sunday morning to talk but got scared and hung up. I guess things have been "worked out." I still dunno. Things are pretty confusing with her. I'd like to see what happens but I'm wondering if anything will happen or if she'll just slowly drive me completely insane.
I really love Squidbillies. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out. Crazy redneck squids... That hate white people. Very amusing. I'm not sure when it comes on. Sometime on Sunday nights on Cartoon Network.
Tonight I'm going to try to get Trackbacks working on this damn thing. I don't imagine it'll be too difficult. Of course, it'll probably take two weeks instead of the ten minutes that I'm hoping for. We'll see.
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Bullshit
I hate cars. I still haven't retrieved my Jeep from McDonalds yet. Hopefully soon though. I have someone coming to drive me to the auto parts store and then to my car. We'll see if I get it home today but I doubt it. I doubt that it's even still there. The assholes as McDonalds probably had it towed.
I haven't heard from Kitten since Friday night. I think I might've pissed her off with something I said. I tried calling her yesterday but got no answer. Left a voicemail and never heard back from her. She called me this morning at 9:30 and hung up after one ring. Not sure if she was trying to call someone else or what. I called her back immediately and, of course, got not answer.
I really don't understand this girl. She talks about how her life is so crazy and filled with jackasses yet she does nothing to stop it. If anything, her behaviour encourages her out of control lifestyle. She's fun to spend time with and we have loads of stuff in common but I'm not sure I...
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Another Day
Finally got comments working. What an exciting way to spend my Saturday morning.
Had a good time last night. Went and played poker with some friends. Did some drinkin'. It was fun... Until my car broke down. We went to McDonalds to get some food (at 1 in the morning) and sat in line for 30 goddamn minutes! My jeep overheated and it's sitting in the parking lot of that godforsaken place at this moment. I need to call someone to take me over there before it gets towed. But it's Saturday... I don't feel like doing anything.
Right now I'm upgrading my Media Center computer to 2005. Hopefully it'll go smoothly but I seriously doubt it. I'll
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Some other stuff
After a _long_ break, I decided to come back to my blog and add some more functionality. Now I can add rss feeds without having to use phpMyAdmin... Quite nice. Other than that, nothing new to report.
Let's see, what else. Halloween was yesterday. I spent it at home... by myself... drinking... trying to fall asleep. Meanwhile, all my friends (all 5 of them) were out partying. They were supposed to call me but never did. Figures... I didn't expect them to actually call back... Noone ever does. Watched a few good Law & Order's... Some CSI... Basically a pretty boring night - especially for halloween. Kitten is driving me up the fucking wall. I'm not really sure how much more I can take.
Went up to Jacksonville on Friday night to Geoff's halloween party with Kitten - stayed for maybe 2 hours. She wanted to leave because she thought the "alternative" people were "weird." This...
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Quickie
Added functionality to side items. Adding content to the side blocks is _much_ easier now. Next is having multiple "sides" - this ought to be fun.
For some reason, the side blocks display upside down in Safari. They're not really upside down but the title is showing below the content. Quite odd. I'm not sure why this is happening. Oh well, I'll figure it out tomorrow. Time for Law & Order.
The dog meat is perfectly soft - Master Shake
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Ajax Rocks
I added some much needed funtionality to the "Side Items" module today. Instead of having to manually type in the item you want to display, you can now choose from a list of modules and their content. Much easier than typing in an object name and trying to remember an ID. I used a little AJAX to accomplish this neat little trick. I would've hated to have to do it in straight javascript. What a pain.
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Finally Working
Well, it looks like I've finally got this thing working... somewhat. There's still a long way to go, but I've made a lot of progress over the last couple months. The functionality is pretty basic and some things are still missing (trackback, comments, login functionality, etc) but it's coming together.
I'm still trying to find a new job somewhere outside of Florida. Preferably somewhere on the east coast (that's what the girlfriend wants) that doesn't get too cold. I'll be posting my resume here soon. The portfolio will come next.
LINKS
Slashdot goes CSS - It's about time!
New Diggnation Episode - Enjoy the diggnation
Alt-Tab Thingy - This looks pretty cool
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