I got my first piece of spam at my home email address. Grrr!!! How did my address get out? How did the little butt-lovin’ sons of jackals get my address? I’ve been careful with it. I wish there were something I could do against the ruination brought on by the heartless money-grubbers. I really do.

Oh well. Maybe there is. I’ll look into it.

Today we’re going to try another random baptist church. We’ll see how it goes. So far all I know is that the service is at ten am, and that the building looks old.

I so love the new arrangement in the computer. It’s so much nicer, so much roomier. Makes me happy.

When I woke up this morning, I had a revelation. I finally realized why it has been so surreal getting up for work these last few weeks. (well, aside from the beautiful lady in the bed next to me) I realized that the last time that I regularly got up before dawn on a forced regimen like this was in gradeschool, back when I still had to get up for the bus.

Certain memories just have a special kind of flavor to them, they taste a certain way to my brain. Those grade school memories are like that. They taste pure, pristine. Back then, about the worst thing I had to deal with was bus bullies. The world was pretty idyllic. It’s amazing to me how getting up before the sun rises for a couple weeks can trigger memories like that. We really are wonderfully and fearfully made. (in the olde English sense of fear)

Aside from that, life is pretty good in general. Melissa and I are slowly but surely learning how to be a functioning married couple. There is so much to get used to. In retrospect, I am glad that I ended up working several months before getting married. It probably would have been harder to do everything at once.

At work right now I’m learning to write C code for a Motorola HC08 processor. I’m pretty familiar with assembly for these little guys, but writing C code of this nature is fairly foreign to me. The code is littered with #pragma’s and other such non-niceties. I mean, look at this. To define a port register (all the I/O is memory mapped on this guy) I have to do this:

#define PORTG (*(volatile char*)(0x0A)) // I/O Port G

Don’t ask how long it took me to find that. It’s rewarding though. Once I get it under control, it should be faster development that assembly. (duh) It’s just one of those learning curve things. Sometimes I just really wish there were a prof or someone to ask. Would make things easier.

This post is pretty random already, so I’m going to end with some more randomness. As I’ve mentioned before, my web server keeps statistics about what goes on. What’s particularly interesting sometimes are the search phrases that come up. These are groups of words people used someplace such as Google which ended up leading them here. Look at a couple of these beauties:

my chihuahua is making strange noises
arse worship
deepthroating

Hehe. I can’t help but laugh. I have _no_ idea how the first two searches led here. Google works in mysterious ways sometimes. The last one, unfortunately, I know exactly how that one led here. (be warned: if you are prone to take offense at typical college humor, you’ll probly be offended by those two pages. ) I find it funny that Google has now indexed those two pages for the world to browse through.

Ah well. Back to work. Now I’m going to try to make this ’08 spit out a logical progression of bits, instead of just noise. Yay!

Just kidding. You’ll find that http://www.paintedpig.com/mirrors/froydnj/ on my server automatically redirects you back to froyd’s original location. This is so that all you who changed links won’t have to change anything right away if you don’t feel like it. You’re encouraged to do so as soon as possible though. It would be nice for Nate.

As for the whole hullaballoo that happened yesterday, I thought it was pretty funny when I did it, and I still think it was pretty funny. When I thought that Nate was pissed about it, I felt pretty badly, but we talked last night and all is well. We both got a laugh out of it, and learned some this and that from it. It’s called off, it has run its course. The script is now permanently off.

As for all of you who were so kind as to offer you opinion the whole thing, thanks. I do appreciate the comments in my favour, and also that some of my friends are willing to call me on it when they think I’m wrong. The flurry of activity throughout our little blogdom yesterday was quite a sight. People were pretty evenly divided on the whole thing, it seems. Some of the posts were pretty damning in their language and implications (both to my own behaviour and to Nate’s); to those posts, I laugh. This was a joke, a prank. Many jokes are in poor taste, as you’re welcome to feel this one was (although I personally don’t). Many pranks are illegal, as you’re welcome to assert that this one was. (of course Nate’s material is copyrighted. So is that mp3 you just finished listening to. Didn’t stop you, did it? Not an excuse for what I did, just an observation.) Many (including myself) made comments of varying degrees of directness as to the the whether Nate’s actions were childish. I withdraw my own comments, as in reality, Nate started to play a cat and mouse game with me, but school work got in the way, so he just withdrew from the whole thing. There were other factors, but no need to say anything insulting.

Anyway, all in all, I think the project was a success. It got people talking again. It was a good excuse for Nate and I to chat on the phone last night for like an hour and catch up. I learned quite a bit about the inner workings of apache, wget, and sed. My server is even in better condition now, as I figured out where to fix the trailing slash issue that Ryan pointed out to me earlier.

For a final piece of trivia regarding this event, consider this. My own blog has been viewed 384 times since the beginning of the month. Over the last two days, the hijacked copy of Nate’s blog that I had up got 130 views. (these are views, not hits) hehe, the comment system that I put my copy of his page got 614 views, for crying out loud. My comment system has only gotten 379 views!

Go back home folks. There’s nothing to see here.

I guess the game is up. It was fun while it lasted, but my erstwhile playmate decided to take his ball and go home.

I’m still unsure what to think about this, so I’m not going to say anything more except to point you here for a copy of the blog before it was taken down.

Peace.

Hi all, it’s me. Anyway, something is cooking over at Nate’s original site because last couple times I’ve checked (from multiple systems) I’ve gotten “forbidden” errors. So either Nate’s just locked out all my systems, or else he’s working on comments of his own, behind a shroud of secrecy? We’ll soon see.

The amazing part to me is that the forbidden error doesn’t break my thief-script. So you can continue to enjoy the comment ridden version that I’ve made.

The other piece of news that I wanted to share was that the comment system I shoehorned into Nate’s blog is available for use by anyone (that I know) who wants free and easy comments. I know they’re not the most wonderful comments on earth, but they get the job done. I couldn’t find a good service to subscribe to for nate, so I just installed a comment service of my own. (: I guess all the public ones are full, now they cost monaay. Go fig. Anyway, take that for what it’s worth. Won’t bother me any if no one ever uses these comments. (:

So I’m getting the impression that I’m peeving people a bit with the abrubtness of the language that I’m using, and the speed at which I draw conclusions or post comments to my own blog. In particular, I hope that I have not offended Ryan, Nate or Jon. If I have, I’m sorry. I noticed that Jon’s comment to a recent post of mine was not in the thread of the previous comments, and posted as such. I was too dumb to see that it _did_ actually pertain to the blog post. With Ryan I’m coming out at odds with a few church related issues, but I’m fairly certain we’re both just defining terms and talking about the issues. Hopefully.

Lastly, with my previous post, I may have been a bit unclear about what I meant. Here, this should explain. If you don’t notice the difference right away, think about my post previous to this one, then look for what everyone wishes were on Nate’s blog.

Peace