Posted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 at 10:36 am

I knew I wouldn’t keep this place up to date.

Posted on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm

I’m completely unable to log into my blog’s admin section via Opera Mobile (my mobile phone’s browser).  I am continuously and repeatedly bounced back to the login page. What’s weirder, is that the site seems to think I’ve logged in, as the “meta” links have all changed, but clicking on the admin link just prompts me for a login.

If anyone reads this, I had this issue in Wordpress 2.6 and 2.7, with Opera Mobile 8.65 on a Motorola Q.

Posted on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 at 11:18 am

Am I the only person that absolutely hates social networking sites like myspace and facebook?

Posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 11:49 am

So I put all that time and effort into switching over to Wordpress and updating my theme and whatnot, and now I have absolutely NO idea what I should do with this place.  It seems like it has quite a bit to do with my theory about how most web-savvy people spend their time on the Internets.

In my experience, it seems like most folks tend to have a single main site that they “hang out” at; whether it’s their blog, an online forum, or MySpace or Facebook or something along those lines.  When one finds an interesting link or needs to rant about politics, they tend to do it in that one spot.

My problem is that for, wow, at least 6 or 7 years now, I’ve run a forum for my knucklehead friends (no offense, guys), so I tend to spend most of my online time posting and reading there.  That’s where I know what I write will at least be read, and will usually be discussed or at least joked about.

So until I figure out exactly what it is that I want to do with this place, expect either randomness with no focus, or nothing.

Posted on Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

I’ve moved the Wordpress stuff over to the main page here at thebrownshow.com, and archived all the old ODIN software.

Well that’s done.  Now we just have to see if this actually means I’ll update more often.

Doubtful.

Posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Ever since the original Napster, I’ve been a huge fan of digital music.

And since the original Napster, I’ve hated finding and maintaining a library of digital music.

So over the last few years, I’ve played around with various streaming radio stations, and between the selections of music and audio quality, I’ve never been very happy.  That is until I stumbled upon Pandora the other day.  I couldn’t be happier.

Pandora takes all the guesswork out of things.  You tell it a favorite band, and it selects music with similar traits.  For example, the song I’m currently listening to was selected “because it features hard rock roots, major key tonality, mild rhythmic syncopation, electric guitar riffs and a dynamic male vocalist.”  I’m not sure what all of that means, but I like it!  Pandora found music I forgot about that I loved, and a few bands that I’ve never heard of and really enjoyed.  It’s quite impressive.

A side effect of this is that my productivity has skyrocketed.  Maybe it’s just the music selection, but I feel like I’m back in college in the basement working on my programming assignments.  I’ve been cranking out code and it’s been awesome.  Somehow, having background music keeps me from getting distracted by all the OTHER distractions around the office and lets me concentrate on what I’m doing.

Apparently Sam has known about it for quite a while.  He even uses it on his iPhone.  I’ll have to kick him square in the nuts for not telling me about it sooner.

That bastard.

Posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Looks like the hardest part about switching over isn’t going to be the backend, but the frontend.  I’m having a hard time deciding whether or not I just want to hack around in a downloaded Wordpress Theme, or make my own to make the site look like it used to.

Did some quick-and-dirty theme modifications and at least got the colors relatively close to the way they are on my main site.  Shouldn’t be too hard to tweak it the rest of the way.  I was probably due for a redesign anyway.

Posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm

So after years and years of using Jerry’s homebrew blogging software, I’ve decided to make the switch to Wordpress.

Sorry Jer.

I’m going through my archives on the old blog and moving over selected posts that I’d like to keep for posterity.  Other than that, out with the old and in with the new.  Maybe new blogging software will motivate me to blog more.

…and just maybe working on a new template for this blog will get me motivated to do more web development on the side.

…or maybe, like always, this will be the last time I post for months because I’ll get distracted by another shiny object.

In any case, it’s progress!

Posted on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am

Just wanted to post a friendly little tip for anyone who might be having problems getting their Wii to talk to their wireless network.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 am

Since StarCraft II was recently announced, and all of Korea essentially went berserk with anticipation, I decided to give the original StarCraft another shot. I’ve never been much of a fan of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games in the past, but perhaps my tastes had changed over the years.

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