Working on Code Again

Well, I’m back to coding again. I’ve got a website to put together, and about a month to do it in. I’m having a lot of fun on this project, but I won’t tell you what it is for privacy reasons. I do see a lot of new code coming out of this project, and I have plans on releasing some of it. One thing that I’ve noticed, my brain gets bogged down a lot faster than it used too. I think that that will ease up as I get re-acquainted with long hours in front of my text editor. I’m also considering trying my hand at graphics. We’ll see what happens. I guess I’ve just gotten lazy playing minecraft.

It’s been pretty nice weather outside, so I’ve taken to sitting in the front room with my laptop and leaving the door open to let the fresh air flow in. I hope this weather lasts, it’s been very nice. The only issues I’ve had is when the neighbors break out into arguments over this or that. It makes it very difficult to concentrate when the people outside are arguing over <insert inane subject I don’t give a shit about here> outside my door. It’s only going to get worse when the pool is finally warm enough that they start letting the kids in. It’s just outside my door, so the noise will be unbearable. Thankfully, I can’t hear them if I close the door and turn on some music.

Downtime

Sorry about the downtime. I’m not sure how long the site was offline. Apparently the file system my database server uses to store its files had gotten mounted read-only. Anyway, I remounted the file system in the correct mode, and ensured that it was configured in my fstab properly, so it should not happen again.

Got a Bus Pass

So, I went out and got myself a new bus pass. I’ve not had one yet, but I figured it’d save me some money and I’d go more places. The bus can be pretty expensive in cities. Anyway, I went and saw the great cathedral in St Paul yesterday. It has some beautiful architecture. I’m thinking next time I go out, I’ll bring a camera so I can take some pictures to share with you all. There are many interesting sites that I’d like to share with my friends and family back home. If other people enjoy them too, well the more the merrier!

Going out and seeing the sites has inspired me with some new ideas for a pet project I’m working on. I’m working on a science fiction piece, and I’ve been stuck for months. Anyway, I’ve thought of an idea for an engine for the star ships. I’m calling it a “star drive”. Yeah, I know it’s not very original, but it does describe what the drive is pretty accurately. It’s essentially a star in a can. How it works is you feed the engine with hydrogen, and it then proceeds to utilize thermonuclear fusion on the fuel material producing heavier and heavier elements. This of course will all be contained within a tokomak, or similar magnetic containment field. A device I call a ferrometer will monitor the wavelengths of light emitted by the ongoing reaction, measuring the iron content of the fusing materials. When the Iron levels get to a certain point, the reactor will begin to shut down via some cooling process. I need to do a bit more research to determine the best method for cooling down a fusion reactor without causing catastrophic consequences. I’m definitely going to have to make up some things and just not describe them very well.

Well, I guess that’s enough spoilers. I’m going to see what I can do about getting some pictures for my future posts. Hope you come back to read them!

Internet Go Boom!

Well, it appears that we forgot to pay the internet bill, so I’m writing this entry without the aid of an internet connection to post with. Don’t worry, I’ll upload it tomorrow when we get it turned back on. There are some bright sides to my situation. Since there is no internet access for distracting websites, I can concentrate on working on my projects. I’ve got all my tunes and manuals installed on my system locally in case of this type of emergency.

I decided that I would work on my CMS project. Of course, I’ve got a local copy of Apache installed, and I had just updated all my libraries so that I could be current. I just popped on iTunes, and put my obscenely large collection of Nerdcore music on shuffle. I picked up my keyboard, opened Sublime Text, and started hacking away at all the stuff that I’ve been neglecting. I even managed to come up with an awesome idea for an automated installation system. I was planning on doing one for a while, and wanted to hold of coding till I had an idea that was solid. I wanted to make sure I planned the install framework, so that I could make sure that I made all the adjustable values and default values accordingly. My install system uses a custom CodeIgniter environment setting, that will load configuration files based on the system being in installation mode. I figure I’ll probably develop the baseline of the site, and get to work on the authentication/authorization system.

I also used this time to do some household chores that I’ve been putting off, catch up on Assassins Creed, and watch a few movies that I’ve not seen yet. All in all, this experience isn’t as horrible as it could have been, as I made sure that I had plenty of projects to distract myself with.

Long Week

Well, I didn’t meet my Wednesday deadline. I’ve been sort of caught up. It’s been a hectic week, and I’ve spent much of it researching good ways to make cash. I’m seriously considering into getting into day trading the foreign exchange market with binary options. I’m not talking about starting up with a huge investment or anything. I’m thinking of starting out with a $500 bank, and investing in $5 increments 60 seconds at a time, and seeing what happens. I’ve done quite a lot of research on the topic, and I’m confident that I could do well at it.

In other life news, the pool outside my window is almost ready to be filled with water. I wonder how I’m going to cope with the noisy children that will be filling it in the day time. They expect it to be up and running before June. There are a lot of people here, so I expect it to be rather noisy.  I’ve also been looking into doing some freelance PHP work as well. That’s not been going so well currently. That’s life I guess.  I’ve also got a stack of PS2 games that I’ve got to price and sell as well. I’m thinking E-Bay will be the way to go on that.

Surprisingly, as hectic as my week has been, there isn’t a whole lot to talk about. I’ll try to have something better for you all next week.