“BP sees hope for latest attempt to contain oil”
HAHA! 
that is the title of a article on MSNBC.com right now, which they have on the front page as a headline. 
Just thought it was hilarious in a sad pathetic way… 
But seriously, they need to fix the damn mess that they created. Makes me sooooo mad! 
New Guestbook up! WOOT!
Visit and sign my new guestbook! Or even see if your post from 10 years ago is still in there, ha!
I had a guestbook on the site for the past few months that was basically a wordpress plugin, it completely sucked, and was super ugly; almost impossible to change the look.
So I went back to a older script that I used to use years ago called “Advanced GuestBook”, and thought that I’d give it ago and see if i can integrate it with the layout and theme on Josh X, and eventually got it to integrate pretty well, which actually shocked me.
I spent most of the time editing the templates and coding on it to make it work and look how i wanted, and it seems to do the job.
I know its ugly ha really, but i wanted to keep the old classic style for now. I’ll eventually add to it, and make it prettier, but my goal for now was just to get it looking like the original.
I manually imported all the info from my old guestbook that i had since 1998. Actually passed out doing it earlier. Really sucked and i hope to never have to do something like that again. But i wanted to get it done so I’d have a log or copy or whatever of my old guestbook. It was hosted on HTMLGear – which is a crappy service that I don’t even want to bother linking to, or talking about any longer, ha.
i am really happy i finally got a guestbook up that Im happy with. I kind of want to get back into the way the web used to be when i was younger. I know i write about this alot, but it was MUCH more fun. We used to run aroundon the web tagging eachothers guestbooks, ha. Was awesome.
Anyways you can visit the Guestbook, and why not go ahead and sign it? 
If you wanna check the script out, you can download it here. But remember i heavily modified mine, so it wont really look the same.
R.I.P Sweet Girl
My little sweety passed away earlier.
She was really the sweetest ferret ever, and she will be greatly missed.
ha messin around
Ha was messing around in photoshop and ended up with this.
random pic of me
Random picture of me, which the comic or whatever effect in photobooth.
Piwik – Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics
I am trying to rid my life of Google services and products. I mean they are everywhere now – harvesting my personal info and whatever other data that they can get from me, and its just getting too creepy.
Today I was looking for an alternative to Google Analytics, and found Piwik!
For those of you who do not know what Analytics is: It a service ran by google that tracks everything about your websites. Such as user visits, what the users do on your sites, how long they visit, and what they read. All that info is set and stored in Google’s database. It is helpful to webmasters and site owners. But what its really doing is helping google mine more data from users, and meh!
I posted the following on several forums, and decided to go ahead and post it on my site.:
Has anyone here ever heard of Piwik?
Turns out that its an open source alternative to Google Analytics, and works just as good.
I just took google analytics off all of my sites, and installed Piwik, which is basically php and mysql based.
It was actually pretty simple to install and get running. You install it like you would any other php script (forums, etc), then add your sites to it, and insert the tag into the footer of your sites.
I haven’t had much time to play with it since i just installed it, but so far its picking up hits instantly, and working quite well.
The load is actually much faster than Google Analytics. If anyone has ever used Analytics then you know about the random pauses and freezes during page loads while your site connects to google. That is now gone with Piwik! 
The admin UI is similar to Google Analytics. So you’ll easily find your way around.
Even if you don’t use Analytics, and are interested in visitor stats on your site, i’d suggest over the awstats and others that usually come with cpanel and such.
I’m excited to rely on one less google service.
quick download and install here
http://piwik.org/
provide feedback. i’m interested to see if others enjoy this as well.
Desktop May-27-2010
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So this is my desktop now. Ha.
Info:
Windows 7 – Ultimate x64
Wallpaper – Made by me, you can download it here.
Windows 7 Shell Theme – Longhorn Evolution X.
* But the start menu icon is provided in this theme pack. Which you can easily change using this tool: Windows Theme Installer. (I guess it installs themes too? I dunno about that, i jus use it to easily replace the explorer.exe, which used to take forever).
Desktop Gadgets – Okay, so this is where it gets complicated. I’ve got rid of everything.
Last time I posted my desktop I was using a program called Rainlendar. I completely got rid of that program, and now use one called Rainmeter. Rainmeter had a cool weather skin that I wanted to use, which i no longer do, but anyways it has much better and cooler themes.
So here are the Rainmeter skins and gadgets now some of these I heavily modified, so they may not look the same, but mostly will:
Weather Gadget: Large Clean Weather
Time, Date, Folders: Speed theme – I changed several icons, and paths.
Hard Drives: 2nd theme – I changed the icon.
Recycle Bin: GlassBin.
woot hmm.. yea
Wallpaper – Mix
I was randomly messing with photoshop, and came up with this wallpaper.
Well to be honest, i got the idea of the dots from another wallpaper, but the colors on it sucked, so i created this one. I need to fix some colors on it, but for now it’s usable, and im using it, ha.
hope you like it.
1920×1200 res
Click thumbnail for full size image.
Update!
May 27 2010 – 6:33am
I updated the hand pointer a little bit, and made it more define. Especially around the edges.
Click the thumbnail for the new version:
Sun Burnt! AH!
What the hell is going on?!? I used to never get sun burnt. In pain. Twilight zone crap!
Singing while driving
dunno what the hell i was doing really. just singing while driving. ha
I really dont even know the lyrics so the song, but i know what it sounds like!
