I’m not rich. Far from it. I get by pretty well from being self-employed, but there are breaks in the income and sometimes I have to make my money stretch across multiple months, depending on what I’ve got going on.

My dad helped me buy my laptop because at age 20, I still have no credit and can’t finance anything more expensive than a peanut. I went to go get him a portion of the money that I owed him out of an ATM and it decided to give me the money in five dollar bills. This is the result:

I almost want to just keep this until I get the entire amount that I owe him and wrap it all up to see how big it is …

As you all know, I’m a web developer using PHP, MySQL, and Apache. Port 80 just so happens to be the default port for HTTP connections. What completely baffles me is that Skype will use ports 80 and 443 (HTTP and HTTPS) as alternative ports for incoming connections. By default. So, unless I change this option, if Skype starts before Apache, Apache won’t start.

Thanks Skype. I appreciate this “feature”.

I’m giving Windows Live Writer a shot so I can see how this is going to publish to my blog. It looks pretty good, so far, but we’ll see how it publishes. It looks like it posts just fine, without any sort of trouble. Retrieves entries just fine and everything. I’m editing this again now, from within the desktop interface. The great thing is that it even shows you what your blog entry is going to look like, in your own theme, before you even publish it.

Not bad.

In case anyone was wondering what those tiny entries with no titles and such are, I stole Seth’s idea for “asides” which are essentially “mini entries” … I’ll use these to maybe just mention something off-hand, link to something that doesn’t merit further discussion but I want to have greater visibility than del.icio.us, or maybe just to put in a small thought that I want to have more “permanence” and greater visibility than twitter.

In any case, these are included in the RSS Feed as well as imported into my Facebook profile. I’m just styling them different in the theme’s templates.

I’m curious as to why everytime I submit a change to … well, just about anything on my blog, the theme reverts back to the default WordPress theme. Is there something wrong that anyone can tell me about, or is WordPress just got retarded theme support?

Opera can suck up its fair share of memory, too. Take a look:

But, let me show you why it’s still better than Firefox:

It garbage collects properly like just about every other Windows application on the freaking planet when minimized.

Wow. The TSA made a bold move. They’ve setup a blog and are asking people for their comments. They even list the people that are doing the blogging.

I wonder what the scale of the complaints they’re going to get is. This should be interesting to watch over the coming months.

This has to be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while.

After looking at how long the additional blogs remained untouched, I realized what a bad idea it was to try and separate them apart. Blogging is much easier for someone doing it casually when you’ve got one entry point to where all of your content is going to go.

I’m going to resume my previous banter about things not related to personal life here. I may make some modifications to Wordpress so that “Privett on PHP” can be a separate page and the entries don’t show up on the front page automatically, but that won’t happen anytime soon.

Maybe Ruzena will start blogging again and offset my need to talk about technical things.

You might’ve noticed a little change here …

I just finished upgrading our blog to the latest version of Wordpress, so my old theme has disappeared. We’ll be using the default theme until Ruzena and I can find one we both agree on.

Until then, the blog posts will continue to trickle in as we have something interesting to write about.