New Host Hotness

Posted in: General, Web Design by Steve on July 29, 2007

I’ve changed hosts and now the site is running so much faster.  I moved to an actual Apache server (instead of the Microsoft one) in order to help learn Ruby, PHP and be able to use a Subversion server.

I’ll be moving all my WordPress and vBulletin over to this new host so please bear with me.

My Programmer Profile

Posted in: Programming by Steve on July 27, 2007

Your programmer personality type is:
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You’re a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.

You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There’s no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a Conservative programmer.
The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.

http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=11

Wrong Email Addresses can be fun

Posted in: General by Steve on

I got an email today from a complete stranger:

From: Jenn Scott
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:51 AM
To: Steve Wright
Subject: Favor

Hi Steve,

As you may or may not know I have quit Weichert and have found another job.  I wanted to see if you could do me a favor.  Can you please get my last check from my mailbox and stick a stamp on it for me.  I would really appreciate it.  I don’t know when the next time I will be able to make it over there.  I have been really busy.  Please let me know if you can help.

Miss you already!

Jenn

And so, I replied:

Jenn,

Sorry to hear you quit Weichert.  Unfortunately, this isn’t the Steve Wright you think it is.  I don’t know who you are or what Weichert is.  And I miss you too =)

A Different Steve

The weather outside is frightful

Posted in: Weather by Steve on July 10, 2007

The Chicagoland area had some severe weather blow through tonight. I was on my way back from fixing a computer and turned on my weather radio and had my HT (Handie Talkie) on as well, listening to the spotters from Kane County submit reports. I heard a bunch of reports of high winds in Sugar Grove (60+ MPH) and that it was heading towards my house.

I finally hit the storm and it’s mostly heavy rain and a little wind. I think nothing of it.

So I get home and look in my tree and wow…

That thing was a pain in the ass to take down. It took 3 people (1 of them drunk) to get it down. I finally had to take control and direct people since my shoulder is messed up.