Life is insane now.

I’m making a note here: I’M DISTRESSED!

It’s hard to work on this thing after work.

I am still alive and I want to complete the theme, but I have no energy after work the past few weeks – that’s kinda how my job goes. I get a few weeks of quiet and I have energy to work on the theme, and then I have a few weeks of INSANE and I barely have enough energy to feed myself and crawl into bed.

Don’t worry, I am committed to getting all your suggestions into the theme, get all the bugs fix, get out of beta and release on time.

Oh, and the cake is not a lie – it’s just so far afield it’s difficult to see right now.

To the person who used my contact form with the name “roflcoptor”:

I am not entirely certain the purpose of your message. You sent me a message giving me the WHOIS information for the Inanis.net domain (that anyone can find), then taunted me by giving me a “Tor” IP address like you were trying to hide where you were (which was 66.230.230.230 based in California – likely fake because of the repeating numbers). You gave your email address as a Mailinator address (M8R-lc06bv@mailinator.com) so you presumably couldn’t be tracked.

By the way: My contact script gave me a different IP from the one you said was your Tor IP. This IP, which I am going to presume is either your real IP (or your Tor address rolled while you were typing your message ) which is 94.23.44.129, which originates in France.

In any case, I still don’t know the purpose of your message. You wanted to show me information I already know? You were trying to extort something from me using information unsuitable for the purpose? You were trying to get my real email address for spamming purposes? Maybe I’m being a bit presumptuous, but I think I’m safe.

Not sure what you were going for, but at the very least, I found your reference to ROFLCoptor amusing.

Two points for you.

I’m still here folks, but since wrapping up major design on Inanis Seven, I’m taking a break. I’ve gotten all the comments, emails and beta requests. I’ll get back to them in a day or two, don’t worry.

*watches the stupid box*

I saw this while out and about for lunch today:

Here: let us translate these apostrophied words into their full and obvious meanings to see if the resultant sentence is coherent.

“Silly Boy is Truck is are for Girls”.

An alternative translation might be the following fragment:

“The Truck of “are for Girls” of the Silly Boy …”

Does that make sense? Yeah, I didn’t think so either.

I won’t claim to always get things right when spelling or speaking, but in the context of vehicle lettering – there’s no reason not to get it right. What I am most curious about is this: did the customer get it wrong and the vendor, acting in “the customer is always right” mode did not have the guts to correct the customer, or did the customer get it right and the vendor got it wrong? Alternative theory: both parties got it wrong and absolutely no one caught the problem until it was too late.

I die a little inside each day living here…

Sometimes, you just have to get away. Pictures from Dawes Arboretum, after the jump.

So, here I am, bored out of my mind, one hour early for an IT conference in Columbus. I mean, it’s cool that I’m learning things, but a whole day to listen to talking heads ramble on about how their product rocks…. I already know it rocks, that’s why I bought it.

Just installed a new Netgear N router that I got for $30. Now I can play Windows Media Center streams from the Media-PC to the Laptop over wireless without skipping. YAY

Working on Saturday sucks, but it pays the bills. Trying to figure out some odd glitch on a client machine with Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5. Windows installer/LiveUpdate tries to install updates for the thing, and fails. The application itself fails to run. Right clicking in an Explorer window and selecting ANY function crashes the shell after a few seconds. WEIRD!

I want to set up the Inanis Sandbox, so you can see what I’m working on and I can play with WordPress junk without killing Inanis.net. I have a sandbox running, but there’s no content. I’ll have to work on that.

Switched back to Seven theme. Gotta promote it, and it works better for my site layout.

Playing with Windows Home Server on a virtual machine – I want to see if it will work better for my household to use Home Server instead of Server ‘08 R2. All the integration between Home Server and the workstations and the Media Center box intrigues me.

Cleaning the house waiting for a new arrival. WOOT on the arrive, un-WOOT on the cleaning.

Updated WordPress on the box to 2.9.2 – gotta stay current you know. I still have to get around to rebuilding the server, though.

… until my mind returns to me. Too busy in work and life to pay much attention to the blog right now. Maybe I’ll set up a Twitter account, because microblogging is really all I have time for right now.

… as to what the hell this is.