The Downward Spiral

openID is now enabled on ds both for leaving comments and for being my server… well it was already a server, but it’s back on there now.. and linked to wordpress

I have about half of the pages I’m going to keep up back up. The notable page that I’m dropping is the Occult page. I’m dropping all links to it. Two reasons… a) I really don’t believe in that stuff anymore… if I ever did… it was always academic anyway. I only use it as handy ways to mention things that I really do believe in. b) It gives the wrong impression… I’m more a hard science guy than anything else, but I kind of like to talk in metaphor, especially when talking about things that you can’t really know about.

I’ve decided to redo ds.initiated.com entirely and I’m moving toward the future with a content management system here in Wordpress. I’ll also close my livejournal, but I wanted to copy everything over from it. There is a tool included to do such a thing but it’s incomplete. It won’t do private stuff and it won’t import tags. Here are the lines to add to get that working… well it only does 1 tag and you have to have the same tags defined, before the import, in Wordpress.

But ya.. the private thing was HUGE.

./wp-admin/import/livejournal.php

preg_match(’|<security>(.*?)</security>|is’, $post, $post_status);
$post_status = strip_tags($post_status[0]);
if($post_status == ‘usemask’) $post_status = ‘private’;
if($post_status != ‘private’) $post_status = ‘publish’;

preg_match(’|<taglist>(.*?)</taglist>|is’, $post, $post_category);
$post_category = array(get_cat_ID(strip_tags($post_category[0])));

hey.. reality.. thanks.. we’s good again.

maybe we’ll make up later.. we were doing so well there.. but right now.. screw you reality.

if I’m gonna die for a word, my word is poontang.

ya Jedi Academy beat in 3 days on Jedi Knight mode lol.. man I’m a nerd

so after Scott sent me the links to the Robot Chicken star wars special, I immediately had to play Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy over again… I think I made it about 1/3 of the way through it on Jedi Knight (difficult) settings in a few hours.  If I really do play it to completion again, it’ll be my 3rd time.

ph33r mah jedi skillz0rs!

bb cc paid off … that’s an extra $300 a month.. woot