Strumph!com Moving to Bloghosts
I'm moving to Bloghosts. Interland wants to charge me $49/month to get a plan with IMAP e-mail. Those are Y2K prices. Uhm... lick my most unpleasant places. Besides they haven't kept up with every other host in the freakin' world as far as feature/price goes. $15/month for BASIC hosting and mail versus $10/month at Bloghosts for IMAP, PHP, mySQL, 500mb disk space, 10GB bandwidth and THREE domains, plus THEY will setup blogging and gallery software for free. Get the fsck out of here.
It may be a little shakey during the transfer so check back.
To be fair (and I don't have to be, it's my website) Strumph!com never had any downtime. That comes standard with the "Hosting Plan That's Frozen In Time and Features."
Buh bye Interland
Hello Bloghosts.
Happy Birthday Woz!
I think Steve
Wozniak saw today's technology at his birth on August 11, 1950. Happy
Birthday to you Woz. Thank you.
In honor of the day, I point you, rare visitor, here.
Go ahead and follow that link. Come back when you"re done.
Back? Ok. So you see he created the first personal computer. Then he and
his friend, Steve J., started Apple Computer. Later, in the mid to late early
80"s he left Apple and started teaching computers to kids. The other Steve
got fired by the man he hired to be CEO of Apple; John Scully.
Coincidentally, on this date in 1987, John Scully introduced HyperCard.
Scully ran Apple back in the days of high-top fades and STRONG NBA drafts
(David Robinson, Scottie Pippen, Shawn Kemp, Kenny Smith, Reggie Miller, Muggsy
Bogues and Officer Olden Polynice to name a few.)
It was the first commercially available program that used hyperlinks. People
linked text, graphics, and AV together to make their own electronic books,
databases, presentations and adult
video games. Hyperlinks made it big. Scully didn"t.
Now links, as it likes to be called, is the connectivity tissue of a vastly
expanding anamorphic repository of pornography, shopping
and shopping for pornography. No more going to windowless ramblers at the
edge of town to buy cheap cigs and the latest copy of CHIC, OUI, and Hustler.
Links brings that ³outside
city limits" selection to the safety, privacy, and morality of home.
So again, Happy Birthday Mr. Wozniak. And thank you.
Funny Things...
We saw this at the airport. Note the footwear 
Queue Blog
My Time (proper noun) is limited to the seven minutes before I fall asleep
and my 15 minute morning break. I use it to read comics, pay bills, study
the ways of the Shen Ku, and trying to improve my website.
Queue blog.
I"m trying out a couple different tools. Some are OK. Some I won"t try because
of the lengthy install. One I"m customizing because it seems to be the easiest.
And Easyô works with My Time.
More soon.
Strumph!pictures Site Update
So how"s it look? First I hope you like brown, dawg, Œcuz I do. Second, I"m
learning how to use Cascading Style Sheets or CSS.
CSS is supposed to make web design more managable and so I was like ³Word?"
and
this guy was like ³Word." and I was like ³word."
So then
he was like,
³Peep this" and I was like
³Oh Schnap!" and the rest is history.
Expect changes more often now that I have more of a handle on this whole
H to the TML thang. I am still learning this stuff so please drop
me a dime if you see something I should know about. I"ll post details
someday but until then check the source and enjoy the show.
Sharifa"s Gold Update
I hate to tell y"all that Sharifa"s
Gold didn"t make SIFF cut. Not sure exactly why but I"m sure the
1000+ short film submissions played a part.
One thing I know for sure is that it was probably my fault and had absolutely
nothing to do with the hard work, experience, and professionalism of the cast
and crew.
I"m still working on a Tacoma premier for Sharifa and will have complimentary
copies available for cast and crew after that. I"ll keep you posted.
While the news sucks it doesn"t change my plan to enter Sharifa"s
Gold into as many festivals as possible. The next festival on my
radar is the LA Shorts Fest. The next local festival is the Olympia Film Festival
in October. If you are aware of one sooner or local-er let
me know. Hope all is well with everyone.
Known Issues
This layout fails in IE4.5/Mac. That browser has poor support for CSS absolute
positioning, yet it recognizes and executes the CSS @import statement used
to hide CSS from broken browsers. Currently, there is no known solution.
There also seems to be problems formatting unordered lists correctly in IE
5.2/Mac.
To be fair, IE 6/Win doesn"t do CSS that well.
Actually, I"m lucky there"s anything up here at all.
