i’m talking about impulse shopping. it truly is the bane of my existence. today, having never had plans to purchase anything, i got something on an impulse. maybe it’s because i haven’t gotten anything in a while…maybe it’s because it only feels like i haven’t gotten anything in a while. whatever the case may be, today’s purchase was a little excessive. i think that i will have to moderate myself a little bit.
so because of my uncontrollable shopping habits, the people who really suffer here are my friends. cheap-o christmas gifts to you all! =P
the thing about impulse shopping is that you never know what you are going to get. i think this is my favorite form of shopping because i really do enjoy the cool finds that i do end up getting. it’s not as much fun to go shopping with a purpose because you know what you are going to get and after you get, it’s kind of anticlimatic because well…you’ve been expecting it this whole time.
’tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la la la la la.
i just bought myself my own christmas present. i’m not going to say what it is yet, but i guess this year, xmas will be super heavily happy for me.
ahhhh, finding comfort in shopping. this can become an expensive form of therapy.
what is the very first thing i do to my new bundle of joy, the canon s400? i record a new sound for the shutter. i absolutely HATE how the default shutter sound is this really cheesy sounding fake shutter. i mean, if your camera doesn’t have a real shutter sound, why put in a fake one? really? it’s a big pet peeve of mine.
and because it’s so obviously fake, i swore that if i ever got a camera that had a feature to let you record your own sound i would change it immediately. so, every time i take a picture now, the camera’s recorded sound for the shutter sound is a recording of me saying “click!”
i love it.
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my roommate just came home from work. damn, it’s late to be coming home.
well, come to think of it, damn it’s late to be up coding for me.
i wish i wasn’t suffering from so much insomnia lately.
oh well.
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the more i fool around with pMachine, the more i like it. i think as i understand it better, it makes more and more sense to me. there are still a few peculiarities about it, but it isn’t so bad. with each passing day i feel more and more confident that i made the right decision to build off of pMachine instead of some other blogging tool. what amazes me is that pMachine is relatively unheard of. i wonder why…it really is good software.
so the little pet project that i’ve been working on is making a pMachine-enabled blogroll. just a nice way to manage links. the big problem i had with this before was that i hand coded the list of links that currently is to the left. this is a problem. it’s hard to manage and a pain to deal with. that’s what makes blogrolling so attractive. but what i really hate about blogrolling (and most free services) is that they force you to advertise their service on your site….unless you pay them for the service. while this does make good business sense, i guess i really dislike using other people’s software and advertising it when i feel i can do it myself. i guess that’s just the inner geek in me.
i’m not so thrilled with the way it handles caching, but it isn’t so bad. i think that i may add on the built-in caching mechanism and make it a little bit more intelligent. the one big downfall i saw to pMachine was the fact that it has to do a database request for every page. i really prefer publishing to HTML instead of hitting the database all the time. i guess i’ll go install the caching system soon and see how it works.
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But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?