we brought in a puppy into the house. he will be staying with us for a couple of days until his foster is ready to take care of him. this puppy is still itty bitty and cute, but i am not fooled by his cuteness. i know that lurking under that adorable face is the mark of a huge dog. his paws are enormous and his growl is deep and menacing…you know, as menacing as it can be for a pup that size.

i just installed the latest ps3 2.60 firmware. though the biggest feature touted in this firmware release appears to be a photo gallery application, what makes the biggest impact in my life is the added support of DiVX 3.11. i didn’t realize that the various versions of DiVX weren’t downward compatible, but this explains why some of the older videos weren’t playing on the ps3.

ummm, yeah, no WONDER my email client was running so slow…

i must be totally suffering from a brain dead moment right now because i have been really struggling with finding a tool that will help me remove some of these template files when you right click the desktop and click new. i don’t want to create any new files besides txt files via this menu.

when you install programs, they sometimes will add new templates to this menu. the only way i know how to remove these files is to edit the registry, but there’s got to be an easier way.

in windows XP, the tweakui tool made by microsoft performed this function. i’m disappointed that there haven’t been similar tools ported over to vista.

so the big question for the day is what to do about dinner? christi is going out of town today so that means that i have to fend for myself. i could:
1) make steak and eat it too!
2) make steak and have other people eat it too!
3) order a large pizza
4) order 3 medium pizzas
5) find someone to go eat dinner out

i just don’t know what to do! my default choice in these situations is usually to eat pizza alone, but christi encouraged me to have a steak night instead because she thinks that steak is healthier than pizza. i’m not too sure about that, but i’m starting to feel a little lazy now, so i don’t know what to do.

what i DO know is that yesterday’s lunch at jersey joe’s was SO GOOD that i went there again today!

my supply of diet coke is running low at work. i think that i have maybe a can or two left in the refrigerator. what this means is that i will have to find a cheap supply of diet coke soon. i’ve been looking and the cost of diet coke is hovering around $4 a pack of 12. nowhere near the $3 mark that i usually buy at. out of desperation, i may have to give in and buy a pack…or…stop drinking diet coke!

i’ve been drinking a lot more water at work to make my stash last longer, but there’s only so much of that that you can do…

this is the tag line at jersey joe’s, home of the BEST cheesesteaks i’ve ever eaten. if you ever find yourself up in the san carlos area, you must go eat at jersey joe’s. they are located in an unassuming little strip mall where it would be easy to miss this little gem.

they have tvs on every corner of the building and the food is to die for. it’s a little expensive at about $8 a cheesesteak, but man, they are HUGE and fantastic. it doesn’t quite evoke the same feelings as that first great kiss…it’s better.

i had the mushroom cheesesteak sandwich and garlic fries and i’m still swooning a little from the glory of the meal. i’ve never had a burger, but i’m curious to see how the chicken cheesesteaks stand up to the normal ones. ah, it was fantastic.

go, eat, and enjoy.

because our dog, koda, is a relative newcomer to our household, there are still all sorts of doggy-related things that we just don’t know about. one of the things that we just found out about is the furminator. i watched some videos and christi used the furminator on koda and she was shocked at how much fur was coming off of him.

i just ordered one and it shipped this morning. i wonder how long it will take to ship something from washington to here via USPS.

i’m POWERING through lois and clark right now. the first season was fantastic. season 2 was ok, but man, season 3 is just starting to get a little rough. there’s a part of me that really wants to see the whole lois and clark romance, but the writing for some of the villains of the week are just downright awful. the show gets some great guest appearances too, but man, talk about some cheesy lines.

but the show is a trip down memory lane. it’s been pretty entertaining, but i’m almost three quarters of the way done with the show. once that’s done, i’m not sure what else i am going to watch…

so the hard drive in the gallery server has failed and with it goes all of the images in the image gallery as well as the image gallery code. it’s been a couple of weeks now and i have finally gotten over the tragedy that is the loss of the gallery code. (i, uhhh, didn’t have a backup. the code was SVN’d, though, but on the same server that everything died on)

so lesson learned. backups are critical. yes, yes, i know, and i’m now making better plans to safeguard myself from such a problem again. it’s sad, but these things must be done.

so i’m going to be re-inventing the wheel again and making a new image gallery. i think that i will really try to use as much open source stuff as i can instead of trying to make everything myself. i was really proud of my image resizing engine, but alas it’s gone.

with the new server, i’m going to also make a few changes around. i think that i am going to try to incorporate some kind of comment system again in the image gallery. right now i am also motivated enough to reprocess all of the photos and reupload them all. we’ll see how far i get before i lose steam, but i don’t want a site with no content on it again!