P3K Est. 1999

Limited Posts

Posted on July 22, 2009

First off, I apologize for the lack of posts lately. Been busy with work and getting ready for my trip. I'm actually in Ottawa, Canada right now for the rest of the week. I'll be spending some time with some college friends. So posts will be limited... maybe nonexistent.  I'm not sure if I'll have any internet access. I'm still at the airport right now using my free 15 minutes of wi-fi. So I'm going to post this before I get booted.

Take it easy.

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Site Upgrade & Misc.

Posted on June 11, 2009

So WordPress just released its latest update, version 2.8. I"m a little scared to update it and have everything on this site destroyed. But I guess it will have to happen sooner or later. I just upgraded my personal site, and everything seemed to go alright, but then again there are like 5 add-ons installed. If all proves well, then I'll have to do the same for the 2 sites I manage at work.

Anywho, things are slowing down here, I'll pick it back up. Just been having a crappy, lazy week and trying to get back on track. The weather is destroying any motivation that I have to do anything productive, no matter how trivial it is. I just got Zach & Miri Make a Porno on Blu-ray the other day, so I think I'm going to go watch that. I also got 007 Quantum Solace, but I feel like anything not funny will put me to sleep... which would be bad because its only 8:15.

But with that said, I'm off to go watch the movie and upgrade the site. Hopefully you're reading this message because then that means everything went well and I haven't completely given up on the internet yet.

California, Here I Come

Posted on May 13, 2009

Sorry I haven't posted in the last few days, been busy hanging out with some of my college friends before they graduate themselves. I can't believe I've been out of college for almost a year, pretty crazy! But good news, I'm going back for grad. school. I will either start this summer or in the fall.

Right now I'm trying to get ready for a short weekend trip to California. My best friends Dad is getting married this weekend, so my friend and I are off to celebrate away. Since I know you'll miss my posts, I've scheduled a few over the next few days. I believe there's 4 in total, so plenty to look forward to!

In the mean time, I leave you with this...

Sick at Home

Posted on March 26, 2009

I knew it was coming. Yesterday I was feeling kind of iffy, and this morning I woke up feeling like utter crap. Just couldn't hold out until the weekend. One of the benefits of being sick while working in the real world is sick days. Tell me getting paid to nap and nurse yourself is not like some kind of incentive to get sick? Now we'll just have to weigh being sick and getting paid and actually doing work, being healthy, and getting paid. Tough decisions here. But the good news is, I'm feeling a little bit better.

I've been doing a few things here and there on the website. I'm trying to relocate the ads because I think Google ads is interfering with the menu. I'll keep looking into a solution for that. On every page, there is now a Share button. Before I had something similar just on the main page for each blog post, but I replaced it with a newer service and is now found on every page. WOO!

Last project that I'm working on right now is improving the comment system. Def. a work in progress, but we'll see what I can come up with. So until my next post, stay healthy and have fun.

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Netbooks & Life in General

Posted on February 23, 2009

Alright so about a month ago I got a new laptop. I love it to death. I thought I would use my older Dell here and there, but honestly, I turned it on about two times since then. So, I'm considering selling it and getting myself a netbook.

If you don't know what a netbook is, its basically a tiny laptop usually 8 to 10 inches that's used generally for surfing the net. They really aren't that powerful so there's really not much use for them to do anything else. Plus, they are dirt cheap, you can get a decent one for about $250-400. The last few weeks I've been tossing around the idea of picking one up.

The two models I'm considering are the HP Mini 1000 and the Dell Mini 9. Both are priced fairly similar. My friend's dad actually has the HP Mini 1000 so I got to play around with that for a bit this past weekend. It's pretty well built and overall a solid machine. Unfortunently I don't believe I'll get to play around with the Dell Mini 9 as they aren't sold in stores... So if anyone has any experience with either, post a comment and tell me your thoughts.

Anywho, with my current job I just created a new job for my technology department. It goes live tomorrow but we had a test run with employee's a few days ago. Its pretty different running a website for a company then a website for yourself. Mostly because you get a lot more feedback and a wide range of idea's. It's also has expanded my programming abilities as I've been editing add-ons like crazy to get things to work the way I want them too. Overall, a good experience and really expanding my experience with WordPress.

What else, what else... I went back to Quinnipiac (where I graduated from) over the weekend for the big game. QU vs. Yale. My friends and I splurged on some luxury box seats and had the time of our lives. Nothing better than a ridiculous buffet and a top shelf open bar. I rubbed elbows with the president, actually I almost took him out coming out of the bathroom... but minor details right there.

So, that sums up my life in a nutshell. Stay tuned for some new stuff.

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New Laptop and Some Updates

Posted on January 13, 2009

Alrighty, once again, if you're here for the first time, or just joining me after a haitus, P3K has changed its look. Hope you all like it, because I do. Right now I'm fixing up a few pages that were customized for the old look. Prig's Digg's has been updated and SpeedTest is now working again after the code expired.

Next part of the news, I'm posting this from my new laptop. I bought myself a Dell XPS M1530. I freaking love it. Its been a pain the past couple of days getting everything moved over and getting it setup the way I like it, but its almost there. Almost feels like my old laptop, but a hell of a lot faster... Here's the specs...

2.4 ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM, 256 MB video card, a beautiful 15.4" LED LCD glossy widescreen, and a very fast 128 GB SSD. Yeah that's right, the hard drive makes up about 25% of the laptop's value... But it was worth it. Soooo... that makes me a happy boy.

Alright, enough of me. Time to go searching for more pages that need some tender loving.

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