Teyrnon

Hello to anyone reading this, it's been over a year since my last entry here and I decided it was time to make an update. This might the only update I make this year if I continue the trends of the past few years. I'm still working on my website. I have a change log on the site that I try to update every time I make changes. I've moved away from large and complicated web apps for this incarnation of the site. Instead, it'll be mostly static HTML pages with a few bits of javascript and the occasional PHP page that I've written myself. My intention at the moment is for there to be no code on the site that I don't understand fully what it's doing.

I haven't figured out a good way to facilitate a way for site visitors to send feedback. Once upon a time way back in the early days of the world wide web, I would have stuck a mailto link on the main page and left it at that but that isn't viable these days. The email address would just get scooped up by scrapers and the mailbox would be choked with spam in a very short time. For the longest time, I had a feedback form page that used a CGI script that Dreamhost provided,  to send an email to me without actually revealing the address to the world at large. Sadly, that script is no more. I've tried to write one in PHP but I've yet to figure out how to do write it in such a way that doesn't leave an opening for an exploit. I'm wary of anything that allows a user to open end text to the website. I need to study the language more and figure out a good solution. For now I've placed a link ro my Twitter on the change log page as a means of contacting me.

In other news I continue to be plagued by health issues and I'm still writing with the occasional short story or novella published under my pseudonym from the LD days.  If you don't know what that is don't worry about it. I'm not telling! :)

There was a time when Saturday nights tended to be very interesting. I miss those times. Even the really weird stuff. Especially the weird stuff, actually. Like the time K and I had to crawl through a rather musty tunnel after that barn collapsed while we were in it. Okay, that was actually a Saturday afternoon, though the night that followed wasn't any less interesting. We visited another buddy of ours who, for want have a better term, was having an existential crisis. I miss K.

Another memorable Saturday night was, well actually I think I'm still under an NDA about that one. No matter.

At anyrate, tonight I'm bored and lonely. Bored, bored, bored...

Thanks to a really stupid move on my part I lost the wonderfully handy drive images I spent the better part of the evening making of the two drives. I zigged when I should have zagged. Order of steps is critical. Simply put I noticed the the boot record on the C: partition was corrupted so, instead of doing the smart thing and copied the image files to another hard disk, idiot that I am, I immediately set out to see if I could get proper boot records in place, including the MBR. Not only does the MBR contain the boot code it also has the partition table for the drive at the end of it.

ARGH!!!

Well, I still have the Microsoft backups of the system so all is not lost.