tascrafts.comInnovation when you least expect it.

Finally got around to fixing the menu on www.georgetowncruising.com. There were some issues of it jamming up with certain versions of Internet Explorer. That’s all taken care of now; turns out it was a DOCTYPE problem.

This site got a mini-update as well. I updated my portfolio with new images, and unlocked it! I also updated the About section and updated some other stuff.

On a similar note, the QuickPlayer also got a bit of an update. I wrote a php script that dynamically generates the playlist based on the mp3 files in the music folder, so now there’s no having to open/edit/save/upload it every time I upload a song to it.

What else? Oh, I’m going to give Twitter another shot. I really dont see the point of having it unless you have a few hundred followers, I think FaceBooks better for status updates, but hey.

OH AND GET THIS. Remember the post I made ages back about Google ads not showing up on my computer? Guess what? I had modded my hosts file ages ago and put pagead2.googlesyndication.com as a test site to see if it worked, and forgot about it. I dont know what made me check there, but that’s where the problem was. Now I’m getting ads like I should. I guess thats a good thing.

Okay then, bed time. I’ve been having alot of late nights and longs days, so a good nights rest is in order. I say that as I see 1AM roll by

-tas

GRRR 

So a container truck drives down the street on Friday afternoon and clips a few phone lines coming off the pole. Mine being one of them. The phone company here doesn’t do weekends, and they close at 4. The truck hit the lines at 4:15 ish.

I call the maintenance department on Saturday because I know a guy there and he says they cant work without a work order from the main office. So I call them on Monday morning bright and early and say they will look into it. I call them that afternoon and they say “Oh, we cant get there today, we’ll be there sometime tomorrow”. Tomorrow being Tuesday. They finally repair the lines around lunchtime on Tuesday.

Then what? They decide to do maintenance on the whole system Tuesday afternoon and it goes down again. 

Then I was having problems with my modem|router|router setup today. AND NOW its working properly again.

End rant.

In memory of “The Barge”.

We’ve had this boat, named “The Barge”, for about 10 years now. It used to be a workhorse when we still used it, but ever since all the buildings have been built, its just been sitting on a mooring, slowly rusting away.

Back when we were still building up the property, the barge used to bring over concrete, lumber, and other supplies to the small island that we are on. Everything here essentially came over on it.

Just the day before yesterday, someone from a marine center just a few miles away made an offer on it, which was actually more than we were expecting to get from it. Alas, the time has come to let it go.

The twin Detroit 671’s fired right up (after I put a new battery on it), and I brought it over to the dock using the engines alone; the steering was frozen. The past two days have been busy, cleaning the rust off of it, making sure everything was working, and getting our old junk off of it.

Tomorrow my friend and I will be taking it to the marine center to drop it off.