The Life Of A LittlBUGer

Yup, it’s that time again where I say “wow, it’s been a long time since I last posted”.  And it’s true but it’s not the point.  I no longer own any of my stuff related to littlbuger.info and as such have more time to deal with my family and work and whatnot (yes, that was the excruciatingly short version of the whole long story, but whatever).  Thus this will probably be my last post here as there’s really no point, though I’m sure no one cares as my blog never really got read by anyone.

But just in case, thanks and farewell.  Here’s a couple final pictures that I thought were funny.  Enjoy…

The obvious (yet technically correct)…

and The Even More Obvious (and even more technically correct)…

Oh Jewlzk, my old, good and faithful host, where have you gone?  You were so great to me for that entire year I was with you, especially you Roland, and now it seems you have nearly disappeared from the planet.  I usually blame myself mostly as I know, at the time, I was one of your largest clients and it was because of the help of me you were getting an investor.  Everything was looking up and you were definitely growing.

Then, at least from your perspective, I was all of a sudden leaving with no prior warning.  I couldn’t afford the near $1000 a month for my servers anymore and found another hosting company, of similar size, who not only could give me something better and cheaper, but whose support seemed to actually exist.  Yes, that’s right Jewlzk.  Though you were so good to me for so long and one of the best hosts I’ve ever had, support response times diminished over the last few months while I was there and other issues kept cropping up when they shouldn’t.

So I decided to move, right at the same time the new investors were coming to kind of audit you and assess the situation, I’m assuming to see if you did actually have all of the clients and cashflow you said you had.  And I had to screw that all up and just leave without a trace.  I’ve always felt extremely terrible for doing this as I know you’re a good guy Roland and just always wanted to help.  And, being as I’m a host myself, I know it’s hard to find and keep good paying clients.  But sometimes enough is enough and for more professional reasons than personal, I had to move.  I had to do what I had to do in order to survive.  I couldn’t pay that high price anymore (at the time, nearly all of my revenue to pay for my servers came solely from advertisements) and I couldn’t sit and wait for answers like that.

So Jewlzk, I’m sorry I had to leave, I’m sorry I had to screw it all up for you, but you promised you said all was OK anyway.  You said that you understood and that you would continue on and help out others in need including your still current clients.  But it seems you may have lied to me there… I don’t know.  I still trust you and think you’re a good guy Roland, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.  I just want to know, where art thou gone Jewlzk?  Please come back in all of your previous splendor… or at least stop by and say hello like the good old times…  Please?

So my wife is in a panic last night as she’s behind on the general household chores and grocery shopping (as usual) and we’re having guests over tonight, so things need to get done.  She doesn’t have the time as she takes forever to do things and takes even longer with the 3 kids we happen to have.

So to help her out even more than I’m already doing, I decide to do some shopping for her.  She says we need just 4 things at Costco.  I say fine, that’s not bad, just write me a list and I’ll go.  So she does and I go and all seems fine.  I get there and find 3 of the things on the list easily, after some serious walking around as the store is huge.  Then I’m a bit frustrated as I can’t find the damn paper towels after I’ve been around the store 3 times.  They just happen to be far in a corner, a corner easily missed, behind a lot of stuff… who would have thought.

So after about 40 minutes of shopping which should have taken 10 I get to the checkout.  After waiting my turn, I put my 4 lonely items on the checkout belt and begin to pull my check card (which can do debits or credits) to pay.  After the nice $80 price tag rings up (for 4 items!) I slide my card and then… but wait a minute, there’s no option to choose a credit instead of debit.  So I cancel it, try again, and still find there’s no way to do a credit instead of a debit.  So I ask the cashier how to do so, she says you can’t do credit unless it’s American Express, though a debit should work just fine.  I say I don’t have American Express and I don’t know my PIN as I never do debit.  I then realize I also don’t have any checks (as I rarely do anyway).  She says, well, we can hold the items for you until you get back.  I say I don’t have time for that I’m in a hurry and can’t go all the way home and then back.  She says, “Ummm…. well….”  “Alright then, cya I guess,” I say as I leave…

…  Wait… what???  Hold on a minute here… you’re telling me a huge national multi-million (maybe billion) dollar foodstuff and other goodies store such as this does NOT take any credit cards other than American Express?!  Seriously?!  All that I ask is, why Costco, why?  It seems to be the dumbest business decision, especially for a business that large, anyone could make.  All I’m saying is, I want a piece of your sweet American Express deal as you MUST be getting a damn sweet deal with them to be able to do that.

Anyway, I call my wife as I’m leaving the store, empty handed, explaining the situation.  She says, “Well yea, didn’t I tell you that already?” 

My oh my, it’s been a long while since I’ve posted here eh? Well, I’m sorry to disappoint, but I’ve just recently been swamped at work and with the family that I’ve had absolutely no damn time for anything. I have deadlines approaching at work and too much work to be done until then, I have kids going crazy at home along with my wife, I have a friend’s PC that I need to finish fixing (I wiped it and started from scratch as it was going down…), and I have my own websites and other damn things to catch up on, including movies and gaming! GAH! What’s a poor guy like me with no time to do? I know!:

Step 1: Create a plan to successfully freeze time whenever I feel like it while at the same time making sure I don’t age during that frozen time even though I’m free to move around as I please and also be able to shit money out of my ass.

Step 2: Execute the plan and ?…

Step 3: Profit!

Some good news lately though, I finally decided to get tested for spermies down under (I’m sure some of you recall my fun Vasectomy story) and guess what? I’m in the clear! Whoohoo! Sex anywhere, anytime baby! And with that fun tip of information that you never needed nor wanted to know, here’s a fun picture of the day: Fat Pussy!

Enjoy and prosper!

Well, I thought I might as well fill more of my blog with crap and post some of my favorite quotes. What’s better than posting new crap? Quoting old crap!

Quote 1: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein

Quote 2: “Computers are really strange - first everything works fine, then something goes terribly wrong and nothing works, and then - like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, everything is back to normal again. It’s like nothing ever happened. Like the computer were female.” - Unknown

Quote 3: “Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy. In a jar on my desk.” - Stephen King

Quote 4: “If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.” - Bill Vaughan

Quote 5: “Microsoft Windows [n.]: A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can’t stand one bit of competition.” - Unknown

BONUS: Some Rock-Paper-Scissors fun!

As previously mentioned, I’ll be moving to my new host during these next few days with everything up and running on the new servers by the 1st of November.  Thus, this will probably be my last post until then as I don’t want any data lost.  If you see any issues after the move, please let me know.  Thank you for your support. 

Hello all you programmers/coders out there.  I have a question if anyone can answer.  To put things briefly….

I’m moving servers/hosts soon and putting in some load balancing for my downloads site by moving the downloads to a couple mirrored download servers.  This is fine except for how my downloads script works.  Currently, when you add files, it copies them to the main download folder and then renames them to a certain “masked” name.  It then stores the masked name and the real name of the files in the database, so that when a user downloads a file, it renames it to the real name on the fly.  So the local file may have a masked name of “28o24309usf0h2kj223.rwd” or “thisisafile1.rwd” and the actual real file name is “thisisafile1.exe”.

Because of the new servers and load-balancing stuff, I need to be able to have an automated method of parsing through a list which has the masked file name and the real file name respectively and have it search through the actual files in the folder and rename them to their real file name on the fly.  I’ve done some web programming and SQL stuff, but I haven’t really messed with manipulating a lot of files on the fly like that before.  Does anyone know of a program that could do this for me?  If not, is anyone willing to create some sort of batch file or vb script or something that would do this for me?  I have about 260 files to rename and I’d be willing to pay you for your time.

I can give more details if needed as long as you just contact me.  Thanks.