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hooray we won!

So I figured that since I went through all the trouble of setting up WordPress here, I should actually use it. I have it setup where it auto-posts to LJ and DJ so it really encourages me to be lazy here.  I really wish I could import all of my LJ entries here, however there are problems:

• No easy way to download all the entries into a format where the WordPress importer can understand
• No easy way to shove all of my LJ entries into one category.
• No security levels.  Hell, I’d be happy with setting everything to ‘private’ on wordpress but alas there is no way to do it.
• There isn’t a really clean way of doing this.  The wordpress LJ import plugin (so I’ve read) doesn’t do true XML parsing but is regex central, so like the jdump.pl xml output just makes the importer die.

Ideally there would be a plugin already written that would do all this for me, but searching gives me zip.

Anyhoo, about life:

So today I called the tile place.  B&W Tile (www.bwtile.com) out of Gardena.  Really nice people on the phone.  I just told them what my tile person told me and they faxed over a quote.  $1400 and that included tax and delivery.  Being shipped tomorrow, 14 boxes at 500 lbs.

I placed the order and we’ll see what comes in.

So Tiffany and I are replacing our shower.  Our pink shower in our pink bathroom.  Turns out that I found out a few months ago (while crawling around the house running cat-5) that the shower leaks.  Yay.

So we got the shower all ripped out, had the hot-mopping vs liner debate, and got everything all boarded up and drywalled and everything.

Then it was time to find the tile to replace it.  Because I didn’t want to rip out my entire bathroom and redo the tile, the tub, the toliet, the sink and everything else, I found this place in southern california that specializes in old 1950′s tile.

Its going to probably cost me about 2k just for the tile alone.  The maroon you see in the picture, this place has a perfect match for about $13/sq ft.  Yeah.  This shower is Tiffany and I’s trip to Belize or anywhere fun this year.  I need to call the tile place tomorrow to order it, but something makes me think that the price is going to be over 2k. 

On another note, since I want to move everything off of LJ to here, you’ll notice that I have LJ comments disabled.  You can comment via OpenID.  Put in your LJ/DJ/whatever (AIM is also an OpenID Provider) and you can comment here.

I’ll let you know what the final bill is for the shower once I call the place tomorrow.

The worst part about the Stockton Thunder is their inconsistancy.  For example, they can totally kick ass against one of the best teams in the league while at the same time losing to someone lower than themselves on the standings.

I guess this can happen with any sport, but all I wish is that we would be #1 for once.

People are getting laid off, the economy is shit, and Obama can blow 150mil for a party. So happy to be footing the bill for all the transportation and the super-anal security for everything.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28707475/

One of my really good friends bitched about how they weren’t getting any of my RPG mailing list emails (the list has like 5 people on it.  Too many to remember to mail individually).  They have an sbc-global.net email address *sigh* So I decided to log into the server and see whats going on.  This is what I received:
Jan 11 17:36:32 vadept qmail: 1231724192.132200 delivery 42192: failure: Connected_to_207.115.20.21_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_553_5.3.0_flpi189_-_n0C1aVjR003857,_DNSBL:521<_209.142.3.151_>_is_blocked.__For_information_see_http://att.net/blocks/

Hm, lets see how much FAIL AT&T can give me:

• http://att.net/blocks/ gives me a 404 error.  Way to go!
• My email server is on zero RBL’s and gets a clean bill of health from Spamhaus.
• Googling the error points me to: http://worldnet.att.net/general-info/521.html
• They have a link to a form there, its at http://www.att.net/general-info/bls_info/block_admin.html

Now here is where the snowball of stupdity just keeps on growing.  Now you have to paste in your error into the form box, but the form box is way too small to paste the entire message error in.  Furthermore it bitches if it sees any special characters (say, like < > which are PRESENT IN ITS FUCKING ERROR).  So in the “what changes have you made” section, I said that their error-message link was broken, the error pasting was too small, and i’m not on any RBL’s.

So if you’re an AT&T admin reading this, please fix your shit.  From one admin to another this looks really bad.  I know you’re a big badass telco/world-domination company, but not fixing this is just going to have my friend drop your service like a hooker with herpes and give their money to a company that has their shit together.

LOL at SF/Bay Area for their attempt to ban handguns when their BART officers shoot an unarmed person in the back.

I know the officer fucked up hugely. However if I, a private citizen, did the same thing (with video coverage no less) you think I would be treated the same? Let me answer this, no, I’d be in jail awaiting manslaughter charges. Why again do the police get access to armament that private citizens cannot have for fear of being a ‘danger’? Am I the only person who sees this HUGE double-standard?

I’m waiting for the ironic “only police should have guns” argument to this one.