So I decided to take a peek at the stats they my webhost keeps about my domain. Lots of interesting things I never new (all numbers are rounded down to a nice even number). Between January 2005 and January 2006, my domain (everything under mcstudios.net) had 51,000 visits During that year, I served 12.5 GB [...]
Categories: website dev
To start, I really like Java as a programming language. Because of its “library,” it is very is to be productive quickly, without having to reinvent the wheel each time. When you combine that with an IDE like Eclipse and a graphics library like SWT, Java is amazingly powerful. Now that I’ve got that out [...]
Categories: software
For some reason, I’m late on the uptake on new SciFi series. There was a lot of buzz that surrounded this around the same time I was investigating Firefly. I decided to try Firefly first and was duely rewarded (Serenity arriving in theaters was the reason for that). The problem is that Joss Whedon’s project [...]
Categories: tv
Check this out. For a box office bust (unfortunately) Serenity is holding its own! For reference, here is Firefly’s Amazon ranking history since it arrived on DVD. Its neat as you can see its sales ranking improve as Serenity approached and the impact Serenity had on the series. Bottom line, TV shows don’t do this. [...]
Categories: movies
Well, not really. Behold my new theme (obviously incomplete). I still need to transfer lots of content over, but it got to a point where I wanted to work with it on the real site, rather than localhost. I discovered that I have lost my MC Studios logo (which is why there isn’t one on [...]
Categories: website dev
CNN.com – Jon Stewart set to host Oscars – Jan 5, 2006 Oh this is going to be good! As long as the network lets him have fun, there should be loads of fun for the rest of us. At least it will be an Oscars worth watching. Speaking of Oscars… We saw King Kong [...]
Categories: entertainment
Need to get to sleep, now… Will have to wake up at 4:00am to get on a 6:00am flight out of Oakland tomorrow. Yuck. “The Redesign” is coming. I have to translate all my old pages into WordPress “pages.” It just seems like a better CMS system than a roll-your-own each time. January looks to [...]
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