August 2006 - Posts

• Blog Categories and SEO

  I never really used categories on my blog until one day I had an SEOpiphany. Since it's not like I have a ton of inbound links to this site I figured I needed ways to make my own internal ones. Enter blog categories. I get a lot of traffic for the music of Grey's Anatomy so I thought "Hey, wouldn't it be great if each time I posted a Grey's Anatomy Music entry it would give me a link back to myself." So now I have the categories but have yet to see any seo benefit. Time will tell I guess. Posted Aug 30 2006, 02:49 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• Falling Gas prices

  According to USA Today gas prices could keep falling until November. What?! I am not a conspiracy kind of guy. I do not believe our government blew up the world trade center nor dynomited the levees in New Orleans to kill off the poor. For that matter I believe man has set foot on the moon. Now, I realize demand is down--I really do. But what about BP? I thought their ruptured pipeline was going to cause an 8% rise to prices around the country. And that it was going to take at least eight months to fix it. I don't have a degree in math but I'm pretty sure November is less than eight months away. And where's that 8% increase to our $3/g gas? Something fishy is going on here but we're all so happy to be paying less at the pumps that no one wants to notice. Posted Aug 30 2006, 02:23 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• Cosy and the Rocket

  Last night the Grey's Anatomy theme song came up on my playlist for the first time in about a month. Chris sent it to me because he was doing an a capella version of it for his friend's high school band. The music of Grey's Anatomy I think will always remind me of 2005-2006 because hey, that's when I watched/heard it. It will remind me of good times and it's good to have those as you walk forward in life. Posted Aug 29 2006, 02:28 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• Grey's Anatomy at the Emmy's

  Boy, Grey's Anatomy sure took a beating at the Emmy's. In fact, none of the shows I watch got anything. Granted with only three shows to choose from (Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and Lost) it's not like I was playing the odds. Then again though, I thought I was watching quality television. I'm not exactly sure what 24 is all about but it seemed to do well. Truth be told I watched the Cubs lose instead of the Emmy's but Jamie watched and filled me in on the gory details. Posted Aug 28 2006, 02:40 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• Joys of XML

  I hate XML. It's so easy to make yet so painful to parse and read. Because of this everyone makes it and wants to send you things in. They do not realize of course that you have to parse it for it to be of any value. Or maybe they realize it and they just don't care. I'd rather see a standardized set of variables used for things that could be easily passed from one site to another. The fundamental problem with this is that people would spend their time hacking it until no data was safe. Then again, what data is safe? If you visit my site I can capture practically anything I want from you. It's too bad there's not a site that lists "safe" sites and "unsafe" sites depending on the amount of spam they sent out or other mean things they did. With server-side code though it's impossible to verify that things aren't being capture and you'd be stuck monitoring these things based on your best guesses and if they set long-expire cookies. Ok, it's a dumb idea. Posted Aug 27 2006, 02:45 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• IE Div Problems

  Man, do I hate Internet Explorer's inability to correctly process div tags. I was in the middle of a very complex, tableless design when I checked my beautiful work in IE. Bam. Extra line breaks where all the div's were. At this point I realized IE was not reading the display:inline that had worked so well to quell Firefox's desire to put those extra lines. I spent a lot of time reading about how to fix it online but a lot of people are stupid and don't know anything about CSS yet think they do. I did find the solution to the extra line div problem (spooky) when it turned out IE was doing something like almost adding a <pre> before my div section. In the code all I had to do was slop it up--move all the div lines onto a single line and suddenly everything worked perfectly and IE was able to supress the extra line breaks. Posted Aug 25 2006, 01:14 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• MySpace and Kids

  There are reasons kids should not be able to have MySpace accounts. It's not because there are 50 year old men with thin moustaches waiting to lure them into caves with treats and toys. It's not because they can see pictures of women having sex with horses on there through other peoples' accounts. It's because they develop sites like this for themselves on there. Wow. If you're over the age of 25 that WILL hurt your eyes. I only looked at it for about three seconds and now I've got a splitting headache after two very short seizures. Ok, I didn't really have the seizures but I still don't like kids. Posted Aug 24 2006, 01:50 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• MySQL: Repairing Tables

  So my blog's been down for a few days because I've been working on other projects and did not realize greysmusic had lost touch with the database. I only noticed last night because I hadn't made any money with AdSense. Lo and behold everything is down. I log into PHPMyAdmin (if you don't have it, get it) and Pow(!) `greysmusic_entries.myi` is corrupt. So how do you fix something like that? Easy. Go to the SQL tab and simply type: repair table `table_name`. Leave off the ".myi". In my case it was repair table `greysmusic_entries`. It will either fix the misnumbered rows/bad blocks/etc or it will simply say "OK". If it says "OK" you're trying to fix the wrong table. Keep running it on all your other tables until you're all fixed. Posted Aug 23 2006, 01:20 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• Inside joke.

  Here's a little PHP joke for Lost $jin=str_replace("l","r",$lines); I don't think anyone will get it but it made me laugh out loud so surely that's worth sometihng. Posted Aug 19 2006, 09:11 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• Grey's Anatomy Idiots

  I came across this picture this morning on a Grey's Anatomy Fan Board. Man, if I could meet that person I'd give him (ok, most likely "her") a double driving knifehand to the face. Dude. I know it's a TV show and people get into TV shows but DENNY SUCKED. MEN HATE DENNY. DENNY is the guy who we would beat up if given the opportunity. Oh, he's so sweet. Oh, he's so charming. No bitches, George is sweet and charming. Denny just wanted to throw it in the hot model-doctor. And that's fine. But spare us the crap of liking this totally lame aspect of the show. Please. PLEASE! Posted Aug 18 2006, 01:21 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• Strange Dog / Ray Hybrid Mutant found in Maine

  Weird! What is this thing?! According to an article in Breitbart, "It was charcoal gray, weighed between 40 and 50 pounds and had a bushy tail, a short snout, short ears and curled fangs hanging over its lips, he said. It looked like "something out of a Stephen King story."" Shows how little we know about our planet--it was found in MAINE. Not some long-lost jungle in Malaysia. MAINE. Play the Hybrid Game Posted Aug 17 2006, 01:36 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• Project Runway: Allison

  The absolute worst part about Project Runway is the disclaimer they run at the end of each episode; something along the lines of "Producers and Others get some say in who is In and who is "Auf". It's because of this that my future girlfriend, Allison, was kicked off the show last night. Ok, her dress was ugly. Fine. But Vincent has been on the cusp for a month! This was Allison's first time to the killing floor and she got the ax. That's stupid. Was she the most talented? Probably not. But she didn't suck. Offhandedly I can think of at least three other people who flat out SUCK that are still on the show. And, just FYI, Michael did not deserve to win. If my vote had been the lone one I would have voted Vincent off and made Neck win. What's his name? I've always just called him neck and everyone has always known who I was talking about. Posted Aug 17 2006, 07:17 AM by greysanatomy with no comments

• We need to talk...

  God, does anyone on the planet want to hear these words? Nothing good can ever follow this opening. It is never the following: We need to talk... about that threesome idea of yours. We need to talk... about getting you some more money. We need to talk... about taking you on a shopping spree. We need to talk... about giving you more backrubs. Oh no. It's always these. We need to talk.. about your gential warts. We need to talk... about "us". We need to talk... about your job description. Man, talking is the worst. Posted Aug 16 2006, 04:14 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• I stink

  Man, I stink today. I have my kenpo shirt on under my work shirt and it stinks. At first I thought it was my red linen shirt so I changed it. Now I realize that it is, in fact, the kenpo shirt. I had only worn it to class once between washings. One time! And it didn't stink like this after class on Thursday. Now I'm stuck smelling like a dead skunk all day. Bummer. Posted Aug 15 2006, 01:34 PM by greysanatomy with no comments

• September 21st

  In just a few short days we'll be watching Grey's Anatomy instead of playing poker on Thursday nights. Personally I'd much rather play poker than watch Grey's but whatever. I have a feeling Thursdays weren't going to work for anyone other than me anyway. I'll most likely be going to kenpo on MWF (Fridays are sparring so I don't think I'll be going to that every week) once I get my purple belt so Thursdays will most likely become something like Cuddle Night instead of Fun Poker With Friends Night. Oh well. Posted Aug 14 2006, 03:55 PM by greysanatomy with no comments