Did You Win Yet?

Just returned from a vacation to New Zealand with Jay. Hadn’t been back there since we left in 1992. It was great to see the country again! Photos are up on flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samsteele/collections/72157610097527600/

Steven is awesome.

Chocolate soda is surprisingly good.

Yay! I beat adventure mode in Peggle! Final score: 15,659,720!

General Tso’s Shrimp = AMAZING

I will be spending the week down in Key West with Jay! If you need to reach me, I’ll still be checking my email occasionally. See you all in a week!

DreamHost will be moving the server that hosts most of my sites on February 8th, and they’ll be unreachable during that time. This also affects those of you with sites on my hosting plan.

Due to continued space and power constraints in our primary data center, we will be moving the “randy” cluster to one of our newer data centers. This move will begin Friday, February 8, at 10PM PST, and is expected to last up to 8 hours, until Saturday, February 9, 6AM PST. All web servers, mail servers, file servers, and MySQL servers in the randy cluster will be unreachable during this time.

The following web servers will be off line during this move:

alexander arkanoid attila baht bam bob bomberman breakout caesar centipede contra cornelius cortes crack cruisin cssmania deblume defender digdug dinar dinero dollar donkeykong ellipsis euro fidget forint franc gage galaga gap go grant guilder happy herod ikari ike io ivan jezebel joust karnov katamari khan klax korben kroner lamlam leeloo lei limbo-randy limbo-randy2 limbo-randy3 lira lucky mark marvin morgan napoleon nexus nimitz orbital pacman paperboy patton peso pizarro pound qbert quid rhod ruble rupee rygar scagnetti schilling scipio shekel slaughter slimy tetris ugh ultima venice vex vito wasabi yen yoda zorg

If your site is on any of these servers this status post applies to you. Also, if you check the “Account Status” button on the upper right hand of the webpanel ( https://panel.dreamhost.com ) you should see your cluster under the section “Your Email Server:”. We are also sending out an email announcement about this downtime window to affected customers.

We do apologize for this inconvenience. Rest assured we will do everything possible to keep downtime to a minimum.

If you have any questions regarding the server move, please contact our support team.

Sohail: i hate fucking deer
Sam: they don’t fancy it much either
Sohail: yeah well, tell them the rash’ll clear up in a few days!

January

• Visited Jay in Key West
• Hit Brian in the nuts with a wiimote while bowling
• DreamZZT gets an online leaderboard

February

• My eBay account got hacked

March

• Started a new job
• Added a few automation features to my LiveJournal for Flickr photos, StumbleUpon Favorites, and IM transcript formatting

April

• Accidentally wiped my PowerBook’s harddrive
• Our basement flooded
• Started biking again
• Bought a keyboard, started re-learning to play piano
• Discovered the awesomeness that is Coda
• Built a new MythTV box

May

• DreamZZT is able to play Mission:Enigma
• MythTV Upcoming Recordings dashboard widget is released

June

• DCSquares gets a Facebook application
• DreamZZT gets ported to Nintendo DS

July

• DreamZZT gets SuperZZT support

August

• DreamZZT can save SuperZZT games
• Nintendo DS port of DreamZZT gets online features

September

• Bought an 8GB iPhone after the price drop
• Got an iPod dock connector for the head unit in my Ford Fusion

October

• Got a request to produce another DCSquares jewel case (still haven’t gotten around to doing it…)
• Bought an old Galaxy II tabletop game on eBay

November

• Gil and Brian took me out for dinner for my birthday
• Joined a gym
• Beat Toejam & Earl 2: Panic on Funkatron with my sister on the Wii Virtual Console
• MobileScrobbler is released
• Stabbed myself in the hand at work while unpacking a flat panel

December

• MobileScrobbler gets radio streaming, lyrics, and translated into 3 languages

Sam: yo the “help me decide” thing for deodorant lists “for vegetarians” as an option.. I’m intrigued
Sam: all it does is turn off “deodorant only” and leaves the antiperspirant / deodorant ones
Sam: now I think I want deodorant only, just to mess with vegetarians
Sohail: there is something wrong with you
Sam: dude who doesn’t want animal parts all up in their underarms?
Sohail: i love animal parts up under my arms
Sam: I’m curious as to what animal parts the deodorant has
Sam: I hope it’s made from something adorable, like bunnies
Sohail: more like its got gelatin or something
Sam: that’s much less amusing to imagine