I’ve recently found myself writing a large amount of PHP code into my sites, something I’ve never done before. I can’t really explain why, but suddenly, PHP makes sense to me now, and all of the stuff I never paid attention to in my computer science classes is coming back to me like never before (although, I still stumble over arrays, no matter how many people explain them to me).

I don’t know why it all makes so much sense now, but while looking up examples for a project I’m working on today, I realized why I had a hard time with PHP before. The last time I did real coding, it was in school, and it tended to look something like this:
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New pics! I was really looking forward to taking pictures down at Myrtle Beach, being a new environment, but I really didn’t see much there that really jumped out at me.

However, while walking the beach one night with fox_cub, I managed to get an experimental shot that, after reviewing, really caught my attention. This is the oceanfront hotel area, looking north (duh), taken with a 15-second exposure. Trust me, it wasn’t that bright out, I honestly don’t know how this shot happened.

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This was posted to I Read This by an unknown new user. It’s a fictional mini-novel about an end-of-the-world event as experienced by network administrators. If you’re a techie, you’ll love it!

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

I’m about to leave for the beach, so I give y’all one last photo post before I come back with (hopefully) new pictures to post.

This series was taken from one of the highest mountain peaks in the region, less than 1 mile from the Virginia-West Virginia border. Due to the storm blowing in from the west (visible in the last image), these didn’t turn out quite like I wanted, but I’m still pleased with them. The incoming cold front made this a very uncomfortable photoshoot, though, it felt like a hurricane toward the end and I could barely feel my shutter finger when I was finished.

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fox_cub: You know, whenever someone starts an LJ post with “So, I had this dream last night…”, it’s like an automatic “skip this post!” sign

Me: Hmm, yeah, I guess Martin Luther King [Jr] never had an LJ

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Also, not sure if anyone noticed, but I changed the colour scheme on my LJ to match the newly-redesigned Lupinia site. Next up, the monumental task of re-skinning the forum

A few nights ago, Fox and I were sitting in my mom’s living room watching TV (I think I had just come home from work or something). We were having the usual bored conversation, when the commercial for the Durex vibrating Ring came on. I’m not sure how many of you have seen this commercial, but it’s pretty good at conveying the “This is a vibrator!” message without actually saying it. The thing is basically a vibrating cock ring. Suprising for US TV, right?

So, at the end of this commercial, I glance over, and my mom is staring at the TV with a huge WTF? look on her face. She then looked over at Fox and I, and said “I don’t even know what that was a commercial for”. I started pondering a mom-friendly explanation for this product, when Fox blurted out “It’s a cock ring!”. I have never seen my mom look so embarassed and confused in my life. She didn’t say much in response, she just kinda went back to watching her show.

Thanks for breaking my mom’s brain, Fox!

In other news, we’re going to Myrtle Beach next week, wee!

After taking down the content-management system at Lupinia, I decided to go back to the old-style site. It’s simple, easy, and doesn’t detract from the actual content (I tend to be a bit of a minimalist when it comes to site design). However, the old design was a pain to update, so I decided to redesign it using PHP.

After reviewing sample code graciously provided by lilpup, I decided to give it a try. After many working hours, and consultation with CodeCat (redesigned HouseRules from scratch with a database system), I finished the design.

The new site is setup more as a showcase for my artistic works, and will be the first time all of my work is viewable in one place. The community element will still be there in the form of web hosting and such, but that will be a semi-separate site once we move to the new server.

So, I welcome all of you to check out the new and improved Lupinia. I’ll be updating fairly regularly for awhile, too, I have more stuff to post

www.lupinia.net