October 07, 2003
Down time
Looks like the host that is hosting this domain was having some tech difficulties over the weekend. My domain dasme.org was down from 3pm friday aft till just now.. ugh. The worst part is that my emailw as down, so who knows how many of the mailing lists that I'm on dropped me because of bouncebacks for 3 days :(
Oh well.. hope to have this all sorted out soon.
October 03, 2003
Greenscreens and line noise.
I'm setting up my BBS system again. What is a BBS you ask? Oh ho! BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems) were what us tech geeks used to spend time on before the internet was ever available to the general public. You would set yourself up with a modem, and run a piece of software on your pc that would answer the phone and allow people to log in. Or just call out to other boards if you didn't want to run one yourself.
I used to run a Bulletin Board from about 93 to 2001 when I had to shut it down because of a series of moves I made. In the early ninetys I used to get sometimes 200 calls a day, but it dropped to somewhere near 10 a day just before I shut down for good. Did I ever love coming home and seeing who was spending time on my board and do a little chatting with them. I miss those days. I know that they will never happen again, but I think it will be fun working on my hobby again. The fact that the software I'm using for the BBS now (Synchronet 3) allows connections over telnet will make things easier if anyone wants to call. No more modem needed!
Depending on how things go maybe I'll post the address of it here. It would be interesting chatting with my readers that happen by on the bbs :) S far i've setup all my favorite Door games (including the ones I wrote!) and have connected back up to FidoNet. Just like old times.
September 30, 2003
September 29, 2003
Spam Filter running ok
Looks like I have Jay's spam filter [link is in the story before this one, don't want to trackback flood him] setup and working fine. I haven't recieved any spam over the weekend, or rather I did, but the filter did it's job and filtered it out.
Very Cool!
I've gone ahead and opened up HTML and Linkable comments again here. Like I said before, the comment system doesn't get used here that much, but it's a nice thing to have just incase.
September 26, 2003
Damn you spammers!
Well now you've gone and done it. I've recieved about 8 penis-enlargement-spam comments in the last few days. I've now shut off HTML and auto linking URLS in the comments, and banned many subnets out there. I'm looking into alternate methods of controlling this as well.
Damn spammers :( I know that the comments system hasn't been used that often here, but I still liked to keep html on just incase. Oh well, it's always 1 that ruins it for many.
UPDATE: Found this article via scriptygoddess. Looks good, currently implementing it, we'll see how well it works.
Wedding Dejavue
My best buds wedding is tomorrow. I can't believe that it has come so quickly. It just feels like Cara and my wedding was just weeks ago. I can still vividly remember all the sights and sounds that I encountered that day. I guess that is what a wedding is for really, an event that you and your partner can remember together that was "Just about you".
So good luck to Clay and Robbin! All the best in your lives together! Remember, marriages can have high and low times, but never bad times.
September 25, 2003
Time to set up the old Igloo!
I couldn't belive what the temperature was when I woke up this morning. "It must be a mistake" I thought to myself. "There is no way that it could already be only +2oC This early in the year... Nah that's November weather.. The damn Weather Network is all screwed up!"
Well I would of hoped for that to be true I guess. I walked outside this morning, and nearly lost my breath. It's way too damn early to be having weather like this I tell you! And to top it all off, we neglected to get someone in to clean out our furnace for the first time in our new house, so we have to wait till *next* Saturday for someone to come and clean it. I guess I could put the heat on before that, I just don't want to do that and come home to a burnt our furnace, or worse.
If you need us, we'll be in our house buried under about 40 pounds of warm blankets. So please forgive us if we don't hear the phone ring! :)
September 24, 2003
Google is /.ing me!
I've been neglecting this site for a while now. Not that I don't have anything to say, I just don't have the time to say it!
Recently I looked through the access logs and it looks like 99% of my site visits (an estimate) are from google. That's just damn strange.. I would of expected that at least half of my visits would of been from friends or family, but nope.. Most people come here looking for MASH, Make-a-flake, or Homestar Runner. OK the last one isn't too bad, Strong bad rules BTW, I just find this strange. I have to start networking with some like-minded techies in my city. Conversation is much better then rants!
Oh well.. chalk this up to more semi-coherent mumblings from a cold medicated techie! :)
Cool php/javascript/css snippets.
I found a great site containing some usefull code snippets. I actually clicked-to this site by mistake, but the code snips were good enough for me to link here. Hopefully someone out there will find these as usefull as I did!
UPDATE: This one is very cool too! :)
Ahh StrongBad, I can't stay mad at you
So I was slightly miffed Monday at lunch that homestarrunner.com wasn't updated yet (I found out later that updated their page just after my visit). I was fighting off a cold bug, and needed some StrongBad wisdom to make me feel better.
Well the email that I just read.. er saw sure made up for it. I can't stay mad at you Strongbad! May the pupulation of Strongbadia continue to flourish! And may I keep taking these cold meds that are causing me to go all crazy go nuts and talking to fictional internet animation characters.
Sincerely Dasme.. err Dhassmay.. umm.. Das miii.. Ummm...
Sincerely Big D.
September 18, 2003
Brrrrrr
Well today must be the coldest day of teh year here in Winnipeg. I woke up to a balmy (rite!) 6oCelcius this morning. With a high of 13, I should of worn shorts!
Damnit, winter seems to come sooner and sooner every year. It's starting to get depressing! :\
September 15, 2003
Photoblog
Decided to add a photoblog here seeing as i'll be keeping my Zire handy most times I'm out. I don't think that most people care what i'm taking pictures of, but hell.. it's my damn site!! ;)
Feel free to browse it at your leisure.. oh and Etan, if you see this... I stole your idea to place the thumbs at the top of my page.. please don't sue! :)
September 10, 2003
Zire 71 = Better then a thing in a bag!
Well I finally went out and picked up a new Palm Zire 71 PDA. I know that I've talked about it here before, but until today I was content to sit on my ass and wait for it. What can I say about this product that hasn't been mentioned before..
The screen ROCKS! It comes with a 320x320 colour LCD screen that is just plain beautiful. If you've used an other colour Palm, you don't know what you are missing. This screen is bright, and the colours are vivid.
The oft-talked about built in digital camera is just what I expected. You can take pictures up to the max of 640x480. While being a little dark and grainy, I got exactly what I expected from it. Below is a pic that was taken of me infront of the nice "DANGER - Mold Abatement in progress" sign that we have in our office. What a safe place to work hey!? :)
Other then those 2 items, i've been playing with the Audible.com player, the Kinoma player, and all the other cool freebies this little guy comes with.
So.. on a scale of 1 to Awesome, I give the Palm Zire 71 a rating of "Super Great!"

Weebles
I like weebles. I like weebles. I like weebles, yes I do.
Ok, so my song isn't half as demented as the ones on the site, but It will have to do! Check it out for some seriously crazy brit humour.
September 01, 2003
Weapon of Choice
Just watched this flash video on the net and had to laugh. I loved the video for Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice when I first saw it. I mean how can you hate a video with Christopher Walken in it!? :) Anyways.. after watching the flash version, you can go here and watch the original.
August 25, 2003
Welp!
Well that sucked. Looks like my site was down for a few weeks due to a corrupted perl extension in my Moveable Type installation. This of course happens when my Linksys router decides to blow up taking my home network down with it.. blah.
Oh well, at least I'm back up and running here :)
August 11, 2003
SpaceDudes!
Was just given a link to this site from a friend. it's a great little java powered SHMUP (Shoot-em-up) game that you can play right in your browser. Check it out!