Yes, you heard right: I've finally updated the EVN Survival Guide (two days short of the 1 year mark since the last time I updated it). Absolutely all of the EVN Shipyard pages are now up-to-date with EVN 1.0.8. The next order of business is to finish the Outfitter pages. I'm hoping to declare the Survival Guide "done" by the end of the year.
art dog freeNow, some of you may be expecting more from an update that came a week later than I was planning. Understandable, but a lot of the work I did on the Macworld trip simply isn't done yet (for example, I need to write several articles for a particular section before I consider it ready for upload; currently, I've written two for it). I'm also working on a new section for the Lair (yipee!); that also needs several pieces before I upload anything, and currently it has one.
Look for another Empire update next Monday. :)
Well, we arrived back home around 12:30 this morning, driving straight back from Pennsylvania.
I got a lot of work done on the trip, but I still need to do a lot more before I've got a Lair update ready (although when I update it, it'll be a big one). As a result, I won't be updating the Lair until Monday the 26th.
Now that I'm back, I need to sort through email and whatnot. Ugh, no doubt, there is lots of it...
Well, we're just outside Boston. Currently, I'm sitting in Danny's living room with Courtney more or less awake and Pikeman still out; I've been awake for an hour already, which I'm fairly pissed about. ;)
Anyway, the general consenus is that we (Pikeman, Courtney, and myself; Danny and Leah may or may not be able to come) will get to MacWorld around 1; our thinking was that it would give us sleep-in time, but my body obviously disagreed with my head about that one. Stupid body.
PS: Danny and Leah are hella cool.
I won't be around for the next week or so, since Courtney and I are off to Pikeman's house, and from there, Boston. It'll be fun.
I'm taking my laptop so that I can do a lot of Lair work while in the car... I'm hoping to deliver a hefty update on the 19th or 20th. Wahoo!
So yesterday I had to fix not one but two problems with evula.org.
The first was something that didn't really surprise me: the evula.org server was full. I checked my disk log, and sure enough, several people had way over the 20 meg limit. After hunting down everyone's email address (I still didn't get one guy, but oh well) I sent out an email explaining the situation and gave a list of alternate sites to store big files. I did, however, tell them that if it wasn't fixed by Saturday, I'd be backing up all their files and deleting them from the server. That should get some people into gear. :)
The second problem didn't come up until after I'd sent out the emails about the first one. Apparently, someone at my host changed a few settings around, and now you have to have "@evula.org" at the end of your FTP username to get it to work. Arg! I've already gotten a couple of emails from people who had gotten notices (see problem 1), probably more than a bit pissed that I was telling them to clear stuff out and then finding that they couldn't.
*sigh*
Edit: Forgot to link to relevant topics over on my Forums. For the first problem, click here. For the second problem, click here.
First up: a review of Spider-Man 2, written by yours truly. Hell yeah! Not to be outdone, I've also got a review of Harry Potter 3 written by PinkFluffyBunny.
The bulk of this update, however, has been to the Joke Archive. No new jokes, sorry, but I've made a couple big changes. The first, and most noticeable, is the fact that I've shifted the huge, long list of jokes into three columns, with the categories being listed in four columns. The second, almost equally noticeable change, is the fact that I rated each and every unorganized joke on the main listing page. That was a pain. Since it took so much time, I didn't get around to doing the jokes in the various categories in the Archive, but I do have a long trip coming up, so I can do it then (if everyone thinks the rating is a good idea; if not, I won't).