Weekend Update
I finally ordered all the parts I need to repair my computer. I got a nice deal on a Antec 650W power supply at CompUSA's going out of business sale. I also got a new case that Brian had suggested, a motherboard and a new hard drive. The hard drive wasn't really NEEDED, but it will be nice to have. My dead Seagate is covered under warranty, but I want to try and recover the data off of that drive on to a new one. Then I can ship the damaged drive back for replacement. If I go ahead a stick all my SATA drives into this new box, I will have a total of 2TB of storage. I'll probably actually do this as the motherboard has eight SATA connectors and the case has five drive bays. Since I have two 160GB drives that are currently in RAID0 setup, I think I will convert them to a RAID1 so I have some reliable storage space.
In other news, spent the weekend assisting in the production of a short film for the 48/5 competition for the East Lansing Film Festival. This competition involved creating a five minute short movie over a 48 hour period. There was a long long night of writing Friday night, filming all day Saturday and editing that started Saturday night and went through early Sunday. It was completed ahead of schedule today. I'd have to say I'm fairly impressed by how it turned out. I didn't end up being as involved with this project as I have in some prior film stuff I had done, but I did get to play as an extra in one scene.
Finally, I made some further decisions on how I am going to proceed with the future of this website. I was planning to do a full rewrite and had Jan 1, 2009 set as my goal release date for that. After thinking it over, I think I am going to put that on the backburner and further work on the current code. This includes adding more features that I have been wanting, plus rewriting things in their current place. This actually worked really well with my comment system rewrite. Also, about the comments, currently you need to login to my site to post them; this will not be the case in the very near future. I've always wanted the comments to be completely open to anyone, but this of course opens the door to spam. I was using Movable Types built in comment support for the longest time, but now I am running off of my own code. I didn't have everything in place to prevent spammers from posting so I had removed the option for open posting, but I now thought of a simple idea that I will setup soon.
In other news, spent the weekend assisting in the production of a short film for the 48/5 competition for the East Lansing Film Festival. This competition involved creating a five minute short movie over a 48 hour period. There was a long long night of writing Friday night, filming all day Saturday and editing that started Saturday night and went through early Sunday. It was completed ahead of schedule today. I'd have to say I'm fairly impressed by how it turned out. I didn't end up being as involved with this project as I have in some prior film stuff I had done, but I did get to play as an extra in one scene.
Finally, I made some further decisions on how I am going to proceed with the future of this website. I was planning to do a full rewrite and had Jan 1, 2009 set as my goal release date for that. After thinking it over, I think I am going to put that on the backburner and further work on the current code. This includes adding more features that I have been wanting, plus rewriting things in their current place. This actually worked really well with my comment system rewrite. Also, about the comments, currently you need to login to my site to post them; this will not be the case in the very near future. I've always wanted the comments to be completely open to anyone, but this of course opens the door to spam. I was using Movable Types built in comment support for the longest time, but now I am running off of my own code. I didn't have everything in place to prevent spammers from posting so I had removed the option for open posting, but I now thought of a simple idea that I will setup soon.