Rather than making a couple short posts I’ve been meaning to make, here there are crammed into one post.

• Web Developers: When backing up your computer before formatting, don’t forget to backup your MySQL tables too. Don’t be an idiot like me and loose a lot of your work. Thankfully I remembered to backup all my PHP code and I don’t think there was too much of utter importance in my database, but still, what a flippin’ pain in the ass.
• My New Computer: is awesome. It can play any current game on max settings, including Crysis. I love it and you can see the specs right here.
• Happy New Year: Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, etc. Yeah, I’m lazy and put this off. heh

I’m addicted and this blog is dead now as a result, lol. If I’m not doing paid work, I’m most likely playing it.

I’ll try and set aside some time to get plugins updated, but damn that game is fun. :(

Last night, I signed up for Google to handle my e-mail as well as let me sign into Google Talk with my domain name. It’s all thanks to the incredibly cool (but not really new) Google Apps for Your Domain. I only get 2 gigs of space (rather than the ever increasing space of regular GMail), but I get their awesome spam protection, GMail interface (with my own logo), threaded replies, catchall support, etc. Not to mention that I can have up to 100 e-mail addresses, so if my normal one ever actually gets full, I can just make a new one and forward everything to it.

Way cool.

Heh, we just had a 2.6 earthquake here, right in downtown Portland (literally). Whole house moved up and down. :)

A lot of people think that the “Viper007Bond@GMail.com” to the right is my e-mail address and have been using it to contact me. Well let me set you all straight — I don’t and never have used GMail for my e-mail, so please stop e-mailing me via that. ;)

I did set it up to forward to my real e-mail address, but it’s still somewhat annoying when use it. Please just use my contact form that’s linked to at the top of this page. It’s there for a reason, folks. :)

I finally got the next rank in Battlefield 2. Yay! :)

Yep, that’s right, I was born exactly 22 years ago this minute! :)

Yeah, so on Sunday it hit 100F (38C) here and then on Monday (yesterday), it hit 102F (39C). That’s the hottest day in June that we’ve EVER had. Ugh!

And yeah, yeah, I know, in Arizona, Texas, etc., temperatures like that are pretty common. But around here, that’s damn hot! I mean, during July and August, the average high is around 80F (27C) according to Wikipedia.

Thank goodness it’s “only” going to be 88F (31C) tomorrow, but that’s not much to look forward to as here at 2:30AM, it’s still 75F (24C). :(

As many of you may know, I hate today (April Fool’s Day) with a passion. It’s not because I don’t find it funny sometimes, it’s because I’m just too damn gullible and always forget what day today is. Then I start thinking it’s true and it takes me forever to realize.

Anyway, here’s a couple good ones I’ve run across today. I’ll update the list as I find more and feel free to point out any good ones you’ve found via the comments of this post. ;)

• WordPattern — WordPress merging with TextPattern
• Google Romance — a funny new spoof from Google (and damn that chick’s hot!)

Got back into town this evening. Please give me a bit to catch up on e-mails, forum posts, etc. ;)