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If you don’t see an option for “IST House” then you didn’t meet the criteria to be asked to return. Sorry!

Forgot to post what few pictures I took. Alas, my phone was the only camera I had.

Dad with a Belly Dancer:

Rainbow I saw on the road:

After that my phone died, so I have nothing else. Whoops!

After my French exam on Thursday, I made a bee-line to Long Island, driving the entire 5 hours in one sitting, just to get there in time to have dinner with Cat. It’s a real pain having a girlfriend that I can only see once or twice every few months, but it’s worth it.

It was nice to be home, with my constant 2 MB/s pipe, free food, and a more private bathroom, but it was still cold as hell. dad apparently has a phobia about turning up the heat.

The most entertaining thing happened on the Friday I was home. I was with Chris and Steven, and we had the sudden craving to play Lord of the Rings Risk. I know, we’re odd. Anyway, we search every toystore we come across for hours, eventually winding up at the Barnes & Noble near the cinema and KB Toys on Central Ave, and in their board game section, we spotted a copy of Settlers of Catan. We argue about whether or not to buy it, then agree to split it 3 ways and take it home.

The next 2 rounds of settlers were the only ones I know of where the players were doing cost/benefit analases of the commodities, and where economics class came screaming to life through Steven’s mind. It was a bit freaky.

Speaking of the Anticans, I’ve also gotten back into the habit of ckecking up on Shireroth. I might get back into that little known hobby I was big in after all.

Anyway, I got back Sunday around 4, and now on Tuesday I’m sick as a dog. And the big meeting for the IST House is tonight.

If you’re reading this, that means that your DNS servers finally updated and are forwarding you to the right address.

It all started last week, when the hosting provider I’ve had for years, FusionXHost, a hosting company where I was on a first-name basis with the president, decided to dump us “lower level” shared hosting people in favor of the dedicated server crew. Which I understand, because Ryan can make a ton more money without having to worry about us all the time. And I wouldn’t have minded, if he had let me know a little more in advance.

So Friday night rolls around and my site is offline. Domains point to some random-ass, fly-by-night hosting place, data moved but databases screwed to hell and back, and sucky support. And so I promptly jump ship.

I’ve spent the weekend trying to find another hosting company, and I briefly toyed with the idea of just hosting the damned site myself, but I finally settled on that sweet 50% off, $50 off deal with Dreamhost that SomethingAwful forum members get.

And so, Tuesday night, at 10:13 PM, a full 5 days later, everything is finally in some semblance of order. Plus, I might be able to host that HTTP tunnel after all.

It took me over two months to find one missing comma.

BuildMyRig.com has, for the last two months, had a bug in the backend that kep the motherboard table from being updated. And I just figured it out. Check this out:

$query = "UPDATE mobo SET name = '".$name."', fsb = ".$fsb."ramtype = '".$ramtype."', description = '".$description."', price = ".$price.", socket = '".$socket."', newegg = '".$newegg."', image = '".$image."' WHERE id=".$num;

See anything wrong with that statement? That’s right, it’s missing a comma. One damned comma. It took me two months of debugging, re-jiggering, even changing from? URL based input to POST data, and all that time I was just missing a comma.

This breakthrough has finally gotten me interested enough again to start the recode of the entire process to make it actually aesthetically pleasing, something that? my programs and apps don’t usually do very well. We’ll have to wait and see how it turns out.

Anyway, I write to remind everyone that BuildMyRig.com is still up and running, and if you’re thinking about buying a new computer, please use it.