LadyCrimson

I think I figured it out. One of your custom thumbnails was a link to another site page - I deleted it, and the lag has gone away...at least it seems so for now. Now I just need to fix all the little things that were reverted/changed when I upgraded the program.

I did consider the possibility that there's something about the sound files you loaded up that were causing the lag (title names or whatever), and I deleted the duplicated uploads from your laggy session (heh) but far as I can tell, there's no problem w/the files. It is a little odd that the lag appeared the day you were uploading tho. I might try deleting your uploads and seeing what happens, but I really don't think that's the problem.

even if the 'net BW did not keep up with demand there would never be "busy" signals. it doesn't work that way. Yeah, I'm aware of that. Hence the quotation marks around 'busy signals.' I still use old world references to give emotional reaction examples. As far as I'm concerned, if you currently have a fast speed connection and it takes more than 30 seconds to load a page, the server is too busy or there's too many unnecessary or badly written ad/whatever scripts causing the delay, hence I hang up (leave the page) and try again later or never go back.

"We're sorry...the internet is currently busy, please try again." ... y'know, none of this would likely be a concern if people had stuck to text and tiny static images. And no, I'm not saying we should have. I dunno...I'm sure they'll solve the potential problems of the growing bandwidth usage, one way or another, before we all start getting 'busy signals' so often it'd impede our general ability to communicate/entertain over the 'net. I'd guess the implication was that the internet is one of the biggest tools to spread the word/educate about the problem areas of our society/environment etc.

I ate an avocado from the huge tree in our backyard. I've been eating a lot of them since we moved here. It's amazing how much better they are when they ripen on the tree instead of being picked green and ripening in the store.

I was reading The Princess Bride last night. I'd forgotten how different it is from the movie. It's funny, but the movie is still better.

I'm in the middle of watching the 3rd season DVD set of CSI:NY. I don't know - I kinda like it, but it's missing whatever it is that made/makes CSI:LV so cool.

I like the disguise one.

This morning ... nothing. And it was glorious.

When someone recently wanted to use the OEgallery to load a few things, I noticed it's now taking forever to load pages most of the time. I haven't checked it in a good while, and I have no idea why it's behaving that way. Nothing else on my webserver has the same symptoms. I tried upgrading the program (meaning there might be some appearance mis-matches here and there until I re-do everything upgrading reverted) and other stuff but it's still doing it. Anyway, just wanted to say I'm aware of it. But since I don't think anyone here considers this a priority these days it'll either stay glacially slow-loading until it either "fixes itself" or I muster up the energy to install a better gallery ... with the former being a tad more likely ....

Less gravity to deal with on fantasy planets, y'know. How else to explain giant 2 ton+ dragons flying through the air on those puny little wings.

*Buys hanging folder frames to fit into mum's old file cabinets* Instructions: "If they're too long, use a pair of pliers to snap off excess at the scored points in the bar." *gets pliers* *grunt, urrrgh, twist, owww my wrist/fingers, curse* "Oh honey, dear...."

There Will Be Blood: Ahhh....a strange movie. On the one hand, half the movie seems to about literally watching a bunch of dirty men drilling for oil. Watch the drill go up and down, up and down .... on the other hand, there were the great performances of Day Lewis and the guy playing the young preacher. But some supporting characters came and went with nary a word, and it felt disjointed in places. Basically a very slow character study and nothing more. However, the final line in the movie (from Lewis) had me rolling on the floor. It was perfect. No Country For Old Men: The first hour and 20 minutes or so, I was thinking "Fantastic! Brilliant! Cohen brothers strike again!" The last 40 minutes started a slow slide down to strangely uninteresting, and again, felt kinda disjointed and off-kilter, compared to the first half/first 3/4. So mixed feelings. But that first half was so awesome, I can forgive the somewhat disappointing 2nd part.

Fixed?

1. -- the only decent Aliens type smilie I've ever found 2. -- it's just cute 3. -- extra happy in a non-w00t way 4. -- for the exercise enthusiasts I've always loved that one too - so I suggest it too.

I use HyperCam when I want just a bitty clip of some net video. It's a desktop-recorder - I define/outline which pixel area of the desktop to record (just the YouTube window vs. the whole browser page/desktop, say) and let it do it's thing. If you use the right settings, it comes out looking just about as good as it does viewing it in the YouTube window. The program isn't really designed for this purpose, and anything longer than a minute or so and it starts to eat up too much memory etc. (on my computer anyway) and traditional methods of gaining the entire video would be better, anyway. But it saves your short recording as a basic avi instead of whatever format the video on the site is, which is easily editable/convertible in most any editor I've ever tried. Downside is you have to buy it if you don't want the watermark logo, ala Fraps. ...disclaimer: that's what I do if I want a tiny very specific fragment in my own internet or home videos, but such is probably different than your presentation application (?), so I'm not actually sure if it'd work/is applicable, in terms of the format converting stuff and all...

I walked to the nearby gas station to buy beef jerky today. Hey, I walked very fast. More seriously - I've been riding the exercise bike an hour a day, 30 min. twice a day, since so far it's the only thing that keeps the weird spongy-weak-knee thing from being a constant pain. It's odd how walking or weights doesn't help that problem at all. Doing the light weights/exercises for the back/upper body strength, hand exercises for the finger/wrist joints. Since I got "serious" about doing all of that consistently, it's improved my physical health/pain/abilities a lot, after so many back/knee/joint issues blah blah. I've lost a few pounds I guess, but since I haven't really altered calorie intake, that's about it. Losing that 15 or so pounds that I constantly struggle up and down with is not my specific goal anyway...the joint mobility/flexibility stuff is. Bottom line: After six months, I'm finally starting to feel like my joints/tendons/spine aren't 200 years old. Which is a good thing. :D

Today: Drove to our old house to check mail (which, we were told, was piling up) only to find...there was none. Wasted trip. At least it shouldn't have to be repeated, since the forwarding is in effect now. A couple days ago: So many birds here, I bought bird seed and food/water dishes and set it in the middle of the lawn. Then I spent half the afternoon sitting behind our blinds, taking pictures of the birds, and the squirrels who came to eat all the sunflower seeds out of the birdseed mix. That was fun.

Since all these games on my list are essentially equal to my heart, my list order is based on general number of hours spent playing. If I actually looked at all my game boxes, I might alter the list a bit, but eh...off the top of my head... Dungeon Keeper 1 --- (still play semi-regularly) Caesar 3 --- (still play semi-regularly) Diablo 1/2 --- (once in a very great while) Baldurs Gate 1 --- (not in years) Might & Magic 7 --- (not in years) Kotor2 --- (still installed, waiting for that mod...) Overlord --- (not in a while, still need to get expansion) Lords of the Realm II --- (not for a few years) Majesty --- (not for a couple years) Honorable mentions: Stronghold 1 --- (now and then) Tombraider 1 --- (not in several years) Summoner --- (once in a great while) Snake Rattle N Roll --- (once in a great great great while, since we still have the NES)

I used to buy that magazine/still have some in storage. I miss the days when magazines were awesome. They just keep getting smaller and thinner and less awesome ... on-line mags just aren't the same.

I've been surprised how close we can sit to the 50" and still think it looks fine, actually. Although I'm not sure what our eyeballs might actually think ... And today I did some yard work and bird-photographing.

I really like Panasonic plasmas, but the Samsungs we looked at seemed fairly decent too. All I can say is that once we became used to the 50", which didn't take long, we started thinking "glad we didn't buy the 42"." So I'm gonna have to vote for the 50" over the 42" if you have the space and the money. Especially if you're really into watching DVD movies/shows or HD programming etc. ... or when programs wants to put black bars both on the sides and on the top/bottom. Argh. The one advantage of 42" is that it's going to be a little more tolerant of poorer image quality (old video tape collections, poor TV signals etc) in terms of you being able to watch such from a closer distance without going "UGH".

Ohhhh, that nook. Well, it's a smallish house, and a lot of the older houses like this one don't have fireplaces that are flush with the wall - not uncommon. The other side of the fireplace is in the garage, which I also think is a bit odd. The living area is an open front/living/dining area in the shape of a stubby, backwards L, so the front door opens right into the living room, by that big window, if that makes sense. Some of the houses we looked at were really crazy floor plan wise, so I feel your pain. But the lot has room to expand so we might change things around later. My bitterness comes from how even small houses like this one cost $550K-$700K....

Don't like those pollutin' fireplaces eh? We don't use them very often, but once in a while it's nice. Tho now that we have wall heaters we can stand in front of, we'll probably use the fireplace even less often. I love gas wall heaters...they don't make me sneeze.

The area you're supposed to use as a living room is so much smaller, it was hard to find a spot for the cat's sleeping basket that he liked. We finally found a spot, but in the winter, he's gonna have to move. :D