Well after 114 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes, the web server is going to go down in order to make the return trip home…
I will be buying a domain name and some hosting to put the blog and photos up… probably either blogbase10.com or jasonemerick.com or something like that…
Well gotta go finish packing up…
–Jason
My Honda Civic is #9 on the list of most fuel efficent cars… Which is definately a big plus considering the way gas prices are nowadays…
http://money.cnn.edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10/108467/article.html
Oh and i forgot to mention that i now finally have keyless unlocking capabilities… I am still getting used to having the remote to unlock the doors vs using the key to lock and unlock… Much much nicer and easier on the paint around the keyhole…
Just wanted to point out my fuel efficent car…
–Jason
Yes, yes i know it has been awhile since i have blogged, but last week was extremely busy… 3 tests, 2 homeworks, lab in a box which took forever… so needless to say i didnt get much else done besides school work…
I got a new car… 
Its a 2006 Civic Coupe LX and it is awesome… i love it… the 2 tier dash display is awesome, aux input jack, mp3/wma CD player, good quality sound system, 30/40 MPG (got 40.4 mpg on the trip from NN to BB, havent caclulated actual city mpg yet).. Its an awesome ride, feels very futuristic which i like… when your riding it feels like your in a cockpit of jet just crusing down the road…
You can see some pictures of it here…
In other news, spring 2006 semester is almost done with… only 3 more days, 2 projects and 4 exams to go until i am outta here… Then its back home for the summer…
I was offered a job with northrop grumman as a summer intern in a department with Walter, which i accepted… Should be a very interesting job… hopefully quite fun and interesting… Ill be going home this 3rd for a drug test and physical for the job…
In addition to working at northrop grumman during the day, ill also be working BGW/WCUSA IT on the weekends and maybe some nights… Most likely ill be working WCUSA on the weekends which is really slack and easy… So ill have a lil extra spending money for my computer spending habits… im thinking a 500gb file server with RAID 5, mini PC for my beyond TV link to hook up to the TV, and a 20in LCD display for dual screening purposes with the laptop and KVM with the server rack maybe… The file server and LCD are at the top of the list… the 20 in LCD from dell i am looking at is around 380$ while the file server has an unknown price tag at this time(havent really planned out what is going to go in it…)…
On May 10th the server is going to go down… I am relocating the physical server back home to become a web/mysql developement server… I am then going to buy a real domain name and some hosting (most likely jasonemerick.com through godaddy.com)… so the site may be down for about a month while i migrate everything over to the new server and what not…
Well that is all i can think of right now… going to get back to watching TV and working on this project a lil more… Cache is so much fun!
–Jason
Here is a cool ad. It takes a manhole cover that leaks some steam and turn it into a hot steaming cup of coffee.
http://www.therawfeed.com/2006/04/nyc-manholes-turned-into-coffee-for.html
Pretty cool…
–Jason
Found this cool package tracking site awhile back and finally got to use it to track my new hockey bag i got… it is pretty sweet…
You input your package id and it creates a google map with the path of your package as well as an RSS feed… The best part is the RSS feed as i check them quite frequently and it makes it easy to track the package…
It works with UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL/AirBorne so give it a try next time you buy something online and want to track it…
–Jason
Comments(1) I have updated the MMS RSS feed to handle videos now so you just wont see a garbled mess of characters which is the video…
–Jason
Changed the formating of the date and time on the pictures to make it more user friendly (ie i just learned how to convert a MySQL datetime format to a readable format…)
Check it out, let me know if there is a better format that you would like or what not…
–Jason
I have been working a little bit on the new MMS site for a few days on and off… and i have got a rough layout and features…
You can view the site here: http://blogbase10.no-ip.org/mms/mmsdev/
Here are some features:
PHPthumb really helped the load time as the file sizes on the index page are knocked down to like 5kb instead of 128kb…
Other than working on the MMS site, i haven’t really done much besides hockey and homework/class…
Going home the weekend of the 22nd for BGW orientation… That should be fun…
Well i am going to go find some dinner…
–Jason
Just ran an apache benchmark on my MMS server codes and good news!
The new implementation is WAY faster than the old…
Here are the two links i am comparing… both show the last 5 pictures…
http://blogbase10.no-ip.org/mms/latest.php
http://blogbase10.no-ip.org/mms/mmsdev/last5.php
The old site:
The new site:
Performance was the one think i was worried about when switching over to the MySQL database, but my fears have all been eliminated and it appears that MySQL is the way to go…
Ok now i really have to finish this circuits homework, later…
–Jason
I have created a very crude proof of concept kinda for my MMS server re-coding…
Its just a simple script that displays the last 5 images sent from my mobile phone… When you click on an image, a javascript effect will take place, enlarging the image without refreshing the browser window… You can then either click close, or hover near the top right and click the next to go to the next image or hover near the top left for previous if available…
Let me know if you have any questions and what not and what you think of the effect…
The next step will be to add more to it, including a layout as well as more pictures… so look for more mobile pictures being sent on both the new site and old one…
now i must go finish this circuits homework…
–Jason
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