It’s pretty late… 1:34 AM There is a bug within Flex 3 that wont allow me to auto scroll the list that is displaying all of the chats but other than that the thing seems to be working pretty well. There is still a ton of work left to be done, but it will currently log you in to the desired sub domain, you can pick a room and chat away. It currently has to have its date hard coded because of some inconsistencies with the way I get the date and the way campfire does the date, so after I get that worked out hopefully I will be able to put it up for download. Here is a screenshot of it for now.
Yup thats right I’m continuing to work on the campfire chat client, which I’m going to call “Campsite.” Thanks to Cade (Vorak) for that one. It’s going a bit slower than I anticipated, mostly because parsing through a bunch of HTML to find the necessary chats everyone has typed is harder than I would have guessed. I started by using Regular Expressions, and realized that turning the HTML into an XML Object is a far simpler approach. Hopefully I will be able to finish that tonight. I was planning on releasing a simple Beta of the application tonight, but there is no way that is going to happen. Well more wine, music, and typing….. Oh yeah, I’m going to start up another blog for tech things so these types of posts wont end up in here where most people probably don’t care to read them anyway. More later…
Yeah so today I went to the dentist at 3:30 to get 4 fillings. Most people would say “wow, that sucks!”, but no it really didn’t. I got four fillings in 35 minutes and shelled out $250.00 to do it. The money part sucked but my teeth feel nice and new. They even did white fillings, and I can’t even tell where the fillings are. I can’t even feel them! So, my recommendation is: go to a good dentist. It might cost some extra money, but I cannot complain about the results. It was my best dentist experience ever.
So we just saw the Simpson’s movie and also watched I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Both were really good. The Simpson’s movie was awesome though. It was one of my favorites this year.
Alright this movie is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is the best comedy i have seen all year.
Favorite Quotes:
“You’re a doctor, deal with it! Yeah mother fucker! ”
“Want anything from the shop?”
“YARGHHHH!”
“He’s in the freezer.” “Did you say cool off?” “No!” “It’s a shame…”
“You’re off the fucking chain!”
“Nice one Dorris!” “Nothing like a little bit girl on girl!” “Hahahahah!”
“I’ll drive!” “Shotgun!” “Punch that shit!”
“Stay back, or the ginger nut gets it!”
“I feel like I should say something smart.” “You don’t have to say anthing at all.”
“Bring the noise!”
So today was a fun ride to work. I was sitting at a stoplight next to a Porsche GT3 and all of the sudden the light turned green and he took off, so I was like “ok, I’ll play” and I just nailed it. I have no clue how fast but it felt like the front tire was lifting off the ground so I let off a bit. It must have been over 100 mph, but I never looked down to check. And then of course after I slow down he just goes flying by. Overall it was a great ride to work and an excellent way to start the day.
So tonight has been quite the little experiment. The fact that Websense is an issue for my friend Cade where he works peaked my interests. And I was all like oh ok, well how about I will built you an AIR application using FLEX 3 that will allow you to poll for the updates in the Campfire manually, so that there are not so many requests going out every 2 seconds. Well unfortunately I have not gotten to the point that the requests run through a sort of “proxy” on jordanrounds.com or anything like that but I have successfully logged into campfire with my login credentials and also posted comments. I just thought it was pretty awesome that I was able to get that far in just one night. More later when I have something working and available for download.
Archy has now been nicely buried in our garden. Sad day….
We got the call a bit ago that Archy didn’t make it. This totally sucks. He was one cool little dude. If you want to check out what Archy looked like he is right here in the third row down. (2 middle pictures)
Archy our Veiled Chameleon was taken to the animal hospital today. This morning when I woke up I discovered him on the bottom of his cage pretty much barely alive. I thought he was dead, but when I moved his vine he started to move around a tiny bit and opened his eyes. We called around for about 20 minutes and found a place where we could take him at 9 AM, and he is currently there. They tried to hydrate him, but they said he wasn’t responding well and told us they would try to get him warmed up and a bit more responsive before they would try anything else. The major thing he is going to go through is getting some blood drawn. We are still waiting for the call. More later…
