Who Is the Man With the Name that Rhymes?

After a crazy week, this one started out with many changes for the future. I've handed the keys to the latest DVD project over to Ted. As much as I would like to spent time on finishing it, I just don't have the time right now; he does. I'm willing to help on the project, I just don't have the energy or the will right now to take the lead on it. Good portions of the project are finished: the main features, some subtitles, and some extra footage. I think Ted's talented enough to start where I've stopped and learn the tools.

I decided to get out of the game today. Well, mostly, I sold off everything I owned with the exception of 5 shares of NTDOY. Not that I don't want to own NTDOY right now, the company is doing great. The problem is the market's turn to shit thanks to idiots who lent out money for houses that others couldn't payback. Now everyone's freaking out which doesn't help anything. I do think things are going to be fine, but just in case I'm deciding to play it safe. After seeing the 150% return on investment within a year I decided keeping as much as I have out there might be a little greedy; a 150% in a year is nothing to scoff at. Also, it will be one less thing to worry about right now. If thing keep going up, well I didn't make more money than I could have. Oh no.

Here I am, running on no sleep at 5 a.m. I couldn't get any sleep tonight so I might end up just staying up through it all. Tomorrow, is bound to be hell at the current rate. I guess I'll make by. It was on my planned list to do for the site, but it looks like I had some free time today. I was planning on creating a Drupal module that allowed you to edit the CSS file currently being used by your Drupal theme.

So here's the 1.0 release of the Drupal hotkey module that I've been working on. This new release uses accesskeys in lieu of javascript. The first version didn't work on any other browsers other than firefox. This version inserts the accesskey attribute into form button (or other types of widgets). This is closer to what I wanted as its exactly how the Wikipedia implements its shortcut keys as well. Its limitations lie in how browsers implement accesskeys (i.e. no one standard, each browser requires a different combination of special keys to use it) and that it only modifies drupal forms that have have the id attribute (sorta). Despite these limitations, it does what I want it do, make shortcuts for submitting forms.

This year has been very productive for me. However, I'm in a slump, or so it feels. I can't really point to one thing that's troubling me. Given time to think about it, I guess the most troubling thing for me is the lack of time I have. I increasingly feel like I have less and less time to do everything I'd like to do. Just as an example, I frequently sleep around 6 hours a day. Often this gets balanced out after the weekend, but my time sleeping has definitely shifted to smaller amounts. Sleep has suffered at the expensive of accomplishing other tasks.

Here's the 1.0 release of the AJAX session module I had been working on. I've trimmed it down a bit. I removed its admin panel page since it will only be used in conjunction with another bit of PHP code. I'll leave it to whatever code that implements AJAX session to set safe variables. I also had to make some changes put in by drupal 5.2. I've also added the ability to set variables to be restored across authenticated users sessions.

So Brandenburg is in Korea. It's kinda of surprising really. Not so much that he did it, but that he did it so quickly. I recently got a hold of the guy a month or so ago after not hearing from since Christmas. Turns out that his car breaking down was just the start of shit to come. After that the IT job he had went sour and he was out of an income. No income & no car = even tougher time to get an income. After being tired of his job opportunities, he decided to teach English in Korea (all you need is a degree, a willingness to teach, and a native tongue). He mentioned thinking about doing this at the beginning of July. I heard from this week. Turns out he's already there.

I was over at NABC the other day. I had to pickup my check and after a long day I needed to relax with a beer. On the way there, I didn't know if I was going to be able to stay awake for it. The last few weeks I'd been running on about 5-6 hours of sleep a day and it was catching up to me. I persevered through it however. When I got there, Tony Beard was there drinking a Bell's Double Cream Stout. I decided to join him and talk about the latest going ons.

The site is near completed. All the old content is over. You can create accounts (with added bonus features!). All the modules work. Everything is as it's suppose to be. The only thing that remains to be implemented is stuff involving the media section and SBB content. Other than that, I will have finished with the new version of Who Is. After that, it will be a long time before I create another version of the website. All the work on this site, and the numerous other sites I've been working on, has burnt me out on web design. Not that I'm not enjoying myself, but just having to do so much gets to me.

There's still much left to do on the site before its finish. However I've gotten a lot accomplished. The biggest thing is porting over all the old content. The most time consuming part isn't the act of doing it (keyboard typing and mouse clicks) so much as it laying out the design in my head. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to things like. One big thing I'm planning is expanding out the SBB section for those people who come here via sbb.org. I didn't think the site was still popular after about 3 years since the last SBB event, but looking at my site statistics says other wise. After I port over the old content I'll expand out SBB content just to satisfy those other viewers.