Daniel Slaughter

My girlfriend’s, Martha’s, parents bought me a racing jersey along with gift cards to various places (Meijer’s Gas Station, Rivertown Crossings, Movie Theatres). This racing jersey is pretty nice. I was not expecting them to spend that much on me. I had assumed they bought me clothing because it was wrapped in one of those boxes you would get with clothing in it. Here are a couple pictures, taken with my LG VX8600, that show me in my gear:

Ain’t I fancy?

Martha’s Sister got us a gift certificate to Applebees, and her mom bought her a gift certificate to the Comedy Den. I suppose dinner and entertainment is on them this year! =)

I bought Martha a Rubiks cube because she had mentioned she wanted one a while back. It was one of those random presents you get someone because you don’t expect them to guess it. Anyways, at Martha’s Christmas party they were having the pass around game where you each select or steal a present from someone else. The present I managed to get contained another Rubiks cube!!! Which is sweet, because I stole Martha’s and wouldn’t give it back.

From my parents I got assorted clothes and a Ronco Dehydrator. This dehydrator will come in handy for making delicious dehydrated fruits and assorted jerky products. I have yet to use it, but I will let you know when I do.

I think that’s pretty much it for now. I have two more Christmas parties to go to this week, so I’m sure I’ll have more to report when those are done.

-Daniel Slaughter

I went to The Verve Pipe concert at the Intersection Saturday night. It was pretty sweet. Here are some pictures of the concert I took with my LG VX8600:

I have a movie that’s in my cell-phone’s .3g2 format. I’ll find a converter and then post it for you to see in the future. It is 45 seconds of The Verve Pipe’s “Colors.”

Until Next Time,
Daniel Slaughter

Today, just for fun, I searched Google.com for the term “Daniel Slaughter” and found my site first in the 1,210,000 results returned.

Oh what a beautiful Christmas present!

The one (literally),
-Daniel Slaughter

I would just like to say: Merry Christmas to everyone!

Website Updates:
I’ve posted a new version of Switch Board on the Projects Page. I’ve so far developed two version in the last few days. The first one was a re-write of the Classic Switch Board using a .htaccess file to route pages through one file for security and url display purposes (2.0.0). The second version adds additional authentication features to limit users who are not logged in based on a session variable from viewing internal pages.

I purchased a Linksys-Cisco WRT54GL from amazon.com. This router is pretty good, it has excellent options and good output distance. I needed to go from the house to the shop (~100 feet). The signal does a good job going through two foundation walls and through the outdoors.

This gives a Low-Good signal on my laptop, however, it does not work well with the network cards I purchased. In the shop it was getting No Signal to Very-Low. To the computers in my room, I get a Low-Good, ~75% Signal Strength, ~%90 Link Quality (so there is no problem there). There must be some interference or something near/in the shop.

I was at the mall today and went into radio shack just to check out if they had any cheap name brand (Linksys) cards that might get a better signal. They had a USB connector with a -$40 instant rebate for $20! So I purchased it, installed it, and the shop is now getting Low-Good signal.

Now all I need is to call Charter, w00t,
Daniel Slaughter

Why is it…
written but not writting?
command, comma, commend, but not comme?

Click here to view that webcam screen-shot

At the beginning of the school year I had to create a VXML script that allowed people to communicate over a phone with a “pretend” operator. [Prototype1]

This time around we had to make it into a webpage (we could have used other languages, but html was my option of choice). He showed us an example of what he wanted, so I pretty much made that (it’s ugly). Mine is written in HTML and JavaScript. I used PHP to display the content posted to the confirmation page, I’m sure I could do that with JavaScript if I looked hard enough, but I’d rather it just work. [Prototype2]

I added my first attempt at Application PHP to the Projects page. Give me feedback if you think it’s the sweetest thing ever. I plan on adding additional features over christmas break.

You know that feeling you get when you get to the end of a deodorant stick, and the plastic pieces slice small scrapes into your armpits?

Well, I just experienced that with chap-stick.

And this picture really has nothing to do with it, other than I think it’s funny.