I logged into Dreahost today to register thewlbl.com through them for hosting (my current host is about to expire). So, while I was in there I started playing in the account settings page. I went to the page that shows me how much my billing cycles are because I was curious what it would cost me next year. I changed the term from 1 year to 2 years because they said I would get 20% off. After changing it, it billed me $140, so I changed it back. It now says I owe them $70 (even though I’m paid in full). I’ve sent them an email and I am waiting for their response.
Wish me good luck,
Daniel Slaughter
December 3rd, 2006
I added the Projects and About page to the navigation up-top. The Projects page contains links to downloadable scripts I have written. The About page contains a resume view of my accomplishments.
Hope bits and pieces of that helps,
Daniel Slaughter
December 3rd, 2006
It was bothering me that myHeritage said my facial characteristics looked like that of a woman. So, I found a more recent picture that didn’t look so much like a baby face and gave it a shot. The results for this came back as higher percentages than the last post. My number one pick is Matt Damon (75%), followed by Christie Brinkley (75%), Missi Pyle (71%), Anna Paquin (70%), Fred Savage (70%), Laetitia Casta (70%), Jamie Bell (70%), and Mariah Carey (70%).
At least this time around it says I resemble 3 guys at higher percentages.
Daniel Slaughter
December 3rd, 2006
Eric, Dave and Ben were uploading images to a website called myHeritage to discover what actors they most resembled. I did not have an available (good) picture of myself on Friday, so I waited until I got home. To my dismay, myHeritage determined that I most resembled Julia Roberts (62%), Lauren Bacall (56%), Susan Saradon (53%), Magic Johnson (52%), and Sophia Loren (51%). There is no way I could resemble Magic Johnson, and Dave can account for that one. Now, I know I’m a little hottie, but I wasn’t aware that my facial features were best portrayed in those of females. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad.
I’m beautiful, and now I can prove it,
Daniel Slaughter
December 2nd, 2006
The other day I was trying to find a new @gmail.com email account. I’m sick and tired of explaining to people what “wmasterme” means: everyone is a little pervert! In my search for a new name I found that daniel.slaughter, dan.slaughter, danielslaughter, d.slaughter, dslaughter, and of course slaughter was unavailable. I was appalled at my findings and discouraged that I was no longer a unique individual. So, I thought to myself, what if danielslaughter.com was taken? I quickly whois-ed the site, noticing it wasn’t registered I took it into my arms.
And then I was thinking about creating a wiki-like site where users could post comments on the pages I created. But… why? Why not just use this fantastic, already created, little application called WordPress? I had never installed it before so I set out to do so.
WordPress’ website proposed it would take me 5 minutes to install it on my server. I assumed not, but went ahead with it anyways. The following are the steps and encounters I had when installing WordPress:
1. Download and unzip the WordPress package:
This step wasn’t too bad, I’m on dialup and the files are compressed, so this 622KB file took about two minutes.
2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server with a MySQL user:
Again, an easy step… I had previously today done this for one of my classes to host a PDA Bank Application, so I knew exactly where to go in my host’s admin. This step took another two minutes.
3. Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php:
I think that took less time than writing out this sentence.
4. Open wp-config.php and fill in your database details:
Less than 30 seconds to complete this step. Good, so we’re maybe 4.5 minutes into this 5 minute process.
5. Upload wordpress to your web server:
Uh oh… Let’s just say dialup sucks. I dragged and dropped the files onto my web server, brushed my teeth, went pee, and still had time to watch the 8 minute file transfer complete. We have obviously now exceeded our 5 minutes by 7.5 minutes.
6. Run the WordPress installation script on your server.
Two steps, and I pretty much just hit next, this took maybe 30 seconds if I wasn’t picky.
And we’re done! As you can see, if I was not on dialup WordPress would not have taken 12 minutes to install. Perhaps WordPress should have a disclaimer that their proposed speeds are based on your internet connection. Oh well, 12 minutes isn’t bad.
Until next time,
Daniel Slaughter
December 1st, 2006
