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Nice day today. At work there was not much that I had to get done so I was able to make real progress on writing the user system for this blog. All that is left to do is implement the email functions and be able to set a cookie so my users will not have to login every the time to post.

I've got it so that users can change their options, including passwords, edit and delete their posts. I just hope that I will be abel to change my blog from this one to the modified one without much problems. There are a few changes that had to be made to the MySQL tables to do some things, but I documented the changes and I believe I can do it without any data loss. Though, I will always be cautious and make a backup before attempting a switch.

Went to church today. Dinner went quickly. I helped with the clean up, so I really won't have to do it again, but I signed up for clean up later in the summer since I am not satisfied with my cooking skills to share it with everyone else. Yes, I know I am the grill guy in my group of high school friends, but I know that there are people there that are much better than I am and also know how to handle a charcoal grill.

After cleaning up, Colin and I hung out at the UDCC until 11:00 or so.

Time for bed now.

YEAH, the weather is here, but from what the nice weather people are saying it's going to pass while I'm scheduled to be indoors with limited access to windows. :(

I went to see Stepford Wives today with Nick and Maggie. The movie was pretty good. The story was not up to my somewhat high expectation. It almost felt like a Tim Burton movie visually. It was somewhat disturbing (in a good way). The entire place seemed artificial, but that was the point. There were a few good laughs. I would say that it's not a MUST SEE movie, but something that is much better than the majority of crap that is out there now. I rate this movie at 8/10.

Now, I was expecting weather tonight. What happened to that? Also, the long range forecast change rain from Friday to Saturday. I just hope it doesn't rain when we go see the iCubs game. The best forecast is to look outside at the sky to see if there are any bad looking clouds in the west. Also, radar of western Iowa tends to be a good source of forecasting for the approaching 6 hours. Though, I want an accurate forecast days in advance. Yeah, I know, the weather people do the best that they can, and I appreciate their hard work.

Hehe, I found a bug while I was working on permission in the comments system. If there is a comment that is not approved under an entry, the comment count will still count the un-approved comment. I will fix that with my next revision.

Got a new Duel 1.8 G5 for a client today. I am trying very hard not to drool all over it. It's shear speed is causing me convulsions. I can't wait until our xServe gets in. That will be a Duel 2 Ghz, with a lot more RAM.

I am also reminded that I want to go see Stepford Wives this week or coming weekend. I've got a good recommendation from one of my co-workers.

I had a somewhat lazy weekend. Spending most of my time not being productive and watching storms. I mowed the lawn today. I don't like mowing the lawn. I can't wait for automated lawn mowing machines to become common. Perhaps they will be by the time I become a home owner.

After mowing the lawn, I got a headache. After dinner, I really wasn't feeling to well. I'm not feeling the greatest right now as well and I've been ready to go to be for the past hour or so, but I still have a few things to do before tomorrow. I don't like being sick.

I had my doubts about Nick's predictions for severe weather this evening, but when I got out of the movie I thought a street light was flickering. GG Nick.

I wasn't expecting to do anything last night, but I got a call from Meri during dinner inviting me to the municipal band concert. I scarfed down the Chinese food as fast as I could stand it so I could make it there at a decent time. We met up with Nick and Colin came as soon as he got off of work. We got to talk to Nerdig and Jen a little bit before we left for home.

I found out today that the way I have been doing authentication for my blog for myself has been depreciated. The way of handling sessions has changed, and I now have to learn how to handle sessions the new way and use that to integrate the new user system for the blog now. I believe I have it figured out, but I guess it's going to be a little more difficult than I thought it would be. Oh well.

I am currently transferring my domain's registrar from InexpensiveDomains to GoDaddy since GoDaddy is half the price. I plan on renewing for two years for the same price as it would cost for one year at InexpensiveDomains. I have to say, I'm glad I started the transfer process now since it will take a while for everything to get authorized and changes to propagate. I don't expect any loss of service for this very important web site. The whole process is going to take about a week or so.

Today I finally did not park in the ramp. I was able to get up in time for me to catch the bus and get to class way ahead of time. While at the Union picking up some lunch, I was surprised to see Molly there. Ended up talking with her a bit and informed her of the possible Iowa Cubs game trip planned for the weekend of the 18th.

Tonight I'm going to see The Chronicles of Riddick with Colin. We'll be getting some lunch at the Subway Mel is working at.

Later.

Update. I now have the user registration figured out. Now the hard part of giving users something to do.

FYI, I am doing this on a backup of this blog so I will not destroy all my previous hard work.

Time to go home and do some stat. Yippie!