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October 29 2006 12:19 AM Lewis Sellers
I listen to a lot of music. Most of the time I'm sitting down at the computer I have my headphones on and iTunes just constantly running. And usually after a couple days listening to something new I'm rather tired of it. And only occasionally ever go back and listen to it again.
Which makes it so strange that I've been listening to the same couple CDs for the last 3 or 4 weeks. Muse. A british group. Seems like a lot of the good music (and tv for that matter) is coming out of Britan these days. (Or at least not from the States).
Sing for Absolution , Citizen Erased , Black Out , Hoodoo , City of Delusion , etc. Lots of intelligent lyrics backing some strong music. That's rare. The "intelligent lyrics" part. I usually (inwardly) cringe when I start understanding the lyrics of a song because I know it won't belong til I understand how dull and uninspired the subject really is. It's what ruins a cd for me.
But there are a few … a rare few than have that true artistic gleam. Fitting name all in all.
Check out the Sing for Absolution video on their website. (The song is about something else all together, but it works with that storyline as well, strangely.)
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October 28 2006 07:46 PM Lewis Sellers
I should probably mention … I'm the person who's responsible for writing the PHP/MySQL code that drives this entire website, as well as handling all technical issues that may relate to it and continually updating and improving it's functionality.
If there's a "feature" you'd like for the site, I'm the one that's going to end up implimenting it.
These days I mainly develop on a dual G5 Apple Macintosh running OS X 10.4, but have been programming under Microsoft Windows as well since it first came out. (This site, as they say, was "made on a mac". Well. Partly anyway. There are Mac, Windows and Linux machines scattered about the place and site has been on all of them at one point in time.)
I have a degree in computer science. I'm engaged. Hi Cynthia Rosenberry .
Cats we have. Three. (Susy, Smiley and Waddles). I do also, however, have a funny Betta fish (Koo) and Chinese Alage Eater (Scrubby). Both of whom I worry about daily as to whether they're going to end up killing each other in a territorial dispute. There's also a Belgian Sheepdog turning in frantic circles, round and round, near the door. Don't know who's dog that is, but I think he's signalling about something. :-)
Though I've generally voted Republican by default, I've gone through phases of voting for Democrats and Independants (ie, the Green Party) as well. These days I'm thinking seeding a completely brand new party all together might be the best idea, long term. All the current parties are disappointing (and untimately ineffective) for one reason or another.
I'm rather into the new Battlestar Galactica TV series at the moment... And a copy of Space Colony I picked up at the last minute to add to Cynthia's goodies on her recent birthday. Mistake that. We both got a wee bit addicted. :) Course since it's usually a couple months inbetween "gamings" for us both I guess it's not too bad.
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October 28 2006 07:30 PM Lewis Sellers
I plugged Cynthia's Wacom tablet into my mac and started scribbling a bit. They're fun to play with once you get use to the pressure sensitivity. I'm thinking about making this the new logo for citizen j. Whadda think? :-)
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October 27 2006 10:36 PM Lewis Sellers
I'm now going to talk about my fish... Some more. Hey. Come back. ...
This is "Koo". He's a red Betta. His name comes from the classic Russian science fiction film Kin Dza Dza. (As to what the word "koo" actually means … well, that's a long story. And it would rather much ruin the film if I just told you.)
His tank-mate (Scrubby) is a scared orange bottom feeder that mostly hides in his hollowed out conconut I gave him. (From which he stares at me with one eye day and night and day … and night … It gets creepy after a while.)
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October 27 2006 10:10 PM Lewis Sellers
That was a strange photo of me (I said to myself) when I saw it. I look like I'm possessed … or have just seen Jesus or .. something.
(I'm actually just looking across the road up into a cave out front of our local artisans/hillbilly-potters.)
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October 27 2006 10:06 PM Lewis Sellers
. I just haven't had the time to post any blogs (or articles) lately. But now that the site is more or less done that should be changing. Yes. Me. Rambling on incoherently. Can't wait can you? Didn't think so.
Now that the codebase has settled down we're going to clean up the graphics and general layout. Make it pretty. Soft.
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October 27 2006 12:56 PM Lewis Sellers
What else is there to say? Until the last few years I always considered myself a Republican without question. Even when I didn't vote that way (Perot, etc) it was because of the individuals involved, not because I didn't believe in the basic principles of the Party itself. But that's changed... because they're obviously lost their way … in some orgy of self-absorbed corporate greed.
As for Reagan … Even when he was technically breaking the law, it seemed to be towards obviously good ends — helping people. He was a good man.
I miss him.
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October 20 2006 09:10 PM Lewis Sellers
We stopped by to visit my cousin Bill Cannon while we were down in Florida earlier in the year. He'd just recently moved down there with his family after being up in Chicago (brr) for the last few years. Rarely see him these days.
We went out of our way (by several hundred miles) to try to catch the Pluto Express as it was launched from Kennedy. No luck though. Delays. Naturally of course, as these things will always happen, it finally got off the ground just about the time we pulled out on the road heading back to Tennessee. :)
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October 20 2006 09:09 PM Lewis Sellers
It predates this website by a few weeks but... Cynthia make a small website for local organic grower Jerry Baird.
LakeView Farm
If you like feeling dwarfed by stalks of corn, it might be a place to go by and visit.
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October 18 2006 07:12 PM Lewis Sellers
Been spending the day mainly going over the site and working on it's SEO. That is, it's "search engine optimization". Or how easy it is for search engines to just eat the site up and digest every lovely word. (And get higher page rankings.)
Mainly today this means tweaking the title algs, the keywords here and there as well as a whole lot of other little things. Including a suggestion or two from:
Basic SEO Community Tips
The site already is doing something major in this area — Pretending that it's just a big collection of html pages. (ha.) It's actually a few tens of thousands of lines of PHP functions. Completely MySQL database driven. It uses htaccess and mod_rewrite to pretend it's HTML so all the pretty search spiders won't be scared to crawl over it.
And crawl they do. Continously. They're all up and down the site in the logs. I've been letting them show up in the php-based unique visitors logs because I'm curious what they're doing … but I guess I should just go ahead now and start filtering them out because otherwise the visitor/session logs get a bit crowed after a while.
Back to pouring over the site of the Most Important SEO in the World.
(Yes. I know those keywords show up in a backlink search — It's called sucking up.)
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