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AMC's Mad Men Contest

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:14:56 GMT

My friend David has been bumped from the Mad Men "Win a Walk-On Role" Contest. It's now down to the last 18 people. It was fun while it lasted. Last count on votes I saw he had was 20 or something. Not much... My opinion is he entered the contest too late and no one wanted to vote for him. Regardless, we had fun making the video and I got to be the director and film editor. I'd like to do more video projects like that, but then I guess it'd make me a hypocrite because of my post below (you know, the whole no time thing). It was an hour long project...tutorials take longer than an hour to create.

Nothing New for Quite Some Time...

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:58:19 GMT

Some of you may be thinking I've abandoned all work on this site and poured all my time into my blog. Ehh, that's partially accurate. If you've noticed, I haven't done anything with my blog either for months now. I've said it before and I'll say it again - there is not enough time in the day. Many visitors have sent requests for tutorials. There was even one person that was teaching a class and wanted permission to use my site as a reference. As always, I welcome your comments, feedback, requests, etc. I'm just really busy. Until cloning has been perfected and it's legalized for humans, there will only be one of me for now doing it all. Everyone, just be patient...please.

Yet another unreliable hosting company...

Mon, 28 May 2007 17:14:33 GMT

It's time for one of my rants again. This time it's over the excessive downtime this server has been experiencing -- not due to hacking, or lock-ups, or even shoddy scripts or clients doing naughty things, but because of the hosting company. Several months ago I moved everything off my home server onto this one -- I outgrew my DSL connection. I did some research and read some favorable opinions and chose the host I'm with now. Everything was fine at first until lately. Last week there was over three hours of downtime, and now another 10 minutes, plus more here and there. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and have rode it out, but now my clients are complaining, and as you all know, once that happens it's time to do something. I'll be looking for another company this June and plan yet another move -- this is getting rather annoying.