Jake’s Weblog

Not that I was updating this blog regularly any more anyway, but it will be even less frequently now (probably) that I’m getting deployed. As of right now I don’t now for sure where I’m going, but Iraq seems a strong possibility . Perhaps I’ll have the opportunity to post here when I’m over there, [...]

Well, the spammers have finally done it. I’ve gotten so sick of dealing with spam that I’ve decided to no longer allow comments on my blog. I will slowly but surely remove the ability for older posts to have comments and will not be allowing comments to any new posts. I’m deeply disappointed in having [...]

This is probably just opening myself up to attack by some lame spammer, but so I’ve gotta say it. Spammers suck. If I actually wanted to buy some viagra, what do you think I’d do… visit some random person’s blog and start reading comments about random topics until I found one that contained a link [...]

Unfortunately I was unable to attend the developers chat this evening hosted by Stratics.com. Fortunately, I was prepared for this possibility and had my IRC client logging. I filtered the logs to remove many of the join/part/quit messages and put them on my site. I haven’t had a chance to read them yet, but will [...]

All I have to say if you’re from my CIS 153 AW Online Access class (wow, that’s a finger-full) is: “Wow, you actually clicked that link.” I really didn’t think anybody would come (and as I’m writing this I may yet be proven right). Anyway, this is my humble little blog. If you’re not from [...]

Sony Online Entertainment had some problems with a patch they did this morning resulting in many of their galaxies (read, servers) being down for an extended amount of time this morning. This included the ones I normally play on. While I was waiting patiently (ya, right) for the game to be playable again I created [...]

Has anybody else noticed a decrease in my posting frequency since I bought Star Wars Galaxies has decreased significantly? If you haven’t, I certainly have. My other online activities have also fallen by the wayside (such as Bugzilla‘s documentation. Heck, bugzilla.mozilla.org transferred to their new server and I didn’t even know it until I was [...]

Came across a really slick site today: Stratics guide to Star Wars Galaxies. One of the features the site has is the ability to create character bios that are tailored to Star Wars Galaxies (such as what Skills the character has). I set up a bio for both of my characters: Aliena Shiring on the [...]

Will the surprises never end? After rebuilding the front page with my last entry I noticed that my SETI ranking is now 18.316%. That means I’ve done more work units than 81% of SETI users… and I’ve only been at it for less than a month. I imagine the percentage increases will come slower now [...]

Today I was looking at my referrer logs and found it quite interesting to see not only the sites from which people are finding my blog, but also the search-terms they’re using to find it. Below are some of my favorites along with an attempt to answer the question they were most likely trying to [...]