You better understand that I won’t hold your hand
I have tried to come up with something to write about the team meeting I had with the senior-partners of the company I work for, but there is nothing of substance to say. We all spoke, we all listened, we all came up with solutions to problems I had and problems the senior management had. There really couldn’t have been a more satisfying way for the meeting to have been conducted and concluded. It certainly gave me a far better outlook on my professional life (if you can really call what I do professional).
I cobbled together a Wordpress plugin for the del.icio.us sidebar feature a few afternoons ago and it, surprisingly, worked first time. Putting it on the Dreamhost server on the other hand caused a bit of a problem. While PHP officially supports HTTPS the Dreamhost build of PHP doesn’t which means you can’t use a straight file_get_contents call to grab the relevant XML. I switched to using CURL which is a bit of a heavy handed solution to a simple problem, especially if I’m willing to switch to using an RSS feed. The plugin itself is fairly simple and caches the results to a file which it refreshes every six hours. At the minute the options for the plugin are hardcoded so once I get some spare time (read: 6 or more months) I’ll integrate them into the Wordpress database options scheme and release (what I’ve hilariously called) deliciousTangent.
With my recent acquirement of a microphone I’ve joined Skype so that I can pretend I’m actually going to talk with people. One of my original Grand Plans™ for this website was to set up some video-capture hardware and do some decent game guides (Kasumi from DOA4 was first on the list) but the number of drivers for Hauppage products for Windows x64 is (as far as I can tell) zero. There were conspiratorial posts on forums that spoke of a 3rd party drivers and dark rituals to obtain them but the trail became very convoluted very quickly. My next thought was to impress my British accent on an audio file (“netcast” sounds stupid, “podcast” is an evil word borne of sin and “blogcast” is just retarded) and after being assured my voice is not as grating as I believe it is, I may still go ahead with it.
Of course the question is begged: what I could talk about that I couldn’t in writing? Realistically nothing, but I feel verbal monologues can express topics far better in a far shorter amount of time (ah inflection, how I miss thee in text, emphasis just doesn’t cut it). My options are varied and it would certainly break up the huge block of text that greets you on every page of the site so far. If I were taking photos every day or in the mood to perhaps potatoshop humorous graphics to accompany my rants perhaps you would be spared the auditory atrocity I may yet release onto this world.
