Benign Thoughts

I’m really pissed off right now. I keep getting these blank emails sent from my contact form. I added a captcha test in case it was a bot, and I’m still getting them. I don’t know who’s sending them (they’re completely blank) or why, but whoever it is, please stop. If you don’t, I’ll have to make it so it makes sure the form is filled out before sending, which would be a pain for me and the people who want to email me anonymously (For whatever reason).

[edit: well, I had to do it. The contact form now detects for a valid email address.]

I’ll post a real entry soon. Sorry.

Well, I haven’t posted in a while. I was planning on posting yesterday, but I got sidetracked on Skype. Of course, I saw that one coming, but yeah. I always get sidetracked.

Well, I went to the beach yesterday! It was the first time I went to the beach all summer, and it wasn’t a pleasurable experience. The waves were really brutal this time. I have no idea why, but they knocked me down about twice, and I went tumbling back to shore in the wave once. It hurt. A lot. Other than that, it was fine, though. We put our stuff too close to the water, so we kept having to back up as the tide came up. My dad and I built this big, elaborate wall system to protect us, but it didn’t work too well. The waves knocked it down eventually, and then we went home. Exciting, eh? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Is something up with Audioscrobbler (again)? My track submissions haven’t been working today, but there’s no news on the main page, so yeah. The site’s rather slow, also, so I dunno what’s up. Last.fm works fine though… Well, it doesn’t work in Opera (and I have no idea why not), but when I open it up in Deer Park alpha 2 (and probably Firefox too) it works. Oh well.

Has anybody ever heard of PerlPanel? I’ve been playing around with it today, and it’s rather nice. I replaced my regular xftaskbar4 with Perlpanel and I love it. It’s a lot nicer, and I like how it handles the notification area. Only problem is Xchat’s notification area plugin doesn’t like it very much, and Amarok doesn’t seem to like it either. Well, Amarok sort of works, the icon doesn’t display completely, but all the features of it still work fine. If anyone knows of a good music player that has all of Amarok 1.3’s features (including Audioscrobbler, excluding the OSD thing), but uses GTK, please lemmie know (right now I’m trying out Rhythmbox with Rbscrobbler, but I dunno how well it’s gonna work. I wish it could edit tags). I really like all the applets for Perlpanel, and the notification area applet has a button that allows me to hide or show the icons, which is very useful.

Alright, I’m done. Hopefully I’ll blog again soon, but if not, well, hopefully I’ll blog again soon.

Well, I just got back from summer camp yesterday, so I’m still trying to get caught up with everything. So much stuff happened while I was gone I have no clue where to start. I got, like, over 100 emails actually worth reading, the boards I post on have tons of new posts I haven’t looked at yet, London’s transportation was bombed, a hurricane I didn’t even know about is over with, Bobby got his Linux working again, there’s another Detective Conan fansubbing group (it might have been around earlier, but I didn’t know about it) and some new episodes too, Opera released the first preview with Bittorrent support, and a lot of other stuff happened too. Anyway, in this post I guess I’ll post about what happened in camp this year since it’s over with.

It’s a Boy Scout camp, so I was gone all last week. If you tried to email me and you didn’t get a reply yet, I still have to read it. Camp was really good this year. They had a new cook at the camp (the camp I go to with my troop has 3 seperate camps on one huge reservation) I was in, and she actually knew how to cook unlike the previous ones. The food was actually edible, and the veggie meals (I don’t eat beef) were really good.

At the camp there’s this challenge course. I posted about these before, but the one at this camp is much harder. My group accidently got sent on the most difficult route across it. Basically, this thing’s 20-40 feet up, and you go through different obsticles to get to the other side. They’re mostly walking across wires holding on to other wires or ropes. There was this one part that involved walking across seperate wooden swings, and I kept getting myself tangled with the ropes. That one probably took the longest time. The one after that one was harder, but it took me a shorter amount of time it seemed since I didn’t get tangled and have to go back. It’s hard to explain the second one. Basically it was a wire between two points with two ropes. The two ropes intersected at the middle and connected to the wire on their opposite sides. The ropes start a little above waist height, but at the middle it’s really hard to hold on to without falling backwards, and there’s about 3 or more feet of slack on the rope connected to the harness, so it’s a good drop. Chris, who went after me, fell near the middle and someone had to hang a ladder down for him to climb back up. The giant’s ladder was also rather hard for me, for one because the rope holding me up was too tight most of the time (the belayer kept it really tight) and also because my partner just plain sucked at it, and he was really heavy. He also kept shaking which makes it pretty hard to keep balance.

Oh well, I’m done. I’d talk about the other stuff that happened but my dad might read this and I’ll get in trouble, so yeah. Maybe I’ll post it in a month when my dad can’t really do anything.

Please don’t lecture me, but I’m really sorry I haven’t blogged lately. I’ve just been so busy lately with that life of mine (pfft, I wish!). I promise, next weekend I will blog again, and after that I will be back on my regular schedule, but all this week I will not be online since I have a lot of stuff to do.

XMGFree signups are reopened! Yep, you heard me correctly. We finally have enough things sorted out to reopen signups, so sign up if you need free hosting. Oh yeah, don’t use www in your subdomain, it’s a waste. In fact, NOBODY should go to www.benignthoughts.com. It’s benignthoughts.com and that’s it. No www. I’m trying to get away from www because it was a bad idea to begin with. In fact, I want www.benignthoughts.com removed from google, and just replaced with benignthoughts.com. Right now I have two rankings, one (www) on top, and one way below, which doesn’t have www and it’s kind of a waste, so if anyone working for google is reading this, yeah. Please.

Don’t mess with #WordPress. Yeah, if any of you hadn’t heard yet, this guy ripped off Shawn Grimes’s layout and ended up like this See Something Unpredictable (Bobby’s blog) for details.

So yeah, that’s it. Once again, if you have any issues with anything on this site, please let me know via my “contact me” form. There’s a link in the header. C ya!