I admit it, I enjoy reading xkcd. Furthermore, I admit that I frequently find myself relating to its comics.  But this one deserves special mention, I think.  So, after reading it, I decided, apparently like many, to check google for the phrase “died in a blogging accident”.  Only, instead of finding only 2 hits, I was met with over 8,000!  Further investigation found that the comic, released only yesterday, has caused quite a surge of activity in Google, linking many pages to that precise phrase (this is, in essence, what a googlebomb is, for those that aren’t aware).

This picture shows the google trends for the phrase within the last 24 hours or so (that’s my own screenshot), and of course, slashdot had to have it’s own article about it too. So naturally, I had to make my own small contribution, which is why I’m here today to report the news

Peace

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Go on, you know you want to…

Well, if nothing else, this semester certainly promises to be an interesting one… So far, it’s the first time since 6th grade that I haven’t been involved in my educational facility’s top choir; which is kinda disappointing in some ways, but honestly, ask anyone else (there are lots of us) who has dropped from the University Singers choir this semester, and they’ll give you a similar story: We’ve all had enough of Dr. Alt and need a break from that devil! Thankfully, I’m not completely choirless though (I’d probably go insane if I were!), since I’m still going to be involved in the Gospel Choir. Interestingly enough, despite my 4 upper division CS courses and one upper division Honors course, I think this semester will be the least stressful one I’ve had in a long time, just because of the lack of Uni Singers.

Now, of course, to make up for that, I’ve (once again) gotten myself involved in way too many other activities to keep track of, not the least of which being an officer position at the university’s ACM office, as well as agreeing to participate in several other upcoming events and groups. Le sigh. Now here comes the best part, the part that makes it all so interesting: Last thursday, I had a small accident on the way to work, and my truck is now even less drivable than it already was. I’ve now gotten the fender off of the tires, so I can at least drive again (although I admit I kinda enjoyed biking to work and school on Friday ), but it’s still just one of those things to add to my supposedly-calmer-than-usual semester. So I repeat: Le sigh…

Well, we’ll definitely have to see how this semester turns out; although for the most part I have pretty good feelings about it. Of course, that may just be my inner optimist screaming to get out, too :P. Oh, and I hear I make some pretty durn good cookies, if anyone’s interested (and I’ve still got lots of ingredients left from the last time, heh…)

Interestingly enough, I’ve tried this in the past, but I guess I’m not naturally a very talkative person. Despite this, my mind is almost constantly occupied with thoughts and ideas that I desire to communicate to others; so, I’ve decided to give this whole “blog” idea another go, and for some reason I feel like it’ll actually work this time. But I guess we’ll see about that, won’t we?

So here’s the blog — pretty basic for now, but I’ll get to that at some point, hopefully in the near future. And for those that are aware of recent events regarding the domain of zrax.net (where you are right now), yes, I do plan to set up a better, and most importantly WORKING backup script, especially for the MySQL databases ;).

It’s still rather frustrating every time I think about it, that the drive itself is probably just fine, but I can’t access anything from it, because the SCSI controller is about as dead as dead can be. I’m still trying to come up with clever ways of getting the databases back from it, but I haven’t done anything about it yet. *sigh*. Well, even if I never do get anything back from that drive, I plan to keep the server running and providing the services it has been providing all this time.

Guess that’s all for now!