http://phail.net A creative and sometimes technical blog about Design and Programming as well as other things. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:50:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I guess I'm jumping on the bandwagon of Katy Perry parodies, and although I know I am not the first to think of the words "I Kissed A Squirrel", I decided to do a (decent) recording of a full song version. (My voice was recorded over the "Nevins Rock ... http://phail.net/2008/07/06/i-kissed-a-squirrel-my-katy-perry-parody/ ...regarding my recent (and now done-away-with) rant post about my passport and how I was having a ton of problems getting it. Somehow, with the help of my parents and some others, I was able to get my passport situation straightened out, and I apologize to those who had to read ... http://phail.net/2008/06/27/okay-i-was-a-bit-harsh/ I'm mostly referring to the ones that lack the stability and creativity to be truly great. What I mean is, it seems that all these "new" MMORPG's coming out are just duplicates.  Where is the originality anymore?  I'm kinda tired of seeing so many games much-too-similar to other games like Ragnarok Online or Maple Story.  ... http://phail.net/2008/05/16/the-over-abundance-of-carbon-copy-mmorpgs/ Update: Well, it seems the "Forbidden" error is over (hopefully for good) but my sites still seem a little sluggish. Hopefully they'll get everything going again like it should be. Well, as I feared from the beginning from reading other reports from people who chose Grid-hosting from MediaTemple, my sites are intermittedly ... http://phail.net/2008/05/14/problems/ Hurray, I finally purchased my very own Grid-Server with MediaTemple. I had heard very good things, so I decided I should check out what all the buzz was about.     So far, I'm very happy, it's fast, I love the control panel, and the move was relatively easy. Looking forward to ... http://phail.net/2008/05/08/its-official-im-with-mediatemple/ It's that time again!  I'm switching all my sites to a new server.  Honestly, I'm not particularly overjoyed with my current host, MidPhase.  Not that they were terrible or anything (they responded to support, and they had the features) it's just a lot of the time my sites were slow, sometimes even ... http://phail.net/2008/05/08/oh-boy-im-getting-a-new-server-again/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }   07-11-08 Korea 07, originally uploaded by goodalefampics. Wow, ever since the start of their 2D Side-Scrolling MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) MapleStory, developed by Wizet, I've ... http://phail.net/2008/05/05/dang-nexon-is-intense/ ...using Adobe Illustrator. Lately I've gotten into making simple illustrations for sites (like this one!).  I know that to most, my art isn't amazing, but it works and it can be used to make a creative, cleanly designed website. This is kind of a mini-tutorial, and isn't terribly detailed, but shows the basics ... http://phail.net/2008/05/05/mostly-painless-illustration/ For the vast majority of the time I've been programming I haven't used Classes in my code. They are relatively new to me. Because of this, I decided to practice writing classes since I realized how useful they are. Here's something I made when I was learning. What We're Making Today: We're ... http://phail.net/2008/04/21/php-class-practice-creating-a-simple-pet-script/ For a Physics project in school (long story) we had to come up with a song having to do with physics.  Me and my partner decided on using the melody of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.  I then decided to make a background track to present the lyrics to. Sooo... Later that night, ... http://phail.net/2008/04/16/rock-twinkle-twinkle-little-star/