Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog

In an effort to continue to delight and amaze you, the readers of my
site, I’ve added three months of news archives that should’ve been up a
while ago. November will be up after December 14th, since I have also
just changed my newsscript back to a 14 days period. This should avoid
the whole lack-of-a-front-page thing.
Web update fever has overcome me, so I’ve also tweaked RemyHoo a bit,
fixing an annoying double HR problem, and adding more (current) links to
bring me up to 100.
I’m also playing with layout; the CSS has been changed slightly, as has
the navigation links at the top. I’ll probably try and whip up a new
logo at somepoint as well. If you the reader have any suggestions for
things you’d like to see on this site, please let me know.

As many of you remember, I used to have banner ads up. One of the few
ones that would’ve gotten me any sort of payback was the one for
[Japanesesnacks.com](http://www.japanesesnacks.com/).
I’ve since taken the banners down (too much latency in hitting the
database 4 or 5 times for the ads), but I am doing this shameless
promotion because they deserve it. JapaneseSnacks.com just finished
their first year of business, and I must say that ordering from them has
always been a treat. They have a huge selection, great prices (no
getting scammed on shipping), a wonderful mailing list that lets you
know what’s coming and when (allowing me to order some hard to get Pichu
dolls), and wonderful people behind it who always add goodies to your
order.
Since it is their one year anniversary, they’re having a 20% off sale.
So head on over and spend some green, because this is probably the best
e-business I’ve ever had the pleasure to deal with.
[end shill]

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now that we have entered our last
week of classes at good ol’ CU, it’s time to go out with a bang.
First, my trip report – it was great. Absolutely great, all except for
the bus rides. I can’t tell which was the worst part of the buses –
probably the driver getting lost from Binghamton to Scranton. I’m
believing it might have been a better idea for me to drive. But
anyhow…
Spending time at Kate’s, as usual, was wonderful. Every visit I get more
and more enchanted with this wonderful girl I fell for almost two and a
half years ago…I’ll stop gushing for those of you with weak hearts.
Anyhow, we had a great time, watching movies as usual (minireviews:
Keeping The Faith was wonderful, High Fidelity was good, Risky Business
was decent.) We even braved the traffic on Black Friday and went
shopping. Lots of good food, good times, and I can assure you that only
a minimal amount of clothing was ripped.
As far as purchases go – one copy of Gladiator on DVD ($20), one copy of
the new NIN remix album ($10), a new copy of The F Word from B/N along
with some magazines ($20something), and a copy of Incredible Crisis for
Kate ($20), which is an extremely Jappy PSX game – in a good way.
As I mentioned above, 5 days of classes left. I have a lot to do, but
today will remain a down day until I get seriously crunched on Thursday.
Two tests that day, with a lab report and a huge problem set due on
Friday. Oh, and probably accounting as well. Don’t worry, I’ll get going
on it all tomorrow. Really.
Finally, I’m working to revamp my news system a bit, since my friends at
8bop spent break completely tweaking it to be a multi-user system. I’ve
been meaning to make mine a little easier to use for me, so I’ll hack
out a little PHP when I get a spare moment or two. Whatevah.
As usual, you know where to find me.