Renegade Folk Hero

Powweb: crappiest of the crap

Kelvin — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:07:15 +0000

Even as I try to vacate this shit hole sharedhost, they relentlessly try to cause me grief. As of this posting, their filemanagment tools are so over burdened that I can’t even fucking upload a goddamn .htaccess file.

It only took me 8 hours and countless retries to upload a fucking 200byte file.

I’m out of this two bit joint.

Kelvin — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:49:55 +0000

Fuck powweb.com. I’ve had enough of their growing pains and incompetent shit. I’m moving on to greener pastures and a nice VPS. *out*

New hosting

Andrew — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:21:34 +0000

Kelvin informed me that we have new hosting and that we now own the domain name sokodei.com (yay!). We should be moved over this week. I hope to have some long awaited news by then…

Does it Suck? or Does it Rock?

Kelvin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:32:52 +0000

Sucks-Rocks.com supposedly tells me what the deal is. I say, too bad google search APIs don’t account for context.

I hate school

Kelvin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:34:10 +0000

I’m back at SJSU wasting my life away in boring classes that have nothing to do with my thoughts, dreams, ambitions, or desires. I’ve got ~21 units to go for my BSSE, which by anyone’s guess might very well be useless when I get it.

I’ve got to work on my social website idea.

Powweb sucks +1

Kelvin — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:15:27 +0000

Okay, I’ve about had it with this crap host. Back when powweb wasn’t completely asshattedly oversold, it was cheap and good. Since last year though they’ve been nothing but problems. And so far I’ve really only just kept a couple of wordpress blogs on the domain.

In any case, the reason the sokodei site is down (as well as all sub pages) is because Powweb is stupid and turned off mod_rewrite for some reason. I don’t know when they’ll turn it back on. Maybe after I switch hosting providers, maybe before.

Pubclaim

Kelvin — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:01:55 +0000

Nothing interesting in this post.

Just When I Thought I Was Out…

Andrew — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:14:56 +0000

The ReDeath and FBBB discs are pretty much done. I’ll watch them one more time and unless I missed something, they’ll be good to go.

And now, the fun part. Somehow, my project file for the Nesca disc got replaced with a version of the FBBB project file. So now I gotta rebuild the sucker from scratch. At least I still have test discs to remind myself of the menu design I came up with, which I rather like. It shouldn’t take too long, but damn, what a waste.

If you’ve written me e-mail lately, sorry I’ve been ignoring you, I’m waiting for the discs to be done before I respond to any further requests. With luck, I’ll start going through them shortly after the start of August.

Updated burntbread

Kelvin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:44:37 +0000

I’ve updated

so that the ratings

show up inline

now.

or… maybe I just broke it.

The Ripple Effect

Andrew — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:58:39 +0000

Based on my perceptions during this year’s Fanime screenings of Nesca 1.7 and the FBBB director’s cut (first time for either with myself in attendence), I made some changes to both which alter their existing timing. And by changing their exisiting timing there’s a whole bunch of other tasks that need to be performed as well:

-Re-encode altered scenes in MPEG-2 format
-Re-export audio for entire feature
-Rejoin all MPEG-2 files into one big file
-Convert audio into AC-3
-Reimport into authoring program
-Re-add chapter stops
-Redirect menu selections to chapter stops in new file
-Retime subtitles around changes

All this because I felt a joke in Nesca needed 2/5ths a second more pause before the punchline. I’m still aiming to be done before the end of June, though me taking a trip to Anime Expo next weekend might make that tricky.

I’m hoping for a good time at AX or even better, some inspiration. Last time I went (in the year 2000…), I came back with several of the ideas for what would become Fanboy Bebop (the reg line scene was directly inspired by my AX reg line experience) and Nescaflowné (they premiered the movie that year, and my most lasting impression was that the Folken character looked just like David Bowie in Labyrinth). Perhaps my muse is waiting for me in SoCal.