Author: Jordan

This week has quite possibly been one of the best weeks of the year thus far. And to think that it’s only the third week in! Sunday I was over at Mark’s for a bit watching the 2 hour premiere of 24, and just spent time with him. Aside from that, it’ll definitely be a date I’m marking down as special, though I won’t quite get into it. I wrote about it in my livejournal however, so if you’re lucky enough to be a friend of mine there, you’ll have read it (or at least I hope so!) already.

Despite the fact that I am currently unemployed, I’m the so happy right now that I couldn’t ask for anything more. Most of it is due to the fact that I’m just elated at how well this relationship with Mark is right now. We haven’t spoken much in regards to “us” but after I sent him an e-mail with my latest journal entry, we actually talked about “us” and a few other things. Even though I had a feeling that things were good, it doesn’t hurt to also hear the other people speak of it. Not that I needed reassurance, it just good hearing it, you know? I’m just very excited, elated, and ecstatic with how things have been with Mark. I love how things have progressed with this relationship–I love that things started off slow, and just kind flowed into where we’re at now. He’s happy, I’m happy.

Though since I’ve been employed, the only things I’ve been doing lately has been hanging out with Mark most of the time. However I do have something to start working on. One of my IRC friends Adam gave me a webdesign project for one of his clients. I’m going to be redoing his website and will hopefully be gaining him as a client for Holdfire Network as well as future design projects. Hopefully things work out, because then I’ll have some money coming in, and this is something I can add to my portfolio.

Jem, I will never depart with my dearest Wii. Especially when I am going to have Wario Ware: Smooth Moves in my hands this week!

To my readers: I’ve been looking for some new websites to visit since I have a bit of free time, so if you can just share some of your favorite links, please do so! I’m looking for almost anything from personal blogs to design blogs, to css gallery sites or tutorial sites, to music forums or design forums. Something to keep me entertained is what I’m looking for, so feel free to link away! If you include more then one link, your comment will be moderated, so don’t think it got deleted; I’ll approve it when I get it!

Also, if my terd boyfriend comes over tomorrow, expect to see some pictures of us. I told him the other night that I really wanted some pictures of us, since I’m a sucker for things like that, so hopefully he’ll cave into whatever kind of pose I want. I’m totally thinking some pictures of me giving him a smoochy on the cheek is necessary and aw worthy. Oh yeah, I also won a free copy of haveamint.com from wpboard.com today. Since I already have it here on atourworst.org, I went ahead and added it to Holdfire.net.

I’m not sure what spiked this but I’ve been in the mood to change various aspects of my life as of late. I recently bought myself a cheaper version of the Ab Lounge so that I could get in fit, and obtain my goal of losing up to 75lbs by May of this year. What is also going to help is that I found an awesome website, traineo.com. It’ll definitely help me with tracking everything. I wanted to start today, but I really didn’t get around to assembling the chair, nor even working out. But I’m making up for that by making sure I don’t eat any crap foods today.

Along with wanting to get fit, and eating healthier, I’ve been working on Holdfire Network‘s redesign. The coding is 100% done, but I need to add more graphics to it, and finish up the rest of the content pages. Then I shall release the beast to the public. I can’t wait. Business with it has been quite slow as I haven’t been promoting for it at all since the beginning of December. So since I’ve been out of work, I’ve been posting about it a bit more, but right now I just need to get some adverts up for it, and then just advertise for it more than ever.

With the coding done for Holdfire, I’ve been looking at atourworst.org more and more as of late and I realized how much I hate the coding for this website. So expect some live edits of everything. I’m going to change up a few little things, but then I’m going to be reworking on the site itself. Even though I’m well aware of a few WordPress plugins for SEO, I found a few more from Devlounge‘s article, Plugins For A Search Enginle Friendly WordPress Blog which listed plugins ranging from permalinks (which I’ve had set up since.. well, forever!), to the use of tags to help with blog search engines, like Technorati.

I would still like to implement something here though, that will either increase visitor loyality, or bring in a bit more traffic. In turn I’d like the new traffic to bring in more traffic and revenue to Holdfire. So, fire away!

I’m starting to lose my interest in having a personal site. Who knows, maybe I just need to get new visitors (or people that comment?) or something, but for now let’s just say that I’m taking a slight break from here. It won’t last that long.

If you’re a semi/daily visitor to this site, what keeps you coming back?

Today I found my new favorite site, Red Kawa.com, after reading about their “release” of a Nintendo Wii Media Center.

Our free media centers allow you to stream certain types of media from your computer to your Nintendo Wii and also let you download files to your PlayStation 3 (PS3) hard drive over your wired or wireless computer network.

The one downfall that I’m coming across right now is that your media has to be stored under the program’s directory (“C:Program FilesRed KawaMedia Center” as opposed to being able to state what directory you want to be listed. For now I’m going to test it out and see how it plays with my wireless network (which is 54mpbs.(

Right now I’m converting the pilot episode for The Office from season one, to the format necessary (.FLV I believe) so I can see how it works, and if it’s worth even using. Even if that doesn’t pan out, I have my X-Box back now, so I’ll end up modding that to be my media center instead. I’ve been wanting to do that for awhile, and with all the media files I currently have, I really need to do that. I’m tired of watching movies/tv shows on my computer.

Edit: I also came across another similar service, but works more like Slingbox, and it’s not just for the Wii either: Mycast.Orb.com.

Oh and in case you want to Miingle, my Wiimail is:
w8862042694855311 _at_ wii.com.

It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. My New Year’s Eve was pretty fantastic.

As of late I’ve been really obsessed with:

1. libble.com
2. oink.me.uk
3. volumize.lj.com
4. mintpages.net

I’m also going to set myself a goal to lose some weight, and get a bit more fit. About to go jump in the shower to get ready to head out to Dick’s Sports Good to see what kind of Ab roller/things they’ve got, and possibly head out to Best Buy to pick up a hard drive. My copy of SUSE finished up last night, so I plan on running XP/ SUSE on it, and then the drive I have right now, wipe off the OS and other files so that it’s strictly a media drive.

Might as well considering I don’t work at all right now.