Programmer, Analyst, Learner, Leader, Gamer

Worked more on Victor Laurence.com and I think I finally have the structure I want and have it laid out how I want it. I’ve removed a lot of the “news” parts and incorporated all of that into my “Projects” area I have setup now. I’m pretty excited about this site and I want to start getting some good content in there.

Today I launched http://www.victorlaurence.com. For those who read this blog, don’t worry I will continue to keep this up to date. My plan is for this site to be more of a personal nature and the other site to be more of a professional nature. Not emo on the other site, though as you know sometimes I’m a bit emo on this one. The other site is more about my projects, what I’m doing, progress I’m making, this site is more about my inner mind and expressing my life on a day to day basis. The other site of course won’t be updated daily were as this one I’ll continue to update daily. Sometimes the same subject matter might be discussed in both places, through I’ll put more technical details on the other site and more personal details on this one.

Just wanted to make a comment about my new LiveJournal user pic. In binary, it reads as “Coder”.

Yes BTW I’m alive. I haven’t posted on my blog in a long time. I put way too much pressure to post every single day and got burt out on keeping up with it. So anyhow I’m gonna still enter some back entries but I’ll do that later. Lot has happened in the last 2 months since I’ve been away from my journal.

THANKS LIVE JOURNAL!!! For those loyal paying members apprently you are given more user picks based on your tenure with live journal. I think they base the amount of bonus user picks based on a combination of time with Live Journal and how many posts you have made during that time. I know that I have 34 and I think Kerrie has 56 or something like that. She has been on LJ for YEARS, so logic tells me it’s a combination of time and posts since I’m a post maniac and she’s just been around a long time. I think I might spend part of this evening uploading more userpics so I can start taking advantage of this new bonus LiveJournal has given me.

EDIT: Apparently they changed the base user pics of a paid account from 15 to 30. Then I have 4 loyalty pics. So Kerrie on the other hand has 16 loyalty pics. So I was way off base but still pretty cool.

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If you had a weblog, it’d probably be a great one! Why are you even taking this survey? You’re obviously completely normal. You probably look on weblogs with the same disdain shown by all people of your elite personal perfection, however, if you do like weblogs, I’m sure you have a damned good reason. Kudos to you for retaining some measure of sanity in this mixed-up, shook-up, fucked-up world. We thank you for taking time out of your busy normal life to look this survey over.

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Seriously. I’ve now paid for my live journal account because I do support it but also because I wanted a gallery. And where is it? NO WHERE. I mean ok if you go to profile and you scroll all the way down there’s a link that says “Pictures: less than 10 public”. But come on shouldn’t there be a link some place on the top of the page to the gallery? Whatever. I’m just frustrated with this. I mean it’s a great system but the customization features leave much to be desired.

Success! I have completely customized the look of my journal to how I want it. Sleek, simple, and clean. I’m starting to like this journal, and I think I’m going to take a nap maybe and post more thoughts after getting some rest. Yes it’s 7:30 in the morning and now I’m taking a nap before I have to work in an hour and a half. *shrug* The life of a work from home programmer.

Thus begins my journey in this very odd website. I will have to learn more about customizing the look, uploading pictures and the like. I have this entire week off for Thanksgiving, I will play with this more later.