tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58438542011-04-21T10:56:58.528-07:00"All of a sudden it read like a crackpot conspiracy theory." - Max PayneCypherXeronoreply@blogger.comBlogger2191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1102464655585060772004-12-07T16:10:00.000-08:002004-12-07T16:10:55.586-08:00

I'm now re-opening my old blog for everyone to browse my archives. Please note that I will NOT be updating this blog.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1092804957396758962004-08-17T21:55:00.000-07:002004-12-07T16:09:07.696-08:00

My New Blog is at: http://www.collegechixors.com/ Please update your links!!

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090994560118364752004-07-27T23:02:00.000-07:002004-07-27T23:05:59.406-07:00

NOTICE: PLEASE UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS TO POINT TO http://69.93.194.58/~dshadow/wordpress/ -or- http://restertech.tk It's been one hell of a long year, and crazy things have happened in my life. I'm celebrating my first year of blogging with an innovation to "Life of an IT Major". And that innovation is using new blogging software. I'm now using WordPress, on my own domain name. The address to my

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090978937919328092004-07-27T18:42:00.000-07:002004-07-27T18:42:17.926-07:00

Does anyone remember what happened to my blog about 8 months ago? Well, the same thing is going to happen again. Tomorrow will be exactly 1 year since I've been blogging, and I have a suprise in store for everyone. Check this blog tomorrow, because you're not going to want to miss this one! (and neither does your bookmarks, either...hint hint).

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090892585591286662004-07-26T18:43:00.000-07:002004-07-26T18:43:05.596-07:00

I'm watching the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on C-SPAN right now. I'm not a Democrat, I'm a Republican, but I find these things interesting, since I like politics.It's on TV now if you wanna watch it.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090869916762371032004-07-26T12:25:00.000-07:002004-07-26T18:14:59.496-07:00

Kyz has appoligized for the comment he left, and I appoligized for using the "template". I visited that blogger-template site, and it looks as if Kyz's template is gone, which is good, because it wasn't really a template for public use anyways. I've created my own design in Photoshop, I may be adding more to it later on.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090855257190898302004-07-26T08:20:00.000-07:002004-07-26T08:27:46.583-07:00

OK, many of you saw my new blogger template I put up, and it was pretty cool looking. But, I must plead ignorance on this once, since I was under the impression that the design was a template for blogger. I went to Google, typed in "blogger template", and the FIRST result was this cool site with cool templates, and I saw this one particular template, and I knew I had to use it. But, I recieved a

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090819160803455772004-07-25T22:19:00.000-07:002004-07-25T22:19:20.813-07:00

Well, technically, my 1-year anniversary from blogging doesn't start until 12AM on July 28th, but I wanted to give myself a present for blogging. This design is a template, incase you're wondering, because my Flash skills suck, and my Photoshop skills can't compare to this design.This design is for you, my readers, for being such a great critic in the journal of my life. Now, lets celebrate!

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090807554995461792004-07-25T19:05:00.000-07:002004-07-25T21:51:49.626-07:00

Today I drove over to my dad's girlfriend's mom's house (I hope everyone followed that sentence), and I helped her with her older Gateway computer. It was about a P2/P3, with 128MB RAM. I cleaned up temp files, removed old games and programs, and did some OS mantenance. She bought a CD burner for her computer, and I installed it for her, and got her up and running. The drive to her house was a

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090698196261616452004-07-24T12:43:00.000-07:002004-07-24T12:43:16.266-07:00

I'm going to be changing BinaryCell up some. I was thinking about this, and how writing down tech news everyday can get boring and time consuming, so, I've decided to change it. I'm keeping the layout intact, but the only thing I'm changing in BinaryCell is the content. I've decided to turn BinaryCell into a wardriving blog of sorts. So, whenever I go wardriving, I'll put up screenshots and write

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090623995444949852004-07-23T16:04:00.000-07:002004-07-23T17:43:21.686-07:00

I've decided to launch Ionosphere ahead of schedule, because I was bored, and I wanted to see my ideas come to life. It's far from being complete at this point, but I wanted to bring it up for everyone to see. Now, can anyone guess what the idea is behind this new design and development? Comment if you know, and also comment to let you know what you think of the new images/layout. More great

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090558116137655722004-07-22T21:48:00.000-07:002004-07-22T21:48:42.603-07:00

My friend Sam told me some really sad news. I met Chase in High School and we were really good friends. Well, I graduated High School a little more than a year ago, and I haven't seen Chase since then. Sam told me he found out through someone that works at Winn-Dixie, that Chase died a few days ago in a car crash. Here's the obituary that was in the newspaper: Chase Arron Milligan, a native

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090541660031316232004-07-22T17:03:00.000-07:002004-07-22T17:14:20.030-07:00

In 1 month from tomorrow morning, I'll be heading back to school at South Alabama. I can't wait, summer sucks sometimes, it feels so...unproductive. Linux has a hold of me, and I find myself booting into Windows less and less. I can never get rid of Windows, because there's always a few programs I need to run, and WINE can't handle it/I don't feel like running it in WINE. Nothing much has been

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090345676437378662004-07-20T10:44:00.000-07:002004-07-20T10:50:27.093-07:00

I'm going to post the whole guide that I wrote to "Wireless in Linux", as well as a new section entitled "Post Install Problems and Solutions". Why am I doing this? I want Google to index this, so people with the same problems that I went through, don't have to suffer as bad. I think I found a new hobby in learning something, and telling everyone else the best way to learn it themselves. So

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090255020462279012004-07-19T09:36:00.000-07:002004-07-19T09:45:03.623-07:00

What's your blog worth?

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1090104727822609812004-07-17T15:48:00.000-07:002004-07-17T15:52:07.823-07:00

Unforntuanty, I will not be able to take the Java Programming class this Fall semester, due to a lack of prerequisites required for that class. I will be taking Programming next Spring. I've signed up for my classes for Fall 2004, and they are: Concepts of Physics Concepts of Physics Laboratory Small Group Discussion Precalculus Algebra Intro to Photography Should be a pretty fun

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1089958421652896652004-07-15T23:11:00.000-07:002004-07-15T23:15:03.313-07:00

I finally got my BroadCom 802.11g chipset to work in Linux, and I've created a guide to help everyone out. Spread this guide everywhere! Download PDF Enjoy!

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1089943720614351782004-07-15T19:08:00.000-07:002004-07-15T19:10:57.216-07:00

I'm going to be changing my blog up some on or before August 23rd. (template, content, etc..). I'll still be making regular posts about my life, but I have some ideas planned, that's gonna be so cool, you'll wonder why I didn't think of it before. The name of this "project", as you can tell, is blueion^2 (ion squared). So, stay tuned for that, should be great. In other news, I'm joining SALUG

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1089771131972648912004-07-13T19:12:00.000-07:002004-07-13T19:16:53.723-07:00

I got a new poster today from my dad's girlfriend, it's this huge poster is Neo from The Matrix. Those that know me, know that The Matrix is my FAVORITE movie of all time. So now I have a huge photo of Neo right above my laptop. And I also put up another poster that I got from my InfoSecurity magazine, it's entitled: "The Four Disciplines of Security Management", and it's to the right of the Neo

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1089609273308386942004-07-11T22:14:00.000-07:002004-07-13T10:53:28.170-07:00

Answer: They both come from Germany, and they're both damn awsome. Novell had an offer (to which is no longer available, sorry), in which they were giving away (FOR FREE), the Novell Linux Technicial Resource Kit. I just got mine in the mail a couple of days ago. It contains 3 DVDs, which contain the following FREE software programs: DVD #1 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 Nterprise Linux

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1089573841723970472004-07-11T12:24:00.000-07:002004-07-11T12:21:17.683-07:00

There was an Electronics lecture being held in IRC today, held by HackThisSite. I attended, of course, thanks to GoldenBoy from TechDiscussions (he made a thread about it). I have the IRC logs from the lecture, for those interested that missed it. Click the button below to view it. They're having another lecture on August 8th, for Advanced Electronics, if you would like to attend, here's the

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1089398659103723742004-07-09T11:44:00.000-07:002004-07-09T11:46:44.616-07:00

...And I jumped through it, and hit my head. I called Erin today at Best Buy, and he said that he spoke with the General Manager (finally!), and he told me that the posistion has been held and they're not going to be hiring for some time. So he said "sorry", and then the conversation was over with. Bastards. Lead me on for a couple of weeks, and then *bam*....NOTHING. I went for an interview and

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1089325144677303772004-07-08T15:19:00.000-07:002004-07-08T17:14:28.910-07:00

Yesterday was the day I was scheduled to call Erin back (at Best Buy), to see what the GM (General Manager) said about hiring me. So I called, and he wasn't there. So today, I called, and this chick answered the phone, and put me on hold to see if he was in the store. After being on hold for about 5 minutes, it starts ringing, so I let it ring like 60 times, no answer. So, I drive ALL the way

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1089152991302218662004-07-06T15:29:00.000-07:002004-07-06T15:29:51.306-07:00

Geeks2Go just had it's first customer. All went well, all problems solved. Job well done. Yay.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1088998202547526562004-07-04T20:30:00.000-07:002004-07-05T18:32:29.876-07:00

Click to listen to the audio post: Starting my journey, this photo is less than a mile from my houseI get downtown, and park on level 2 in a parking garageStanding on the roof of the parking garageAnother shot from the roofSome nice towers overlooking MobileDowntownFireworks!Fireworks!Fireworks!Fireworks! 

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1088887029152172692004-07-03T13:37:00.000-07:002004-07-03T13:45:47.776-07:00

So, it's been almost a week now since I had a job interview at Best Buy. When I last left off, the Computer Manager that gave me the interview (Erin Clark), said that the GM (General Manager) would be in the store that following Tuesday or Wednesday of that week (I had the interview with Erin on Sunday). So, Tuesday and Wednesday passed, and I heard nothing from Best Buy. Which means that today

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1088717068108568942004-07-01T14:24:00.000-07:002004-07-02T16:53:15.913-07:00

I got a haircut today! I needed one. My New Haircut Me outside next to my carMy cat, Protocol  I just had to post the photo of my cat, lol.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1088576861466871412004-06-29T23:27:00.000-07:002004-06-29T23:33:10.186-07:00

"There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'. When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions." -Max Payne

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1088487908643927232004-06-28T22:45:00.000-07:002004-06-28T22:49:57.070-07:00

I've been contracted to help design graphics for a website. Cold Drink (from TechDiscussions), asked me if I would want to help out with some graphic design work for a website, and I agreed. I'm happy to say that the website is finally up, and it looks great! The address is Thay.org, and here's the link to the Website Design Staff, where you can view my bio: http://thay.org/cms.php?page=articles

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1088366857869567422004-06-27T13:07:00.000-07:002004-06-27T13:07:37.876-07:00

About a week or two ago, I wrote that I had gone to BestBuy, and asked about hiring. Remember? It was raining really bad, and I took a bunch of photos of the rain? It was also the day that I dropped off some papers at South Alabama. Well, today, I drove back to BestBuy, after filling out the application online a week or so ago. As soon as I walk in, I find this girl employee over at Cell Phones,

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1088134508595566392004-06-24T20:35:00.000-07:002004-06-24T20:35:08.600-07:00

I have exactly 2 months left until Fall 2004 Semester begins at my school, the University of South Alabama. Next semester is going to be really great, I can tell. I can't wait.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1088019530018062262004-06-23T12:38:00.000-07:002004-06-23T12:38:50.023-07:00

OK, so as you all probably know, my car has been giving me problems for about 3 or 4 months now. I'll be driving the car, and all of the sudden, the RPMs will get insanly high, and the speed stays the same. Almost like putting the car in neutral, and hitting the gas. It felt like it was slipping gears, and that it could be a transmission problem. So, yesterday, my dad and I took my car to "

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087883271189373382004-06-21T21:50:00.000-07:002004-06-21T22:55:23.306-07:00

7:00 AM - I woke to the sound of my PocketPC, beeping it's head off, trying to tell me to "Wake Up" (as I has so planned). I stumbled out of bed, tired as hell, but moving somehow. I checked my e-mail, the forums, and various other sites, still giddy over the fact that last night I had successfully installed drupal (a CMS), using my c-Panel, mySQL, and PHP4. After about 30 minutes of goofing off

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087684160307360572004-06-19T15:29:00.000-07:002004-06-21T06:12:00.416-07:00

In a couple of days, my dad and I are going to go pick up my little sister (she's almost 15) at my mom's house (well, I take that back, I think we may be meeting them halfway...it's a 6 hour drive one-way from my house to their house). My dad clued me in on an awesome detail. I have to drive him to the airport, because we're renting a car to drive there. And we're going all out, too. We're

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087606106420656382004-06-18T17:48:00.000-07:002004-06-18T17:58:48.076-07:00

I think the picture explains all. Also, I recorded the sound outside with my PocketPC. Go listen: http://69.93.194.58/~dshadow/reallybadrain.mp3 Look at the rain hit my car! 

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087578407193552682004-06-18T10:06:00.000-07:002004-06-18T11:24:50.336-07:00

I sent an e-mail yesterday to South Alabama Registrar, and I got a reply back today. I was asking if they knew when I was supposed to register for Fall 2004 classes. Here's the e-mail: Cody, Your USA time ticket for the Fall 2004 term is from July 16th - Aug. 10th 2004. This is your Phase I registration time. You can log on to the PAWS system and view your time ticket, registration status,

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087448441044635632004-06-16T22:00:00.000-07:002004-06-16T22:00:41.053-07:00

As you can tell, my blog looks like OS X sorta, hehe. I love the styling in OS X, and I wanted my blog to have a streamlined look to it. The sidebar is all brand new, and as I write this, it's in beta, at 0.7 right now. The 1.0 release for the sidebar will probably tomorrow. The sidebar features right now, my recomended and favorite downloads, notes from my classes. Let me talk about this one for

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087418376409712172004-06-16T13:39:00.000-07:002004-06-16T14:09:56.076-07:00

I've been spending a lot of time lately in Photoshop and graphic design stuff, so I think it's about time to switch back over to IT stuff again. I usually go through periods in which I prefer to do one over the other. But, I've had some sparks of interest again for networking, so I'm thinking about re-designing the topology of my network. I have pencil/paper and Visio Pro 2002. Plus, I want to

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087395779185174952004-06-16T07:22:00.000-07:002004-06-16T14:38:24.510-07:00

Get ready for a new re-design of the blog in the next 24-48 hours from now. It's going to be a lot different than what I have now, and I have a feeling it's going to be the best redesign to date. Oh, and one more thing. I'm also going to be working on the sidebar for the next day or so. It'll come to be known as "The Sidebar You Can't Live Without" (or MySidebar version 1.0). It's going to be

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087345287816251112004-06-15T17:21:00.000-07:002004-06-15T20:27:58.883-07:00

You know, I didn't have HBO for that long, and I missed a lot of good shows. I did catch about 4 episodes of The Sopranos, durring it's first season or so, and it was pretty good. But getting rid of HBO combined with the fact that I missed the first season, I never watched Sex and the City before. I've always wanted to watch it, but never had the chance. So tonight, TBS is going to show the

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087320201193943172004-06-15T10:23:00.000-07:002004-06-15T10:24:22.483-07:00

So I decided that today would be the day that I go do some stuff that I needed to do. I needed to go to the University of South Alabama, and drop off some papers reguarding my finacial aid for Fall 04 and Spring 05 semesters, and I also wanted to go to BestBuy to ask about their "GeekSquad" that they are putting together (they do housecalls to fix people's computers and stuff). I get to South

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087272983310335252004-06-14T21:16:00.000-07:002004-06-14T23:02:45.303-07:00

I have a gmail invite to give away. Yes, I said I have a gmail invite to give away....OMFG!!!! LiKe, omgosh!!!!1 lol OK, first person to sign my comments and say "CypherXero is cool, thepOsin sucks, and lineman is smart", will get a gmail account. You HAVE to say that phrase in the comments, word for word. So the first person in the comments to say it wins. Just be sure to include your First

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087231556984816802004-06-14T09:45:00.000-07:002004-06-14T09:45:57.006-07:00

I can't go anywhere today. I was planning on going to several places today, but the weather is really bad. I hate driving in bad weather, because the accident rate goes much higher. And nothing I have to do today is "mission critical", so I'll go when it gets clear out again, like tomorrow or something.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087195530757396902004-06-13T23:45:00.000-07:002004-06-13T23:51:11.156-07:00

As I sit here, with the bright lamp as my only light, I type away on my laptop, listening to music on Winamp. Over the past view days I've pissed off people, lost friends, and thankfully, regained their friendship. Tomorrow I have to go to my University to drop off some papers reguarding my financial aid at South. And then I'm going over to BestBuy to look around, and talk to the manager about

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087091287247318132004-06-12T18:48:00.000-07:002004-06-12T23:20:59.876-07:00

I've decided to take a step up now, before any problems arise in the future that I'm not prepared for. Since my Photoshop work takes a long time, and a lot of creativity goes into it, I've signed up with the Creative Commons Licensing Agreement. I put a code on my sidebar, you should see it over on the right side. If you click that little image, it will take you to a page explaining the

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1087014973525196152004-06-11T21:36:00.000-07:002004-06-11T21:36:13.553-07:00

OK, I'm gonna post a little quiz. First, I'm going to list the music videos that inspire me to create, and then you guys can list your favorites in the comments. It doesn't have to be inpiration to create, it could be anything. Like jumping around like a madman while listening to Limp-Bizkit or something. Or whatever. So, here's my list of music videos that inspire me to create: (if it's a link,

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086925818174087532004-06-10T20:50:00.000-07:002004-06-10T20:50:18.180-07:00

Time for a rant post. These are rare. But I have a few things I'd like to address. My artwork. And a girl.There are some people out there that have zero creativity and zero original ideas. But they want recognition. They want to steal someone else's ideas, and make it seem as if they came up with it. Now, I'm not saying that I'm the first and only person to come up with ideas about certain styles

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086905424740086572004-06-10T15:10:00.000-07:002004-06-10T15:12:51.366-07:00

I just got myself a copy of Corel Draw 8. I have no idea how to use it right now, but I'm sure I'll learn it pretty fast. I'm going to use it to help create vector art for my Photoshop artwork. Also, I have another post coming up soon tonight, it's a must read. I have a few things going on in my life that's just pissing me off to no ends. You'll hear more about that soon. And damn, it's hot in

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086890181701506182004-06-10T10:56:00.000-07:002004-06-10T10:56:21.706-07:00

Thanks to wyckedone, I downloaded this awesome software called "Easy Recovery Pro 6". It scanned my hard drive, and found all my files I had deleted, all 4.7GB worth. I selected to have them recovered, and had it copy the files to my MAIN hard drive on my server (that hard drive works fine). So, After waiting 40 minutes to have my PSD files recovered, I discovered that I could not open them in

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086876027830236342004-06-10T07:00:00.000-07:002004-06-10T07:00:27.840-07:00

Yeah, I fucked up. Sorry the the language, but I feel it's called for in this situation. OK, here's what happened:My harddrive on my laptop was getting full (I have a 40GB HD, and I have about 4.9GB of free space left). So I decided to copy a bunch of files over to my server's secondary hard drive (40GB on it, it had nothing on it). So I transfer ALL of my PSD files over to it (PSD files are

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086789275831439352004-06-09T06:54:00.000-07:002004-06-09T06:54:35.836-07:00

I know, I know, my blog is slowing down, due to lack of updates. But, there's nothing really going on around here, nothing worth talking about, nothing exciting. Damn, I can't belive I'm about to tsay this, but I wish Fall semester would start already! I wanna have something to talk about, and I want to have new daily adventures in the world, lol.My dad and I are trying to start up a little

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086373184338946032004-06-04T11:19:00.000-07:002004-06-04T11:34:25.290-07:00

Man, I have "car lag". I've been driving around most of the day, trying to find the hidden little photo studios. I've had my laptop in the passenger seat, with Map Point 2004 open, trying to chart my way into strange places. Lets see, here's what's happened so far today. I woke up at 7:30 AM, and started to burn multiple copies of my portfolio video, and print out enough copies on my resume.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086325643785611202004-06-03T22:07:00.000-07:002004-06-03T22:07:23.790-07:00

I've decided to go on yet another job hunt. But this time, I'm doing things differently. I've created a special re-working of my Art Portfolio video, and I got the_d from the Computer Help Forums to help me create that video into a SWF file, that autoruns in full screen, on a CD. So I got the ISO from him, burned it, and looks great. Also, I've printed out my resume, and I will hand prospective

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086239212400754912004-06-02T22:06:00.000-07:002004-06-02T22:07:40.753-07:00

I've had my head stuck in Photoshop and the Computer Help Forums for the past few days (or is that EVERYDAY, lol). Here's a few things I've done with my time: A drawing of Uma Thurman, done in Photoshop (click for large image)A photo of myself, created to have a "Max Payne" look to it, took like an hour (click for large image)A cool wallpaper I created in Photoshop (click for large image)  And

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086064394532532152004-05-31T21:33:00.000-07:002004-05-31T21:33:14.536-07:00

I noticed that my graphics were really huge, and when designing web graphics, the first and only real concern is speed. And the file sizes for the images were really large. I took six images that are on my blog (like the banner, etc..), and looked at their file sizes as a whole. All six images totaled to 291KB, which makes a big difference on the web. So, I took those six images, and ran them

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1086043989807681562004-05-31T15:53:00.000-07:002004-05-31T15:55:50.840-07:00

I was looking through my filing cabnet today, and I found a piece of paper, dated September 15th, 2003. This was the first "paper" I wrote for my English 101 class, durring my first semester in college. It was a Rhetorical Analysis paper, and we had to go out to a location, and write what we see. We were tasked to write a Negative response and a Possitive response. This is the Negative response.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085965555795874582004-05-30T18:05:00.000-07:002004-05-30T18:05:55.803-07:00

OK, I had a brand new design on here for about 24 hours, it looked cool, but I felt it wasn't right for the blog, so I've changed it to another new template, and created a bunch of new graphics. That top banner (the one that says Life of an IT Major), see that animated circle? That was the most complex GIF animation I've ever made. And again, sorry for the confusion with the layout, I'm sure I've

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085940147818394312004-05-30T11:02:00.000-07:002004-06-01T15:26:25.476-07:00

I made another video showcasing my artwork. It's 25MB, and you need Windows Media Player to watch it. Here's the link to download it: Edit: Video taken down temporarily, due to bandwidth issues. If you NEED the video for some reason, e-mail me at cypherxero@gmail.com ,and I will uploaded it for you. Thanks.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085875216167395532004-05-29T17:00:00.000-07:002004-05-29T17:00:16.180-07:00

What does everyone think of my new design? I got bored once again, and I decided a redesign was needed. So I'm experimenting with stuff. All the graphics were created my me (duh, I love Photoshop).

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085788389936086632004-05-28T16:53:00.000-07:002004-05-28T16:54:14.793-07:00

I went to the store to buy some food for the weekend (I got a bunch a good stuff!), and I'm coming out of the store, and I put my key in the lock on the trunk, and proceed to open the trunk, to put the groceries in, when all of the sudden *snap!*...I look at the key I'm holding in my hand, and it half of the key broke off inside the lock in my trunk! I was like "Oh shit, this isn't good...", so I

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085756464821016922004-05-28T08:01:00.000-07:002004-05-28T08:34:07.106-07:00

So my crazy uncle stopped by my house this morning, and my dad was here. He came in, and started asking questions like "When are we[my grandmother's 5 kids] going to get together to discuss her will?" and various other things. Well, now we can tell what he really cares about: material objects. He wants stuff. And I showed those photos to my dad (the ones where he's taking stuff), and my dad told

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085697970387271622004-05-27T15:46:00.000-07:002004-05-27T15:50:38.010-07:00

I have a pretty cool setup at my home. That image shows my laptop: AMD Athlon XP-m 2500+ @ 1.87GHz ATI Radeon 320M IGP 512MB DDR RAM 40GB IDE HD Windows XP Pro Broadcom 802.11g WiFi I have a dual-screen setup, with a 17" monitor to the right of my laptop. It really comes in handy for graphic design and when I'm multitasking something. You can also see my Toshiba e330 PocketPC, my Intuos2 Wacom

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085676157684404712004-05-27T09:42:00.000-07:002004-05-27T11:46:46.286-07:00

So, I went out wardriving today, and it lasted about an hour and 30 minutes long. I went into a bunch a new places I've never driven before. I took a bunch of photos, and uploaded them using "Hello", a really cool program. You can click the image for the full resolution. Oh, and TCP/IP was turned off on my NIC at this time, to make sure no connecting happened. Here's what I got for this hour and

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085666927444335862004-05-27T07:08:00.000-07:002004-05-27T07:08:47.450-07:00

It's 9AM right now, and I just had a stroke of genius. Well, not really, but I know I won't be bored for a few hours. I'm gonna take an early morning wardrive, into some areas I've never been to before. I'm gonna hit the rich neighborhoods, and see what they have. I also have Microsoft MapPoint 2004 on my laptop, so there's no getting lost, either, and I also have NetStumbler 0.4.0, too. Well,

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085586683826112422004-05-26T08:51:00.000-07:002004-05-30T21:29:20.046-07:00

My crazy-ass uncle has been scheming since I could remember. He wants a lot of stuff from my grandmother's land. We live out in the middle of nowhere, and on our land, we have this big huge barn that a lot of stuff gets stored in. Most of the stuff belonged to my grandfather (he died in 1991). So yesterday, he asked me over the phone if my dad was out of town, and I told him yes, he is. So today,

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085544039293560212004-05-25T21:00:00.000-07:002004-05-30T21:29:39.406-07:00

How does everyone like my new design? I had the "Gothic Style" up, and this new style is called "Futuristic Style". Also, if you haven't notice, I'm gonna start creating witty and funny post titles, you know, to give this blog right hurr some spicceee. Yo, hit me with some comments. More Updates Later...

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085527898053622672004-05-25T16:31:00.000-07:002004-06-04T12:21:10.443-07:00

That's one of the many odd things you will see on the streets of Mobile. Yes, it was odd, I'd say a tad askew, but whatever, lol. Maybe your town has some? I drove over to Amy's house today, I DBAN'ed both HDs (10GB and 40GB), and put them back in the machine for her, and connected it to the IDE chain. She's going to try to sell that old POS to someone, and make some quick cash for herself. On

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085440179713070862004-05-24T16:09:00.000-07:002004-06-04T12:21:32.653-07:00

Today was the funeral. Today was the last time I would get to see my grandmother. I showed up at the funeral home with my dad and his girlfriend, and talked to some people there for about an hour. Then, the service started in the chapel, and myself and the 5 other pallbearers wallked together after everyone else was in there, and we got to sit in the front row. The service was really nice, and it

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085370201583665462004-05-23T20:43:00.000-07:002004-06-04T12:21:50.370-07:00

Today I went to my grandmother's wake. My dad, his girlfriend Lisa, and I, headed out to the funeral home around 4PM, and a lot of my family from my dad's side was there, and I talked to a bunch of people. I also went over to my grandmother's casket (it was an open casket), and that was the hardest thing I've probably ever done. That was a powerful and unforgiving image, seeing my grandmother

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085202603749574632004-05-21T22:10:00.000-07:002004-05-23T11:19:33.513-07:00

Tired Today has been a pretty long day. I've got really bad allergies right now, and I've felt miserable all day today. My aunts came over to my house, and cleaned up a lot of stuff, and my dad's girlfriend, Lisa, is spending a few days over here, too. My dad, Lisa, and I, went out to eat dinner at a Mexican restuarant on Old Shell road, I forget the name of it, but it's real close to Satoris. We

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085102901179627102004-05-20T18:28:00.000-07:002004-05-20T18:28:21.180-07:00

And the sun sets...At 7:20 PM, on May 20th, 2004, my grandmother passed away................I ran away for an hour, just driving around, and now I'm back home. A lot of people from my family are here now. Thanks for all your support, guys, this is a tough thing to go through. RIPThelma G. Rester

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1085063539638627262004-05-20T07:32:00.000-07:002004-05-20T07:32:19.636-07:00

I have recieved my moneyOn a lighter note from the previous post, I just checked my Financial Aid status at South Alabama's website, and the FAFSA loan went through OK, and I've been given $10,734.00 for the 2004-2005 school year. Woohoo! This means I can continue with my education at my University. My family didn't have enough money to put me through college, so I have to take out Federal

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084986197391808142004-05-19T10:03:00.000-07:002004-05-19T10:03:17.390-07:00

I Had To Leave The HouseLast night may have been the worst time I've ever had going to sleep. As I mentioned in my last post, my grandmother isn't doing so well, and it seems now that things have taken a turn for the worse. One of her good friends spent the night with her last night, to watch over her, since she's in such bad shape. The nurses gave my grandmother morhpine last night before she

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084921910141573922004-05-18T16:11:00.000-07:002004-05-18T16:11:50.140-07:00

Dark Days AheadI live in this huge house, with my dad and my grandmother. I've lived here for like 3 years now. My grandmother is getting in bad shape, she's getting weaker everyday. I believe my aunt told me today, that the nurses that visit her, said that she (my grandmother), may only have a few more weeks to live. So yeah, this is a strange time for me right now. I don't really have much else

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084851050120724642004-05-17T20:30:00.000-07:002004-05-17T20:33:09.446-07:00

IT Blogs This is what my blog wants to be, something like this: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/. This blog, while following myself through college and becoming and IT major, hasn't quite hit that "IT" mark, and reading my posts, you'd think I wasn't in IT. But, my college classes have gotten off to a slow start, I've been taking a lot of required classes first, to get them out of the way. But,

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084842927332401162004-05-17T18:15:00.000-07:002004-05-17T18:15:27.333-07:00

SoreWhoa, talk about a workout. I haven't done any martial arts in years (I used to be a green belt in TKD, then I was forced to move to Birmingham for a few years...it's a long story.). So anyways, my good friend Tim, teaches Dragon Kempo, and I'm going to get back into the martial arts scene. So, I drove down to Davidson High School, and got there at 6PM. It was an hour long session, and damn,

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084742390653672582004-05-16T14:19:00.000-07:002004-05-16T14:19:50.653-07:00

Ping MeI just got back from Amy's house. When I went over last time, to connect her new computer up, I took her two old hard drives from her old Gateway, and took them home with me. I put them in my Server, as a Slave on the IDE chain, mounted the HD from Windows Server 2003, and copied all of her important data onto my master drive of my server, and from there, networked over onto my laptop's

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084587983748624202004-05-14T19:26:00.000-07:002004-05-14T19:26:23.746-07:00

ReminiscingI've had a blog since July 28th, 2003 (almost 10 months ago), and I've saved all my old posts and stuff, to be compiled in a book once college is over with (tentatively titled: Life of an IT Major). Anyways, I wrote a quote from my favorite movie on my very first blog post 10 months ago, and this is what it said:"Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye."How true

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084420872903320182004-05-12T21:01:00.000-07:002004-05-12T21:01:12.903-07:00

Out With A FriendSo I'm sitting at home, just finishing up a few things on my new blog redesign (thanks for the comments on the design, btw). I sign onto AIM, and Amy sends me an IM, and tells me about her dead, dying computer. She tells me that it won't boot, and lots and lots of programs start up when Windows starts, and it makes her computer freeze. Her computer was an old one, it was an old

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084375769753546062004-05-12T08:29:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:58:58.136-07:00

Overhaul I might be overhauling my blog's look and feel today. I will try and use my signature graphics, so those won't go anywhere. I just want a new layout, a new way to organize things on my blog. So if for some reason it starts to look radically different from what you remember, it's supposed to be that way. I've had the same blog layout for a long time now, I've just been changing the top

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084317549884837552004-05-11T16:19:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:45:01.620-07:00

Pissed Off There are things that will make you stop and think. I stopped caring about hating thebroken, listening to music, or the fighting I used to have between people at TD. In the news today, a report about a video from Al-Qaeda came out today. The video had about 5 Al-Qaeda members standing around an American in an orange jumpsuit. After giving a speech in their own language, they proceeded

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084225471599263362004-05-10T14:44:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:45:17.356-07:00

Quick Side Note To those that are wondering, I will no longer be associated with thebroken. I used to be the most vocal member of thebroken, I had about 2500+ posts. But seeing as thebroken has gone downhill, I cannot continue supporting thebroken. I will not be signing back up for the new thebroken forums (when and IF they ever get created). I've met a lot of cool people there (I still talk to a

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084198641189343632004-05-10T07:17:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:45:31.576-07:00

New Design OK, I have a new design up. I've always wanted to make a Gothic-style blog template, so that's what I made this morning. It's 9:15AM, so the design my not be my best, because I just woke up not long ago. And in other news, Blogger has redesigned their homepage, and all of their layouts. It's really nice. Also, Blogger users get to fill out profiles now, and we can also view stats. Like

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084159421654627262004-05-09T20:23:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:45:53.170-07:00

Awakening by Cody Rester It's four past ten The clock is frozen in place My thoughts flow from this pen My tears hit the ground in disgrace This self-delusion defines my soul It gives meaning to a meaningless world To feign this control To these new emotions now unfurled Staring down the lonely road I see my past, haunted I see my present, slowed My future, undaunted It's time to begin anew

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1084059714566175922004-05-08T16:41:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:54:19.173-07:00

Discovering a new band I was watching music videos over at Yahoo! last night, when I saw a 31 second commercial from Target, about a band. I was like "whoa" they sound good, and I wrote down the name of the band. I then watched their music video, called "Heaven's a Lie", and the music style was exactly what I like. So what did I write down? The band is called "Lacuna Coil", and they're a Goth/

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083972171401727492004-05-07T16:22:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:46:37.483-07:00

Lets kick off the summer vacation, shall we? Today is my first real day away from school, and I don't have to go back until the Fall. My friend Sam came over to my house this morning, and we watched some TV and listened to some music, and then we left to go see "Van Helsing" in the theaters, at 1:45PM. Damn, that movie was awesome, it kicked ass. It had legendary creatures in it, such as Dracula,

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083900977516633522004-05-06T20:36:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:46:52.230-07:00

Comcast Fires TechTV Staff This has got to be the worst news I've heard all day. According to Leo Laporte's blog, all staff members at TechTV have been given a 60-day notification of the termination of their jobs. This sucks. TechTV is the greatest channel out there for us geeks, because, well, no one else has really made a channel for computer users. G4 must be retarded.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083866365509658652004-05-06T10:56:00.000-07:002004-05-12T11:49:17.906-07:00

Summer It's here. I took my last final exam this morning, and I'm now officially free for the summer. And to kickstart things, I'm going out tomorrow night (Friday), and I'm going to see "Van Helsing" in the theaters. And, I have plenty of time for wardriving as well, so look for some cool blog entries about wardriving and stuff. And I've been staying in touch with Amy, which is really nice.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083819561768899462004-05-05T21:57:00.000-07:002004-05-05T22:03:47.263-07:00

The Final Showdown The time draws near. Precal Final Exam: ETA: 10 hours 30 minutes. The last of my final exams. This one is going to be a bitch. Can you say "Fuck!"? And now I fall asleep, and await my fate.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083734021906039082004-05-04T22:13:00.000-07:002004-05-04T22:18:06.700-07:00

Almost DoneToday I took my Psychology 120 exam, all 99 questions of it. I'm so glad that it's getting closer to being over with. School drags on unti the bitter end, lol. It's midnight right now and I'm tired as hell. Getting a cup of coffee from the local cafe, Carpe Diem, isn't really phasing me right now, because after I post this, I'm hitting the bed. I have one more class left to take an

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083697681040628532004-05-04T12:08:00.000-07:002004-05-04T12:11:53.186-07:00

ATI Radeon X800XT"MARKHAM, ON – To the delight of gamers everywhere, ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today launched its RADEON™ X800 Visual Processing Unit (VPU) which will deliver the industry’s most awesome gaming experience possible on a PC. With the introduction of the RADEON X800, ATI continues its two year reign as the industry leader in high-end graphics for gaming and

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083609471901876792004-05-03T11:37:00.000-07:002004-05-03T12:37:59.936-07:00

Burn Baby, Burn! Check it out!!! (NOTE: This has nothing to do with Amy, or her abilites as a teacher. This has to do with how lame I am at giving speeches. This is 100% my problem, not my cool teacher (Amy). OK, I got that out of the way, now comment!) :)

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083606491506089102004-05-03T10:48:00.000-07:002004-05-03T10:52:22.793-07:00

The End of Public Speaking ClassToday I had my final exam in CA 110 (Public Speaking). It was a 50 question exam, with multiple choice and True/False questions. After the exam, I turned in my answer sheet, and picked up my tape. Everytime we give a speech, the audio/video of the speech is recorded from a video camera, onto VHS tapes. All of our speeches are on our individuals tapes. As soon as I

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083436151415117942004-05-01T11:29:00.000-07:002004-05-01T11:36:25.200-07:00

Giving a name to my laptop...finally! I finally decided to give my laptop a name, I'm tired of calling it "laptop" or "lappy". Presenting, my laptop's new name: Yep, the name of my laptop is now Beatrix. After seeing Kill Bill volumes I and II, the name of Uma Thurman's character is Beatrix Kiddo. And since Uma Thurman is HOTTTTTTTT, and Kill Bill was an awesome movie, I decided upon Beatrix.

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083390521104685592004-04-30T22:48:00.000-07:002004-04-30T22:53:00.140-07:00

Audio Blog: Going to the movies againOK, I've made another audio blog. This time, I went to go see "Godsend" in the theaters. I've changed a few things about the audio blog, because I couldn't get the file smaller without distorting it, so I turned it into an MP3 instead of a WAV this time. And I CANNOT get Mozilla Firefox to play MP3s using the tags I know how to use. But it works perfectly in

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083342242090464052004-04-30T09:24:00.000-07:002004-04-30T09:28:20.606-07:00

Last Day before FinalsToday (Friday) is the last day before my finals begin. I'm in Public Speaking class right now (using my laptop and w.bloggar to write), and I have a class tonight in English 102. Tonight's English class will be THE last time I go to it, because I'm going to turn in my final paper, and take my final exam tonight, too. I've heard it's just going to be a writing assignment, to

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1083170393650355032004-04-28T09:39:00.000-07:002004-04-28T09:44:09.140-07:00

Bad Speech...BAD speechToday I gave a really really sucky speech. Yes, I am NOT a public speaking kind of person. Oh yeah, it sounds good and you write it, and read it by yourself. But, for me at least, whenever I get up in front of the class to deliver my speech, something happens, and I turn into a nervous wreck. WTF? Ehh, I like the teacher, Amy, but don't really care for the subject matter at

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-108307039896806262004-04-27T05:53:00.000-07:002004-04-27T05:57:32.670-07:00

Busy Busy BusyWhoa, I'm busy. I have like 2 weeks (including this week) left in this semester. In two weeks I'll be a sophomore in college! But, I'm really busy. I have to turn in a Chap. 4 practice test this morning, I've been working on it for about 4 days now. Then, tonight I have to give a presentation in Psych 120 class, and I've got the powerpoint at 10% finished, so I have some work to do

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1082811845433577382004-04-24T06:04:00.000-07:002004-04-24T06:08:15.716-07:00

Pimping My Ride: Part 2Today was pretty cool. I went to Public Speaking class, listened to a few people give their speeches, and then I left for Circuit City. My dad told me that he was going to buy me some new speakers for my car, so I was going to go check out the prices of the speakers, and then call him from CircuitCity, and see if he can get away from work to come pay for it. I was planning

CypherXeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843854.post-1082683264694616482004-04-22T18:21:00.000-07:002004-04-22T18:25:12.686-07:00

Busy with lifeI haven't blogged in a few days, mainly because I only have a couple of weeks left in my classes this semester, and I'm stressing over Cal tests, English papers, speeches, a Psych presentation, and of course, final exams. Which leaves me feeling pretty drained, which means I haven't felt like writing a blog post in a few days. But I feel I need to take a few minutes to update, so my

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