Downtime

For two hours today, the orangesimile.net account was suspended. At first, the server was moving really slowly while I was trying to link to the Child’s Play site. Anyway, later I couldn’t even get on to my site. I have a look on the Network Redux announcement blog and notices that there’s a delinquent on our server, Thames, and that a user got removed. Hooray, justice wins again.

Then I noticed I still couldn’t get on my site. Then I noticed all the other orangesimile sites were down. And then I couldn’t log on to CPanel.

Crap. Continue reading

Round 3

So I hear that 9rules is finally having their third round of submissions coming around next Monday. 9rules is a network of sites with really awesome content covering a wide range of topics, from personal sites or web design to cartooning or marketing. I enjoy reading and going through a lot of 9rules sites and a few of them are daily reads for me. And ever since I discovered Bombast, I’ve wondered if my lovely site could ever make it in.

So yes, I’m going to give it a shot and submit my site. Anyone think my writing is good enough to be showcased among site of the highest quality across the Internets or am I having delusions of grandeur?

U UU Day

Yes, that is right, I actually made time to go to the University of Waterloo’s open house, UW Day, today! A few weeks ago, I wasn’t going to go, but my visit to McMaster changed that. It’s a good idea to visit a university to get a feel for it, even though you’ve already decided and are dead set that that is going to be where you’re headed. Alas, there are no pretty pictures, because they weren’t lying when they said the architecture stinks. Continue reading

Last EXILE

I downloaded and burned Last EXILE a while ago, back when I was still going through Gundam SEED. I forgot about it for a while until recently, after Gundam SEED Destiny was finished. The only thing I had to watch was Naruto so I decided to finish .hack//SIGN and finally go ahead with Last EXILE. I should be working, but I can’t stop watching. Continue reading