Gekitsuu's Geekery

I've uploaded over 100 re-rendered fractals and I'm pleased to say that switching my server to Ubuntu seems to have give me a slight bump in speed. The podcast seems to be doing well aside from the problems we had last night with recording. We're going to try again tonight and hope that my connection holds up. Every time I spend a morning working on my fractals ideas race through my head about setting up calendars for sale on Lulu and I just never seem to find the time to do it. On the weight loss front I seem to be dropping again which is huge for me. I've been trying to lose weight since early may and so far I've dropped 35+ pounds. I know it seems like a lot but I lost most of it early on and my weight loss has slowed considerably. I keep trying to play with my diet/exercise to see if I can get back to the numbers that I had at the beginning but slowly I'm resigning my self to the fact that the reality is, it's going to be slower from now on. It's really sad that I haven't posted a blog entry in 5 months.

Big things brewing lately which is why I haven't posted in a couple days. Obviously things were busy with the 4th of July but also I am working a 6 day week so I didn't have as much time to do my weekly things as I normally do. Did manage to make some progress on my RSS aggregator. But I've run into a major snag with a UTF-8 problem that I'm going to research the proper way to fix. Originally I was just going to ask for help on PerlMonks but I know the answer I'm going to get. I have also made the fractals for my friend for her project and I'm currently still rendering some of the ones that I liked. The AWStats thing is on hold until further notice else I might get screwdriver-tossy.

A friend I met through DeviantART contacted me about helping her with a project she's working on.
She wanted me to make some fractals for an album she's doing and this is as good a reason as any to start posting the ones I've been
working on, which I'll probably do this weekend. She's linked on the right as Ouisa and is a great photographer, so please check out her
work. She made a good observation about my fractal gallary so I made the change she suggested. Now there are "Back" and "Next" links above
the thumbnails for better navigation, it was an easy thing to add and she was absolutly right about it being necessary. A brief post today
since up I'm way past my bed time.