JontySewell.net

That's right, I've finally got around to installing a WYSIWYG editor!  I'm using CKEditor, which looks pretty good.  As well as that, I've decided to consolidate my assets (and save some money) and migrate my website and hosting onto my VPS.  Apart from this actually giving my VPS something to do, there shouldn't be anything different at your end.  Funnily enough, it should actually work better than it used to!  I never realised but the old installation wasn't using the correct font for some reason, and now it is, and I think I prefer it this way.

I just need to figure out some e-mail forwarders so that my @jontysewell.net addresses continue to work, and that should be it.  If there is anything you find that doesn't work, please send me an e-mail and I'll try to fix it - there's a lot of little things that I don't have time to test.

Nothing else much seems to have changed on the site, I'm just pleased that I can do things like _this and this now without much effort. :p

Oh, and there are new smileys, too. The old smiley plugin never really worked.

I was looking through the big folder in my Documents called "Old" yesterday, and I happened across some rather old English homework from when I was fourteen (well okay, that's only three years ago; it feels like a long time):

http://www.jontysewell.net/files/happiness-is.pdf

I remember spending more time on the design than the actual words back then, but it made me think. Do I have a little bit all to myself? No. I made a resolution last year that I should always try and be positive, but it just gets harder and harder! One of two things happens. I'll start enjoying something, but then think 'hang on, I shouldn't be doing this; I have x and y and z to do for school!' or just plain 'I shouldn't be doing this anyway', and then it's gone. That, or every time I start enjoying myself at something, it ends!

For what it's worth, I don't hate going to school or doing school work. I just resent the fact that all the people who talk to me about school concentrate on academic achievement as being the sole most important thing. I know they don't think that, but it's hard to convey because it's just the way the world works nowadays. So I've decided that as well as trying to concentrate on pure academic achievement to get me to university, I'm also going to concentrate on getting out of the house, and showing everyone that they can just trust me.

Did I do all that stuff I was blabbering about on Monday?

The smileys box is still broken.
I'm still using the plain-text editor. (otherwise I'd probably do this in a nice list)
I have actually done all my homework, which doesn't usually happen. Some of the physics was too confusing, though.
I tried to set up a domain in a Server 2003 VM, then gave up while trying to configure the DNS, then tried to set one up in Samba in an Archlinux VM, then gave up on that as well as I realised I couldn't really be bothered.
Stargate Universe and FlashForward are both still awesome. Completely forgot about BSG: The Plan, but it turns out it's fairly rubbish anyway.
Gave up on Snow Leopard for now, I'd probably need a new hard disk anyway (GUID nonsense)

Finished the church website! Well, finished copying pages over from the old one. Some of the pages are a bit short, and some are new - but I've got a meeting on Friday to discuss all that.
Rolled some nice DVDs off the production line, although currently there are more in the bin than at church. The first one didn't burn properly, the second one didn't play, the third had a horrible broken menu and the fourth one was one second out of sync everywhere. It's all OK now though. *glares at PowerDirector*

Still need to burn those CDs. I'll find out how many I need to do tomorrow. I'm helping run a whole Scout meeting in two weeks! Scary scary, I'll need all the help I can get (although there are three other leaders who have helped decide what to do).

I think the last.fm flash gadget thing displays last week's charts, not this weeks. Le smeel.

The smileys box on this site is still broken.
I tried to install a WYSIWYG editor, but then I realised that everything was out of date and it'd take me ages to fix it all, so I didn't bother.
I thought I had tons of homework to do this holiday, but it turns out I can do it all quite easily in one day.
Coding my computing database is going to be a bit difficult at home, as it's tied into the school's Active Directory, but I suppose I could set up a spoof domain in a virtual machine on Samba or Server 2003.
If I had a fileserver, I'd put FreeNAS on it. It's just brilliant!
On a whim I just updated my TT-Forums signature with lots of colourful links. It needs a picture now, though.
Watched Stargate Universe yesterday - still think it's awesome. Got FlashForward to watch today.
I've been trying to install Snow Leopard onto my PC for the last week without the 8GB flash drive that everyone claims is nessecary. Perhaps I should just go and buy a new memory stick. (although, it should've worked with my external hard drive but the Leopard install I had in VMWare conked out while copying files to that for some reason)
Ubuntu Karmic Koala sure does boot up ridiculously quickly on my PC, but it seems to have regressed in the wifi department and my card no longer works, so it's useless to me.
I can't get enough of Windows 7, though.
Hopefully I'm going to finish all the pages for the church website this week. Lots of people have been talking to me about it, which is nice.
I've got a video to finish editing and publish, too.
And a bunch of CDs to burn with pictures from the Scouts trip to Switzerland.
This is turning into a to-do list again, isn't it?
I've just realised how easy it is to cut out shapes in Photoshop, yay.
I had a go at doing an animation in Flash on Saturday, but I can't really be bothered. There are already plenty of Flash developers out there!

Well no, perhaps I don't have swine flu. Yet. Instead, I seem to have some sort of staged flu.

I woke up in the middle of the night on Saturday with what I think can be classified as a 'stonking' headache, and I couldn't get back to sleep for the rest of the night, which means I felt worn out on Sunday. By Sunday afternoon, however, the headache had gone, I just had a sore throat instead. Then this morning, I had no headache or sore throat, but a blocked nose. Now I've just come in from Scouts and I feel completely fine (albiet a little tired out, but that's just Scouts for you) but I seem to have lost my voice.

Oh well, I guess having one flu symptom per day is better than having them all at once. But what will it be tomorrow? Time will tell.