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1:40am Style Updated Yet Again!

The custom style sheet for the K2 Wordpress theme used at this site, 1:40am, has been updated once again, this time to add compatibility with K2 1.0.  Admittedly, K2 1.0 isn’t as good looking as it was in the RC days, I think, but nonetheless upgrading is necessary…FOR PROGRESS!

Download the new version here.

1:40am Style Updated!

Now with support for Wordpress image captions!

And even Wordpress image captions!

1:40am, the K2 stylesheet used on this site, has been slightly updated!  It now features support for…

Headlines

In all sizes!

They worked before.

Just not particularly well.

You can go all the way down to H6.
Like this.

And there’s more! Why not download it and give it a try?

The Greatest Comic of All Time

Introducing…

The New Adventures of Scrappy Doo: The Later Years

Featured in some college newspaper for the past several months, this comic follows the epic post-retirement adventures of the world-renowned detective, Scrapinold Dooington, as he interacts with a host of memorable characters.

Now, you can enjoy Scrapinold’s many adventures from the comfort of your own internet!  Well, what are you waiting for? Go now, before it’s too late!

Watch Out

Baseball Field: Park at your own risk.

Well, that’s one way to put it, Wal-Mart

/Pokemon/

To continue the “pictures of DS games I saw at a store in Austria” series, here’s a picture of the only version of Pokemon to feature a robust regular expression engine:

Picture of Pokemon Perl

Learning English

I’ve heard time and again that English is a difficult language to learn. However, during my stay in Austria (where English training is mandatory for all students), most people I talked to expressed their view that English was a very easy language to learn, especially compared to their native language, German.

This DS game is clearly the reason why:

ENGLISCH Buddy

After all, who wouldn’t want to learn English from that guy?

Happy 4th of July!

It’s the 4th of July, the 232nd year anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s writing of a politely indignant letter to Great Britain.  As such, you should probably watch this video:

How I Escaped Frozen Midnight Hosting

At long last, Freakified.net has returned!

So, what happened?
Screenshot of old Frozen Midnight home pageWell, after Frozen Midnight Hosting (link still dead as of this writing) happily took my money, I was provided with some stellar service involving quite a bit of downtime.  However, during my journey abroad, both Freakified.net and all of Frozen Midnight’s corporate sites went down completely, the latter being replaced with GoDaddy parking pages.  After I returned, I began calling the owner’s personal phone number (which I had obtained from an excellent, free historical whois database, and leaving voicemails.  I never received a response.  Sending emails was also pointless, as all the domains at which they were hosted no longer existed.  So I was stuck without a working site, and, more importantly, without control of the Freakified.net domain.  (Having been registered through Frozen Midnight, I didn’t technically own the domain.)

As a last resort, I decided to try using internet phone directories to find potential alternate contact lines.  After a few hours of searching, I was only able to dig up a single piece of information: the owner’s mom’s phone number.  Reluctantly, I called the number, and the person who answered was (understandably), rather pissed off that I’d called.  Nevertheless, she took down my info.

The next day, the owner of Frozen Midnight finally called me back, saying that he’d received a call from his mom, and that he would begin the transfer as soon as he had the necessary information.  I thus left a message, and within a few days, I received an email notification from GoDaddy saying that the domain had been pushed onto my account.

As of today, Freakified.net is now hosted on HostGator, which had already impressed me with their service.  Hopefully, they won’t turn out to be another Frozen Midnight.

In conclusion, Frozen Midnight is the greatest hosting company ever.

Vacation Responder

I think wordpress needs something equivalent to a vacation responder. For example, it could auto-generate inane posts for me.

On that note, my excuse for not posting for the next month is that I’m in Austria.

Also,