I feel like blogging again!
Now what to write about…
I could write short stories on a blog… People might steal them if anyone reads them though, so that’s a downside. Might be worth it. Just to have something to do.
Just got back from lunch… could blog about Buffalo Wild Wings =/
Nah. Later.
So I’m sitting here in my US History class staring at the blue and grey theme I’m using right now, and I’m not liking it. I’ve been looking for a new theme for the site for a few weeks, but haven’t found anything that I liked. I need a theme with widget support that’s dark. Those are my only real requirements. I don’t like the white/light themes because when you’re in a dark room and you pull them up, you are instantly blinded. C’est la vie. I found one that looked kinda like the new one Max put up on MaximeRousseau.com, with the buttons that light up on mouseover, but it didn’t really feel right. Anyway, the point of this diatribe is that I’d like your input on how this blog should look. Anyone reading this, I would love to hear suggestions about a type of theme, a specific theme, anything I could do to improve the viewing experience. Sites you could visit to browse themes include
www.Themes.Wordpress.net
www.WpThemesFree.com
www.WpThemeSpot.com
among others. If I get at least 2 comments I’ll be happy. I know someone is bound to read this eventually, so if you do, please, do the right thing. Leave a comment.
I finally did it. I made my first instructable. It was very easy, took me about 10 minutes to do. Hope you enjoy it! It’s simple but visually pleasing, in my opinion. That’s all for now 
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-create-an-amazing-Enemy-Territory-Quake-Wa/
This is insane. I haven’t updated Chellberg.Wordpress.com in a week. My last update stated that it was moving here. I’ve submitted Slaxxor.com to all the major search engines, and its content is the same or newer than Chellberg.Wordpress.com, and yet Chellberg.Wordpress.com got like a hundred times more traffic than Slaxxor.com. I don’t know if it’s a bug in the stats plugin or what, but Slaxxor has registered 15 total hits in the last five days and Chellberg.Wordpress.com has registered close to 50. If this remains the case after a few more days, I might find a different use for Slaxxor.com and keep my blog at Wordpress.
Wordpress.com evidently does a great job promoting their blogs, since my Wordpress is consistently higher in Google search results than Slaxxor even though the posts are identicle. Just to clarify, I use Wordpress software on Slaxxor.com as well. I like having my own domain, mainly because I really like the name and because I can upload my own plugins and themes, something you can’t do on Wordpress.com. I’m in a dilemma, I guess. Traffic vs. Control. Epic battle, no? I like having traffic, I really do, so I may just have to keep it here and make Slaxxor.com more of a public blog, with multiple submitters and editors. That might improve traffic over there too. Or I could set up a php page for Slaxxors (see What is a Slaxxor?) with forums and stuff… Who knows. Anybody got any suggestions? Please?
Just to maintain the test, I’m going to delete the “We’re Moving” post from my Wordpress and update it with my latest posts to see if it really is kicking Slaxxor’s ass.
Yeah… I got really tired of doing the “small jobs” for this guy… cause he was being really picky and lazy about it. Anyways, a friend is loaning me a subdomain (Chellberg.Flphost.com) and hosting to start on my very own site. It’ll take a lot of time to get it anywhere near a reader ready state so I’ll keep the blog here for a while. Hopefully Max’ll help me get it looking as professional as his. Either that or I go the cheap route and stick a php theme on there… Anyway, that’ll be fun.
Anyway, today I thought I’d write about X-Plane. X-Plane is an extremely accurate and expansive flight sim (read their description for more bragging) that has scenery files for pretty much the entire planet, plus Mars. You can do any number of things, from flying the Hindenburg to piloting a 747 to landing the Space Shuttle. The control is so realistic (I assume) that it actually makes it difficult and sometimes annoying to fly (could be I’m just bad at it, or that my joystick sucks) but the experience is so engrossingly accurate that for a while you may actually believe that you’re flying this plane, and start to get very very nervous as you stall into a dive and red-out from the excessively high g’s.
The first plane I flew was the 747, and I couldn’t get it to move for about 25 minutes. Turned out I had to take off the brake, haha. After I got that taken care of, I was able to easily take off and climb up to about 30,000 feet. Then I started to ignore the stick and play with the extensive buttons on the on-screen controls. Pretty much anything you click on the screen will do something to the plane, normally bad. Example: I clicked the “Dump Fuel” button. About a minute later I crashed. It takes a bit of setup to get the controls working, especially if you don’t want to have to stop and try to fumble the stick with your left hand while using your right hand to click the tiny controls. Other than that, X-Plane is a very scenic, accurate, and enjoyable flight simulator, whose $70 price tag is well earned by its vast scenery and aircraft selection. If there’s even a chance you think you’ll like a flight simulator or ever want to be a pilot, this game is for you.
Today I’ve been trying to get a domain (corinchellberg.com) so I can customize the site a bit more. Since I don’t have my own PayPal to buy one, I’ve been doing small jobs for a guy I know who owns a php installation company. Hopefully sooner or later he’ll buy the domain and I’ll be able to start playing around with it. Before he does that, apparently, I need to secure my hosting from Gnomish/Ricky Kozlowski. Wish me luck