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I think that due to how great WordPress has been, with a number of hits (amazing) and the immense ease of use, I’m going to keep the blog here until I get a real domain, and use chellberg.flphost.com (whenever it propagates) to hone (learn) my skills regarding web design.  If I somehow accidentally got something to look really really cool, I might decide to move to chellberg.flphost.com, but I kinda doubt it.  This current setup is just too nice to walk out on until I get my own domain.

My other option would be to start some other kind of website with chellberg.flphost.com, besides a blog.  I thought of making a forum for my entire high school once, but come to think of it, it’d be next to impossible to moderate without 30 or 40 dedicated moderators (my high school has ~4000 students) so that idea’s out.  I also thought of making a forum just for my friends, to put funny stuff or interesting stuff or whatever, but then I realized, *doh*, Facebook already did that.  So I’m sorta running low on ideas…but I’ll think of something.  Using it to practice web design isn’t a waste at all, really.  So yeah, that’s the update for Technology tonight.  Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have something interesting up on chellberg.flphost.com to show you. 
Until then, good night, and good luck.

Hehe.  Always wanted to say that.

I know this is very unprofessional, but I’m going to discuss something I heard on BBC Radio last night without providing a source.  I just googled it but I couldn’t find anything… Anyway, sue me.  (Please don’t) It was about 6:30 GMT last night - 2:30 AM EST, and this BBC reporter was interviewing the Undersecretary of State (or something) about Iraq, and the U.S. government’s plan to arm Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia in return for their support of Iraq and enmity with Iran (as far as I can tell).  After the Undersecretary (or whoever) avoided answering the reporters questions directly, he said something that I thought was hilarious.  Although again, I don’t have the actual quote, what he said was, ‘What Iraq really needs now is a friend.”  Sure, this point is actually valid in that allies in the area can help to stabilize the country, he made it sound like despite all the violence that occurs in Iraq everyday, all we need to do to fix it is to find Iraq a playmate.  Once we do that, Iraq will calm down and play nicely in the sandbox like the rest of the Middle East.  Anyways… Probably not a great topic to be my first political post, but there it is.

I’ll do more careful research in the future, honest

Thought I’d try to post pictures of the themes right here, just for kicks.

I spoke to Gnomish (guy who’s giving me the domain) today and everything seems to be set up properly. All I have to wait for now is the subdomain to propagate (realize it’s pointing somewhere else than it is, basically) and I can start. I’ve decided to install WordPress, and I’ve already uploaded all the necessary files such that when the subdomain is ready all I have to do is begin the configuration. I haven’t picked a theme yet, but I really like Darkwater 1.0, Dark LiquidCard 2.0, and Sca4ered 1.5. If anyone has an opinion about these, please let me know, or else I might become indecisive for the next month and never get anything done.

Installing these things seems to be very easy. All you do is modify a php file with your SQL db information, upload it, and get started. Might be harder than it seems though… I’ll find out

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

Politics + Technology (two things I’m very interested in) = Technocracy (this new blog)

Since I don’t wanna go to the trouble of promoting and maintaining two blogs, I decided to fuse them. Enter Technocracy (thanks to Max for the name, and if it’s copyrighted or something, to the owner of the copyright, leave me alone, kthx) my soon-to-be-excellent blog about stuff I like to talk about. Yeah. Lucid huh… Anyways. I’ll probably touch on stuff that doesn’t fall into either of those two catagories, such as how everyone but me has horrible taste in music, but I’ll try to stay focused most of the time.

Please, tell your friends. Hell, tell random strangers. Well, no, dont’. That’d be like those idiots who spam their websites all over YouTube. Don’t do that. Just tell people who won’t be annoyed by you telling them.

Thanks,

Corin Chellberg