I love Drupal. I love Gallery. I absolutely hate them together. I’m so frickin’ tired of trying to get these two to work together properly. The module is slow and flaky and I hate it. I would love to use someone like a Flickr or photobucket to manage the photos and then have embedded galleries on my Drupal site. I guess I’ll keep searching through the hundreds of modules for this kind of functionality, but if anyone knows a better way to have a Drupal site with an intergraded and advance gallery, please let me know.

:ʞuıl sıɥʇ ɥʇıʍ unɟ ǝʌɐɥ ‘uǝɥʇ lıʇun ʇnq ‘ɥƃnouǝ uoos ʇı oʇ ʇǝƃ ll,ı ˙ʎllɐǝɹ sƃuıɥʇ ƃıq ʎʇʇǝɹd ˙ʇı ʇnoqɐ ʞlɐʇ oʇ ǝɯıʇ ǝlʇʇıl os ɥʇıʍ ǝɟıl ʎɯ uı uo ƃuıoƃ ooʇ ɹɐɟ ǝʌɐɥ ı ˙uoos ǝɯıʇʎuɐ dn ƃuıɥɔʇɐɔ ɟlǝsʎɯ ǝǝs ʇ,uop ı puɐ ǝlıɥʍ ɐ ɹoɟ ǝɹǝɥ ɐıɯ uǝǝq ǝʌ,ı ʍouʞ ı ˙suoıʇɐlnʇɐɹƃuoɔ ‘sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı

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The site has been getting pretty slow (both performance and post wise), so I decided to upgrade to Drupal 6.2. To say the least, I fucked up the upgrade pretty good and decided to do a completely clean install. Just finished migrating all of the content into it with some minor work. I’ll play with the layout later, but it’s nice to know it was back up and running pretty quickly. Not that anyone noticed since I think I’m the only one who reads what I write here.

1998 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
– 55000 freeway miles
– LS1 V8 w/ 6-speed manual
– 2nd owner
– red w/ black top
– gray cloth
– no accidents
– clean title in hand

This is a sad day for me due to coming to the very hard decision to sell my beloved ’98 Camaro. Here’s a little background of the car and myself. I come from a Camaro family. Everyone in my family own multiple Camaros. This specific car I bought back in 2,000 with 18,000 miles on it from a Chevrolet dealership and have placed a measly 37,000 miles on it since then. Since it was the first Camaro I bought, I purchased it with hopes of collecting. It’s been entered into several Super Chevy Shows held in Pomona and taken home several 1st and 2nd place class awards. This car has been very well taken care of and absolutely never been abused in any way. There is one tiny dent, one tiny scratch on it, and that’s it. Pure and simple, it’s immaculate by anyone’s standards and bone stock with exception to a K&N filter charger. I will supply the original complete airbox if you wish to convert this back. Please see images below (which are also currently being used in Wikipedia articles). Yes, that is the actual Camaro pictured.

I am selling my car because I am interested in owning a first-generation Camaro that I can put my own time and effort into restoring and rebuilding. Because of this, I am also willing to look into trades (plus money if applicable) for a 1967 or 1968.

My asking price is Kelley Blue Book’s price. There may seem to be similar Camaros out there with lower prices, but you will not find one in the condition this car is in and with the care this car has received. With that being said, I am slightly flexible on my asking price.

Feel free to contact me though e-mail or cell to schedule a time to come see and test drive the car. Due to recent rains, the vehicle is not as clean as it could be right now, but I plan on a full detail being completed by the weekend.

626-390-8570

I can’t help but watch the Oscars right now and think to myself what should really be winning these awards. This being the case, here’s my picks for best of 2007. I have multiples in there where I think there are notable others.

• Best Picture:
  Into The Wild
  Michael Clayton
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Gone Baby Gone
• Best Director:
  Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
  Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
• Best Actor:
  Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
  George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
  Hal Holbrook (Into The Wild)
• Best Actress:
  Ellen Page (Juno)
  Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
• Best Original Screenplay:
  Michael Clayton
  Ratatouille
• Best Adapted Screenplay:
  Into The Wild
  No Country For Old Men
• Best Animated Feature:
  Ratatouille
• Best Cinematography:
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Best Visual Effects:
  Transformers
  Sunshine
• Best Sound:
  Sunshine
  Transformers

At the end of 2006, I chose my side in the HD video format war. Knowing there was no clear winner, I commited to Blu-ray as my next-gen HD video format of choice. I don’t think that was early enough to consider me an “early adopter.” I just didn’t expect the PS3 I bought in November 2006 to be such a completely waste as a gaming machine. As much of the gaming nut that I am, I’ve seriously purchased a single game for that hunk of crap that was quickly beaten and re-sold. This being the case, I gave my $699 “investment” some worth and started buying Blu-ray titles. Since then, I racked up a cautious Blu-ray library having purchased my 50th title (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) a little more than a week ago. I nearly shit a brick when Paramount and Dreamworks announced they would be supporting HD DVD exclusively back in August 2007 and almost brought balance back to the format war. At this point, it was said Warner Bros., having not chose an alliance yet, would be the defining production company to call a winner. They did so a month ago when they chose Blu-ray and then started the death watch for HD DVD. Numerous major retailers and rental companies soon dropped HD DVD support in the last couple of week. Smaller production companies followed. This morning, about an hour ago, Toshiba released a press release throwing in the towel and officially ending the format war. The end of this format war today is a good day for all consumers, including HD DVD supporters. Now all there is to do is pick up my copy of Michael Clayton later today and wait for Universal, Paramount, and Dreamwork to announce their pledge to Blu-ray as well.

11:10pm – I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here lately, but I mean what else am I gonna do at 11pm on a cold Monday night, standing in a line with hundreds of (other?) dorks, anxiously waiting for Halo 3 to be released at midnight. I’m freezing and completely at the mercy of minimum wage Game Stop clerks. As much as life seems to sucks right this second, I’ll be playing Halo 3 within the next couple of hours, bring life back to level “all good” in no time. So I ask you this: Who’s the sucka now? Damn skippy!

12:04am – The natives are getting restless and Dan is looking at me like I’m a giant Snikers bar. Help!

12:11am – People are yelling and I’m getting scared, yet excited. I need to get out of the line of dorks before I’m unwillingly adopted as one of their own and raped mercilessly. I’m not one of them. Really. Really!

12:19am – I’m starting to come to the sad realization that I may just be one of these people.

12:25am – Maybe being eaten by my friend isn’t the worst idea in the world right now. It’d be cooler if I could shrink like Innerspace and navigate his great body.

It’ll be a crime if the visual effects don’t bring this movie an Oscar nod. Yes, it looks that good and ILM deserve to be recognized for the achievement. This is one of those flicks where when the “it” is happening, all of the bad (and there is a lot) is forgiven and forgotten. Transformers was an absolute blast!

I can tell this is going to be a shitty week already. I’ll be relying on groovy girl to cheer me up a lot. This things absolutely cracks me up for some reason.