some dumbass yesterday decided "hey, i'll let an ecommerce site join my topsites script that's poorly written!" i had to frickin monitor my server for like 2 hours, trying to coax it back up. it's still pretty weak from the fight ... and the ecommerce site still hasn't removed the image. if they don't remove it by tonight, i'm going to put a "nuke the unborn baby seals" image in the place of the old image. in any case, it's taking all my restraint to not just boot his dude off my server. what an idiot.

anyways, i spent a while trying to fix up my other server; i may move tabulas to the other server for various reasons. but i had trouble getting imagemagick (the library that helps manage the gallery) working .... i think it works now. hopefully i can move tabulas over to the server for 1.0.

i leave for europe in like 2 days. this blows. i'm way behind schedule ... both on MCAT studying and tabulas. audiomatch's server woes are chipping away slowly at my time, and some unfinished webprojects for clients are starting to kill me.

i think i'm no longer going to do webdesign work for people i know. as much as i'd like to help people make websites, i simply cannot afford it anymore. my time is valuable, and i can bill a corporation about $100/hour for work ... and then when i get asked to do a personal favor and make a website, my margins diminish to something less than minimum wage. then of course people expect hosting on top of it ... bahmuffins.

ok. so no more websites. you hear? if you want a website made, don't ask me. i'm more than glad to help you learn, but no more website making! unless you're willing to pay me my market rate and tear me away from tabulas ;)

but this is good. i'm slowly moving away from shitty webdesign jobs. ending my outsourcing relationship with prudens a while ago (which paid about $300/project that would go about 10 hours or so) was the first step. now i'm cutting off personal requests.

yay.

ok time to work.