Eli Loewen's Blog

Well I just got my letter for UW and I was denied. :’(

WWU is now where I’m going to college. At least I know my way around and have family in Bellingham.

I just got an email from NU saying I was not accepted. I expected this as my councilor had not sent in all the documents.

The score so far is 1/3.

UW is the last one on the list. If I don’t get my letter tomorrow or Saturday then it will come sometime next week.

And next week is spring break. I’m gonna be so bored :S

Actually not.

If you are using IE6 and have visited my site then you should be very familiar with what I have done. And your probably mad at me right now. But you know what? I don’t care! You are obsolete and I refuse to let you even look at my site.

For everyone else who uses a more up to date browser this is what I have done. I have added some PHP code to my doctype page which is included in all of the pages on my site (blog excluded) and the code detects to see if the browser that is being used to view my site is IE6 or not. If it is detected as IE6 then they are instantaneously redirected to a special page that I have made for them.

That page is: http://www.eliloewen.com/ie6.php (Can only see it with IE6)

Basically all the page does is randomly pick 1 of 5 “I hate IE” pictures that I have and displays one.

I hope you enjoy that page

And in all seriousness. If you still use IE6, the entire internet and every good web developer in the world hate you. So upgrade to Firefox, Safari, Opera, or IE8.

For as long as you use IE6 you will not be able to see my website.

Enjoy my blog

Umm lets see..

• I have changed my VPS’s DNS servers to use OpenDNS
• I got lots more music
• I ordered 4gb of ram for my Macbook and installed it on Tuesday. The only problem is I cant get 2 screws back down all the way so I have 2 protruding screws..
• I am really hungry right now
• Other then ↑, life is pretty nice right now.

She was my first pet and for 12 years Prozac has been in my family. Sadly last month she was diagnosed with diabetes and was given 2 shots a day and special food. But her health kept declining and she wasn’t getting any better.

On Monday the 9th I let her outside and she never came back in. I even searched around outside at like 10:30 at night looking for her. The next day she was not at the door in the morning and she was not at the door when I came home from school. I looked for her again and she was nowhere to be found.

Hope has finally been lost and the acceptance of her death has come.

Prozac

RIP Prozac

After getting familiar with my VPS’s OS I have come to realize that it is all I have come to hate. All the software on here is old and outdated and causes a dependency disaster when trying to install current programs. I really wish that cpanel was able to run on Arch Linux. That would make things so much easier. Also, is there a reason CentOS is using Linux kernel 2.6.18 when 2.6.29 is the latest? DUMB!!!!

By the end of this servers life I’m probably gonna compile the newest of about half of the programs on here.

In other news Shik has given me a Status2k license for my server!

Check it out: http://status.eliloewen.com

I’m thinking MySQL is the next one up to be upgraded. Lets hope I dont corrupt or drop all my databases!

Today I finished up setting up everything on the server. I have updated PHP and Apache to the latest version and installed a bunch of components.

The contact form was also fixed. It was an issue with the spf record in my dns.

All is well now

For the past like 6 or something months I have been working on my senior project of teaching my schools web design class. And as the final part of the project I have to present it to a panel of 4 judges.

So yesterday I presented to my panel and oddly I got a panel of 6 judges instead of 4. but yeah, I thought I did well and today I was told that I passed!

So I’m done with my Senior Project! And tomorrow I learn what my score is!

Edit: My score is 67/71! From everyone I talked to that makes me the 3rd highest score

So I have finally got that VPS server I talked about a while back.

I now have my own server I can change how I want! All mine! For free!

Although there is something wrong because I cant send any mail using my contact form so I have to look into that.

But..

I love you Shik!

Just got the letter in the mail saying I was not accepted to OSU. Two down, two to go.