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Rise in the Rankings

Every once-in-a-while, I like to Google "Andrew Ferguson". Yes, it is slightly egomaniacal, but I do it for the good the website, I really do! Anyways, I’ve also been searching the beta version of MSN’s new search engine to see how I’ve been ranking there too.

Anyways, all of a sudden, I’m in the top 5 for Google and the top 3 for Beta MSN! How cool is that? I haven’t really done anything different, at least not anything that I’m aware of. I would surmise that competition between Google and MSN have caused each other to revise some of their respective algorithms.

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Just One of Those Days

Well, it’s been one of those really long days again. I was fortunate to have a really short Chem lab, so I was done with school at 3:30, instead of 5. I’m on the final stretch of the semester! I really can’t even believe I’ve been in school for 10.5 week already! Only 5.5 more weeks to go!
My new laptop is even more then I imagined. Using the thing is like going into space. It’s just so amazing and packed with so many technological features. It really is amazing. I hope you enjoy the version 8.1 of AFdN. The load time is twice as fast. Also be sure to check out pictures from my life @ Mines.

Uagerghuh (Sounds of Frustration)

I just got off the phone with qwest and they�re still having trouble getting my website online. This time, they can�t update the rDNS, A, and MX listing for my domain. Hopefully it will be fixed by tomorrow, Monday at the latest.

Weekend at Kit�s

I spent this weekend at Kit�s. This was the first time we�ve had a three day weekend all year long. We didn�t even get Labor Day or Columbus Day off. Any how, it was nice to be away from the regular scene for a little while. I was also able to work on the Shasta Blasta 2004 video. The DSL is also not working as it should, so there is some delay in AFdN coming back up.

Columbus Day

While Columbus was discovering America, I was at school. Why don�t we get any holiday�s off? I�m frankly sort of surprised that we get Christmas off. *sigh* Oh well. AFdN will be down later this week and should be back up by Monday. I will continue to blog offline and will update the site when it comes back.

Firefox

Firefox

I usually would not write about web site technical information in the blog section. But I also need to gripe about it as well. AFdN is now designed for and recomends Firefox. Firefox is the main “competition” to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. However, Firefox, unlike Internet Explorer, actually follows the rules of the W3. The W3, or World Wide Web Consortium, is responsible for standardizing web site protocols, such as HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, and the likes. There are numerous problems with IE, including the fact that it doesn’t support PNG 24-bit Alpha Transparency Images. IE is also much more lenient with egregious coding. This can be a good thing, however, it also lulls developers like me into a false sense of completeness. Anyways, this all goes to say that I now use Firefox and so should you.

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Move Day

Well, this is it. After 18 years, 5 months, and 14 days, I’m finally “out of the house,” so to speak. Practically my entire life is packed into about 9 filing boxes and a couple bags. I am leaving most of my memorabilia at home, so I’m not really completly moved out; but I am pretty much. What is staying for sure is AndrewFerguson.NET. I’ve been working since the begining of the school year knowing this day would arrive and now it has. The servers should be set to work completly independently now. They even have a battery backup system in case we lose power. Stay tuned the next five years for my adventures in the college world, availible right here on AndrewFerguson.NET. Hey…this is kind of exciting!

Big plans

As the school year ends and the big college decision looms overhead, I’m still working on making Andrew Ferguson dot NET a better place. This, of course, may beg the question of why I would put so much time and effort into such a project. The answer simply being that AFdN is my hobby and I enjoy working on it, even if I’m the only one to reap the benefits. Hopefully, everybody who visits the site finds some bit of useful knowledge to take with them. In any event, version 8.0 of AFdN is officiall under way! The site will again be programed in PHP with a mySQL backend, however, it will be designed to run both on Apache2 and IIS6. Further enhancements include streaming the Windows Media Video’s with true WMP9 Streaming technology. This should allow all users, irregardless of internet connection, to access the videos. This should also fix the issue with Linux users as well. I also should have my SharePoint portal up soon. All these changes primarly stem from the upgrade to Windows Server 2003.

In other news, the auction at church went over pretty well. Our group of six guys raised over $2,500, a pretty good chunk considering the auction netted somewhere around $100,000. I’ll see what kind of number I can find during the week. This upcoming weekend, I’ll be working at my school auction. I’ll also be watching The Passion.