Seroph's Chamber » inter-web http://serophschamber.com it's where the Seroph is... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:43:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Still Alive and With App http://serophschamber.com/2009/12/17/still-alive-and-with-app/ http://serophschamber.com/2009/12/17/still-alive-and-with-app/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:06:36 +0000 http://serophschamber.com/2009/12/still-alive-and-with-app/ Continue reading →]]> So about a month back I was going to post here but I never found time. The holiday season makes for a crazy schedule starting in October. I recently was looking into changing the site to something more static and I may still but, I did find a free wordpress app for my work issued iPhone. Now I won’t have to find time to sit at the pc and type up a whole big post. I am also working on adding a gallery of Collette photos. By gallery I mean all the pics we have taken of her in one place. We just got the pictures uploaded to picasa and now that they are all sorted I can maintain them much easier. Having them duplicated across 4 computers and 6 folders just wasn’t working any more.

This will hopefully be one of many updates to come including the story of how we got our HP mini netbook but, that is a story for another day. Below is my parting gift a pic of Collette sleeping during our thanksgiving trip to Wisconsin.

]]> http://serophschamber.com/2009/12/17/still-alive-and-with-app/feed/ 0 September and Aion http://serophschamber.com/2009/09/04/september-and-aion/ http://serophschamber.com/2009/09/04/september-and-aion/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:10:54 +0000 http://serophschamber.com/?p=197 Continue reading →]]> So, after getting a new position at work I have not really had much time to update the blog. It is September which means Collette is about to turn 2 and there is about 1 month left until we enter freeze at work. I was going to post about the Aion Closed Beta a month or so back but I never really got around to it. I do have a Legion that is a merger of my Guildwars play group and my co-worker’s Lineage 2 buddies. After much deliberation we cam upon the Legion name of Aeterna Lux which means eternal light in Latin. Long story short between setting up servers at work, playing the beta, and helping set up a new legion website, the chamber has fallen by the wayside.

What is coming up you ask. On the 13th Collette will be 2 and she wants a baby doll over all other things. This Sunday is the start of the week long open beta for Aion (we get to play with our legion buddies this time) and Aion releases on the 22nd. It is going to be a fun month all around and a fast moving one at that.

So, in the next several days while I am on vacation I am going to work on adding a more definitive Aion section to the site and I will be adding links to the legion. Other than updating the website I am just going to relax and be glad that after two months of crazy effort things are getting back to a more manageable flow with work and everything else. 

I can’t really think of much else to say right now that would be exciting to anyone but me so I think I will work on the other parts of the site and get some more posts on the forum. Ok, the exciting thing only I really care about are I found out how to make my hosting service use PHP5 which let the auto update of wordpress run when it just broke and hung with PHP4 and they just removed the traffic quota on my hosting service so never will I risk having mass charges if more than the normal 6 people come to my site. I told you only I would care about that stuff.

]]> http://serophschamber.com/2009/09/04/september-and-aion/feed/ 0 Internet Explorer 8 http://serophschamber.com/2009/05/18/internet-explorer-8/ http://serophschamber.com/2009/05/18/internet-explorer-8/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 01:51:53 +0000 http://serophschamber.com/?p=92 Continue reading →]]> So this weekend much to my surprise IE8 was pushed out to my computer. I don’t mind that it happened I was meaning to try it out but it was pushed a few months ahead of what I though it would be. So after a few days with it I am having trouble seeing what is different about IE8 and IE 7 other than it is trying very hard to help me surf not how I want to. The second thing I thought I would see is the ability to take a tab and make it into a new window, I though some browser out there already did that. I also find it funny that after years of not wanting to comply with W3C standards they decided to become more compatible and when running in IE compatibility they display a torn page (see below)

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So, does this torn page mean that they are actually admitting that IE pages are in some way broken or am I reading to much into it. THe other confusing feature is the inprivate feature why would I need to brows in private on my computer I can also see that feature as a problem for business use.

Overall I like IE8 it is a bit slicker than IE 7 and if it ever stops detecting everything as torn page it will be nice to work with. Considering how quickly they forced IE8 n users I wonder if they will even wait a month when IE8.1 comes out this summer.

Well there is some food for thought hope it didn’t give you indigestion.

]]> http://serophschamber.com/2009/05/18/internet-explorer-8/feed/ 0 Moving http://serophschamber.com/2009/05/16/moving/ http://serophschamber.com/2009/05/16/moving/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 01:16:28 +0000 http://serophschamber.com/?p=51 Continue reading →]]> well much like me the bog has moved. If you haven’t noticed yet I am no longer at http://seroph.extradot.net but I am at my own domain http://serophschamber.com . I decided after years of having a domain that was not really mine but more a shared space for myself family and guilds it was time to really take on a space that was only for me and my thoughts. I hope you like it.

]]> http://serophschamber.com/2009/05/16/moving/feed/ 0 The Transparency of Social Media http://serophschamber.com/2009/05/14/the-transparency-of-social-media/ http://serophschamber.com/2009/05/14/the-transparency-of-social-media/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 22:14:44 +0000 http://seroph.extradot.net/?p=44 Continue reading →]]> So recently I have been reading about how peoples blogs and Facebook accounts and the like have and/or can impact their work life. Recently a woman lost her job because she was seen logged into Facebook when she was home sick claiming to be too ill to sit in front of a computer. Where am I going with this you ask well…After starting this blog like within 24 hours I received a new policy at work explaining appropriate use of social media and what you should and should not say on a blog or in Facebook. The general rules I have followed is that my personal life is not my work life so I avoid blogging about work.

The question I have recently been pondering is what defines the line between work and personal contacts. My example is when there is a major event in your life some times you can not freely post it for fear of one group or another reacting in a bad way. If there is an issue with say home life do you really want your coworker friends to see it and the inverse is also true. I really do not have any idea where that line is and also can’t help but wonder what self sensoring must occur for many people for the aforementioned reasons.

So, back to the previous focus, why is social media and your personal life so important to employers people are people and we act one way when working and another when we are off the clock. also the larger question is why do people feel the need to post their deepest innermost thoughts for the public to see only to feel betrayed when someone finds what they have disclosed and it impacts their life.

I guess I will never really find the answers to these questions but I thought I would put this out there and see what other people thought.

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