If you've followed my website link
www.kirtstanke.com and found yourself here, you've probably already figured out that I'm having problems with my website. Nothing new ... I've had problems with the thing since early last year. Previous issues were with the constant updates of
Wordpress,
Gallery2 and their evil go-between
WPG2. Specifically their
inability to communicate together (or something that I overlooked ... hehehe).
I am being told that the server which was hosting my site is being replaced with something else. That's all fine and dandy. New is good.
If ... it works. Currently (and for the past month or so) it has
not. So, I finally just decided to move my URL over to here for the time being. I guess it's better to look at something old and infrequently updated (not unlike my website) than an error page.
What else is new ... ??
Last August I was moving into my new home. I'm still working on that. It's odd how you can box up things from a smaller house, move and then not have enough room to unload the stuff into the new
bigger house. How does that work? We even sold our living room and kitchen furniture before the move. Now there's a new set of hand-me-downs (which I don't like) taking the place of the sold items (which I liked only slightly better than the current crap). Yet we couldn't be happier that we now have our own home.
My whole life is a humorous series of backwards steps while I simultaneously gain new ground. I don't understand any of it.
On the same subject, I started building this computer for myself 4 years ago. I picked up a monster of a case with the intention of making something that I could create all of my ideas with. Something to handle Photoshop without lagging. Something to experiment in 3D applications with, build up my knowledge (maybe make an animation or two) and generally do the things I learned in school ... which I have been slowly becoming unknowledgable in since graduation. The new PC came together slowly (kids will tend to hamper your budget for things of this sort). But I finally got it all assembled. It's a beauty!
Warning! Geek Speak!
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Mobo
4GB DDR2 SDRAM
TWO! Radeon HD 3870 512MB (Crossfire config)
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX Power Supply
Acer 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
Saitek PZ30AU Keyboard
Logitech MX518 Mouse
Logitech X-530 Speaker System
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition
(I'll have to post pictures later ... it's ... aaaaaahoooaaaaa ... nerd orgasmic!)
Anyhoo ... things went together very well. Which is surprising because I've had some parts sitting around the house for several years (HDs need to be upgraded, two 80 gigs seemed like a lot back in the day). But as it turns out, my
Artz II Wacom (for those who don't know ... it's probably the oldest version of the Wacom tablet out there. A nice museum piece.) is not supported under Vista. Which kinda sucks as I haven't drawn anything with my new PC yet and it pretty much makes a perfectly good tablet obsolete. I've had this tablet since my old 486DX days. I'm sad that I can't use it anymore. I'm depressed that I don't have the cash to replace it with a newer model.
I've been playing
Team Fortress 2 on my new system.
And you've been wondering why I don't update my portfolio.
Now you know.