Today I burned the second of five DVDs in a series of VHS-to-DVD transfers made possible thanks to a wonderful person who found the tapes and loaned them to me. I need to play-test the disc on my entertainment center, but I’m generally hopeful since I now know how best to process these things.

I also played Heroes of Might and Magic IV with my son for a few hours. There’s a soft spot in my heart for the Heroes line of games, as well as a smaller soft spot for some of the regular M&M series. We had a pretty good run, and hope to finish the game off in the next visit or so.

No, really, I think that’s all I got accomplished today. Tomorrow? Prep work on the anime site. (Astute readers will remember I promised something along those lines a little while ago…)

Look! Look! Check out the upgraded gallery!

Thanks to the incredibly-well-designed import method, all old links to gallery content will still work, by the way. Oh, and those of you for whom I’ve set up Gallery installs should poke around this new system and decide if you want me to do the upgrade or not. Just let me know, eh?

Not bad for an hour and a half of work, is it?

I’m probably going to tinker with the generally-unused anime site over the next few days. Why? Because I’ve got an itch to tinker, and I want to see if I can actually put the site to good use, that’s why. (I did fix a couple of annoying stylesheet issues this afternoon, mind you.)

In the process, I’ll be upgrading the gallery to, er, Gallery2. Actually, that’ll be Step Number One. Maybe that’ll get done some time tomorrow if I wake up early enough to tinker with it before helping friends move.

The next step will be to implement this nifty little WordPress plugin.

All of you who can see where this is going, please move to the head of the class…

It was amusing enough when I saw that someone tried to log onto this webserver as a user named “fluffy.” Imagine the laugh I got out of seeing one industrious little hacker try the following names (among a few hundred others) to get onto Washuu, however:

darkman (man, just don’t watch the sequel. what a stinker.)
romeo (tragic shakespearean characters are gother than thou.)
quake (with fear?)
ping (naughty, naughty PS2 accessory!)
pong (yes, go ahead and hack into my uber-l33t networked table-tennis game.)
taz (taking time out from trying to eat bugs bunny, apparently.)
kimi (that’s a very pretty name.)
reebok (running shoes…)
nike (…are sensible…)
adidas (…username selections? in what alternate universe?)
die (another day.)
jem (do kimber and stormer know what you’re really doing on the internet?)
jaime (the co-worker I’d least suspect.)
callhome (why? did I leave the oven on again?)
notorious (underrated duran duran album, can’t find it anywhere, dammit.)
toto (never liked that “africa” song very much, but the “dune” soundtrack is pretty cool.)
alexandru (my daughter will find this amusing. or disturbing. something like that.)
banana (come mr. hackerman, hack on my banana…)
bootcamp (yeah, that’s where you camp the boot sector and frag the operating system as it loads.)
coupon (a word I now cannot help but pronounce as “koo-pun.” damn you, comedy central.)
phoebe (the sitcom character I’d least suspect.)
dummy (no comment.)
stud (again.)
hacker (finally, truth in advertising.)
sexy (something that the person trying to hack my servers most assuredly is not.)

Okay, that’s about enough of that. I think I’ve fixed Washuu’s “swatch” setup so from now on I won’t get a massive list of illegal usernames on Monday morning…

While I was visiting the rugrats this evening, and after I fiddled with The Ex’s computer for a while, Erica and I decided to play some Age of Mythology. (I let her pick the game.) We got it over with fairly quickly, since on account of not having several hours to spare we set it on Easy and divided up our opponents. As a change of pace and slight bit of challenge, I played as the Egyptians and chose Set as my totem god.

I knew that playing as Set gives you summoned animals at your temple and the ability for your pharaoh to summon more, but what I didn’t know is that your priests can convert random animals that would otherwise be either food, or threats to your villagers.

And so, we have the following screenshot at game’s end:

Hint: I’m “Grey, the Duck”, and the pertinent figure is near the upper-right corner. Susume would be the younger child.

I have got to try that again some time. I wonder if I can convert all of them? (That is, the ones who aren’t morons, like the one that attacked my Titan all by itself. Yeah, Ben, swipe the Titan’s toenail with your paw a few times, see if that hurts it any. Stupid bear.)