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#Personal, #Site Update

I started this website for a couple of reasons: the first reason was to get better at web design. I wanted to make a site that was professional and cool and looked great. I don't think I really hit any of those marks, but I learned a LOT along the way.

#Movies, #Blu-Ray, #Update, #Personal, #Video Games, #C#, #Programming, #XNA Framework

So, things have gotten a little better. Of course they aren't great, but I'm working on that.

#Blog, #Personal, #Work, #Bored, #Update

So, a friend of mine recently told me that I am the crankiest person he knows. The CRANKIEST. That to me is like angry+old. When you don't have the energy to do stuff about the things you complain about, so you just complain louder. Definition from wiktionary:

Hmm. Well, I can see that I guess. But I haven't seen this friend in a long time, and I'd like to think I've become at least less cranky. I'm working on getting rid of the crank altogether. But I know that I can sometimes get easily upset, etc.
Moving on. Life has been really good lately. I just had my 90 day review and did pretty well; no major problems to speak of. I still love my job and my coworkers. I don't really like it when it's this slow at work, because then I do stuff like this blog and feel like I'm wasting time. But there's just not much to do right now.
I also finally officially moved to Chico. My g/f and friend all got a really sweet house. I'm having a blast setting up my room. But I need a tv stand, or to mount my tv on the wall...
I think I'll go bother phil. This is even boring.

#Personal, #Site Update

Well, this has become less of a blog of 'everything interesting on the internet' and more of a personal blog, but oh well.
Fixed a few things with the site today; nothing major, but cleaned up some code; really just wanted an excuse to mess with stuff. You won't see any difference.
Looking for a place for my own to live; would be really cool to live on my own...
why am I blogging? It's 3 AM. I'll finish this up tomorrow...

#Site Update, #Street Team

Well, now that I have some interest in my own website again, I've decided to ask a small favor of you, my readers - and no, it's not money (but I'll take that as well ;)) I need some loyal readers to help spread the confusingly good word - make a confusingly good street team, if you will. Right now, all I have is a simple little logo for you to place on your blog, website, myspace, forum signature - anywhere. It's just copy and paste. So, check after the break if you're interested.

#Personal, #Site, #Site Update, #Vigor

Okay so I've been thinking a lot lately about this stupid website. I really liked writing here, and I think it's got some neat ajax stuff, to which I'd like to continue to develop. But my zest for cool stuff online has greatly diminished. Where are all the cool videos? The funny pictures? The deals online?

No wait, scratch that last one. I am still very much a consumer whore.

So I have decided to go ahead and re-think the focus of this blog, especially since it never really had focus to begin with. This is now a deal blog. I know there are millions out there, and I read some of the forums. But I still want to write, so, so be it.

I may still post little cool things I see online, but primarily you can count on me to bring you awesome sales on dvd's, games, computer stuff, anything that catches my eye. Let's begin. Click the permalink and continue reading, because I know that picture of the bootleg cut of Almost Famous has got you wondering...

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#100, #Milestone, #Site Update

Well well well! It seems this little blog has reached a milestone of sorts; this here is the 100th article to be posted! During the past few months we've discussed topics ranging from DVD Sales to Bomb Scares. There have been two new editions to the writers (knit_vicious and w00t!), and dare I say it, I think we all three have grown a bit in the field of professional journalism. There have been numerous video posts, beginning with daily random videos (which simply were way too many), and now weekly random videos (which are often hard to get around to posting). There have been a few sporadic reviews thrown in, as well as some heavily commented on opinion pieces. We've had The List: cheap video games, cheap anime, and cheap dvd's. There was every SNES game ever, an amazing (albeit creepy) gigantic manequin girl pulled by about 40 people with ropes, spiders on drugs, Craig vs Wild, and Chad Vader. And the article just before this one about building your very own arcade machine.

So, although I realize 100 posts isn't really that high of a number when you are writing a blog (especially one with so much filler), I also am glad we have a fair amount of content, most of which I am quite proud of. But what lies ahead for ConfusinglyGood? Some ideas we've been tossing around include a newsletter detailing posts each week, a "send us articles" link, and a site redesign. I've got some ideas and as soon as I get some time, motivation, and inspiration, I'll begin.

So, anyone have any favorite articles? Anything you'd like to see more of? How about less? Be sure to leave a comment right below!

#Hiatus, #Update

I, d3vkit, have been having more work and less time to screw around on the computer. I also am getting bored of writing articles that no one will ever read. I think I'm going to take a break for a while. Other writers (w00t and Knit_Vicious) are welcome to continue to post. I am, for now at least, not going to be posting for a while. I'm thinking a week, maybe more. If anyone is actually finding what I post interesting, though, a comment about it here would be nice. But I know until I figure out how to get readers then this will really go no where.

#Site, #Update, #Navigation, #Categories

Another small change to the site - you can now see all articles (the main page), or sort them by type - article, review, or opinion piece. Navigation, however, is pretty messed up, and atm I don't have the energy to mess with it. You can find links near the top for the separate categories.
What say ye? Does this help organize content, or make things more confusing?

#Comments, #Site, #Updates, #Now With More Confusingly Good Than Ever Before, #Subscriptions

We've been working very hard to make the site as user friendly as possible, and for us a large part of this is the comments. Here are some new features recently implemented that might make using the site a little better.

-Subscriptions! You may have noticed a small link near the comments which reads "Subscribe to comments". If enabled, when a user posts a new comment to an article you are subscribed to, an email is shot out to you telling you about it. This email is sent only once until the article is checked, so you don't have to worry about getting a lot of emails if there is heavy commenting on a particular article.

By default you are auto-subscribed to an articles comments when you post to that article. This feature can be changed by going to control panel>article subscriptions.

In article subscriptions you can also view your subscriptions, with the option to remove individual ones or all.

One more new feature is a pretty experimental one, and might change a lot over the next few days. When a comment is posted that is over 750 words in length, it is cropped when displayed, showing only the beginning of the comment. The rest of the comment can be viewed by clicking 'expand comment', and can be collapsed again. It seemed that large comments made it difficult to navigate through the article. Another idea was to make the comments have their own little scrollbars.

Comments on these new features are greatly appreciated; tell us what we can do better, what doesn't work well, and what doesn't work at all. If there is an error, please comment on what browser+version you are using and any text the error might say. We have debugged in FX 2.0 and IE 7 so far.

There are some test comments at the end of this article to demonstrate how the new cropping of comments works.