Category Archives: Website Update

Four movies added to DVD collection.

As I had mentioned previously, I’ve purchased some new DVDs and here’s four of them that I’ve added to my DVD/Home Theater page:

I have some additional movies left that I need to add; however, those are currently being borrowed by my folks; thus, I don’t have the DVD covers I can scan in at the moment.  All of these movies have a trailer available for viewing as well. Cloverfield and National Treasure I bought new. Delta Farce and Flags of Our Fathers I bought as part of a 4 for $20 deal of previously viewed movies at Block Buster.

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale added to DVD movie collection

After a few days of not being able to rent it, I decided on an impulse to buy In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale to add to my DVD collection. There are a number of corny moments and some weak acting in the movie by some, but, still, wasn’t too bad. I also made flash video trailer that you can view on the page. I actually created the page on the 2nd but I’ve been at my folks since then so haven’t been in a position to write this blurb on my blog about it. 🙂

Blog has been upgraded to WordPress v2.5.

WordPress has just released WordPress v2.5, which I have completed upgrading my blog to. I have also upgraded my plugins to their latest versions using the new plugin update feature and it worked great!

As always, I did have to modify the /wp-includes/vars.php file in the server detection section to force the apache detection to true so that it could modify the permalink structure:

// Server detection

/**
* Whether the server software is Apache or something else
* @global bool $is_apache
*/

//$is_apache = ((strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Apache') !== false) || (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'LiteSpeed') !== false)) ? true : false;
$is_apache = true;

/**
* Whether the server software is IIS or something else
* @global bool $is_IIS
*/

$is_IIS = (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Microsoft-IIS') !== false) ? true : false;

The reason is that Surpass Hosting’s value for $_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’] is WebServerX. I also updated my theme to include all the updated code in the default WordPress theme which mine is based off of. All in all a fairly painless process. 🙂

Beowulf: The Director’s Cut added to DVD Movie Collection!

I actually bought Beowulf: The Director’s Cut back on March 6th or so but just now getting around to adding it to my website here. I had not seen it in the theater and actually did not realize it was completely done in CGI with actor driver motion capture performances. They did a really good job. If you haven’t seen it, I did put a flash video trailer on the page.