innovation initiative

Yepp, its what it sounds like, its stevejobsfacts.com.

And with that I’m ending my six months of silence. It’s been a crazy, tiring and exhausting six months. But I’m not gonna go for months again without a word here.

Anyway, to get back on topic. Steve Jobs Facts is pretty much what it sounds like. It’s a satirical fact index about Steve Jobs. You vote on your favorite facts, and submit your own. Think of it as the bastard child of Chuck Norris Facts and bash.org with fancy sexiness sprinkled on top like fairy dust.

SJF is a project me and Dave (@sxtxixtxcxh) started last summer. Yes, I did say last summer. But due to circumstances, hiccups, and laziness, we never got the project ready for a launch. But this week we both decided to get SJF live before WWDC even if it killed us (not really, but sounds better than “if we fail, we suck!”, or “you suck” like Dave said it… lol).

The project is still very much beta/alpha though. We didn’t implement user registrations till 2 hours after we launched the site. Right now its very simple, but very usable at the same time.

We’ll be adding more features over the next few days, and some code cleanup behind the scenes to make things runs slightly faster and smoother. Not that anyone will notice the speed improvements though unless we get slashdotted or something *keeps fingers crossed and makes cute puppy eyes*

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I’ve decided to move this blog from zhuoqe.org/blog to this new shiny domain, zydev.info. Any and all links to previous posts and pages/whatever on zhuoqe.org/blog get redirected to the corresponding url here (gotta love mod_rewrite ).

The reason you might be asking, well cause zhuoqe.org was intended to be a private online development and testing domain simply. But i threw a blog up for the single person or two that might stumble across it, and now there’s about 20 visits per day. So not that private anymore, not to mention that zhuoqe isn’t exactly a great domain name (its “zynode” reflected upside down, check the reflection of zhuoqe on zhuoqe.org

The reason for it being called zydev specifically, is simply cause i’ve ended up calling a few of my current projects “zy[something]“, zynode, zynapse, so zydev just made sense (bad sense, but still sense ).

So, new (hopefully easier to remember) domain name, on another server for performance, and to not be able to effect the zhuoqe.org server in anyway

Also, i’m gonna try to update a bit more often, with actually useful information … so check back if you get a chance

I’d just like to let everyone (2-3 people) who might visit here that i’ve created a promo code with my awesome host, namely Dreamhost. Their truely awesome for the price, and their support staff are great, i’ve always gotten a response back within an hour, at which point they’ve already gone ahead and fixed the issues at hand for me

Anyway, you will get a $20 discount if you enter ZHUOQE as the promo code when you signup. Also you will be helping out a broke web-developer cause i get some cash when you sign up

…so, here i am two days later after i felt like making some uber-combined search thing… lol… its uber-alpha/beta/omega/malaka/whatever, so don’t complain if it doesn’t work… lol

End result, its cool, but i’m far from happy with it, somewhat sloppy code, and the worst browser compatibility of any project i’ve ever done, Safari and Firefox should be alright, IE is outta question with all the png’s and shit i’m using in the design… lol

anyway, botton line, it works, thats the only reason its online, cause i’m a perfectionist at heart, and i’m not happy with it right now… but i don’t have anymore time to throw away on it right now… lol… not to mention, that it became kinda bloated and sluggish cause my design inspiration took a turn for the weird… lol

but but… check it out for yourself and see what you think…

— http://www.searchthethree.com/

So, the domain and svn repositories have been up and running for a few weeks now, so here’s a blog, which probably nobody will be reading for some time to come i believe…

Incase someone does happen to stumble across this little post, you might be wondering what this oddly empty site is for. Well, come here and sit in my lap little boy cause Santa’s about to tell yee!…

zhuoqe.org has one intended purpose, and that is to serve as development domain for all types of weird, funky, illegal, doped up, purple, and otherwise mind boggingly insane projects. Jokes aside, all this site is for is to work as a testing environment and svn repository for all my different projects.

Also, lets not forget that there’s another party involved in a few of projects that will soon be featured. Namely sxtxixtxcxh (at zhuoqe dot org).

Oh, and don’t forget to check his projects (which are actually online and working, unlike my own projects :P).

• lib.rario.us
• endignorace.com

Currently, the only public svn repository is Adiumlogs, which is PHP log parser for the popular Adium chat client for Mac OS X. Adium stores logs in a neat html format, so its easy to read from external sources. A demo of Adiumlogs is available at http://adiumlogs.zhuoqe.org/ (note that the directory listing is not part of Adiumlogs, its part of dList, another project which is almost ready for its first public release).

A log viewer/manager for Proteus, my own favorite OS X chat client is on my todo list, specially since the built-in log viewer doesn’t work properly :P.

That will be zee all for now, if you have any questions, well just don’t!… cause i will answer them, and you could get brain damage ;).