OK, time for a rant. NEVER AGAIN! I am never going to use another content management system again or so help me! grrrrr. Maybe I should start from the beginning...

Problem Number 1: Starting back around the beginning of august 2007 I noticed that I could no longer make blog posts or add any new content to my website that uses dnn. I think it may have had something to do with how godaddy was moving there "Value Applications" over to there new "Hosting Metropolis" service.

Any way I could not make updates to the site and with the mushroom picking season only a week or two away I was not going to worry about it too much. So around late September early October I got back from picking mushrooms, then too a short trip over to burns lake for a few days to help put up a tin roof on a pole shed. And as I figured when I got back dnn was still not allowing me to add or edit content on my site. I am actually making this post by editing the sql database directly

It was then that I started writing my own site in asp.net 2.0 again, for which I have now almost completed. And that's when the all the real bullshit started.

OMFG! Whoever thinks creating asp.net websites is easy, should be slapped, spanked, hung by there ankles, followed by the standard tar and feathering. Problem Number 2: Writing web applications is a nightmare compared to writing desktop applications. There are file path issues, view state, security, post backs, Linking problems you name it, it's all bullshit.

Problem Number 2: Bullshit publishing system in visual studio. I had my site relatively done, and wanted to publish it to my godaddy hosting server for testing. So I decided to use "Publish Web Site" under the build menu in visual studio having never used it before. The mother f***er deleted the files off my godaddy hosting server so it could have a direct one to one copy of the code I had on my local system. WTF!

Problem Number 3: createdbyx.com self destructs! So here is the thing, I installed dnn as a "Value Application" meaning that godaddy installs dnn on some other file store that I do not have access to. When I installed dnn I installed it under a dnn folder. That's why when you visit the createdbyx.com site the url always started with http://www.createdbyx.com/dnn/. So I was thinking that by publishing my new website it would not affect the existing dnn install and users could still visit the old site. Nope not so easy. Not only did it break by dnn install but my new website would not even run. Turns out putting a web.config file at the root of createdbyx.com screwes up dnn.

Problem Number 4: AJAX = Bullshit. Turns out godaddy is has shared hosting accounts setup with medium trust privileges. Meaning bullshit AJAX headaches I did not want to deal with. So I tried looking around the net for a solution but could not find one. The new site worked but only partially and there were path issues where only some pages would get skinned but not others. After struggling with trying to get it working I gave up and decided the I really didn't need to be using ajax anyway.

Problem Number 5: Began major rewrite of the new site stripping out all ajax code. So partly through rewriting the new site My brother decides to throw salt on the wound ala "Google does not like query strings because they will not index anything past the ?" F**K! My whole site was using query strings to pass data between pages and for deciding what to display. So then I started to re-write the re-writes!

http://rss.createdbyx.com/ Hateful distractions. My brother owns world of warcraft. I think you can see where I am going with this. I do not know weather or not to like or hate this game. It is not my type of game in the first place but I played Warcraft 1, 2 and 3 so I though I would give it a try. Four days later as a level 18 Druid I am finding my self having to make the decision weather to stop playing or buy the game and a subscription and finish the game.

Problem Number 6: I despise Blizzard. Specifically any company that incorporates a pay to play subscription model. I find no reason for it other then to rake in the cash for minimal work done. But that's just me. The real issue I am having is that if I do buy a subscription it means I will end up forcing myself to play because I do not want to waste my money by not playing and paying for a subscription that I do not even use.

So now that I have stopped playing world of warcraft or a few days, I have had the time to get more work done on the new website and will be testing it at createdbyx.com again within the next few days. I'll be crossing my fingers and and praying that all goes smoothly this time, but with my luck we'll just have to wait and see...

I would also like to mention that if you subscribe to me blog feed that I will be changing it's location to http://rss.createdbyx.com/ once the new site is published.

 *sigh* Thank you. I feel much better now.  :P

I just finished a game of CSS and a news window popped up stating that the entire ID software catalog had been made available for purchase on steam! Sweet! To bad I already purchased Doom3 and the resurrection expansion pack. But then I was thinking maybe I'll get lucky and they will allow people who have already purchased the game to prove that they have purchased it and have a way of making it available on my steam account.

Then I sent off a email to my brother letting him in on the news and dug a post on Digg.com that also made the news available. So with the thought of the id catalog being made available on steam in my mind I went and took a shower thinking nothing else of it.

About thirty minutes later I went back on my computer to watch a movie. Sat down, got comfortable with a plate of watermelon, put my earphones on and saw that I had not closed the steam store window showing Doom 3 for sale. Now sometime from that point on until just before I made this post, it's a little fuzzy, but I can remember opening up widows calculator and adding up the total price of all the ID games to verify if the total price of each game if purchased separately would be correct. Then I remember something having to do with that line from Jerry Maguire "You had me at hello."

Hello indeed. All the ID games for just $62.95, a $150 dollar savings. Maybe it was the nostalgia of commander keen and doom 1/2 that threw me, but you are now looking at the new owner of all these fine games,

• Commander Keen, Episodes 1 through 5
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Spear of Destiny
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Ultimate DOOM
• DOOM II
• Final DOOM
• DOOM3
• DOOM3: Resurrection of Evil
• QUAKE
• QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
• QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
• QUAKE II
• QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
• QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
• QUAKE III Arena
• QUAKE III: Team Arena
• Heretic
• Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
• HeXen
• HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
• HeXen II

Well I guess I can look on the bright side, at least I don't have to put the dam doom 3 disk in the cd tray just to play the game anymore. I have always wanted to play Return to castle wolfinsien and now I can! BTW the older games like wolf3d and doom 1 use the DosBox emulator to play. I played a little bit of wolf3d and spear of destiny just now and had no troubles playing under windows vista.