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Wii U Tracker Posted by elixeus on 12/06/2012
6
Dec 2012
Although the Wii U's preorders painted a picture of imminency regarding the availability of the console into the new year, Nintendo has actually managed to fulfill their end of the bargin. The prices of the Wii U actions posted on eBay over the course of the past 3 weeks have decreased by over 150 dollars from the buy it now price. Suffice to say, it shouldn't be a problem getting your hands on Nintendo's latest and greatest piece of hardware prowess. Nevertheless, a small sub-side project here at escaprism was a Wii U tracker inspired by a private project of mine from the days of scarcity regarding the original Wii, codenamed WiiKnow. Although it is probably unnecessary and extraneous at this point and has lost most of its uses, it still could be used to keep an eye out on the online retailers who have the system in stock though its processor aggregator.
Click here to check out the FindMiiWii.Us Project.
Another unrelated project that was created in 2009 and managed into the modern day is an AppleScript GUI bandwidth throttling program used to provide artificial network bandwidth limitations, or to help ease the QoS over the network. If you are interested ipfwThrottleBody (formally ipfwst) for the Mac.
Additionally, on another related note about Nintendo... they will be releasing their last episode of Nintendo Power magazine this December. It is likely they are ceasing the publication after 24 years due to the fact the internet and tablets have taken over. To put it into perspective Game Pro magazine ceased publication last year and EGM (Electonic Games Monthly) has switched to a bi-monhtly releease of their mag. I find these kinds of changes very sad, but we live in a progressive world.
Please stick around for new anticipated and exciting updates ahead in the years to come. Peace!
Click here to check out the FindMiiWii.Us Project.
Another unrelated project that was created in 2009 and managed into the modern day is an AppleScript GUI bandwidth throttling program used to provide artificial network bandwidth limitations, or to help ease the QoS over the network. If you are interested ipfwThrottleBody (formally ipfwst) for the Mac.
Additionally, on another related note about Nintendo... they will be releasing their last episode of Nintendo Power magazine this December. It is likely they are ceasing the publication after 24 years due to the fact the internet and tablets have taken over. To put it into perspective Game Pro magazine ceased publication last year and EGM (Electonic Games Monthly) has switched to a bi-monhtly releease of their mag. I find these kinds of changes very sad, but we live in a progressive world.
Please stick around for new anticipated and exciting updates ahead in the years to come. Peace!
Did you know CU has printer drivers for your laptops? Posted by elixeus on 12/06/2012
6
Dec 2012
I stopped by OIT because I had a last minute Excel document that needed to be revised. No computers were available because it was lunch time and I was in a crunch for time, so I swung by the OIT desk near Laughing Goat. Unbeknownst to me, your own laptop can print to these printers directly if the correct drivers are installed. Each driver is specific to a particular printer on campus and its location. For more information, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/oit/services/teaching-learning-spaces/student-printing-and-scanning/help/remote-printing/printer-drivers. Be sure to thank Sammy next time you pass that OIT desk in Norlin Commons!
Colorado.EDU Mac OS X 10.8 Cisco VPN Access Off-Campus Posted by elixeus on 09/05/2012
5
Sep 2012
For CU Students:
Contrary to colorado.edu leading you into believing you can't access their network off-campus using Cisco VPN, in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) [or having to download software] there is a process built into the operating system that allows quick and fast setup of the network natively, not requiring any downloaded software at all. Simple, elegant! These are working instructions that will only take a few minutes to follow and setup!
All credit goes to: http://anders.com/guides/native-cisco-vpn-on-mac-os-x/, I merely adapted the procedure to work specifically with CU.
Step 1: Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Network -> + (Add an interface, bottom right)
Step 2: Under Interface Popup, select: Cisco (IPSec)
Step 3: Once the new interface is created, some setting must be entered in. For off-campus access use the following details [IP Address: 198.59.55.38, Account Name: IdentyKeyID, it is recommended that you do not enter your IdentyKeyPassword in this screen, b/c the password will be stored on your machine in a possibly insecure way (that is: when you connect each time it will simply prompt you for your password)
Step 4: Access the Authentication Settings... [Shared Secret: ralphie, Group Name: cuboulder]; click the "OK" button to save those settings.
Step 5: When you are back in the "Network" window after that popup closed, check the box at the bottom of this window: Show VPN Status in menu bar.
Step 6: At this point, don't forget to hit Apply at the bottom to apply these settings.
Step 7: You will see on the top white bar OS X a black battery looking icon. Click on it and select Connect to Cisco VPN (Cisco IPSec). You will be prompted for your password and if credentials are correct, the icon will switch to connecting and then followed by transforming into a timer.
Congratulations you now have access to Norlin Databases, PubMed, etc. through your regular web browser. No OIT technology nonsense. I don't know why CU makes this process so difficult. I could never get Cisco VPN to work because they haven't updated that piece of software. I tried "Network Connect" but no where on OIT website for off-campus VPN: http://oit.colorado.edu/vpn did I find a place to download this said "Network Connect". Furthermore their instructions are just confusing and I find irony that the campus is equipped (mostly) with Macs. However, they have yet to established a successful up-to-date procedure that works, or at the very least isn't annoying to use.
I can neither confirm not disconfirm whether or not this works for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, or not. It's worth a try though. This procedure however, to my best knowledge does not work in 10.6, 10.5, 10.4 (but you shouldn't be reading this if you are using these versions of OS X because their directions actually work!). One other small thing for the tech savvy. You will notice a process called "racoon." This process is native to OS X (remember you didn't download anything, so don't worry about this ominously named process.)
I hope someone finds this helpful (and that Google picks up this page and its keywords so it is searchable).
Cheers!
Contrary to colorado.edu leading you into believing you can't access their network off-campus using Cisco VPN, in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) [or having to download software] there is a process built into the operating system that allows quick and fast setup of the network natively, not requiring any downloaded software at all. Simple, elegant! These are working instructions that will only take a few minutes to follow and setup!
All credit goes to: http://anders.com/guides/native-cisco-vpn-on-mac-os-x/, I merely adapted the procedure to work specifically with CU.
Step 1: Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Network -> + (Add an interface, bottom right)
Step 2: Under Interface Popup, select: Cisco (IPSec)
Step 3: Once the new interface is created, some setting must be entered in. For off-campus access use the following details [IP Address: 198.59.55.38, Account Name: IdentyKeyID, it is recommended that you do not enter your IdentyKeyPassword in this screen, b/c the password will be stored on your machine in a possibly insecure way (that is: when you connect each time it will simply prompt you for your password)
Step 4: Access the Authentication Settings... [Shared Secret: ralphie, Group Name: cuboulder]; click the "OK" button to save those settings.
Step 5: When you are back in the "Network" window after that popup closed, check the box at the bottom of this window: Show VPN Status in menu bar.
Step 6: At this point, don't forget to hit Apply at the bottom to apply these settings.
Step 7: You will see on the top white bar OS X a black battery looking icon. Click on it and select Connect to Cisco VPN (Cisco IPSec). You will be prompted for your password and if credentials are correct, the icon will switch to connecting and then followed by transforming into a timer.
Congratulations you now have access to Norlin Databases, PubMed, etc. through your regular web browser. No OIT technology nonsense. I don't know why CU makes this process so difficult. I could never get Cisco VPN to work because they haven't updated that piece of software. I tried "Network Connect" but no where on OIT website for off-campus VPN: http://oit.colorado.edu/vpn did I find a place to download this said "Network Connect". Furthermore their instructions are just confusing and I find irony that the campus is equipped (mostly) with Macs. However, they have yet to established a successful up-to-date procedure that works, or at the very least isn't annoying to use.
I can neither confirm not disconfirm whether or not this works for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, or not. It's worth a try though. This procedure however, to my best knowledge does not work in 10.6, 10.5, 10.4 (but you shouldn't be reading this if you are using these versions of OS X because their directions actually work!). One other small thing for the tech savvy. You will notice a process called "racoon." This process is native to OS X (remember you didn't download anything, so don't worry about this ominously named process.)
I hope someone finds this helpful (and that Google picks up this page and its keywords so it is searchable).
Cheers!
RadioShack's Truly Staggering Incompetence Posted by elixeus on 05/30/2012
30
May 2012
My mother lives out of state and she called me telling me about a deal that RadioShack had going where if you are available to sign up for a new 2 year contract with AT&T (possibly other carriers), you get a $50 dollar discount on the phone's price under contract in addition of up to $153.00 for our current existing iPhone 4s 32GB (in mint condition). What this means that potentially you can upgrade from an iPhone 4 to a iPhone 4s under new 2 year contract for only $96 + sales tax, or even possibly make bank with the upgrade if you downgraded to 16GB versions. At first this all sounded great, but then slowly through experience I was made aware of RadioShack's incompetency (it was almost as if they didn't know what they are doing at all, and they having been making a killing on this promotion - it began Mother's Day and has been extended indefinitely given the programs success).
Given what I was told, I called a local RadioShack and expressed interest in the program. The local RadioShack employees and manager explicitly made it clear they do not have any 32GB iPhone 4s's in black and they are out throughout the country. The local RadioShack out in another state where my Mother lives said they have over 200 available at their distribution center. I finally get these two managers to talk for a few minutes and my local RadioShack store manager was wrong, he didn't know how to access the Direct2U warehouse inventory. He said: come in, no problem we'll get you setup. Over 15 hours has been spent in total (actually more if you include the fact I have been waiting all day to receive the order), only to find out they have been shipped to my Mother's address (they were suppose to ship them to me) and now she must out of her own pocket ship them back to me so I can bring them into the store to be activated (because they inactivated them after the order was placed so we could continue to use or phones). The rest of the hours in RadioShack were all caught up in the logistics of handling this order since my Mom is out of state. In fairness, some of that is to be expected, but I have committed a better part of a whole 24 hours all said in done and instead of receiving the phones and having them work on the day they were suppose to: I now have to wait two days or more (depending on how much my Mom is willing to spend on expediting the shipping), and for my Mom, she has to wait for 3-4 more days. We were told they would be overnighted to us, they were right, but too bad they were incompetent enough to make it not happen. There are other levels of idiocy that has occurred similar to this, but too much too name. Too much time spent in the store and on the phone with them to mention.
It actually took me having to find out the actual tracking page for Direct2U orders where you can provide a phone number to track your order (it wasn't easy): http://corpinfo.radioshack.com/wirelessd2u/.
This is in contrast to the page that usually pops up if you Google it your typical way: http://corpinfo.radioshack.com/Direct2UOrderStatusLookup/. You may question what the problem is with this page, well when you order Direct2U through the store, they didn't provide me a tracking number, order number, or reference number that worked. And I called them to see if they could even check on it and they said they could not, but rather not to worry because they would be overnighted.
I just figured the first link I posted might help others in similar situations be able to track their packages if they similarly did a Direct2U in store, and for those that have loved ones that are in different states, but on the same plan - to avoid the headache we've had to be subjected to in these circumstances.
Don't even get me started with the other incompetencies such as not considering inserting a new microsim and writing down the number then shipping it to my Mom so she doesn't have to be without a phone until it arrives. An oversight perhaps?
All said and done/what it means: means I have to wait another 2+ days for my iPhone to arrive, and another 3-4 days for my Mom's to arrive.
Given what I was told, I called a local RadioShack and expressed interest in the program. The local RadioShack employees and manager explicitly made it clear they do not have any 32GB iPhone 4s's in black and they are out throughout the country. The local RadioShack out in another state where my Mother lives said they have over 200 available at their distribution center. I finally get these two managers to talk for a few minutes and my local RadioShack store manager was wrong, he didn't know how to access the Direct2U warehouse inventory. He said: come in, no problem we'll get you setup. Over 15 hours has been spent in total (actually more if you include the fact I have been waiting all day to receive the order), only to find out they have been shipped to my Mother's address (they were suppose to ship them to me) and now she must out of her own pocket ship them back to me so I can bring them into the store to be activated (because they inactivated them after the order was placed so we could continue to use or phones). The rest of the hours in RadioShack were all caught up in the logistics of handling this order since my Mom is out of state. In fairness, some of that is to be expected, but I have committed a better part of a whole 24 hours all said in done and instead of receiving the phones and having them work on the day they were suppose to: I now have to wait two days or more (depending on how much my Mom is willing to spend on expediting the shipping), and for my Mom, she has to wait for 3-4 more days. We were told they would be overnighted to us, they were right, but too bad they were incompetent enough to make it not happen. There are other levels of idiocy that has occurred similar to this, but too much too name. Too much time spent in the store and on the phone with them to mention.
It actually took me having to find out the actual tracking page for Direct2U orders where you can provide a phone number to track your order (it wasn't easy): http://corpinfo.radioshack.com/wirelessd2u/.
This is in contrast to the page that usually pops up if you Google it your typical way: http://corpinfo.radioshack.com/Direct2UOrderStatusLookup/. You may question what the problem is with this page, well when you order Direct2U through the store, they didn't provide me a tracking number, order number, or reference number that worked. And I called them to see if they could even check on it and they said they could not, but rather not to worry because they would be overnighted.
I just figured the first link I posted might help others in similar situations be able to track their packages if they similarly did a Direct2U in store, and for those that have loved ones that are in different states, but on the same plan - to avoid the headache we've had to be subjected to in these circumstances.
Don't even get me started with the other incompetencies such as not considering inserting a new microsim and writing down the number then shipping it to my Mom so she doesn't have to be without a phone until it arrives. An oversight perhaps?
All said and done/what it means: means I have to wait another 2+ days for my iPhone to arrive, and another 3-4 days for my Mom's to arrive.
Umm... hello? Posted by elixeus on 04/30/2012
30
Apr 2012
I suck at Web Design... well not really. But I have a difficult time on the graphic originality of the site. I have the backend of the website PHP fairly well covered. As I have mentioned on numerous occasions before, this CMS is evolving and growing up. I need at the very least a graphic designer to help out seriously with the default template. We're also looking for any moderate/advanced PHP developers to add to the team. If you like what you see with this website and want to help contribute to an open-source final product, please sign up and get involved. Thank you!
Posted by Audity on 02/19/2012
19
Feb 2012
I want to make a website,
under the umbrella of Escaprism,
called Syne.fm.
It is a website that is like last.fm,
but more focused. (Last.fm is still good; I've found countless songs.)
It will use algorithms to calculate a truly accurate compatibility amongst users.
This is unlike last.fm's, which uses its entire website as a humongous database.
Maintaining last.fm's database bogs down developer workflow,
leading to completing tasks that aren't within my desired focus.
Thus it leads to a lackluster compatibility system,
where if you merely listen to a lot of the same artists, compatibility is shown to be HIGH! or SUPER!
(On the flip side, Loved Artists, started by last.fm, is a major potential.)
(Syne.fm will be able to tap into this, while adding inevitable necessities.)
Everyone takes their own musical journey.
Pandora.com has a very unique take on what I think should be accomplished with a music website.
But, there can be something different, more.
Imagine a website with more than a million members,
all actively engaged in their individual efforts within what the website has to offer.
The website will then interpret these personal contributions,
thereby enabling results allowing individuals to form communities, of two or greater.
(There probably won't be a way to transfer your last.fm Loved Tracks to this website.)
(I want it to be a fresh start, with the GUI that will guide people to a better direction and result.)
For these individual efforts there will be a manual method,
and an attempted automatic method.
What Individuals Can Contribute To Their Self:
Albums
How many times have you listened to this Album? (1 - 1,000)
Is this your favorite Album? (Yes/No) [Set your own amount of favorite Albums]
Do you consider it a complete listen, using your method of listening to albums? (Yes/No)
Would you listen to it again? (Yes/No)
How many songs from this Album do you frequently listen to? (0 - 100)
How many albums are better? (0 - 10,000)
How many albums are worse? (0 - 10,000)
Artists
How many times have you listened to this Artist? (1 - 10,000)
Is this your favorite Artist? (Yes/No) [Can set your own amount of favorite Artists]
How many songs from this Artist do you frequently listen to? (0 - 100)
How many artists are better? (0 - 10,000)
How many artists are worse? (0 - 10,000)
Songs
How many times have you listened to this song? (0 - 5,000)
Is this your favorite Song (Yes/No) [Can set your own amount of favorite songs]
What percentage of the entire song do you consider enjoyable? (0% - 100%)
How many songs are better? (0 - 10,000)
How many songs are worse? (0 - 10,000)
Personal Profile
How focused, on average, are you on your music while listening? (0% - 100%)
(I can't do anything else.)
(I switch between complete focus and background listening.)
(I always use music as background music. Good parts pierce my soul this way!)
(I always use music as background music.) [who would do this!?]
How many hours per day, on average, do you look for new music? (0 - 10)
How many hours / day, on avg, do you listen to familiar music? (0 - 10)
What combinations of genres are your Top 5 most sought after? (choose between many)
What Automation Has To Offer:
1. A GUI that reads a user's computer, showing statistics for Albums/Artists/Songs.
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 1/5?"
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 2/5?"
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 3/5?"
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 4/5?"
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 5/5?"
2. A way to greatly increase your chance of finding people most like you,
rather than just somewhat/based on loose or incomplete definitions.
3. A "Direct Comparison Percentage" between you and other users.
This is based on 1/5 - 5/5 Album/Artist/Song.
4. You can choose which variables show the resulting Direct Comparison Percentage.
5. Each result will show the Percent Compatibility top 1 user, all the way through top [whatever] user.
Personally, I want to be able to find the people with the highest ratio of music that I like. So far, with last.fm and even Pandora,
there is no way to see a direct percentage comparison of songs that people like which then leads to getting together to find what both
people are missing from each. Granted, I have not yet FULLY explored the features of Pandora, and any possibilities of finding the most
likely matches between people.
I don't want to go on forever, so I'll stop here for now. There's often more to add.
Syne.FM
Define Your Music.
under the umbrella of Escaprism,
called Syne.fm.
It is a website that is like last.fm,
but more focused. (Last.fm is still good; I've found countless songs.)
It will use algorithms to calculate a truly accurate compatibility amongst users.
This is unlike last.fm's, which uses its entire website as a humongous database.
Maintaining last.fm's database bogs down developer workflow,
leading to completing tasks that aren't within my desired focus.
Thus it leads to a lackluster compatibility system,
where if you merely listen to a lot of the same artists, compatibility is shown to be HIGH! or SUPER!
(On the flip side, Loved Artists, started by last.fm, is a major potential.)
(Syne.fm will be able to tap into this, while adding inevitable necessities.)
Everyone takes their own musical journey.
Pandora.com has a very unique take on what I think should be accomplished with a music website.
But, there can be something different, more.
Imagine a website with more than a million members,
all actively engaged in their individual efforts within what the website has to offer.
The website will then interpret these personal contributions,
thereby enabling results allowing individuals to form communities, of two or greater.
(There probably won't be a way to transfer your last.fm Loved Tracks to this website.)
(I want it to be a fresh start, with the GUI that will guide people to a better direction and result.)
For these individual efforts there will be a manual method,
and an attempted automatic method.
What Individuals Can Contribute To Their Self:
Albums
How many times have you listened to this Album? (1 - 1,000)
Is this your favorite Album? (Yes/No) [Set your own amount of favorite Albums]
Do you consider it a complete listen, using your method of listening to albums? (Yes/No)
Would you listen to it again? (Yes/No)
How many songs from this Album do you frequently listen to? (0 - 100)
How many albums are better? (0 - 10,000)
How many albums are worse? (0 - 10,000)
Artists
How many times have you listened to this Artist? (1 - 10,000)
Is this your favorite Artist? (Yes/No) [Can set your own amount of favorite Artists]
How many songs from this Artist do you frequently listen to? (0 - 100)
How many artists are better? (0 - 10,000)
How many artists are worse? (0 - 10,000)
Songs
How many times have you listened to this song? (0 - 5,000)
Is this your favorite Song (Yes/No) [Can set your own amount of favorite songs]
What percentage of the entire song do you consider enjoyable? (0% - 100%)
How many songs are better? (0 - 10,000)
How many songs are worse? (0 - 10,000)
Personal Profile
How focused, on average, are you on your music while listening? (0% - 100%)
(I can't do anything else.)
(I switch between complete focus and background listening.)
(I always use music as background music. Good parts pierce my soul this way!)
(I always use music as background music.) [who would do this!?]
How many hours per day, on average, do you look for new music? (0 - 10)
How many hours / day, on avg, do you listen to familiar music? (0 - 10)
What combinations of genres are your Top 5 most sought after? (choose between many)
What Automation Has To Offer:
1. A GUI that reads a user's computer, showing statistics for Albums/Artists/Songs.
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 1/5?"
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 2/5?"
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 3/5?"
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 4/5?"
"Would you like to add this Album/Artist/Song to your 5/5?"
2. A way to greatly increase your chance of finding people most like you,
rather than just somewhat/based on loose or incomplete definitions.
3. A "Direct Comparison Percentage" between you and other users.
This is based on 1/5 - 5/5 Album/Artist/Song.
4. You can choose which variables show the resulting Direct Comparison Percentage.
5. Each result will show the Percent Compatibility top 1 user, all the way through top [whatever] user.
Personally, I want to be able to find the people with the highest ratio of music that I like. So far, with last.fm and even Pandora,
there is no way to see a direct percentage comparison of songs that people like which then leads to getting together to find what both
people are missing from each. Granted, I have not yet FULLY explored the features of Pandora, and any possibilities of finding the most
likely matches between people.
I don't want to go on forever, so I'll stop here for now. There's often more to add.
Syne.FM
Define Your Music.
Welcome! Posted by elixeus on 02/05/2012
5
Feb 2012
First off, thank you for visiting escaprism.com! (formerly escaprism.org) We are in the process of getting the site where it needs to be, slowly building on it. We've brought it online just incase it might incite curiosity for people wanting to join the project.
hapticPORTAL is/will be an open source CMS project different from traditional CMS packages such as Joomla, etc. Rather, this project is more about building a scaffolding for the creation of original websites with modularity and theme-ability in mind. The site relies on PHP/MYSQL and a few other open source dependences. As of right now, this is just a mockup design of the default skin for the CMS engine - simply an HTML file. However, hapticPORTAL has been already implemented in several diverse environments and has gone through various onslaught which ultimately has allowed me to identify and fix some of the exploits of this package. At the current time, we're interested in recruiting talented medium/advanced skill set programmer proficient in PHP/MySQL/CSS/JS/HTML5/W3Validtor to help us create this site engine whilst providing an experimental environment here on escaprism.com to allow the platform to grow and mature beyond this site, and be open for others to use once it has received the necessary attention. We extend this invitation also to graphic designers who are able to extend their skills to site designs as well as general image manipulation excellence. If you're interested, we suggest you hang around. When we get portions of the site up, it will allow for you to use the contact form to contact us regarding your interest.
Right now the timeframe on the project is pretty slow. I am a full-time college student and as much as I have an appreciation towards this type of creativity and technology, I have other pursuits that keep me rather busy. This means that when a development team is formed, I will contribute when, or however I can. I have tried for years to mature this system all by my lonesome and all things considered, I have accomplished a lot for an autodidactic developer.
Update: Site has been upgraded past simple HTML mockup to a partial implementation.
hapticPORTAL is/will be an open source CMS project different from traditional CMS packages such as Joomla, etc. Rather, this project is more about building a scaffolding for the creation of original websites with modularity and theme-ability in mind. The site relies on PHP/MYSQL and a few other open source dependences. As of right now, this is just a mockup design of the default skin for the CMS engine - simply an HTML file. However, hapticPORTAL has been already implemented in several diverse environments and has gone through various onslaught which ultimately has allowed me to identify and fix some of the exploits of this package. At the current time, we're interested in recruiting talented medium/advanced skill set programmer proficient in PHP/MySQL/CSS/JS/HTML5/W3Validtor to help us create this site engine whilst providing an experimental environment here on escaprism.com to allow the platform to grow and mature beyond this site, and be open for others to use once it has received the necessary attention. We extend this invitation also to graphic designers who are able to extend their skills to site designs as well as general image manipulation excellence. If you're interested, we suggest you hang around. When we get portions of the site up, it will allow for you to use the contact form to contact us regarding your interest.
Right now the timeframe on the project is pretty slow. I am a full-time college student and as much as I have an appreciation towards this type of creativity and technology, I have other pursuits that keep me rather busy. This means that when a development team is formed, I will contribute when, or however I can. I have tried for years to mature this system all by my lonesome and all things considered, I have accomplished a lot for an autodidactic developer.
Update: Site has been upgraded past simple HTML mockup to a partial implementation.