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Well looks like its finely ‘the future’. Its finely 2010, and its pronounced ‘twenty ten’ not ‘two thousand ten’… Get it right.

Now that its ‘the future’ i feel the urge to go watch movies released back in the 90s or late 80s to see what they thought the future would be like. Flying cars and crazy looking cities. I think i saw one movie where we had time travel or something.

I know its been a while since iv posted so ill make one long ass post to make up for it. First ill a few things iv done since my last post.

Loremaster

In WoW iv been doing alot of quests for the Loremaster achievement. I just started Eastern Kingdoms in the hope that it will give me the last 32 i need for Kalimdor.

WoWMap

I switched my wowmap to use the Kohana php framework. Over Codeigniter it is strict PHP 5 coding and it does not limit your access to global data like $_GET (the main problem i was having with CI). The only i dont like about it is, it doesn’t have a awesome name and logo like Codeigniter. I also updated the layout to have hover menu instead of a side bar panel, along with a nice WoW-ish theme. I like how it turned out.

Home Server

I thought it would be fun to have my own server, one where i could have my local AMP server running, maybe even vent and other stuff. Got and installed Kubuntu on one of my old computers (10 year old Sony Vaio). Set everything up good. Pushed it in to the corner, turned it on, and SSHed into it just fine. Turned it off for the night and in the morning it stopped working. Lame

I dont think iv ever made a post about how i got my nickname (Gizzmo, Justgiz) whether it be here, or on a past blog. So i feel like its a good idea for a post.

The story of how i got the name gizzmo is a weird one. Its not because im good with gadgets, or good with making stuff. When i was in my early teens, there was a chat program i used alot called “The Palace” (wow the website really brings back the memories) and my friends and i chatted on there alot.

The admin/moderators were called “Wizzards”, and since I had the name Whizkarz, everyone kept asking if i was a wizzard. So after about the tenth person to ask me, i asked my friends: “Ok i really need a new nickname, anyone got any ideas”. One of my friends suggested the name gizzmo, not for any reason other then she has a friend with a dog named gizzmo.

So yea thats how i came to be known as Gizzmo.

The name “Justgiz” came along when i was wanting to get my website. I had to think of a .com address and the only thing i could think of was Justgizzmo.com, because a friend had the address JustAndrew.com. Well when i signed up and was given my user name, it was my domain name cut down to 7 characters. So my email was justgiz@justgizzmo.com.

I later when i moved to Gmail.com i kept it and since then iv been using those two names for everything i sign up for. Preferably Gizzmo.