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So it has come to my attention that some lame script kiddies decided to deface my website. While this doesn’t say too many positive things about WordPress’ security, it says even less about the idiots who exploit it. I mean, really. What does anyone gain by turning Iyouboushi.com into a “LOLOL I HACKED UR SITE D00D!” page advertising their group? Are we really impressed that you took down my personal website that only hosts a few translations and programs I’ve made? Have you really accomplished anything aside from making me waste a whopping ten minutes to get it all back up online (and backed up)? People need to get lives that don’t involve pretending to be oh so l337 just because they can run a few scripts.

In other news, Kaiou 7.6 is just about done. I don’t know if you’ve been following the news over on the forum or not, but this is going to be a pretty decent version of the bot. I’ve still got a little bit left to add and then it’ll be time to test a bunch of stuff to make sure everything is working OK. Once I’m satisfied that there aren’t any major bugs, I’ll zip it up and get it up for everyone to download and enjoy. I’m hoping it’ll be done by the end of March, but don’t hold me to it. :)

So yeah, that’s about all the updates from me for now. Stay tuned for more!

I’ve been too sick to be on here to type up what’s going on but now that I’m feeling slightly better allow me to do so now.
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I’ve been busy working on new versions of Kaiou and Kon.

Kaiou 7.4 will be one of the biggest updates to the bot in a very long time and will introduce three completely new skills, one skill that has been revamped completely, the ability to sell unwanted equipment for zeni, a new tech status type, new and updated jobs, and at least ten error fixes. There might be more in the final release so please stay tuned for that!

As for Kon, well it turns out that Twitter decided to axe their basic authentication. In short it means that the current public release of Kon was unable to connect to Twitter any more. I’ve managed to partially fix this in the version I’m working on, but I’m still having a bit of trouble with the !twitter command to display the current tweet. Hopefully I can get a workaround soon so the update can be released.

Kaiou should be released sometime next week. Kon is still up in the air. But in any case, please look forward to them both. :)

I sat down and decided to try and hammer out a better version of Kon Offline and I’m almost done with it. So far I have eliminated the lag that was present when you typed and hit enter to when it appeared in the chat box, added some basic colors for the chat window (to make it look more like an old-school IM program), added a logger so that conversations can be logged, and added a config file so that various settings can be saved.

This version will be uploaded in a few days after I do some more testing to ensure everything is working right. Until then, be patient. :)

Hey everyone! As you can probably tell I’ve gone and changed the website look again. I’m still working on some parts of it, such as the featured content, but hopefully it’ll be done soon.

In the meantime, I went ahead and added a new picture gallery: Pictures of Bri & I. I also added a few pictures to the 2010 gallery. Hooray!

And that’s it for this quick update!

If you are reading this message then it means that my site is now on its own domain and has been converted successfully!

I have been working on websites on and off again for about twelve years now.  I figured it was finally time to buckle down and get an actual domain host for my site.  It makes life a little easier (as I don’t have to constantly hop between free hosts) and it gives me a lot more (creative?) control over everything.

Take, for instance, the message board.  I have set up a new phpbb3 board here on this domain and I welcome everyone to join it.  You can find it at http://iyouboushi.com/forum Easy, right?  Yeah.  And I have full control over it completely unlike the last board I was using!   Very cool.

Anyway, hopefully everything has converted over from hostoi correctly.  If not, leave a comment and I’ll get to fixing it.

Just a quick new update here. I finally got around to adding a few (very few) pictures to the 2008 and 2009 albums on the Pictures of Me album page. For anyone who has followed me on Facebook or Myspace, these pictures are not anything new.

I’m still missing pictures from 2006 however. Don’t know where they’ve disappeared to.

Anyway, I also changed the banner at the top of the site. While I like the picture, I don’t know if I like the white gap at the very top between the image and the start of the page. It makes it look like his hand is being chopped off, whereas if I could remove that space it would probably look a little better. But that’s just me personally. What do you think?

I have finally gotten around to adding a new section to the website!  I present my writing section!

One of my favorite things to do is write. I write stories, scripts, poems, journals–you name it, and I’ve probably written it at least once.  I’m now trying to archive everything I’ve written (at least that I can find) here on the site for everyone to see.  This is a work in progress and is unlikely to be finished any time soon.

So go check it out and hopefully you will read something you like.

“Welcome to the 21st century” is what I imagine people will tell me when they see this new site.

Gone are the days of having to edit every single webpage’s source file to add a new category.  Now if I want something new I push a few buttons and it magically happens.  Isn’t technology fantastic?

I’m still in the process of getting all my old news posts (on my old site and from my Blogger blog) copied over here.  But the hardest part is essencially done.  Beyond copying entries all I have left to do is tweak.  Maybe add a new plugin here and there and see what I like.

I know I promise this every time I make a new design, but I swear new content is coming.  Now that I don’t have to edit sources, it should be easier to make an update.  I’ll try to post much of the same as I do on my message board: some odd news, odd videos, just plain odd things I find on the net, as well as occasional updates to the actual content to the site.  With luck it’ll be more frequent than it was before.

So with that, all I have to say is welcome.  Stay a while [and listen].

As you may or may not have noticed my personal website (currently hosted at http://iyou.cyberbotx.com) is down. I’m not sure how long it’s going to be down for. Until the real site comes back up you can check out a mirror at: http://iyouboushi.netfirms.com

Unfortunately the mirror has ads that even Firefox’s adblock can’t remove. But at least the site is up. Most of the files that were being hosted on the site, however, are still down. I went ahead and uploaded a few:

Kaiou Battle Bot Files
Kon, the C# Chatter Bot, Files

The rest will just have to wait until the real site pops back online or I get unlazy enough to upload them all.

Hopefully this outage won’t be for long.