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BME 2.0

2010/02/07 22:10 I didn't have anything that I needed to do in LA until Thursday so I decided to stay in Austin and just work out of the development offices so that I could be on hand to answer any questions that the dev team had. It's amazing the amount of turn over the project has had. The data imports have been the biggest issues and the sheer magnitude of the project has apparently been very daunting. This has turned out to be a problem related to a lack of communication with in the dev team. It sucks to say that but it's true. The development of the new site, IE the design and functionality has been fairly easy but apparently the red herring has been getting the massive volume of old information into the new site has been the problem. While I understand that it's hard to take something as big as BME and import it into a new site, the log files are in a constant format for BME itself so this really should not have turned into the big issue it has become. This problem would probably have not been one if instead of moving to NYC or to LA, I had relocated and worked hand in hand with the development team. Obviously hindsight is always 20/20 but that's why I've chosen to stay here for the next couple of days. We're hoping to finalize all of the data imports, which apparently need to be redone because their version of "originals" and mine is very different. It's almost mind numbing. Thankfully the pre-BME 2.0 media will ve able to be put into a queue where members can help us out to maximize all of the data and details on the old content so that it matches all of the features and functions that we will be able to do to the new data. Thankfully the hierarchy of the data is pretty complete. The first version was going to end up with me having to manually adjust 4500+ categories. Now thankfully while we will have to edit 1.8 million images, it's only to add extra information. Everything will be where it needs to be and it will be displayed there as well regarding everything that's currently on the media itself, but the extra options we can add to the media will be added via the community moderation tools. This is really going to revolutionize BME itself. We spent yesterday working on the admin functions behind the site. It was amazing that between what Jen, CT and I have to do on a daily basis, what is being moved from our shoulders to the community moderation or the end user itself is just huge. The tasks that I will have to do from day to day have been changed so dramatically that I will be able to focus on content production, interviews, event hosting and so much more than I haven't been able to focus on since having to do all the "other stuff" on a day to day basis. I'm excited. Very very excited! I think that we're supposed to have a release candidate by Wednesday. Then we'll freeze production and basically just spend from Wednesday -Sunday rebooting and restarting the site over and over and over again so that we know what happens if/when something breaks or fails so we know what kind of down time or so that we'd need. I'm hoping for a Monday launch. I am not trying to get ahead of myself and that date is not set in stone. I wish many many times that I had never even mentioned the new site back in 2008 but oh well! At least I've been able to keep my mouth shut about the new features so that other sites don't knock them off and take credit for our work! Anyway, I tried to sleep through Sunday and take the day "off" by not reading email or coming onto IAM but now that it's 10:22pm, I'm bored. I've read all the entries about serial killers, fairy tales and psychopathy that I can on Wikipedia so I figured I'd hop on to IAM and make a post. Tomorrow I'll be up at 9am and in the offices over at the dev teams space. I wish I could find an office similar to theirs in LA so I could open an office for BME and hire people to work in the office. I really am missing day to day human contact and after a decade of working from home, I'm over it. < a href="http://iam.bmezine.com/iamforum.exe?cmd=chatview&tprm=2j77jzm7fxcjkbs-">BME 2.0 Launch Q&A forum

Day 2

2010/02/06 13:47 Day 2 of development meetings is going pretty well. I'm going to put it out there and say that I'm pretty surprised. I didn't go to sleep on Thursday after I landed around 10pm. Mike and I chatted until like 1am because while we've known each other online for like 8 years, this is probably the 4th time we've been in the same room. Anyway, he went to sleep since he was on east coast time and I was 2 hours behind on LA time. I got a little tired around the time he woke up but it was time to get going over to the dev crew meeting. We worked from 10am-8:30pm going over all of the user side things and making changes and tweaks here. There are still some "fit and finish" issues to make the site look more "professional". It's not even the right word but I want to make it look more like the design and the project took 2 years, since that's what we'll be approaching by the time everything is really solid. I think while we'll launch some time in February, getting it to the point where it has all of the minimum features that the current sites have, that's when we'll be really solid and we won't be playing catch up. When we launch (again, hopefully in the next week or two), BME itself will have 10-15 new functions already. Then IAM 2.0 will need about 3-4 more weeks of work before it's ready to go. This is just being on the safe side. Since I pulled everyone off of working on IAM, since BME is truly the focus, I wanted to make sure that it was launched with everything that I wanted. I think that the user side will be there in entirety while the behind the scenes stuff won't be as tweaked and will still be a bit Admin intensive. It's ironic but true to my own nature that while I started the project wanting to make my life easier and more streamlined, I'll take care of the community first. I think, and CT is free to comment pretty openly on it, that we're really close. It drives both of us nuts that there isn't more that we can to do facilitate the development. As the entire development crew has turned over, I'm back at the starting point and it kind of feels like I've started the whole project over. I spec'd the admin for tattoohollywood.com in about 2 hours and I'm happy with what I have designed. I'm just hoping it gets built and ready for this year. Weee. I ate an Apple from the hotel and I have to say it's not agreeing with my stomach. I also just announced that to the whole room. Hah. :) I'm in a good mood.

Server Outage

System Announcement

2010/02/04 14:58 We had one of the beta servers go offline and unfortunately in the APC unit, the wrong server was listed with the wrong name so the server that hosts Modblog and BME/News is offline until Jason gets to the colo in about 30 minutes. Just letting you guys know what's up with Modblog/BMEnews being offline. I'm heading to the airport shortly to make my way to Austin. Hopefully with CT and I there in person we can crack the whip on the dev team and get the beta launched this week. I might end up staying there in person since there is so much work that needs to be done.

Liars suck.

2010/02/03 21:02 So you all know I posted about the kid on Facebook who was posting that BME was paying for him to get his eyeball tattooed with UV ink. I called him out on it and after he created a little shit storm all on his own, he deleted the posts. I stumbled across another stupid lie and I can't believe that people want to blame me for stuff that is so ridiculous as this. I wanted to vent and out them as the liar that they are but I don't want to encourage her to post more ridiculous lies. I guess if enough people compare you to a horse, you'll make a horses ass out of yourself to go along with it. I hate when I have been working really hard on something and then reading something where I'm accused of delaying the process when it has nothing to do with me. Ugh, ick, poo, yawn. Over it! Now I feel better. Norm walked in the house to drop off grapes and the look on his face was absolutely priceless. He said "wow, you look so beautiful right now." It made me feel really good and really happy. We can't lie to each other because we can read each other like a book. There is a way that his eyes light up when he looks at me that makes me melt. He doesn't need to say anything when he looks like that but when he does, it's just this extra oomph that wipes out any "you look like SJP but in a bad way" or "I hate your eyebrows and I wish you would fix them" type of comments right out of my mind. I just threw up all the grapes I'd eaten. It actually interrupted my post as I ran to the bathroom, making it just in time to coat the bowl with fruit punch and grapes. I'm heading over to the pharmacy to pick up 8 new prescriptions. One of which is an anti-nausea medication. I'm glad that I'm not able to get pregnant because I don't have to risk any flipper babies or weird side effects that women are willing to risk subjecting their babies too just so they don't have to have morning sickness. At least now I should be able to keep all of my food down, which makes me happy. I've been throwing up for the past 6 months and I somehow managed to gain 10lbs. I'm not entirely sure how that happens but I only seem to be nauseous from 5pm-11pm. After that I usually snuggle up with Norm to watch a movie or a tv show and we snack on junk food. I think that's why since I can't seem to hold down vegetables or fruit, just over processed and junk foods. Ugh at the thought of paying for 8 prescriptions but at least two of them are my thyroid and fatigue medicines so those I'm used to taking and know what they do to me. The other ones are a surprise! wee! Adventures in medical cocktails! I love the fact (that's sarcasm btw!) that all of the medication I take for MS is off label. It's FDA approved for Parkinson's, Seizure, narcolepsy and several other diseases, none of which are MS. I'm hoping these prescriptions add up to less than $500 dollars but we will see when I get there!

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