Editorial; Or: How I learned to write half-sane rants by reading the side of my cereal box.

Well, x-mas is just around the corner and I'm sitting at home grounded. No surprise, I think that's what I did last year, too. And yes, I know that this is not really an editorial, but since I have no idea just WHAT an editorial should be, we can all just pretend, eh?

So anyway, this is going to be my little column for rants and raves and whatnot. Like the rest of 4boxes, it will be updated at the start of every week (4boxes comes out on Sunday, for those who hadn't figured it out already). In the future perhaps there will be columns by other people, too (ohhh...exciting, I know).

I'm curious as to what people think of this nifty Eurostile Extended font (download here). Does it look good? I know it's something of a change from the regular Arial, Times New Roman, or Courier New that are my font staples, but I rather like this one. *shrug* Sorry if it's a bit over-done.

In news that is NOT fit to print, I need a shower. Not, of course, that anyone reading this wanted to know that, but hey, wtf do you expect?

Other interesting stuff: It is a serious pain in the ass to try and build a complete website these days. Nice hosts like FortuneCity that offer a whopping god-damn 20 megs of space put so many stupid restrictions on it that there is no way anyone would ever use it all. For example: while you have 20 megs of space, you are not allowed to have files larger than 1 meg residing on the server. This eleminates software, mp3 or other sound files, very large graphics, etc. FortuneCity also places a banner in EVERY .html file, so other than perhaps renaming all your file extensions to .nfb (No Fucking Banner), you're stuck looking at their gay-ass purple nav-bar on every page.

So I went with using Xoom to host 4boxes for the time being. Xoom offers 11 megs of space, and NO BANNERS(!!!!), but they also don't have any sort of cgi services, which is something that FortuneCity does provide. However, nice people like the folks at Bravenet have nice counters, guestbooks, and formmail scripts (as well as a few other interesting things).

My goal is still to somehow get a fast line into my residence and run my own server off a FreeBSD box, but that probably isn't going to happen anytime soon. Though I am open to taking donations. Really.

I'm curious how all of this will turn out. Right now, there isn't really enough happening to report on anything. Well, either that or I am just too lazy and out of the loop to know that there is anything going on. Yeah, the High School is merging with the old Adam's Elementary building, and that there is a possibility that we will have a closed campus next year, but since I don't care too much about that kinda stuff (read The Bruin if you give a fuck about Adam's), it's not getting much coverage in this issue. Now, in the next issue (which I will begin work on tomorrow), you might see some articles about those issues. But since I only had two days to put this week's edition together, there's only two stories.

That is about it for this issue. If anybody has any comments, please mail me at [email protected].

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