Entries tagged “web development”

A while back, I discovered LiveJournal. I thought, cool, but I don’t need it, I’ve got my own site. I visited other people’s LiveJournal’s and then got to thinking… hmm there’s something to this. One. I never post any updates on my web site. Two. Someone else is doing the hard stuff of keeping track of my journals. and the selling point… Three. the community kicks ass. It reminds me a bit of BBSing days and a bit of iT days (if anybody remembers that).

So anyway, here I am, here I remain. Hopefully I’ll get some time to work on my website davedash.com and get the behemoth Photo Gallery up and running as well.

The Taj Mahal was vandalized yesterday. [ the Dawn Group ][ Rediff India ].

I've been watching this slow pattern of visible anti-Muslim rhetoric spewed by the BJP/RSS/VHP (unholy trinity that acts in the name of Hindusim). It's out of hand, and if India wants to stay a true republic for all people Muslim and Hindu alike, it will need to change the climate.

India is on the verge of turning into a racist state that abuses its religious and racial minorities like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel. Right now its in the hands of a signle party, the BJP.

The BJP has remarkable similarities to the National Socialist party of 1930s Germany. Given the chance they'd remove any remnants of the Islamic period of India - including the 14% Muslim population.

I'm being harsh and extreme, but it is deserved. This is not the Gandhiesque Indians, these are not the open minded Hindus, these are extremists who defile Hinduism by claiming all Islam and foreign cultures as an enemy to it.

This offends me to no end as an Indian American. The Taj Mahal is one of the greatest monuments of India. The wonderful intermixing of Hindus and Muslims is a beauty. I strive to understand Islam and relate it to the teachings my family has passed onto me. It is remarkably similar. If only the extremists would realize this.

They cannot blame Islam for the terror in Kashmir. True - many Islamic groups have committed acts of terror in Kashmir - but we as Indians must accept our acts of terror, our occupation in India. The moral high ground will always win.

My "stand in" logo, until I actually work on my crescent moon, is in the top left corner ('be like water'). It was quite an adventure to learn that IE for windows (any version) does not support PNG propperly.

Yesterday I ate at an Indian restraunt. It was okay. I mean I don't like Indian food usually. This, however, was pretty good.

I have sound working on my computer. Linux is a good Operating System if it's preinstalled or you know Ryan Hayle.

Today I got to go to the airport and pick up my brother and sister-in-law. Now I'm bored again. I think I'll find something interesting to do...

I might try to get that Hindu Mandir Online thing working... that could be interesting.

World Wide Jewish Conspiracy trains even the youngest of conspirators in their rituals.

Guess which post card I sent in to pair Networks.

I had a cool dream on my beanbag last night... I guess for some reason my dorm was somewhere else, it was like a warehouse type place, the rooms were much larger. Anyway, I went outside of the building and decided I'd be back really soon so I could just leave the door shut, not locked. I come back and Jack is in the room and I see stuff is moved around and I don't see my computer... none of it. I ask Jack and he says he doesn't know where it is. So it was stolen. Well for some reason I just find an IBM Laptop, but I am still worried about my computer, because I was working on a paper or something and well it was stolen, which sucks. So I guess I tell my brother that it's been stolen and we end up like seeing these boxes of stuff and we look at it, and I guess one of them has my machine in it. We had to mark it so they wouldn't get rid of it, and then we eventually got it back I guess. I wondered about my monitor as well. I explained why it was my fault, but my brother understood. Well I just thought it was really strange. If you ever want to make someone really worried. Steal their computer.

Since this is such a geek entry, Apple is coming out with an iMac Notebook. You could save yourself the money and just buy an Etch and Sketch.

I purchased a new HEPA air filter as advised by my brother. Supposedly it is shooting out air that will make it easy for me to breathe... we'll see. I also bought this watch band that cost me a fourth of what my watch cost. Although, my watch looks like it's brand new, which is nice.

Apparently the Illini Precision Dance Team was selling "Tuck Ins" for $2-$5 last week. They tuck you in bed, read you a story and kiss you goodnight. I find this odd. Actually it said packages from $2-$5. It's like a prostituion ring, in training.

Sunday I was very sick. I don't know what I had, but it forced me to sleep most of the day. Monday I was still sick and forced myself to do a paper. After finishing my math final I walked home and I was very very cold. I was shivering. This was with three layers. I came back to my hall and my temperature returned to normal. Today I feel much better.

The journal database was not allowing me to add new entries. I have fixed this. I don't even know why I'm telling you this. I just though a small entry would be nice.

"So the guy gave me a piece of paper and he said that you drop it. Then the walls started to melt. Then I started to melt."

Once I dreamt of a city of gold (earlier today), and then I realized why it could not exist. If portions of the city were gilded, people would start mining the city. So the gold would have a negative effect, because people will be hasty when they mine the gold. The gold will be a catalyst in ruining the city. Similarly copper is quite valuable. In China copper telephone lines were dug up and sold on the black market. To rememdy this, China just advanced it's technology and started using fiber optics (Negroponte). Technology makes things cheap. So, I'm sure I could come up with something better than a city made of gold. I could probably figure out some aesthetically pleasant design that doesn't have this yellowy sparkle that people all love to steal. It will also be cheaper. This will be the city of cheap technology. It will be guarded by the Technobots. With their gestalt technology they can merge and form the mighty Computron. Computron will be the most powerful thinking machine in the world, and the mayor.

My roommate was a sexfiend.

Yesterday I ate at Subway. I tried the Parmesan Chicken Wrap. It's not that great. Here's why. Subway makes good sandwhiches. Their employees aren't trained well to make wraps, since mine had a tear in it. They make very good sandwhiches and they taste better than their wraps. It was better than school food though. School food today wasn't bad. It was edible.

Fort Max - poking into God's territory for over 100 years.

Cool Info is moving to pair networks. I will be working on a news article entry system that mimics what I use right now. I'll work on it over break.

I use my workstation as a development machine for my web pages via Front Page and the Personal Web Server. The root page used to be an old web site that I had for Fort Max that I only developed on my computer and uploaded to the Internet. It was very corporate sounding, back when I cared about that stuff for ftmax.com. It never occuured to me that if CCSO did a scan of my computer, they would notice that my workstation is the host of a corporate web site. Here is some mail:

Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 08:48:01 -0600 (CST)
From: CCSO Security 
Reply-To: security@uiuc.edu
To: davedash@uiuc.edu
Subject: dorm room connection


I have noticed that the machine 130.126.72.54 has a web page for a commercial
entity. This is strictly in violation of university policy and state law.

If this page is not removed immediately, your network connection will be 
disabled and student discipline charges filed.

-- 

 [      Security Officer                |       CCSO/University of Illinois   ]
 [      security@uiuc.edu               |       1304 West Springfield         ]
 [      (217) 265-0000                  |       Urbana, Illinois   61801      ]

I finished reading Xenocide. Very Deux Ex Machina, I've heard bad things about Children of the Mind as well. I can imagine why. I will, however, finish reading the series as I am curious as to what Mr. Card is trying to achieve. I did like the book. I read at least over 100 pages on one day.

The Onion will have an MTV Christmas Special supposedly. This should be interesting, hopefully someone will record this for me. It's funny, Onion is one of the better sources of humour, we need more things like that on TV. Canadian TV has funny stuff that crosses the line, as does British TV. It's in our best interest to mimic these, instead of remaining prudish about our humour. Damn you America for spawning crap like SNL and MAD TV.

Since I have no original ideas, here's my Christ Day wish list:

1. Sony Netman or Diamond Rio PMP300
2. PCS Cellular phone with cellular service for one year (so next year someone else can get me a year of service)
3. IBM Laptop SCSI whatever you can or a DELL Inspirion must have DVD support
4. SGI 1600SW with Number Nine card
5. SONY DCR-PC10
6. Soundblaster Live
7. UMAX PowerLook 3000
8. Lego Mindworks
9. Something with a pretty LCD screen that goes on my computer.
10. A ray gun.

I ate at Burger King yesterday. It was very good after a disconcerting school dinner. I shall eat out more often. I will try to avoid Burger King for a while. Their sandwhiches are good, but they are the kind that make you not want to eat their for a few months.

I'm reading some news off the AP wire. Xis Vwj is pronounced "See Voo." In one light, that's pretty cool. On the otherhand, who the hell is responsible for translating Hmong (I think) to English?

This if from the AFP:

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (AFP) - Inspired by the victory in the Minnesota governor's race of former pro wrestler Jesse Ventura, another veteran of the sport, Hulk Hogan, plans to run for president in 2000, Time magazine says.
"When Jesse won, I said to my wife, 'I'm 10 times more popular than him,'" Hogan told Time.
"People know Hulk Hogan like they know McDonald's and Chevrolet."
The weekly said Hogan planned to approach billionaire Ross Perot, CNN founder Ted Turner and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey as possible running mates.
Asked of a possible political contest against Ventura, Hogan said, "I'd like to get him into the ring and basically stomp on him."

I finished I, Robot some time ago. It's a childrens novel. Well it seems like one. The future it portrays is interesting and their are portions that are probable. I, personally, think that we will have powerful thinking machines far sooner than actual robots.

I have begun reading Ender's Game. I understand why Adam liked it so much. This summer I worked with gifted (well if not gifted, talented) children in a mathematics program with Molly. You could always single out that even among these there is still the quiet ones and the smart ones and the quiet and smart ones. I also like how it reminds me of my childhood.

Stinky has over six hours of video of the #2 Street Fighter player in the world. He watches it intently. I came back from the library to see him and Stephan watching it as if it were a good movie. I've heard at least two or three people come in here and just get disgusted with Stinky watching it. Stinky attempted to exclaim how cool it was by saying that this was the number 2 player. My friend, Tim, responded with "So?" So remember, if you are doing something that's really silly and stupid assigning a rank doesn't make it better.

Fashion is just one of the many uses of duct tape.

For fear that my floor may come off, I started duct-taping it. This duct-tape exo-floor should be more durable and less likely to come off. That's right people... I'm still strange. Actually I'm not going to tape my entire floor lest I incur the wrath of some building inspectors.

I'm experiencing another joyous no-Stinky weekend. With Stinky gone, I decided to fix the biggify thing so it prompts you and stores it as a cookie propperly. Previously it was using someone elses code that I slightly modified. Now a more modified code that makes more sense to me. I love programming.

"There are some things I wouldn't want to recieve as a gift." "Like what?" "Herpes."

Thanks to Tuesday morning's wind dynamics that I don't quite understand in Allen Hall the doors here keep making noises, as if someone were pushing and pulling on them. I think I fixed it in my room by applying poster tack.

For those of you who want ICQ 99a, you can get it here at least temporarily.

Umm... looks like I fixed the biggify button on the left. There is now a "debiggify." I finally found the phrase that I was missing from my Javascript at cnn.com. Speaking of CNN. CNN's custom news sucks, it gives you less information. I found more things that interest me on the regular cnn page.

Download this Ventura clip. A singing, rocking and rolling governor...

Not much is happening. This week I am a good chemist and no the entire weeks worth of chemistry. Unfortunately that doesn't help me with my pending assignments. Damn! I have math homework... and math class!

I started to work on this stupid, useless project of the Hindu Mandir registry/address book type thing (again). I doubt anybody will make propper use of it, I'll see. If I do anything tonight it will be a new project for Med Rx using this.

"Moving the journal over here was a great idea. I just hope the users don't mind that we reuse old graphics, woman."

I heard the KQRS apology regarding the comments made regarding the Hmong. The result is that they have given in to Citizens Against Racism. There will be no more Talk with Tak, featuring Tak the person from Grand Forks with an accent that's surprisingly Oriental sounding. I guess not stating his race does not matter. I think KQ should make up a new character with an accent that can't quite be traced. :) I'm interested in what others think of Talk with Tak or what you think would define something as being racist.

Jesse the Body was on KQ. He also made the front page of the Daily Illini (not the feature article, but the front page nonetheless). Most of my news that I throw at you is usually computer stuff, so here's something from Maximum PC that mentions "the wrestler."

McJorgenson sent me this link.

Apple has a new deal where you can Rent-to-Own an iMac for $30 a month. Sure, it sounds like a good deal. Only a little bit more than unlimited Internet access... except you realize that this is for 67 months. After the first year or two you'll feel like your machine is really out-dated. Then you realize that you are paying $30 for the next 43 months for an outdated computer that, from many peoples view points, wasn't very good computer brand new.

Matt Sundberg graduated from High School today. Slacker.

Anybody who uses the mega-gigantic dryers in Allen Hall should not leave their laundry in their for more than 10-15 minutes. It's really annoying, because if you don't use those and have a decent ammount of laundry, you have to run your load a few times.

The 52 lbs. package has been spotted in Cach, IL at 9:47 PM today. It should be expected to arrive tomorrow or Monday. The last time I saw something at Cach, IL I got it the next day or the day after. That was of course in MN, but now that I live in IL, it should be here sooner. That's right, I live in IL. I am IL.

I wonder if I've regained control of my will power. Jack's Taco Bell poster finally fell. Jack missed two classes today because he went to sleep at six in the morning.

I took my second math test. It hurt.

I love this song. "Give it to me, baby!"

"I feel like a diabetic kid in the sugar free section of Mr. Bulky."

ICQ 99a is in limited beta (i.e. you cannot download it). It's cooler than all hell. I've had one major problem with ICQ. My list had too many people, and I wanted to organize them. The other thing that was a wish was to get rid of those stupid headings that say "Online" and "Offline" these are now offable. So here's a list of new things.

Features I like
• Groups - You can organize people on your contact list in groups (reshall, friends, family etc.) The groups are collapsable for those of you who have a ton of contacts.
• Global Online Alert - When a user logs online there will be a knocking sound, an icon will flash in your system tray and the user's name will flash in on your list. You can configure this. I have it so it makes no sound, but the contact list (which I keep open at all times) will have the persons name flash a little. It can also flash to notify you if someone's come out of away.
• key shortcuts
• (just found this out) When you get a message and have no clue what it's about, you hit "History" and the message box gets bigger and you can read the history and reply at the same time all in one window.
Otherthings that are new.
• Annoying typewriter sounds when you compose a message. (Easily disabled).
• Colored Messages - You can color your messages so the recipient will get a colorful notice from you.
• Reminders - Set ICQ to remind you of future events and activities. open in new browser

There's a 52 pound package coming from a warehouse in NY. It was last seen in Island City. Hopefully here by Monday.

The Chem test today was bad. It's okay. I understand the subject material. They ask a lot on tests. I think my problem is I learn certain things just to be familiar with them, not to answer all the questions on a test. I should learn differently.

Jack's posters fall. Not the Taco Bell poster though. I wish that would fall. His other posters fall though. I think it's annoying. My posters don't fall. I have six. One is on the ceiling. Heck, a CD I stuck on the ceiling hasn't fallen yet either.

Jack's not used to my being used to coldness. Like my room is cold now. (Same temperature as my basement normally is.) I like it that way. It's like free airconditioning. Actually now that I think about it, it is cold. But I just hate climbing the stairs where it's burning hot and then getting into a burning hot room with Glade Plugins which are being used to mask dorm room smells. I need constant cold fresh air to flush my room out. Maybe I'll shut the window tonight.

HDTV is now available at an alarming price. Most people don't need it. In fact most people are better off throwing their damn TVs out the window, but that's another story. You see, people could care less if their TV looks sharper or not. For the most part, it's not that big of a deal. It's nice when watching a full screen movie, but that's about it. Nicholas Negroponte wrote an article (which you can find on his page) about why HDTV is a waste. He basically says TV is crap with euphemisms.

My eye is severely red. I think I need a new one.

I went to a loveline-type thing at Allen Hall. It was very amusing and interesting. Much better than the real "loveline" on MTV and Westwood 1 Radio Network (or whoever puts out Loveline).

"That's a great plan, we'll just steal some of Yishan's ideas."

I like how the results graph doesn't show the entries that weren't voted for. I'll impliment this change sometime. I'm very busy this week. I've got a test tomorrow night and the night after and an essay due Friday. The Thursday test is horrid Graph Theory.

Holly crap, Caroline is a cool person, more of this model of human should be created for future generations... hmm I'm becoming Bene Gesserit like in my thinking. Yes, we should keep an eye on this line. This update is for you, because you asked for it. I'd have probably updated anyway because of the elections. I just think her web page is really neat, and she was in Newsweek.

We've been having November Rain in Urbana. Very annoying and very cold. However, my Jacket, which bundles me up more than Kenny's has nifty anti-weather mechanisms build into it.

I'm now reading i, robot from some guy named Asimov. There's a small story that takes place in 1998. The development in robotics/computers in the book is far different than what it will be in this universe.

These are links concerning the KQRS Morning Show. They are interesting. They are also biased because the Star and KQ are enemies. [Link 1] [Link 2] [Link 3] [Link 4]

I voted using an IBM Votomatic! I voted mostly all democratic, just because I wasn't up to speed on all the issues of all the candidates in all the races I had to vote for. Ryan (R) beat Poshard (D) for Gubenautical race. Moseley-Braun (D) is behind by 100K votes v. Fitzgerald (R) for the Senatorical race. I also think incumbent, E-wing (R) creamed Prussing 63 to 37 percent. Then there is Minnesota... all I can say is good luck Jesse, who just won.

I have a short term memory. I noticed this last year when I started using ICQ heavily. I'd message people and they'd reply and I would have to constantly look at my message history to figure out what they were replying to. This happens less and less, but it was disturbing dealing with such a short term memory. I've started to notice it elsewhere as well. I can't pay much attention in class because taking notes is difficult and keeping a lecture together in my head is hard. When I read a book I often miss important details. This happens especially if the subject matter isn't filled with vivid description or interesting.

I've started taking it easy instead of constantly being stresse over work. It's helped. It's funny my hobby is web site development and I chose the school that created graphical web browsing. It's fun to go to Help|About Internet Explorer if you use MSIE. If you like space, you'll like this. Our school has crappy Pizza delivery. It's just Totino's party pizza. It's nasty. If you go to UIUC, eat dinner, don't get the pizza from URH, if you must spend $5 and order pizza.

Winamp 2.04 has Aural Stimulation support for MP3s. I hope this is what I think it is. In other MP3 news, I just found a bunch of new MP3s from Aphex Twin, Tangerine Dream, Orb (an awesome live Toxygene), Orbital (as if I didn't have enough), Skinny Puppy and Underworld to name a few. I should be set for a while.

The Simpsons yesterday lacked some intelligence that the older Tree House of Horror's had.

Jack is back today. He woke up early (a few minutes after my final awakening). He's awake now.

I found a link here and here referring to the shooting. Apparently they had the wrong guy.

It's a bout time that somebody came out with a phone that hooks up to your PC. Unfortunately you can't use this with talking over the Internet. It wouldn't be that hard. Just make it a USB device that doubles as a microphone/speaker and you could talk to people via netmeeting with a phone.

Friday Night I watched Omen IV with some friends. It's actually the second time I saw the movie. It's very funny. Watch it with girls. There was a seen where snakes bit people and Cheryl, a friend of mine, screamed a little too much. I'm not implying that all girls will scream, there are probably quite a few exceptions. One exception, I think, is Molly. I can't picture her screaming out of fear of a movie. Or having any fear of something in a movie. That's why I love her.

Looks like Windows NT 5.0 Beta 3 and subsequent 5.0 releases will not have as cool of an active directory interface as I thought. Originally it was to be a type of metadirectory where virtual links could be made, similar to Unix type systems where you can type "ln -s" to create a symbolic link. Oh well. One day I hope to be running this. Probably a legal copy too. My friend Chris has gotten me into this legal kick.

Crack.com is folding over supposedly because of lack of funds. They made cool Linux games. One game Golgotha has great music. I remember Tom playing a song, Meathook when it came out, it's now called Munich Germany. You can get these of the MP3 Server. These are, by the way, legal MP3s. All the legal MP3s I have are pretty cool.

Also on the MP3 server is an mp3 of Jack, my roommate. It's in Chinese. It's his mom calling about the shooting that happened. I have a translation available too. It's under \D\Dave's Roommate, Jack Lin\.

I shaved yesterday. I look a lot less credible, but I also look like I'm not fresh off the boat. I also noticed that some of my hair has a copper color. I think it would be cool to have more uniform copper hairs.

I've noticed that it only takes me a small amount of time to set up a web site. Here is one for Millenium 3. It's our team that's competing in a robot design competition. The sad thing is, if Peter were in the competition, he'd beat everyone's ass.

Wow... I thought I wrote a somewhat decent essay for my C Lit class, but it turns out I got a C-. I guess it's because I am not a good essay writer to begin with, this is my first real essay in a while and this is my first college essay. I'll see on what I need to work. There may have been loose ends and I may have not written enough. Grr.

Chemistry is so easy. I enjoy today's unit, VSEPR models. It's not terribly complex, but it looks like it is, and it deals with Geometry. UMTYMPs intervention programs have made sure that I enjoy hands on geometry.

I'm thinking about getting some style sheets for this page. Make it look a wee-bit nicer. I think I need to go through this site one day. I wish there was somebody here that would go through it with me. It's neat when you look at your page with someone who'd been to it. They point out things that just don't make sense. Like "bigify." WTF is that? If you click on it, hit Alt-F4 to get out. I haven't been able to work cookies out well enough that it informs you on how to close the window.

I think I have to shave now. I don't like hair on my face.

I updated the rest of the web site. I updated the friend's section and the humor links. Enjoy it while it's still new.

Yes, I know, I have a million updates today, but I'm bored. Not because I lack stuff to do, it's just that I don't want to work on my big projects and I've been doing little things all day. Anyway, I went to Laureen Ojalvo's site. It's been a while. Out of my friend's sites I have seen I think that is probably the prettiest. Ben Schack's page is neat because it has JavaScript that he took the time to write, but it's ugly. Heh, my hyperlink to his page slipped:)

I wonder who else will start a page this year... it's pretty neat. Stefan was telling me that he's going to work on a page sometime. Not that he'll have anything to put on it, but because it will be something he can pour his creativity into. I think that's why people should make web pages. Because they can be creative. Of course... sometimes people's creativity looks like crap, and then I start to think that unless a page offers content it shouldn't exist. Of course that's hypocritical because I have no real value on this web page. It's basically, read about my life 'n' stuff.

I've decided to get a Logitech Marble Trackman. I've decided I hate mice and they aren't very useful. I may buy this when I get home, or something. If anybody can find one for less than $42, tell me. Shopping.com so far has offered the best prices. They actually offer better prices than those listed in Pricewatch.com for various items, so I'd check them out.

Well I've decided that I need to get back into doing web work again... Right now I am in the middle of this long, tedious project that I may have mentioned earlier. The Hindu Mandir Email Database. Here is what needs to be done:

• Create a script to parse the form and insert it into the database.
• Create a form that lets you edit your entry.
  • Write a new database that keeps track of users online, their IP addresses, the last time they were on
  • the form disallows people with an incorrect username, pw or who haven't done anything from their IP in the last half hour. This is the same method I used for my journal.
• Create a parser script to parse the edits. I particularly hate doing this part. It's somethign I need to do, but I never like doing it. It's so boring. I'll explain below...
• Create a script that sorts people based on their last name.
• Create a script that finds entries that are searched for.
• Create a form that allows people to email others.
• Create a bulliten board.

When I design a web page, I make several sketches and then whip out the ol' drawing program and make the images and lay them out on the web page where I think they should go. It's very easy and you can see this pretty little thing you just made. This is why I am yearning to work on a real web site. I'll probably ask Med-Rx if I can update their site. It's been a while since I last did anything. May 1997... wow, I usually say stuff needs updating (at least minor) at least once a year.

Wow, my personal web site is really messed up. Either nobody visits my site, or nobody cares. But in the "web sites" category under projects it says something no, wait, it doesn't pop into a new window... I think it should. Fix it dave.

My parents came on Sunday and I stayed at the Holiday Inn which is better than my dorm. It was nice, they came bringing many gifts (birthday). They left yesterday.

My brother sent with them a cool mat and a nice window fan. I'm happy.

Today I enrolled for the "They Might Be Giants" lottery. Basically I can buy my ticket sometime early on Thursday. It's wierd. I saw them last month... I want to find somebody to go with me, but I don't know people who like They Might Be Giants on campus. I may just do a solo thing. That'd be neat. By the way, the song that's been in my head this week is Ana Ng.

Oh yeah, today is the day that I decided to update my "friends" page. If you have a web page and it's not listed in the friends page, then send an email or ICQ me and I'll add it.

I got most of my shopping done for Urbana. Now my problem is getting there. I have to talk them into letting me in early or I have to get there by 9AM on Saturday or maybe something magical will happen and I can go whenever. Hopefully tonight my brother will give me a schedule to work around. Looks like all the good computers at Micron's refurbished division are being purchased as they are added. Oh well.

The Hindu Mandir email thing is coming along. Now I am working on how the sign up form works. It's a long form because it's collecting data for the Bulliten Board as well.

Want to see something cool? Check this out.

Today I lured Anna into my house. I advised her on a computer and she's ordered it tonight. Marc, Anna and I went grocery shopping and we got a lot of macaroni and cheese type food... I am borrowing two more of the dune books, and hope to finish them soon. I have also been working on the Hindu Mandir email database (again) and studying the Japanese language for my test on the 20th. I configured a machine for under $3000. It could be called a dream machine I guess. 450 MHz 256MB of RAM... it's in almost every way better than my current computer. This is something that would be hard to beat even if I ordered it from Micron Recondition... of course those once in a while machines like the one I have come along...

No Molly, but new site.

I'm going to what'll be the last Indian party I attend for a while. Some kid's birthday party. Yay? Tomorrow will be fun though: Uptown Art Fair and Improv in the Park.

Hey, I saw Waiting for Guffman this Friday with Marc &c. It was very strange. Not as strange as True Stories though. It featured the six-fingered man from the Princess Bride.

So far Kay and Laureen are my site-pickers. I need 3 more poeple (and I can only think of three other people who visit the site, so it works nicely).

For the next few days I'm going to be working on this wacky "thing" at my temple's site. Hmm... it should be good. It's basically a better email list which I will combine with the message board too.

Oh, and Michael Jorgenson. The camel is safe. Kameru wa daizyobu desu.

Okay. I need about 5 volunteers (I can only think of three or four people who visit my web site, but you never know) to go through the new web site I made.

The less people who use IE4, the better, but I'm not going to be picky. (I use IE4 and think it looks fine.) I need people who can just pick the site apart and give me constructive feedback. I'd suggest everybody email me and do this, but if you are extrememly busy then do not worry.

Thanks. When you email me, I'll give you the URL.

I've decided this new site will take forever so here's what I'm doing now:

16 July Humor page
21 July Help pages
26 Beta Testing begins

Can somebody explain to me the Fine Structure Constant?

Anyway. I'm sick of something. Trends. There's all these people who will follow trends without understanding them. Like the Internet. Like 137 FSC, etc. But more the Internet. People should like learn about things before thinking they are neat. Why is it that half the people on the Internet haven't the slightest clue on how to do anything. We have computer illiterate people surfing the web. It's like the problem with illiterate people graduating from high school. I hate that. I'm going to start writing these Internet things for people that explain to them how to do everything I can do. Well almost everything. I'm going to work on my site tonight.

Here is more information on Site 4. I'm just posting a nice little update, if you look back, you'll see I'm behind schedule. So here's what I "plan" to do after I come back from sunny California and UIUC:

10 June    Web design pages
11 June    How this site was made
12 June    Style guides
13 June    web usability
14 June    What's new.
15 July    Humor page
16 July    Rewrite RSG in PHP3 (with help from Nada)
17 July    RSG Information page
18 July    Links page and add-a-ma-tron.
19 July    Survey Script (with help from Jason Waye)
20 July    Education site....
21 July    Add people to friends page
22 July    Scan pictures
23 July    Window closing script (I need help on this).
24 July    Add more people to friends page
26 July    Beta testing of site begins
 1 August  Site is copied to root directory and replaces
           ftmax.com/ and ftmax.com/x

Here's what we've been up to this week:

Molly and I are working at the IT Center for Educational Programs. We are TAing for the PRIME summer program. This is by far the best job (between working for my Dad, and PNBD) ever. Although it is very frustrating being in charge of 18 sixth or seventh grade boys especially when the other TA, Molly, is dealing with seven docile girls. It's been very fun anyway. Tomorrow I hope it's hot, so I can swim. Although T-storms have been forcasted.

I was supposed to help people at Innovative Research work on their web site, but they have no money. So I will be doing far less web work this summer. This is unfortunate, because I make a lot of money that way. I did how ever recieve a payment from Nutrition Dynamics.

I've almost finished the Foundation Series. I have one final book to complete: Forward the Foundation. Yishan says it is the best in the series. After this book, I'll take a break from Sci-Fi and may delve into Tolkien, or Science.

You know what's annoying? Domain names. Like things like this and this are being used for bad purposes. Read the second one, there isn't anything too offensive on the opening page, it's really funny though.

Updated schedule for Site4:

 9 June  Email/ICQ contact form
10 June  Site Map
12 June  Web stuff buttons/java things written
15 June  Create web stuff mainpage
16 June  Create web site gallery pages
18 June  Web design pages
23 June  How this site was made
24 June  Style guides
26 June  web usability
27 June  What's new.
 2 July  Humor page
 9 July  Rewrite RSG in PHP3 (with help from Nada)
10 July  RSG Information page
11 July  Links page and add-a-ma-tron.
12 July  Survey Script (with help from Jason Waye)
13 July  Education site....
14 July  Add people to friends page
15 July  Scan pictures
16 July  Window closing script (I need help on this).
17 July  Add more people to friends page
18 July  Beta testing of site begins
25 July  Site is copied to root directory and replaces ftmax.com/ and ftmax.com/x

Here's an old article from Nicolas Negroponte. I think it is quite interesting. It deals with learning and Legos.

This Friday I had a CSci Test and I actually finished it. I was happy. I also finished watching fifth element and learned that wind + fire + water + earth + perfect women = light. Unfortunately, it's hard to get samples of some of those "elements."

Wired and all their web sites suck. For some reason close tags and propperly functioning pages are of no concern to them.

The Daily Show's Stacey is very pretty and she's cool. She's probably a slut. Most people have some type of tragic defect.

Hey, I had this problem with IE4.0. It has worked up until today. It would no longer opens pages in new windows (even with a target=_blank). Low and behold downloading IE 4.01 SP1 may help you.

Timeline for the new site:

19  May  Copyright page.
27  May  Frame popping.
31  May  Email/ICQ contact form
 1 June  Site Map
 2 June  Web stuff buttons/java things written
 3 June  Create web stuff mainpage
 4 June  Create web site gallery pages
 6 June  Web design pages
 8 June  How this site was made
 9 June  Style guides
10 June  web usability
11 June  What's new.
12 June  Humor page
15 June  Rewrite RSG in PHP3 (with help from Nada)
16 June  RSG Information page
17 June  Links page and add-a-ma-tron.
18 June  Survey Script (with help from Jason Waye)
21 June  Education site....
22 June  Add people to friends page
23 June  Scan pictures
24 June  Window closing script (I need help on this).
26 June  Add more people to friends page
27 June  Beta testing of site begins
 9 July  Site is copied to root directory and replaces ftmax.com/ and ftmax.com/x

Well, I surprised myself again. The Calendar algorithm was very very simple to figure out. It pretty much uses the same type of logic as anybody would if they were to make an HTML calendar by hand. So, I wrote this thing, now I have to do something else... yes, I need to write an interface that lets you add/modify/remove events (do you know how annoying it is to write something like that... oh well).

It'll be nice when the whole web site is finished. I take it nobody has been able to find it's location. It's fairly easy. Tom probably has the best chance of finding out where it is located.

I'll post a time line for the entire site's completion, so you people can have a good idea about what I am doing and when I'm doing it. I'd give it a good month or two... although I'd like it done at the end of the month.

Mike Jorgenson has been in town, Molly and I had lunch with him at UNOs. UNOs makes great Pizza. I tried eating a slice of the leftovers and I was full... I have another half slice to go. Then I remember, you can never eat more than two slices of UNO pizza.

Yishan should be back sometime tonight. I won't eat at UNOs with him, because I can't eat there more than once a month or once every two months.