I am quite please with the progress of the updates to this site. I got several things done:

1. A way for me to edit posts.
   • Thus all my posts are now xhtml compliant. (i hope)
2. A better method for formatting my posts
3. The main pages now tie into my image journal. Nift.
4. I finally get to put those fun little "valid xhtml/css" buttons on my site.
5. The site works pefectly in modern browsers (ie 6, mozilla) and degrads gracefully on the way down.

Of course, there are still a few things that need cleaning up:

1. The comments feature needs to be able to accept an email - but hide it from the world, as well as accept a URL and show it off.
2. There are a few pages (links) that need some....assistance, from the tables they used to be. In addition to just some cob-web clearing. I'll probably end up categorizing and posting a good deal of my links there. My "Bookmarks" bar has something like 50 sites in just there. Woo.

I am sure I missed something on those lists - but, whatever.

A few things.

1. The pictures category of this site (not that I let you browse by post category yet) will see very little use now because I developed a completely separate section of my site to handle this since the blog just isn't the right place for it.
2. There is going to be some changes to the underlying structure of my site. Currently the site layout validates, however, most of the content does not. In addition, I never programmed a nice web-based interface for updating entries. Finally, the comments thing needs a little bit of improvement.

I'm going to be doing this in stages - so if you come and the site is acting weird or something, don't worry I'll fix it by tomorrow.

I just figure that over the past few months I have really been getting hooked on this whole "valid xhtml" and "css" thing. In addition to that, I'm supposed to grow up and become a web developer, so shouldn't the things I do reflect that?

Hrm.

Ok, so it's only been like, ohhh, nearly a month since I have written here. Heh, go me.

Anywho, I have two jobs now.

• Working for the school
• Working for YouthOutlook

I am just doing tutoring for the school, multimedia stuff, web pages, scripting, flash, etc. The job for YouthOutlook I am the "Web Master" for their magazine's website. It's really cool that I actually get to write "Web Master" on my resume now. :D

That job is going great. I am really enjoying it and look forward to more. It's nice to work on a website that people are actually using and that is always up to date and such things. :)

Also, you may have noticed this site changing it's layout like....20 times or so. Well, this is my personal site, and I edit it while it's live because, well, if I break it, it's not like I'm going to lose a paying customer or anything. So the hassel of "staging" my updates is just a non-issue. ;-)

I'm slowing going through the process of updating my portfolio site too. I hope to get that up sometime in the next month or so.

Finally, I feel proud and sad that over the last month I played a major role in getting one of my teachers fired. He wasn't doing a superb job. I've ranted on this before. Anyway, since it's the middle of the semester, tomorrow I face our substitute for the remainder of the quarter...that is if class continues. We'll see how things go. *crossing fingers*

Phew!

On Feburary 10th, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his intentions to defy the “man and woman” restriction on marriages and allow gay couples to obtain wedding certificates. By the 13th, San Francisco City Council had rushed the policy into place, much to the dismay of anti-gay marriage parties.

That was just over a week ago with marriages starting, coincidently enough, on Valentines day. The city has been swamped by people from all over coming to be married here, despite concerns about the vailidity of the marriage licenses being distributed. During the first few days alone several hundered gay couples were married in the SF City Hall under the golden rotunda.

During the weekend and into the 3 day holiday, there was no slowing down of people migrating to be married. The line of people waiting stretched around the park outside the city hall, not just once, but TWO times.

City officials worked extra hours and hired addition staff to handle the influx of couples.

Today, the people are still gathering to get married. Enough to wrap themselves around half the city hall building. Of course, several groups are very upset by Newsome allowing these marriages, and have shown up to protest. I fully support them in their protesting – it’s a right after all – but I do not side with them.

Of course, there were several people protesting for the rights of gay couples to be married.

And then there are those who protested in the negative. Including the fellow pictured there who vehemently requested that the live band play a funeral march since, “Today is a sad day – gay people are getting married today!”

Of course, the police were watching of the situtation, just in case. However, despite small shouting conflicts, no major problems have arisen.

I hope that, even if all of these license get revoked it causes people to awaken to the fact that gay marriage is no different than man/woman marriage and it should be allowed just the same.

This is one of the best articles I have read in a long while.

World of Ends - What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.

Long link, very worthwhile article.

MS is so awesome! Check this out, the long time hated FrontPage is getting an overhaul and is going to "clean up it's code"...they may want to learn HTML first though - or maybe that was the problem in the first palce?

Check out line 28...

L - O - L !

Well, the MyDoom virus seems to have passed and gone on. Meaning, I no longer am getting more virus email than spam. Back to the spam, yay!

Anywho, SCO.com was the target of the virus and it was taken out of commision for a good deal of the day, and when it came back up I took a moment to check out their site - since I never had before. I would like to point out a few key things about their site:

This is the image on their front page - quite dominant.

Here's the problem with what I am seeing.

1) They are warning people about the virus, but the computer they featured in that image is a Macintosh iBook. The MyDoom virus *can not* infect a macintosh, so it's a rather funny picture in that aspect.

2) The other funny part of this image is the right hand part of the image and the slogan. "Power of Unix". This is their thing - they own certain parts of unix and that's their business. They are also suing an entire industry for licensing rights over intelectual property. Anyway, it's funny because the power of unix in the left hand side of the drawing isn't their unix - it's the Macintosh unix. Hrm....

Aparently I was not the only one bored by President Bush during his speech. Check out this guy playing a GameBoy while attending.

Also take note thoe other people watching him. Woman behind him, guy behind her, and the other guy two people to the right.

This weekends project (one of two):

Travis found a neat magnetic poetry java applet online, but was disapointed by the fact that it would not save the order of his fantastic work. So I went ahead and created one that would not only save his work, but would also save the work of everyone else.

Magnet Poetry

Some of it's crazy features:

• Lets you create magnet poerty(duh)
• Allows you to save your work
• Allows you to *add* your own words
• When you save your work, the next person to load the fridge will see it!

That last item is the kicker. Since the magnet's come from a shared XML file, what you create, everyone else will see. :-)

I was walking to school today and something hit me.

I usually walk looking down at the ground. It helps me to not run into things, but I can still see a little ways forward so I don't hit any oncoming persons.

I take my camera with me everywhere I go now. It's the real reason I wanted it. I see things all the time that just make me say, "I wish i had a camera right now".

Now I walk around looking ahead all the time. I don't want to miss a picture opportunity. But that one came back to bite me in the butt. I walking along looking up, and as I was focusing on something particular, I kicked over a can of yogut and got it all over my shoe.

Hrm...

Looking ahead with yogut on my shoe. :-/

So, I went ahead and played with my camera some more. Anyone who plays Ragnarok online will know that *this* is the ultimate item to get ;-)

:D

Anywho, it's a toy corvette car i found outside so I took some close ups and put images behind it till one of them sorta fit....hehe!

Got a big smile out of this one for a few blocks or so.

I just looked up to discover the library lights had a sense of fashion....a bad one, but one none the less.

^.^

We spent most of our time in Idaho relaxing, and more importantly, keeping warm. It was (on average) about 4degrees while we were there.

On the flip side it was really nice to be somewhere isolated like that, snow is fun to play in, and it was good to get away.

A sample from the HQ tour i put together really quick with my fancy new camera.

And the whole tour over here!

Ok, so J and I went to England (mostly London) about half a year ago and were just getting around to having the photos developed - but they're done now!

You can take a peek at our trip to england, and as you can see we spent a great deal of time looking at small furry animals, parks, and buildings - it was great! ^.^