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The last post on this site was exactly 45 days ago, since then I've moved to SF and been posting on Blogspot here, here and here
I'm not really sure what I want to do, maybe fixing the domain.. done,...
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Sat,
Sep 23,
2006
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8:11:26 PM in site
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Bored much? Anyway, if you ever browse the blog by tag or click on a tag from an entry you will now be able to subscribe to a feed for that particular tag/category
I should make it so it takes multi...
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Wed,
Jun 14,
2006
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10:25:12 AM in web / site
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This Lokesh Dhakar is kinda good. I added the script to photos and about (kinda buggy with other script but I wrote a workaround)
Lazy people can see it in action below (you have to be on the site fo...
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Thu,
May 11,
2006
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3:46:20 PM in site
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I've split some feeds apart (just for John, you lil hoe), now available in the about page
old feed
- consolidated content, you don't have to do anything
new
- blog only
- blog comments
- links (del...
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Wed,
May 10,
2006
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2:32:55 PM in web / site
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Playing with Google Adsense for a minute, hope it's not too much of a negative browsing experience, I tried to blend the colors but now they might not look different enough. I notice Google ads flick...
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Mon,
Feb 6,
2006
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11:09:39 AM in site
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(Power) Outage between 6/16 - 19.. really lamenessImage from Flickr
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Sun,
Jun 19,
2005
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12:03:03 PM in site / suck
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This little site has been steadily getting more hits, in theory a good thing. After checking out the logs, it seems what's gotten out of control is the spidering done by web crawlers to i...
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Thu,
May 26,
2005
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8:12:15 AM in google / site
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Noticed HaloScan getting traction with a lot of blogs, outsourced commenting system with lots of management features (lookin good for spam I'd say), pretty easy to install, couple of snippets of code ...
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Sun,
Mar 6,
2005
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2:00:16 AM in site / web
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I was talkin to big B and one (geek) thing led to another and he asked me if he could sub to my site via NewsGator, the answer being no cuz my rss feed is all jacked up I had read how FeedBurner w...
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Sun,
Mar 6,
2005
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1:18:16 AM in web / site / web
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Got some neat toys that came in the mail, a spankin salad spinner (that spins both ways) and a cheese grater (oh it's on now). Yeah I'm kinda lame but you should try my salads. They rock.
How much d...
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Wed,
May 12,
2004
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10:07:12 AM in food / site / shopping
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ya it's time i spring for a cool domain.. hey i finished my tax returns and daddy-o will get a buncha moneys back, why not
kinda hard to come up with a good one that's available.. much like lookin fo...
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Thu,
Mar 18,
2004
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10:40:08 PM in site
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New domain http://d4n.ath.cx, removed that old daniel.. one
Rearranged pictures in photos
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Wed,
Jul 16,
2003
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11:35:30 PM in site
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Worked on a new photos page to display my pictures, most of the work involves change in the layout. I have a better navigation thing going on, separating folders and files and also parent folders. I g...
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Thu,
Jun 26,
2003
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12:13:28 PM in site
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Can now post pictures, check me out, I'm a go wild hah
Actually goin through some old posts and puttin nice pix, I'm stoked
Also added a links section to separate news and urls to visit, example below
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Sun,
Jun 22,
2003
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12:03:34 AM in site
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Added a nice sky image up top (inspired by another site, heh), looks nice and refreshing yea? Obligatory rotating image, word to me. Images are from a nice picture I took on the way to Tahoe about a y...
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Sun,
Jun 15,
2003
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2:46:19 AM in site
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Nothing like coding in the heat of the night :-)
Quickly added some blog-like features for the news positing system. Blog comes from weB-LOG which has become rather popular last year. It's basically a...
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Fri,
Jun 6,
2003
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2:15:25 AM in site
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Trying to work on new layout using css, fun stuff, pretty drastic changes I think. Load up faster too, I notice as I am changing my modules using only web layouts vs. images (previously ripped from an...
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Because the more words we know the better we can express our misunderstood selves
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Added comics section in Interests, word
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Added a page that put my favorite movies and albums together, basically sorted by year and rating
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Reorganized photo section, check it out
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Deeper look into the design changes I have started .. this sorta works, but I'm sure I'll want to change some stuff
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More layout changes and some tweaks in the news module; also some content/layout in interests and finally some layout changes in media
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- Following a lame logo I put together in two minutes, I actually spent some time working on the main site header and came up with something real cool I think. I put some dynamic content to go in the ...
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Cleaned up the top header of the site so it doesn't look too bad, opted for this grayish feel that is more subtle, I like
Effectively, version 3 of the site
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Media
Cool trick in Albums to display covers (say cookie baby), check out the Show Covers link
Interests
Updated tv shows
Web Site
oh yeah, the site's been hosted for a while now on a new machine: ...
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alton wasn't much stable, had to rebuild server on a different (slower machine): bone
Media
Reworked albums and music videos sections
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Back up again after a long time being private only, new address kewlio.ath.cx hosted by my new web machine (alton)
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Interests / Books
Fixed major sorting and displaying issue
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Interests
Added a couple of links to cool online tools (dictionary and google)
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Redid Artists page, in particular detail page
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Reworked the TV section with new organization of episodes and season, and also added writer and director info
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Site facelift
Added a banner, and some frames to make the site look more uniform
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Media
Refined movie list page, now has more options (average rating, added director and starring search), added page navigation, it's the nicest one I did so far
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Interests
Redid Books, looks much nicer
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Media
Redid movie list page
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News
Added search to top bar, cool stuff
Re-did news archive, much better, can browse through dates (rather than pages), quite something
Movies
Saw Ice Age over the week-end, a real fun movie, the la...
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Messed around with the layout of Media, looking good
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- Yet again, changed some look of my module boxes, also link colors, moved Calvin inside the random quote module, changed the latest album and movie modules (covers).. wheww fun
- Removed useless Feed...
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Photos
A bit of work on the navigation part.. kewlio
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Home
- Removed my cheesy picture and replaced by random pic module.. moved things around in the layout
- Change of colors.. chance of scenery?
- Modified brief welcome message
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Site Wide
Changed header a bit, just a few minor tweaks. Added the new search tool
Media
Movies: changed length field and converted whole database
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Interests
Fixed a few things in Books section
Condo
Got a floor lamp at Pottery Barn, first step towards furnishing my place.
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Photos
Fixed the thumbnail display script so it can handle multiple pagination and spaces in file/dir names
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Site News
Added dhtml clock upper right corner (ie only, netscape bites anyway)
Home, Media, Search: few cosmetic changes and content filter the non-nitpicker would not pick up on Interests updated :...
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Search
Added covers to albums and movies returned in search, also added rating to albums
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Interests / Playlist
New format, keeping track of Current and Older Playlist
Photos
Added filename mouseover to better navigate through thumbnails, added random picture, tweaked random picture box, s...
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Added random wish list (Home and Interests), random pictures (Home), thumbnails in the Photos section, search to the main top bar
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kewlio (site) is resurrected.. except the machine is a bit weak (PII) resulting in really long response time.. gotta do some upgrade (processor) or move the site to a more powerful machine
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Back again, DSL is sweet (DirecTVDSL now) and I got my wireless router today, its dope. Gotta find a way to put webserver back up
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Media
- Changed MV Detail a bit, mostly layout
- Added a cool average rating for queries to Albums, should think of extending it to other Media as well as coming up with a standard display process
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Links
Added a link to open up in a new window
MV (Music Video)
New MV detail module/page
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Album Cover View
Worked on this and it's taking great shape
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Links
Some changes in the layout and display and addition of "latest link added" modules
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- Added some cool JavasScript for mouseOver/Out events.. check out Search for example (IE only)
- Changed appearance of News Feed (it looks pretty bad when extended, gotta change that)
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- Some layout changes in Home (especially News) and Media (better flow)
- You can now browse the Artists section (Media), previously an admin function to manage artists
- Interests: added producer inf...
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Site News
- Coded some great stats tool, attribute percentage based on table entry (database).. nifty..
- Built a much better playlist area, with listing, comment, archives..
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Web server down but that won't stop development! New attributes added to MV (music videos), albums and streamlined some Manage functions. Modified the layout of Album Detail
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Server will be down until my new DSL connection is up (estimated at about a month)
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Woohoo, my baby got me the hard drive (40GB) that was listed on my wish list :-) It's pretty much bangin'
Some improvements made to the Books section (in Interests)
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Site News
Moving towards a modular approach, where most of the content is all from components, and page layouts are all about putting these modules together
Updated layout in Home, Media
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Search
Added little search capability to Links
Added DB tool in Interests to view database raw (well with a bit of formatting but taking sql queries as input, neat)
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Site News
Added some fancy stuff on top menu bar (Interests and Media).. moving the mouse over will display some extended links in that area
Added date to Movie records (to know when they were last u...
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Wish List
Up and running :-) Oh I'll be wishin, you can believe me
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Site News
Added a couple of pictures from Steve-o's bday, also added major tool to keep track of expenses (admin only :-)
More work into bringin the Wish List back (from Interests)
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Added major feature for database update (editing multiple records at once).. hopefully, it will make archiving nicer.
Added more information for mv db (ripper, format, length), added search and sor...
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Site News
Fixed broken links, added new feature of adding artists, will go back to the appropriate edit table (mv/album), editing artist while entering new album/mv
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Site News
Lots of form related improvements (onclick select all), added some admin stuff to search page
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Site News
Work on new Search dubbed kewlioSearch.. looks for stuff in Albums, Artists, Music Videos, Movies..pretty dope!
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Site News
Working on some data management stuff.. status of main server still unchanged (crapped out!)
Changes to improve form attributes (stylesheet)
Work on new (and improved) Search
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Site News
Slowly fixing broken links, and finding a temporary solution to have the site online
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Site News
Major hard disk failure this week-end. Was unable to bring Win2k back up, the site has been off-line since friday, 6/15
Currently site is back up on another system.. lots of broken links to...
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Site News
Changed top menu a bit, as well as the footer
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Interests
Modified the Book Club stuff a bit
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Media
Completed the cover view for Movies in Media, spiced it up with lotsa different goodies (content).. thinkin bout makin it my default view, it's wonderful what ya can do with db's
Layout
Moved t...
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Added some more RAM, total up to 384MB now. Fixed the fan and now it's even smoother than it used to be! R0xx!
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Site News
Changed layout a bit, added media search on bottom right, put spotlight up for both movies and albums, moved hit counter to the right
Weird
www.fuckgeneralmotors.com goes to Ford Motor Comp...
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Spotlight
Added a full-size picture on the pop-up for albums
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Interests
Added my own "book club" for the books I'm readin at the moment, also working on putting the wish list back online..
NBA
Great game 5 of the Lakers-Kings series.. muy close but Lakers took...
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Added "Spot Light" to the right of Home, pretty cool.. it randomly selects a movie or an album that I rated 4 or higher (out of 5).. neato
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Many computer freezes since the re-install.. not such a good sign..
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Site
Reinstalled machine.. relatively painless but still.. I'm lookin out to upgrade to a p4 with more ram and disk space. In any case it seems like everything is running faster.. norton ghost didn't ...
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HUuuuuge win by the Dallas Mavericks over the Utah Jazz. The Mavs were down for pretty much the whole game and I am really happy for them. Great come back, great game! They play San Antonia in the nex...
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Work
My group has been spared by the layoffs at Cisco (8500 jobs cut, representing about 12% of our work force)
News Feed
Added the news feed to the right in Home
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NBA
The playoffs are on and kickin'.. probably the only time of the year I kinda watch the game, but it's great.
Work
Big announcement about work tomorrow. Hopefully good news. Life goes on.
Intere...
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Media
- Changed the display of the latest entries for the media categories
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Media
- In Movies, I added a length field for the run time, neat-o.
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Links
- Added a cool mouse over effect for links which have comments attached to them
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Media
- Polished up Movie Section, it looks complete to me
- Did the same for the Album Section
Links
- Some modifications to improve loading time, old way displayed every single links (last count...
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Added the final section of Media (Music Videos)
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- Added my own tracking tool for spamming email addresses (Spam)
- Added a few interesting quotes
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- Spent a whole bunch of time on my music collection in Media. Most of the code written, now just need to add content.
- Woohoo, (about) a day later, everything is up. Nice..
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Woohoo, coded the search for movies :-) Search titles, years, studios, actors, ratings, archive.. damn rockin'
I'm workin hard (alright, I only came up with the design) on the rest of the media secti...
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Added navigation to movie details view, can now scroll to the previous/next record (the trick was to find the appropriate record indices alphabetically)
Re-commented a bunch of my movies in Media
Th...
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Added a few photos, pretty kewlio
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Completed data management part of Movies section, all the relevant information can now be edited online; still wanna add some stats functions tho
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Workin on the Media section (in particular Movies); it's pretty dope. Not editable yet. Added Kewlio Mix, a list of my favorite music joints of the moment; worked on Interests section
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Added some more quotes; added some more pics of Calvin
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Woohoo, finished the links section, all editable online :-) the display routine is kinda jacked but oh well. Added whole bunch of links, last count 130
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Completed news section. Added cool random links, quotes and pictures of Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes. I really like the little pictures of Calvin, they add a lot to the site
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I am now editing page code with a text editor, it gives a lot more control than Dreamweaver. Still have lots to do, but the site redesign is lookin' good
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Workin' on a new site design for your pleasure, but mostly mine. I believe the theme is a tribute to minimalism.. :-)
This version is trying to leverage my new found knowledge of ASP (Active Server ...
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