Pages o' Fun: Archives 2000
Past Quotes:
"Mr. Kennedy, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you.." -Mrs. John Connally's words to Kennedy moments before he was assassinated.
"That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted.." - Lou Costello's dying words
December 2000
December 4, 2000 :: For the first time in about 2 years I have added a new record review to my music pages! I'm not gonna tell you what I reviewed, so you'll have to search for it. Ooooo... mean web-boy do bad-bad!
December 2, 2000 :: I have a couple of new sites to my links page.
October 2000
October 29, 2000 :: "It's Halloween, it's Halloween, it's Halloween... it's Halloween." -The Shaggs --; See my Jack-o-Lantern.
October 23, 2000 :: Oh there is magic in the air! Check out my INCREDIBLE Flash movie in the Fun Stuff section. My readers demand quality, and I deliver!
October 21, 2000 :: I have been having problems uploading to AT&T lately. Even this little blurb was a pain to get online. Hopefully this can be resolved soon so that I can begin posting larger additions soon.
October 10, 2000 :: See a preview of Lair of the Manbeast in the Fun Stuff section.
October 3, 2000 :: Insightful political commentary added to the Fun Stuff section.
October 2, 2000 :: Rocktober is finally here! I'm really excited about Lair of the ManBeast's new look. Unfortunately it will not work in Netscape 4. Oh well, it probably won't be finished until Netscape 6 is out anyways.
September 2000
September 27, 2000 :: I have begun work on Lair of the ManBeast again. I will be totally updating the engine and the look and feel. LOTMB is a role-playing game that I am developing entirely in JavaScript. The new version will incorporate a lot of what I have learned about layers and DHTML during the past year. Hopefully I will finish it this time.
September 25, 2000 :: As is usually the case with the WWW, I've discovered my amazing pop-up window tool tips don't work consistently across platforms. On a Macintosh (any browser) the pop-up appears just fine, but when you move the mouse off of the link, the window stays there. It will only disappear if you bring focus back to the main window, mouse back over the link, then mouse out. Rather than attempt to fix this, I will let Mac users get an extra puck-mouse workout as they click from window to window. In the meantime, they can take solace in the fact that at least their computer in the midst of one of its hourly system crashes.
September 23, 2000 :: Today I added support for JavaScript tool tips. Go ahead and put your mouse pointer over the words "Tool Tips" in the previous sentence to see them in action! From now on, if you see bolded, dark-red text like this, point at it, without clicking, for the tip (you will need to have a JavaScript enabled browser).
September 22, 2000 :: Big news today. My sister Mila and her longtime boyfriend Ed have finally gotten engaged! Congratulations! Check out Ed's company, Supersphere.
September 21, 2000 :: Today I checked the site on my Mac at work and it looks just as good as it does on my PC. I also tested it on some dinosaur browsers and, although the colors and typefaces were wrong, the content still was readable and logical. The only complaint I have gotten thus far has been from John Burgess, who says my pages take too long to load. I suspect his connection was messed up. Oh well.
September 20, 2000 :: My new site has finally launched! This is only the beginning. I hope to add more illustrations and goofiness in the upcoming months, stay tuned! Also, I very proud of the fact that these pages validated (scroll to the bottom) for HTML 4.0 and CSS!! Standards rock!
September 19, 2000 :: The new site is pretty much in a presentable state. As time goes by I will add more embellishments, but for now at least there are no broken images. I will spend the the next day or so double checking everything and adding any last minute details.
September 5, 2000 :: The page is coming along. I have the directory structure set and my main concern now is generating the illustration which will adorn the site.
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More or less as a personal record of what interested me entertainment-wise at any given time, here is a posting of stuff I've read, looked at, listen to, or played recently. I've given some of the items a mini-review in the form of a number in parenthesis.
October 2000
What's Hot :: The Challengers - K-39 • Diablo 1
What Blows :: Shogo: Mobile Armor Division • National Public Radio • Retardeds who can't follow a simple ballot - What about the people who wanted to vote for John Haglean and ended up voting for Harry Browne!
What I'm Reading :: I'm still reading Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers • I'm also reading Jakob Neilson's Designing Web Usability
September 2000
What's Hot :: Kraftwerk-Computer World • Blonde Redhead-Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons • Shellac-1000 Hurts LP • Beach Boys Pet Sounds
What Blows :: Dave Matthews Band • Barenaked Ladies • Being sick!
What I'm Reading :: Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers dense, yet rewarding prose. I keep my dictionary at my side when I'm reading this.