Why would you want to know what I'm thinking? Weirdos.
I noticed that there wasn't much out there when it came to just simply displaying a calendar on a website. Most the examples I found were overly complicated. So, I came up with a little snippet of code that outputs a calendar for any given month and displays it as an HTML table.
I haven't heard much talk about this angle of it, but what would passage of SOPA mean for the US web hosting industry? Is it possible that many companies will move their hosting out of the country?
I'm on the lookout for a web designer for a small project that I'm working on. This would not be a paid gig or anything, but something that could be added to a portfolio. I don't imagine it would be much work, just need a general design layout of a site. I can take care of all the coding backend of things. If anyone is willing to help out with this, it'd be much appreciated. Let me know, and I'll message you the details.
My kids have become Minecraft addicts. It's been a struggle this summer getting them to balance computer time with summer activities. Minecraft does have it's benefits though. The kids have been chatting in the game a lot and their typing skills have had massive improvements due to this. Playing this game has caused them for the first time to have a need to type fast on the computer.
I will sometimes go into my kid's room when they are not there, and I will look around and try to absorb everything I look at. I will think about all the things that are present in that room and try to imagine what it would be like to be a little kid and that room is all that I know. In a way, it is somewhat disturbing to me. I try and wonder what it is like to be one of my children. I worry about what their life is like. I fear that their life may not be as good as the childhood that I experienced.
I've been slowly adding in new stuff to my site and making everything cleaner since it's launch on Jan 13th. Probably the biggest updates so far went up last night and tonight. I have restored the ability to create user accounts. This went missing since the new site launched. It was done sloppily with the old site, but I did it right this time. If you aren't signed in, you should see a Sign Up link in the top left corner. I don't currently use any type of CAPTCHA, but I do filter sign ups using the Project Honeypot HTTP blacklist. I may restore the simple question and answer based CAPTCHA that I had implemented on the old site for the anonymous comment form. The blacklist seems to be pretty effective though.
Hailey has a classmate at school that is being treated for cancer. She wasn't close friends with her, but they did projects in class together and the whole incident has really affected Hailey. There has been some fundraisers where shirts and bracelets were being sold. Hailey had decided she wanted to purchase those, but she also wanted to raise some money herself. At first, she initially wanted to start a lemonade stand, but I explained to her how that might not work so well in the middle of winter. She then thought about making some crafts and attempting to sell those. While she has very good intentions, her ideas aren't 100% practical. I really liked the crafts she was making, but I didn't really have any ideas on how she would sell them. Rachael made the suggestion that she could go door to door and collect pop bottles. We came up with the idea that instead of selling her crafts, she could give them to people in return for pop bottles she was collecting.
I receive a phone call at 5:30am this morning. Of course, I am immediately concerned as to what it could be, and I am dead tired. The great news is that it is a call from the kids' school district. They reported there would be a two hour delay today. It was really great news. It's like someone calling and saying, "Hello, I'd like to inform you that you can get an extra two hours of sleep this morning". I was pretty happy to hear that news, I went and turned off the kids alarm clock, re-adjusted mine, and fell happily back to sleep.
I got the Sam Adams Winter Classics Variety Pack for Christmas. Since I've been moving, I haven't had a lot of chance to dive into those beers. I did finally start trying out some of the beers in there, and here is my short review of Sam Adam's Chocolate Bock.
Two years ago this day, I proposed rewriting my website. I decided that instead of using a pre-made CMS, I would design the site from the ground up. This gave me the opportunity to gain some more modern web design skills. I was pretty weak at Javascript at the time, for instance, but redesigning the site has allowed me to get up to date on that as well.