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03/15/2006 19:52 #32523

Working on the poetry site
Category: web
I am making a website for this older gentleman using my new CMS system. I love being able to quickly get something up with little effort, it gives me more opportunity to concentrate of the design. He typed all these poems on an old fashioend typewriter and is about 80 years old. He would like his work to be published to the web. I think it is pretty cool that it will have the photograph of the typed copy next to the html text of each poem.

I will post the link when it is done. The poetry is about the stages of life and is entitled, "The Ages of Woman and Man"

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While I was at it, I created a typerwiter key maker, so I am going to do an estrip theme based on typewriters. It will be the first black theme.

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jenks - 03/16/06 10:57
love the typewriter theme. :)
shawnr - 03/16/06 00:38
Eventually I'll add a Surebert button or whatever, as you know. But I did post this last weekend:

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03/15/2006 19:02 #32522

Surebert and alexwebcamworld
Category: web
I redid the surebert site a while back and today I was looking at the stats. Surebert is a very simple to use AJAX API I wrote last year. It looks like it has been downloaded almost 500 times yet I the only place that linked back to the surebert site, like I requested, is my boss's church's web site. In combination with Poser (downloaded 150 times and avaiable in both ASP and PHP format), also on tthe surebert site it can grab data from anywhere on the net and include it live on your site using only javascript. in fact it is what runs the chat, the peep count, the old radio, the many other features on this site.

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Today I found alexswebcamworld ] on google by searching for surbert.js.

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The site seems to be a guy who keep most of his life on web cam. I frequently thought about this a couple years ago but honestly, having a mobile blog was more appealing at the timeand I went with that route. Maybe when I can have a live mobile webcam blog I will change my mind. I think actually, I can have that right now if I would just program it for my phone. I am so overly intimidated by Microsoft Visual Studio. It is so foreign to me, the way it works. Don't get me wrong, i love IDEs but the visual part is insane. I just am not comfortable giving up that much control to the system. It is probably because I don't fully understand how it works, but it seem slike whenever I start a project there a already a million files and lots of code.

03/14/2006 19:03 #32521

restaurant and breaks
Category: work
I totally get absorbed in the form maker API I was making at work and forgot to take a break. I am so angry with myself because I promised I wouldn't do that anymore after 5 years of virtually no breaks at Canisius.

This was all my fault I just forgot to go until 6:59. I get out at 7PM. The thing is I always wait for terry till 8. I f his stupid phone wasn't broken I could have just called to say I am walking home, but as I have to wait anyways - I decided I would spend $11 on a fancy dinner at the hotel next door to roswell. Their food is amazing.

The guy next to me if freaking about about how he has some paycut and won't be able to afford the $500 trips to toronto on the weekends. His attorney says this and that. Blah, blah,blah Ans his property value need to be re-evaluated Thank god he has no debt, he says to some woman he is with.

In the end he decided it wuld be okay because his lower salary is still higher than most people in Buffalo.

This is a chicken focaccia sandwich. Nothing about this type of bread says focaccia to me. At least it tastes really, really good.

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kara - 03/14/06 19:38
That is definitely not focaccia, but it looks yummy.
metalpeter - 03/14/06 19:27
I had no idea there was a hotel next to Roswell, huh interesting. Secondly $500 weekends in toronto what a lucky guy. Wonder how many lap dances he gets. I wish I could do that every couple months.

03/13/2006 10:21 #32520

Google Mars
Category: web
Has anyone else seen google mars ? It is a new mars mapping interface based on the googlemaps interface. I cannot wait till they have the 3d version. You can see the data in elevation, visible image, and infrared image maps.

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03/12/2006 20:55 #32519

Sugar Gliders
Category: pets
The sugar glider found an organic crunchy cheese stick.

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And then spent the next half hour nibbling it.
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Eventually, the other sugar glider came to investigate and snuggle
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leetee - 03/13/06 10:08
aweee... they are so cute. I hope i get to meet them some day... I remember before you got them, you asked me if i would be mom to them if you were alergic. So i feel like i am thier almost foster mom. lol