Updates: Media (lyrics) has a new layout. I could never figure out how to lay it out, but it's easier to navigate now. I'm still working on a better duplicate Mamblog mod. I'm trying to make submittions easier but the poetry form died for some reason. Quizzes are also on their way from the old site. Joomla content isn't very code friendly so I'm having to rewrite old code. You can still click on News > AH v21 > Screen if you wish to use the quizzes.
There's so much to do on the internet, so many people to meet, sites to see, news to read, lessons to learn...or so it seems. I'm so bored with it. StumbleUpon is useful if you're sick of all the crap on the internet. Click on humor and you'll get a whole lineup of sites worth wasting an hour on.
I went to Borders today to find updated Pocket References on HTMLand CSS,my versions are woefully outdated. Unfortunately, the only books even close were about two feet out of reach on the highest shelf. Even a stool wouldn't have been tall enough. I spent a good half hour looking through the five or so shelves of PHP, HTML, CSS and Web Design and found nothing (within my reach) worth paying money for.
I need to redesign this site. I hate coming here, I'm not proud, and therefore I never want to update anything. I keep wondering how to have the menu expand properly without the rest of the site blanking out as you expand the sections. I think maybe I need fewer sections that take you places faster. Maybe two columns is plenty. Maybe a white background will make it more appealing. Maybe I should stop talking...
how many asses in Calabasas? oh...I mean 's''s ;-)
I was so used to creating websites with flowers and pale or minimal color that when I came across this image in some stock photos I purchased, it struck me as something I had to work with, no matter how it turned out in the end.
I have a thing about adding obscure text, or in this case random code snippets from one of the pages I was working on, in different fonts and colors to open spaces in my images. It's my way of adding "texture" and my own words or code to an otherwise drab graphic (although I realize this image never started out as "drab"). I was also experimenting with a mass of new fonts and was particularly fond of the font used for the domain.
This domain was otherwise useless to me so I decided to take the leap and was fairly happy with the result. I received a lot of shocked looks which was obviously a reaction I was hoping for. The website didn't stick around long, I found that the image had to be rather large for the font to be at all legible as HTML & CSS so my concern for my visitors got the better of me and I had to let it go.
The smaller squares were added because it seemed like an awkward space and the flipped square and small rectangle brought just was I was wanting there without completely changing the focus. There were probably better options for that space but it seemed fine in the end.
I've since used the small square of the face in many small projects but as a whole, I think I've decided the colors don't work for me. Although I'd love to use a deep blood red or a fuscia, or maybe even the bright orange of her hair, they just don't work well with the graphics I gravitate to. I have however continued to use my own prose and other text in my graphics as light backgrounds or a screen overlay to make a graphic more personal.
This image was done in Macromedia Fireworks 2.0 which I'm terribly fond of and too poor to upgrade ;-)
The only thing I would have changed was the grainy texture that appeared when I decreased the image size, which also blurred the HTML code (orange text). As it was, it took an undesirable amount time for users to download the image. This is a problem I have yet to solve.
Note: despite the category, this isn't my photography and I never use Photoshop to edit images. It just seemed the most appropriate.
I came across this question on http://wiki.answers.com/ and I couldn't help but put in my two cents:
Question:
Why do you read binary digits from right to left?
Answer:
Binary digits are read right to left the same way numbers increase from right to left (our system of base 10). Numbers do not increase the same way we read (left to right). This is the same way we add, multiply and subtract in math. We start from the numbers on the right and move left if you prefer to think of it that way.
With our usual system of base 10 numbers, each digit starts from "ones", then "tens", "hundreds" and so on moving from right to left. The same is with binary except that binary is only base 2. A 1 in the first position = 2^0 = 1. A 1 in the second position = 2^1 = 2 where each "one" is added for the final value. See below for examples.
Our base 10 system goes one more step by mulitplying each number as you go, expanding on the zeros and ones to zeros through nines:
5062 = 2*(10^0)+6*(10^1)+0*(10^2)+5*(10^3) = 5062
For a binary example, if there are 8 bits in a byte, we get the following possibilities:
I feel like such a loser. since I had to close my bank accounts and credit card because of the robbery I've had to pay for groceries with cash. not a problem, right? wrong. whenever i'm in line and someone only has cash on them and the items come out as more than they have, it usually takes them a long to to figure out what to return and i feel so bad for them because that must be REALLY EMBARRASSING. Although it doesn't bother me that I have to wait for them to figure out what to return, if it takes them a really long time then I start to get bothered. Well...I bought ten items and it came out to $39+! When I left I remembered that I had to add up roughly what i was buying because I had no other form of payment available besides the cash I had on me and when I got there I totally forgot. It didn't occur to me until I saw the total and I mean it is SO EXPENSIVE there. I could have bought the same items at Trader's and would have spent less than half that amount. I had $32.00 and change on me and first he just took away one thing and that brought it to $32.70 so he put that back and took away two different things which bought it to $35 something and then he asked what the $6.99 item was and I said it was that watermelon so he took that back and the bank called me yesterday and said they hadn't been able to close my accounts because there was a $9.95 charge (THEY SHOULD HAVE CLOSED IT LAST TUESDAY!!!) so I figured I would try my ATM card because the account might still be open but it wasn't and the cashier waived the $0.70 that I probably had in change but he just waived it which made me feel even worse even though there were people waiting. I FEEL LIKE SUCH A LOSER! It's obviously not that I don't have the money or the credit, it's that I had this robbery (which I mentioned to him, I was panicked, THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE) and I left there wanting to scream in frustration and embarrassment and I couldn't stop running it through my head. This is like one of those mistakes that my mother talks about, that I was bothered with her for because she kept going on and on and wanted approval about [her own mistake] but I don't tell my mother [or father] these things hardly ever because they make me feel worse even if that isn't their intension. I usually just tell my therapist and/or sister or after agonizing about it in my head for a few days I forget to tell either and it just goes away. I'm so embarrassed I want to crawl in a hole...
I've spent most of the day reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which was slow moving all week, I just wasn't getting into it, too much going on. I have a hard time turning off the noise of the TV. I'm not fond of silence unless I'm at work or something, then I prefer it. Anyhow, I finally know what the "Deathly Hallows" refers to (I'm on page 519 of 759 pages). It's good. I don't think it will ever be my favorite for the lack of ... ACTION. There's a lot of arguing between Harry, Hermione & Ron in this book which gets old. There's also a lot of sitting and waiting and planning and deciding what to do next, where to go, etc. So far there's only one death that I wish hadn't happened, the others were characters I didn't care for. I don't know if more "good" people die but I sure hope not. I wish they had the house elves in the movies more. I love the other books where Dobby brings Harry a present and Hermione (?) or someone knits him hats (?) or something and he wears them all at once. lol I think I remember that happening. I loved Dobby in the second movie.
My parents both have their new computers and my mother's replaced some of her jewelry but I haven't been in the mood to think about replacing my Samsung. It's all very depressing and makes me a little paranoid. I wish my dad had just bought it at Circuit City last night but they told him they don't carry it in the store. Well, I guess I'll go back to reading. Hopefully I'll forget about my grocery store experience before I have to go back, although I could stall that by shopping at CVS, Trader Joe's in Pasadena, Trader Joe's in La Canada, and Vons (although I hate Vons). *sigh* I hate life.
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my versions are woefully outdated. Unfortunately, the only books even close were about two feet out of reach on the highest shelf. Even a stool wouldn't have been tall enough. I spent a good half hour looking through the five or so shelves of PHP, HTML, CSS and Web Design and found nothing (within my reach) worth paying money for.
which was slow moving all week, I just wasn't getting into it, too much going on. I have a hard time turning off the noise of the TV. I'm not fond of silence unless I'm at work or something, then I prefer it. Anyhow, I finally know what the "Deathly Hallows" refers to (I'm on page 519 of 759 pages). It's good. I don't think it will ever be my favorite for the lack of ... ACTION. There's a lot of arguing between Harry, Hermione & Ron in this book which gets old. There's also a lot of sitting and waiting and planning and deciding what to do next, where to go, etc. So far there's only one death that I wish hadn't happened, the others were characters I didn't care for. I don't know if more "good" people die but I sure hope not. I wish they had the house elves in the movies more. I love the other books where Dobby brings Harry a present and Hermione (?) or someone knits him hats (?) or something and he wears them all at once. lol I think I remember that happening. I loved Dobby in the second movie.