In an amazing turn of events. I cleaned up my mess.

Coding of myPIM is going strong... but now I need to rework my data structures algorithms, and ML for my notes... then I'm going to have to rethink the html... I'm thinking if I just squeeze in a few tags for parsing... It'll be ok.

Then for the history section... I'll use 7 entries for the first page and 15 per history page... make sure to place first and last note's dates as titles on subsequent pages...

Well it's been a long while since I've updated... anyway I'm back for more. I found out that I won't need to do any more coding for a page counter since ITS so nicely provides one for me... how about a round of applause? Nah.

I restarted work on myPIM it's moving along slowly... I'm going to use this app for doing the html entries on the UHUNIX server.

DW4 is just a big pain in the ASS...

Or maybe I'm just lazy...

I'm using 2 books to learn the c++ STL and that is moving along much more nicely. Josuttis is a great help ... nice, concise, and easy to understand. Stroustrup is just begging to be mugged.

Anyhow, To the reading/coding/dreaming/scheming... adieu till then.

Found an interesting story... The Day of TomPepsi

The story has an eerie misch of perhaps a faraway look to our future... Read it.
misch : mixture of, meshing...

After reading most of the GNU documents I began to understand the philosophy behind their efforts... I've devised an icon for use to represent documents copylefted via the GPL or LGPL... []. I'm slowly going to be phasing out my copyrights located on these pages and will begin providing the source to all of my work... I guess I've been converted.

If you care enough to read them... the GPL statements can be found here -->

"Why Software Should Not Have Owners" by : Richard Stallman
"The GNU Project" by : by : Richard Stallman

Or read pretty much everything on the list : here

Well, I just saw "Final Fantasy" the movie... see it if you want. I won't bother you with my opinion.

Well I'm back for more... I'm gonna work on suping up my CSS code. I'll probably be up all night. Last night I fixed all of my automatic dates, so when I save a file locally the date and time are timestamped.

Damn those bastards! www.thecounter.com f***ing wants me to upgrade my counter service just so I can get a fancy nancy one... assholes. Time for me to write my own counter. Bitches.

I think I'll do it in perl... nice, quick, and nasty. How I like my code.

Well, I've been exploring the web... and I found a few sites which I like. One to note is Guerilla News Network. The information on the site is very interesting. If you have a few hours to spare check it out.

This guy has a picture of a nutsack on the main page... now that's something to wake up to.

This site is the s***!!! Chris, dawg, check this s***... nizow! Not necessarily the information on the site, but the design is terrific!!! This site is going on the links nizow!

Ok all pages are linked to the CSS code... I'll update and implement the classes next time I'm on. I also need to get the header to line up better. It doesn't look nice enough yet...

Man it's 1:30am I am pooped... I fixed my sites images since jpeg's don't have a transparent color I just painted the phish's backgrounds to black. I believe I have only one page left to update : Xanth Boox List. Once this is done. I will be up to version 4.2.x. For the time being I've been playing around with Flash 5... and now I'm downloading Freehand 10 to see if I can use the program for some cool graphics. I want to do some graphical things on the flash end of the site. Hopefully, though, I'll be able to keep this as my backbone. I'm still unsure of Flash's ability to provide a full UI and site engine. Maybe I'm living in yesterdays news... but oh well.

I hope I can finish the site by tomorrow or so.
If anyone is reading this... I'd love to hear your comments. I can be reached at : ericnaka@hawaii.edu

Ok. As you can see above, I have changed the layout slightly. I got rid of the table that I used to make things stay together. Instead I've added some CSS code to the page. The CSS code reacts differently with IE and NS... I am upgrading IE to version 5.5 to see if the bug is fixed. It looks like a miscalculation to the relativity of the other CSS objects, but I'm not sure.

After I redo the index page I plan on converting the other main pages as well as the other templates I use. Thank goodness for Dreamweaver. I truly would have hated redoing everything by hand.

Other than that, I've been reading and doing more Flash examples. I'm trying to think of ways to use Flash and DreamWeaver to accentuate each other program. I really do not want to limit myself to one type of web-development. DreamWeaver 4.0 has a lot of flexibility, whereas Flash seems more rigid. I like my ability to control the major flow of the site by simply adding here and there... yet, I can see how flash, if used correctly, will help quicken the amount of content the developer is able to input. Perhaps by setting up a database/client approach one may only need to develop a robust SWF file... and let the download/parsing/outputting of it be handled by flash itself... who knows...

Doing some miscellaneous sectional adjustments... and applying the CSS style sheet to the rest of the pages... :) What fun!

So another day... I've been reading Tailchaiser's Song again... it's quite an interesting book. I'm going to be doing all the tutorials in my Flash book today... although I know I won't complete them all... ;).

I copyrighted all my images on the site. Anyway I'm going To mudding... I'll update in a few.

Man I'm starting to get really frustrated at home. I'm going to take it out on some code...

I've been gone for a day. I can't stand being disconnected from the internet for too long. I started rereading some of my pre-Calculus books. I also read a short novel : The 10th Planet. Now, I'm not too sure if it's a tie-in or not. But, I do know that it kept me entertained for the duration of the story. I can't wait for the next book. Here's my short review of it if you care to read about it.

Nah... no review at the moment.

-- I've hit a snag in the design process. Instead of removing articles from the main page entirely... I intend to phase them into the history section... I thought about this this morning when I was attempting to add an entry to the history section. Perhaps a good idea would be an automatic entry phasing. When the number of articles or entries, that have been sitting around in a section of a web page, reaches a certain threshold. Articles should slowly removed from the end of listing and copied to the begining of the corresponding history section.

Perhaps a simple tag system could be used to indicate the age of an entry... e.g. <!-- agetag name=page-to-backup-to-html date=date-of-entry --> .

This could easily be parsed through and used to chop out the entry then move it... some pseudocode follows :

Store todays date.
Scan file.
For all entries older than date {
Remove from this file and copy to history file...
}

Anyway I'm gonna be fixing my Flash and then start on to the tutorials.