sethdesants.com

I know I haven't written anything lately, but it's not because I don't care.
It's actually the opposite, I've been updating a ton of code on this site over the past few months and I hope to make a lot of the new stuff live soon.

Ugg to me for it taking this long, but a lot of the new stuff I write will be used in CT, making the process worthwhile but time consuming.

After this next round of updates are made to this site, I hope my blog posts are shorter but more on point to one topic/issue/idea/whatever and more frequent.

Until then, here is the run down:

-LOST is amazing, obviously. Last night's episode was one of my favorite in a while. I really enjoy the way the story line has focused on Jacob and the 'Man in Black' as well as the 'flash sideways' or whatever they are called. The latter is really enjoyable because we get to see these characters who we've spent the past handful of years learning about get put in situations that we can really appreciate, enjoy, and ponder. It's going to be sad to see LOST come to an end but I will always appreciate the years we had together.

[i]'Tis better to have loved and LOST than never to have loved at all [/i]
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

-The 2010 Winter Olympics have been awesome (minus the tragedy involving [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodar_Kumaritashvili" target="_blank"]Nodar Kumaritashvili[/a]). I always enjoy watching the obscure sports we rarely get exposed to on network tv. Thus far though, I am unsure what type of medal Vancouver would get for it's job hosting, we will have to judge once it's all said and done.

-iPad : I would like one when it comes out, but will hopefully be able to wait until one is released with a front facing camera. The ability to video chat on one of those things is just too appealing to not wait for (hopefully). I don't want to get into the details of my opinion on the new device at this time but I am excited to use one at sometime in the near future.

-the worlds best mother is also the world best cook:
[DIV_IMG style='float:none ; width:400px' ][IMG src='/up/s9blog_fileUpload/166.jpg' width='400' height='300' /][CAPTION]Mom and me, picture taken by Dad [/CAPTION][/DIV_IMG]

-sometimes, some things I am working on are in a sandbox that is live on this site, feel free to check it out sometime, but be warned that you will likely find many of the items boring and broken :)
[a href=" http://sethdesantis.com/sandbox/" target="_blank"]sandbox link[/a]

good night friends.

Splash 6.629

December 13, 2006 - 10:24

- Sandbox - Splash

*still in Sandbox

Additions:
-RSS feeds, that do nothing right now. They are being displayed using arrays. One array of feeds, which contains another array (a feed), consisting of title/link/description/... you get the idea. I'm not completely sure why the tutorial I was looking at (PHPbuilder.com's) used a MySQL DB to store the values, but I'm sure if I read it again in it's entirety I would find out :-) But anyways, I need to start using multiple feeds, and then only displaying a few items from each, additionally, I need to format the output much more than it currently is. A nice little project for a sleepless night.

Immediate projects to be done:
-figure out why CCL div box is displaying weird
-figure out why RSS div box is displaying weird
-figure out why there is a grayish box around my images when viewed in IE.

All in all, I am pleased with the progress of the entire splash page. There a some projects, such as:
-the tag cloud
-user login
-blog and photo album page(s)
-blog entry page in general (although I have to admit it looks pretty good, considering I created it only for me to see)
-and countless other projects that are either started somewhere or that are still floating around in my head!

that I look forward to working on.

Have a good night!

Splash 6.625

December 3, 2006 - 13:41

- sandbox - splash

*still in sandbox

minor updates:
-fixed date/time display for blog and comments within
-possible fix for blog time entry, TBD after this post
-"View All Albums" div is nested/hidden within "Recent Albums" side box