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I'm Valid!

Yes, I am now valid, but I am also very tired, so this will be short, and the poll will not be till Saturday.

I went through all the code in my iBlog and have made it fully XHTML and CSS valid, hence the cool new badges in the sidebar. Also, I added a dotMac.info badge, so you can all go rate my blog. I have a 9.x right now, very cool.

I received full validation Monday, and have spent most of since then working on a new template and style sheet. The test blog is looking good, in my opinion. It is posted online, but is not linked to from anywhere, so you need to be really good to find it. If you can, you are one crafty surfer. Until I post the style on here though, I’m not letting anyone see it. I will give a hint though, think of my favorite word…

I spoke to John yesterday, and the tree is still standing. He says the picture I have is 2 years old, and the tree was originally set up 4 years ago. Wow, how very sad, and yet very cool.

I will be leaving Saturday night for Jenn’s parents for Easter, so expect blog/poll earlier in the day.

nick

Alton Brown, speaking of wasabi…

Too much of this stuff will make you cry more than the last 5 minutes of the Terminator…
What? I cried.

The People Have Spoken

Well, I asked for your opinion, and you gave it. Comments are back as they were, in a pop-up window. It kind of hurts me to do it, I must say, since it took me 5 hours to get them working. But, since I don’t leave comments, it doesn’t matter to me. I just thought it was cool. On a related note, I see on the Haloscan website that comment length limits have been raised from 1000 to 3000 characters. Not that anyone has even touched the 1000 limit, except Scott’s binary reply.

I forgot to mention last time Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Jenn and I went to the parade today. Was very cool (in both ways). Luckily it didn’t snow like yesterday, but we still got a bit chilly.

This being entry 239, and I made 34 on Blogger, then my 200th iBlog entry was 5 entries ago. So, the magic entry would be “If I were you, Who would you be?” on 3-11-05.

And finally, it’s that time of year again. Yes, it’s now been 4 years since the cruise. Ahh, good times.

Till Wednesday. And yes, I will have more changes then, and a new poll.

nick

In this god-forsaken world, you don’t beat the monkey, the monkey beats you!
– Jay

More Changes

OK, you have noticed by now, I’m sure, that there have been more changes on the blog.

The first change was to fix the spacing on some pages, where the link to the next page and e-mail feedback had no spacing between them, making it actually say “nextfeedback”, which was kinda misleading.

Second was changing the naming of the comments. Instead of “Comments (#)”, it now says “No Comments” or “# Comments”.

Third was integrating the comments pop-up into the blog entry itself. If you are on the entry’s own page, the comments are at the bottom now. If you are on the front page, or any other page, clicking the comment link takes you to the bottom of the entry’s page.

Current plans are to fix whatever you don’t like (see the poll) followed by reposting the photos somehow, perhaps back onto the website. The idea behind this being that many photos are low quality due to scanning and editing goofs, and every couple weeks when iBlog decides to re-update my whole blog I need to wait 20 minutes for all the photos to be re-uploaded, which wouldn’t happen if they weren’t in the blog.

Also, I am considering a more aggressive redesign. I just realized 3 days ago how versatile iBlog could be. You may have noticed that although I change the colors every once in a while, not much really changes. Well, this is an iBlog powered blog. As you can see, he managed to change much more than I ever have. So, those are some ideas.

In other news…

A week ago I lost my razor, my Mach 3 from the Army. I’d had it like 4 years, since I got it in the mail after registering for selective services. Now, that wouldn’t be so bad, but it actually replaced a Mach 3 I got in 10th grade from some marine recruiters. And, that replaced a Schick that I got in 8th grade from K-Mart. What’s the point of all this? Well, I bought a new one, but it’s not the same (even though it’s a Mach 3 Turbo Champion, and is cool red). I guess the old one’s somehow signified entering manhood, and now I feel an emptiness. Not a big one, I didn’t break down and cry over a razor or anything, I just miss it more than would be expected for something that sliced my face open as many times as it did.

OK, thats all.

Ooh, no it isn’t…

The Incredible’s, is incredible. Watch it, seriously. Not like Pixar has made a bad movie though, right?

nick

Lucius Best: You tell me where my suit is, woman! We are talking about the greater good!
Honey Best: Greater good? I am your wife! I’m the greatest good you are ever gonna get!

New Colors (again)

First up is obvious, the new colors. Let me know what you think, this or the blue and white.

I have been looking at iMacs, and realized something odd. The disk in an iMac is either 80GB or 160GB, depending on model, with a 250GB option available. I currently have a 30GB, which is a nice upgrade from the 18GB, and before that 2GB drive in my 7600 (may it rust in pieces). So, saying I get a 20″ iMac that has a 160GB drive standard, thats 130GB I pick up. Woohoo, right? Not quite. See, I only use 6GB, less than 4% of my future drive. Thats ridiculous! Here’s a break down:

1.16GB Applications
1.26GB System files
2.22GB Music
304MB Movies
204MB Pictures
46MB General Documents

Now yes, that only adds up to 5.18GB, but there is 6.06GB used on my disk, I presume for the swap file, but that just makes it worse. All you with your multi-TB RAID arrays and such are laughing at me right now. Ohh well.

Next up, is the new poll. Vote or be IP banned forever (that wouldn’t really help I guess, would it).

And in closing: Yay! Yes, I have been spelling it wrong all this time. It was tried twice to convince me the correct spelling is yeah, but that’s “ya” like yes. Turns out yay is the correct spelling for an enthusiastic outburst.

OK, thats all.

bye

nick

What’s wrong with your dog?
He’s a narcoleptic.
Your dog is an undercover drug officer?
Uhm, yeah.

What Colors?

OK, so I tried posting a poll123.com Poll here, and it wouldn’t work, so I will have to stick with the old way.

So…

Old Style (Blue and White)

New Style (Red and Grey)

Newer Style (leave a preference)

OK, folks, have at it.

Weird is Only Weird Until it Becomes Normal

Few things this post.

First, I have surpassed 4000 visitors. Jenn wins the 4000th prize, though she was 4001 at 10:10 PM on 3/7/05. A googler was actual winner.

KFC Snackers are pretty good for $0.99.

I still don’t know who “ME” is.

I downloaded a bunch of new desktops.

Yeah, I really don’t have much.

Ooh, 7-11 has pineapple slurpees! Very awesome.

Uhh…

yeah.

OK, till Friday I guess.

nick

If the weird people become the majority, then weird will become normal, bringing our entire system of logic crashing down and destroying the universe.

Do You Suffer From Memory Loss?

Hey “Me”, you haven’t responded yet.

First up, er, Second up: Wednesday’s update will either be rather early or very late (before 12pm Wed. or after 2pm Thurs.). This is due to me being out of town. Details will come either Thur. or Saturday.

One year ago today Jenn and I first met, at her dorm at SVSU. Yay!

The fun unmentionable is back. Should last about a month, maybe 2. I’m happy that I got it, but sad cause of what is means. You have no clue what I’m talking about though. That makes it more fun though, for me anyway.

I am still unsure of what is happening with the website.

I received payment for my 3rd item on eBay. Is exciting.

I think that’s it.

ttyl

nick

“They call’em fingers, but I never saw’em fing.”
Auto, the Simpsons

Me Who?

OK, after 3 days of searching, I must ask who the hell is “Me”? This is all I know

Uses Opera
Has Win XP
In Bay City area
Charter cable modem
Early bird (or very night owl)
Is not Scott, Jenn, my Mom, John, Troy, Sarah, or a friend of any of them.
and I know IP address, but not a lot of help.

Anyway, PLEASE comment with a NAME, or e-mail me, PLEASE!

So what else…

I sold more stuff on eBay.

I have decided I can not be trusted. I get bored and need something to look at online, and ended up doing way too much research on DV camcorders. Bad idea. As my mom would say “NOOOOO”.

Ok, thats all. I just want to know who “Me” is. If you tell me, I will put the school assignments back up. 🙂

nick

I can’t think of a quote, too stuck on the “Me” thing.

Ewwwww

Hmmm…

I might be sick, maybe not though. I won’t go into details.

Jenn’s car went in for repairs today, and got a GMC Canyon for a rental. I was needless to say a bit jealous (but too sick feeling to be more than a little).

I now have 1 whole vote in the poll, and it was a pity vote. New poll goes up Thursday.

Note the new category, and the website is gone. Reorganization work will continue over the next few weeks.

Thats all I have for now.

nick

I had a cool Family Guy quote, but I do too many Family Guy quotes, so I won’t post it.