Archive for March, 2004

My new camera

Tuesday, March 9th, 2004

A couple weeks ago I bought a Canon PowerShot A70. So far most of the pictures haven’t turned out as well as my Canon EOS Rebel film camera, but the A70 lets you have full manual control, so I’m sure it’s just a matter of finding the optimal settings (most of the pictures I’ve […]

New site

Monday, March 8th, 2004

Well, I’m not at all done redesigning my site, but at least now I’m using a real hosting provider, so no more redirecting to my home machine with the ugly port 8080 in the URL. Also, I switched to using Wordpress instead of my own little Java/JSP/XML program. It works, I guess, but […]

PHP: an eye-opening article

Monday, March 8th, 2004

I just found this article about PHP on Paul Scrivens’ Forever Geek. I think it has scared me off of using PHP forever.

All the negative gut feelings I had about PHP (without even really taking a look at the language) have been proven resoundingly correct by this article, in a well-written, point-by-point explanation.

The […]

Version 2: February

Friday, March 5th, 2004

The entries for the February edition of Version 2 are up! I wish I had had time to submit a version, but I’m not much of a designer, and I already have a long list of higher priority items on my plate. It’s great fun to look at other people’s entries, though.

Some of the […]

Dayana Host

Thursday, March 4th, 2004

So, I finally decided to go for it and commit a whole $5.99 to buying a year’s worth of hosting from Dayana Host. Yay! Hopefully it will be a lot more reliable than my home machine, but until I get something better up on the new host, I will just be redirecting to my old […]

Style Master Impressions

Thursday, March 4th, 2004

Unfortunately, I find myself disappointed with Style Master. The cool-looking advanced color-picker shown on the website and even in the included documentation was nowhere to be found in the installed product!

In addition, I find the editor to be practically ususable. Maybe I’m just spoiled by the wonder of IDEA, which seems to know what […]