Only Nerds Allowed

I’m in the “music production” for the highschool.  It’s Beauty and the Beast.  I’m the candlestick man (which means I’m part of the chorus) as well as Mousier D’arque.  I’m surprised at how big my part is, consider this is my first ever musical.  I did have stage fright previously, but I’ve seem to have gotten over it.  (Or at least I hope so)

Well now I’m going to drama camp to learn the play and everything.  We have to do dancing - I did 4 hours of it today - and I’m really bad at it.  It doesn’t help that I’m in the front row for most of the 1st scene.  :O

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I’m off to a resort in northern Minnesota for a week, so I’ll be gone.   Post some photos when I get back.

I learned a lot from WebForumz.  Just a list:

• Good SEO
• <ul> navigation
• Good web design (Couldn’t of done it without all that harsh - but honest - critique)
• Good CSS
• Validating pages!
• OOP PHP (Wasn’t that hard, already knew OOP C++)
• That JQuery is better than mootools (Will be learning JQuery too)

All that stuff in just a months.  What was I doing before? lol

I just discovered the photoshop slice tool.  Before this I was manually cropping each image I needed from the layout.  To think how much time i wasted……..

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I hate flash.  I’m serious.  Flash is good for some things:  Games, animations, video players, etc.  That’s what it was made for.  But people start going way overboard:

• Logos
• Navigation
• Forms
• Intro Videos
• Advertising
• Entire Sites

And nearly all of the sites that use flash don’t have alternates for people who don’t have flash - and search engines.  Talk about bad SEO.  And then they have music, special effects that get really annoying.  Ugh!  And now I’ve heard that Google is going to start indexing flash.  This is going to result in an excuse to use more flash and keyword abuse.

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I registered the domain ResourceFish.com today.  I was planning on purchasing hosting later, but it turns out GoDaddy is giving me it for free!  Guess that purchasing all my domains from them paid off!  Of course, the support will be a piece of shit - they will be glad if I cancel my account. :P  But its good enough for testing and stuff.  I’ll probably get a new host (ICDsoft.com probably) when I get ResourceFish open for business.

I don’t know if you read my previous post, but Google beat me to the awesome idea I had and was going to do with my Uncle.  I haven’t heard any word from him, but most likely its going to get the good ol’ trash bin.

If life gives you lemons though, make lemonade.  (Or as I like to say, throw them at somebody!)  So I have another project now.

It’s called ResourceFish. I’m planning on purchasing resourcefish.com as soon as I get word from my Uncle.  (Or maybe even before that.)  It’s a site with resources for everything.  Links, articles, tutorials, and more on ASP to zepplins.  What do you think?

The idea I was making with my Uncle - a multi-application text message system - turns out to be taken by Google.  This really sucks.  Not sure what I should do now.

Well, at least I have another idea up my sleeve…..  Still, its not as good as this one…..

*sigh*

Over the past few months I’ve been developing a CMS called Project Pygmy.  About a month ago I completed it, but only enough to have bare minimal functionality.  Now, as I use it more and more, I’m realizing how much there is to be done.  But I have to quit working on it because of the thing with my Uncle.

In addition, I have another pretty cool idea involving online resources.  But can’t start it now.  *sigh*

It sorta sucks that I have so much I want do, but so little time to do it in.

I just got back from Dorian Music Camp at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.  It’s for both band and choir, but I only went there for choir.  It was a really great experience.  So a few more posts should be coming your way soon.