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Randomness

Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 11:04 pm

I added a new category, Random, to my site. It’s simply to put any posts that don’t fit in any categories there. To celebrate, I’ve posted this image from a few months ago.


At first I didn’t read the entire message and I just read “This window will disappear when enough randomness has been accumulated”. I thought “WTF!”
It actually makes sense once you read the entire message. Funny part is, there’s a bar at the bottom…that basically fills up when you move your mouse randomly. So Karol sat there just moving her mouse for like, 30 seconds until the bar filled up. The whole thing seemed a bit…unnecessary. Anyways, I got a good laugh…

/This blog post will self-destruct when enough randomness has been accumulated. If the post remains, you haven’t been causing enough randomness!

Blogging about blogging Part 4

Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 1:25 pm

Continuing the tradition (sorta – I missed last month) of blogging about blogging every month, here’s part 4: 5.5 months of blogging :O

On average, I have over 1 post/day with the exception of March 2010 where some crazy work got in the way. This month, I’ve been falling behind as well…like I said in previous posts, I’ve been a bit bummed lately and it’s been affecting my will to write.

Anyways, even though my posts are 1+/day, I wouldn’t consider some of my posts real posts. I’ve definitely noticed a decline in long, thought out posts. A correct assumption from a previous post regarding Z’s presence in my life. That and well, I wouldn’t say I’m running out of things to write about but most of my topics occur on the fly now. Also, my attention’s been pretty divided lately between updating this site (warrenshea.com) and actual blogging. I love doing both…but I love working on my site more. Still, working on my site…satisfies me a bit less because there’s a lot of development for subtle changes and quick glances. My Portfolio section, which took quite a while to do, doesn’t get many hits. Kind of disappointing…

My homepage though, receives 90% of my hits…and is also the main drop off point. People come, read my blog a little, and bail. I almost feel like I owe my readers more content, I want them coming back, I want them to looking at the various topics and while most of them may be pretty meaningless, I hope that one post here or there will grab a random reader enough that they think “…wow, that was interesting, I’m gonna bookmark this site and come back to see what else this guy has to say”.

People find my site mostly through Google searches. I get a lot of redirects to my site when people search things like:
“Why don’t I like myself” or “Why does a person hate who she is” and stuff like that. It redirects to this post: A person who does not like herself should not want be friends with a person like herself” which actually simply discusses a Gate Keepers 21 character.

I also get this quote in Google:
“With the coming of man came the illusion of free will and with that illusion came chaos. With every choice we make we literally create a world..”
which leads to this post Welcome to Earth Prime. I guess I wasn’t the only one that thought those few lines were a masterpiece.

/to be continued in Blogging about Blogging Part 5: Bots and content stealing websites >:(

IE6 (Internet Explorer 6)

Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 11:11 am

I know I wasn’t going to code for IE6….but maybe I should. I ask myself “What’s the point?” Right now, people that use IE6 is 7.1%. That’s actually a fairly large percentage.

Now, by the time I complete my site and rework the CSSes (plural) to work for IE6, I imagine it will be a few months later (say, Sept) and the % will have dropped to 5.5% (on average it’s dropping 8%/month).

Also, this site tries to heavily use PNGs, and not JPGs or GIFs. You get the JPG quality plus transparency…it’s win win with PNG. The loss is that IE6…needs special CSS to display any PNG. Like, really?! seems a bit ridiculous…

But…if people are coming to my site…judging it’s cross browser compatibility and such…then I should have it working for IE6. How can I call myself a cross browser compatible web developer if I simply don’t code for that…I know I SHOULD develop for IE6. But is it worth it?

/I’ll think about it for a couple months. I’m sure the problem will resolve itself.

EPIC SITE

Sunday, June 27th, 2010 at 1:04 am

I finally have my idea for an EPIC SITE. I’m not going to share details on it…I just wanted to post that I have it. Hopefully after/during this learning vacation, I’ll start some high level development/experimenting…

It will be done in ASP.NET 3.5/4 C# and heavily use AJAX…and LINQ…and (insert buzzword I haven’t learned yet here).

The site will be EPICLY difficult to do.

/I might need help… :S

Transformice

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 at 6:57 pm

Possibly the most fun game I’ve played in a long, long time…Watch the video…play the game. It’s ridiculously simple, cute, and hilarious. I’m laughing so hard when I play…watching all these mice be stupid :D


Play Transformice now!