Wow, what a great few days it has been. Firstly I went back and perfected all my XHTML and CSS, made every element of the design rely entirely on Style Sheets rather than embedded styling and went to work on the blue design. After that, I realized how easy it would be to make subsequent style sheets, did so, and the theme selector on the right is the result; 4 themes (as of this post) and more to come when I become inspired.
Site designs so far include; default blue, red, green, yellow (inspired by jark’s website), newspaper print, Colon Parenthesis v1.0 Theme (a skin of my original website, www.colonparenthesis.com) and smiley (a skin of my later colon parenthesis work). Basically these themes have been spat out in the last 4 hours and will undergo a great deal of tweaking and altering until they are final and some may even get thrown out all-together. I’ll just have to wait and see.
I’ve been watching a lot of Voyager lately, which is cool. As huge a fan as I am of Star Trek, it becomes more and more clear that as the years have gone by, the plot holes have increased and become bigger - honestly, wasn’t there someone responsible for making sure that established facts weren’t changed from episode to episode? Geeky, I know, but meh.
Today I went out to Eathan’s place in Guerie, a small town of about 500 people that is 20 minutes from where I live. He had recently decided to get rid of some of his Star Trek Novels and his Star Trek Fact Files, and offered for me to take them off his hands. And who am I to say no to one of my oldest and best friends? I am only too happy to become their custodian.
It was awesome being there, but odd also. I haven’t been in that house or that town, for any amount of time since I was a kid. Everything there seemed smaller and somehow I felt bigger. We walked around our old haunts and places I remember from my childhood and it all seemed quite the same. Geurie, it would seem, is very slow to change. The two car yards were closed down and so was the old antique store, but most of it seemed very familiar. In fact, the shop was still being run by the same family who used to let me sit on the counter and give me lollies as a child, even if they didn’t remember me.
Eathan’s sister, Tahnee, got home from school and things just felt more different than before. I think she was the biggest change, because I have barely seen her at all since we were both heaps young. She used to be a tiny, skinny, young girl, but now she has grown into quite a young lady. I remember her being very quiet around me when we were both younger, but boy has that changed. She was a lot louder, full of laughs and talking about BOYS! Goodness, last I remember if I said to her “so who is your boyfriend?” she probably would have cried, but now she just throws a smart comment straight back at me (and probably shuts me down too).
I guess I’d really like to thank Eathan for the terrific gift he gave me today. There are good gifts, there are great gifts and then there are gifts that really come from the heart. Todays gift was the latter of the three, and it means a lot to me that he has given me something that meant so much to him for so long. Thanks mate! :)
As if my last code posting wasn’t enough, I decided to take the Stardate code just a little further and make a form that users can grab the stardate of any date of their choosing. I recommend selecting a date over the year 2323 or else it will come out as a negative value, but other than that, have fun!
Check it out!
Thanks go to John Voysey who wrote the original code for the script, I have merely given it a touch up and extended the functionality. Feel free to use the code as long as the credit to myself and John stays commented inside the code. Thanks.
As I write this it is 40°C (104°F) and it is hot! It was just as hot yesterday AND last night. This coupled with an almost 0% humidity means that last night I would spray myself with water all over until I am soaked, and then, in less than a minute, I would be completely dry again. It is impossible to stay cool. Even downstairs where there are two air conditioners running, it is still impossible to cool off even for a minute or two. It’s too hot to sit still, it’s too hot to even think. I am going to go and drown myself in water and hope it helps.
Damn, is this picture sexy or what? I love the NX-01…
I have just built a very nice and simple stardate calculator in PHP. It’s pretty simple to install really. Just make sure that you are editing a .php file and not a .html file and add the following code at the start of the file:
require(”starDate.php”);
And the following where you want the stardate to be output to:
echo starDate(time());
Too easy. I will be adding functionality for it to work with graphics and also to act as a counter for your website (i.e. You are the nth visitor since stardate XXXXX.XX). Stay cool kiddies.
Credit goes to John Voysey, who coded the original Javascript that this file was the basis of. Thanks John.