september

9-01-2006: during some college orientation thinger last week. There was this one kid who would ask the most interesting questions. We were in small groups with upperclassmen in charge. And when they asked if anyone had any question this one kid raises his hand and asks: "Have you ever seen Pirates?..." ... "it's a really well directed porno." And then everybody laughed. And that was that. Then later, in separate groups (we just so happened to be in the same group), he asked the same question again. And the guy in charge was like "The first one? or the new one?". He thought he was referring to Pirates of the Caribbean. And then he went onto explain that it was pr0n. Later he asked "If i were to kill somebody, where would the be best place to bury the body?" crazy stuff lol. 0 comments

9-03-2006: i was thinking about humans and evolution lately. i wonder if humans are continuing to evolve. I don't think we are. Because humans are so social, we take care of one another, allowing the weak to survive along with the physically fit. If some one can't walk, instead of dying because they can't move, they get a wheelchair. If some one is born visually impaired, they go to the optometrist/opthamologist and get the problem fixed, rather than having to fend for themselves with bad vision. And their flawed genes then have the opportunity to be passed on to then next generation; unless they look really dorky with their glasses. ;-) 0 comments

9-05-2006: I almost always do all my text-editing in Wordpad. Wordpad is a awsome program that pretty much comes with any new computer. Sometimes if there is no formatting needed for a particular thing i'm working on, such as html / programming code, i'll use Notepad, which is like the most basic thing possible; Text, spaces, and newlines. I can get along just fine with these programs. But every now and then, a paper that i'm working on needs some special format, and i have to resort to Word. Some people seem to think very highly of Word. And i must admit, Word does have some great advantages. Though i'm not a very big fan of word. Just today, i had to format a paper with Word (i typed it in Wordpad beforehand). So i copy and paste the text, format it how i want it, and i'm pretty much done for now; now i have to save it. So i do a Ctrl+S (which is a shortcut for File > Save). And i hear this alert noise, and a little window pops up and says something to the extent of "runtime error; program will terminate." I have no other choice but to click OK; and Word closes and i seem to have lost all the changes that i've made. So, frustrated, i restart Word to redo everything, and what'd'ya know, a little thinger popped up that says it has recovered my document. And i'm like "Hooray!". So i click on it to open it up, and i get the same error as before. Now i'm like "Curse you microsoft!". So i repeat those last few step again and get the same result. So i resort to re-editing/formating my paper again. This time, i saved before i made any changes, and saved every minute or so. And i copied all the text before each save, to create another backup. Eventually it all worked out. But i still don't like Word. It's immensly complex (probably the reason for many errors). and not very [new] user friendly either. Unless you have like a manual or something it can be difficult to figure out how to do the simplest thing. It took me atleast 15 mins to figure out how to put my name and the page number at the top of each page. And the file sizes are relatively huge too. I have two very similar versions of a paper, one saved in wordpad as a .rtf (rich text format) and the other saved in Word as a .doc (Word document). They're basically the same, minus some formatting and minor editing to the .doc. The .rtf file is 2.44 kb, and the .doc is 22kb. 0 comments

9-06-2006: okay, enough is enough. Comment-leaving robots are going to die. Last month, a robot under the alias "unique jewelry" left a comment filled with links to random sites. Click here to see. I edited that comment to remove any links from any shady site that they may point to. In reponse to that comment, i wrote this little update thinger. And if you're to lazy to click the link, it basically says that a robot has left a comment; and if this continues, i'll implement a robot-proof commenting system. So this morning, i go to my site, and i see this little notice that some one has left me a comment. (thanks to my uber programming skills) So now i'm excited, because nobody ever leaves comments. So i click the link to see the comment. And what do you know... a bloody robot. So like i said i would, i'm going to implement a robot-proof commenting system... no matter what mr. roboto says. 1 comments

9-08-2006: I've recently discovered widgets. I first encountered widgets a few days after i downloaded Opera. Before that day, i was completely ignorant as to what widgets were. So the other day i was just surfing the web, and decided to see all the stuff that Opera had to offer. So i started going through the different option on the menu bar. Theres this one option that says 'Widgets', and you click it, and the dropdown menu gives you the option to add widgets and to manage your widgets. I didn't seem to have any widgets, so i click 'Add widgets'. To make a overly descriptive story short, I discovered that widgets were little programs that you could download, and they would be placed on your desktop, sort of like an icon. There's a widget for pretty much anything you can imagine. So i start testing out the different widgets. I found one that'll tell you what the weather is like in your area. And another one to keep track of your schedule. And a bunch of neat analog clocks. Eventually, i get tired of browsing through all the different widgets. So i close the browser, and i noticed that all the widgets closed too. That's because these widgets depend on Opera, so they can't be run without the browser open. So i wonder, is there some other widget app. other than Opera? A quick google search revealed, rather ironically, Yahoo! widgets as the first result. So i go there and it seems good. So i download the program that the widgets require to run. Next thing you know, i have the weather, my schedule, and nifty thing that'll put my monitor into stand-by mode (to save energy ;-) ), all on my desktop. quite a story, eh? lol 0 comments

9-09-2006: Since i'm a computer science major, my college has allotted me some space on their server. I assume they do this so that one has a place to store their projects that can be shared my multiple computers. Anyways, i have all this server space, and that can only mean one thing: new website. Yes, that's right. AJ now has another website. Well, atleast a directory of a website, and a bunch of storage space. The url is http://clipper.ship.edu. Though it doesn't seem to be working right now. I've been having some problems with it lately. Anyway, i'll use that site mostly for academic/school related stuff. I'll continue to use this website as my 'blog'. 0 comments

9-10-2006: like i said yesterday, I have a new website. So i've begun to add pages/content to the site. Eventually i have a couple of pages uploaded. I planned to use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to style them. CSS makes styling pages a lot easier. Or atleast it should. I had the basic CSS done and looking fine. So i test it out with different browsers to make sure that it'll look the same for everyone. My default browser that i had been using to test it while creating the CSS was Opera. And it looked awsome with that. So I check to see what it looks like with Internet Explorer. And what do you know, it looks different. It still looked alright/so-so, but it was unacceptable for me. So I go back to the style sheet and edited it some. Test again... nope. Edited some more... nope. Edit even more... yes!... but looked wrong in Opera. Eventually after many failed attempts and some modification of my HTML, it eventually worked. Not exactly how i hoped it would looked, but very very close. So now it looks awsome. I think it's the best style i've ever created. I was thinking about bringing that style over to this site, but i don't know just yet. anyways, the moral of the story here is that browser-creating-people could save people a lot of website-making-people a whole lot of time if they all imlemented CSS the same way. 0 comments

9-11-2006: I wish i could kick people in the face Jean-Claude-Van-Damme-style. that'd be sweet. 0 comments

9-12-2006: For those of you who are followers of AJ, you may have realized that AJ has had this here website going for over a year now. My first update thinger for the site was September on 3rd, 2005. 2005 seems like such a long time ago. Anyways, if anyone is interested, they can read all my little update thingers since the site was created, they can start off in September 2005. 0 comments

9-13-2006: when i woke up this morning, it was cold and rainy. I had class at 8:00, so i was up around 7:30. I had an apple and some water for breakfast, then headed off to class. I took an umbrella of course, since it was raining. When i got to class, i put the umbrella on the book rack underneath my seat. After class was over at 9:50, i moved onto my next class, Computer Science II, which started at 9:00. So i get there a little early, and i'm waiting in the hall outside because there's still a class going on. So I'm just standing there against the wall, and i see somebody with an umbrella, and that reminded me that i had forgetten my umbrella in my last classroom. I still had a few minutes until class started, so i go back to my last classroom, it was basically right down the hall, i go in to get my umbrella. There was a class in there that was starting soon, so the room was partially filled. I go in, look at the book rack underneath the seat of the desk that i was looking at, and.... it wasn't there. It seemed as if somebody had stolen my umbrella. Since standing there in the classroom wasn't going to get my umbrella back, i went off to my next class. After that class, i went back to the first classroom. Thinking that maybe i hadn't seen the umbrella because the people may have impeded my line of sight. So i go back to that classroom and it still wasn't there. It makes me mad. Because i was only gone for like five minutes before i realized that i forgot my umbrella. When i come back five minutes later, it's gone. How many theifs must there be in the world if you can't go 5 minutes without your umbrella being stolen. People are jerks. And to top it off, that was a brand new umbrella. This was the first time had ever used it. >:( well it's almost 10:30 AM right now, and i'm tired, so i think i'll take a nap now. Which is odd, because i hardly ever take naps in the middle of the day. But that's a story for another day. 0 comments

9-14-2006: I think i have my RSS feed working now. Here is a link to my feed: . alot of this rss stuff is pretty new to me, so if it doesn't work or something, just leave a comment or something. 0 comments

9-15-2006: Today, i had the same classes as i did on wednesday. And as everybody knows, my umbrella was stolen after my first class on wednesday. So today, before my first class starts, my professor aks "did any one forget an umbrella in here on wednesday?" So of course i raise my had and acknowledge that my umbrella had been lost. Then he admits that he was the one who took it. Then the rest of the class gasped with shock. well, maybe not. but he did take it. He took it so that nobody else would take it. Which is sort of like killing somebody so that a would-be murderer doesn't have the opportunity to commit the crime. Which doesn't really make much sense in that context. Anyways, my umbrella was not used illegitimately, which makes me feel better. And now the umbrella is back in my possession. 0 comments

9-18-2006: I fixed the problems in tabbed (default) skin. Before, the tabs at the top of the page didn't display correctly in Opera. So now it seems to display correctly in both Opera and IE. I've never tested it in FireFox, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad, eh? I also cleaned up the CSS and its a lot cleaner looking; not that anyone looks at it anyways. I also validated the CSS. Lots of warnings given, but no errors. On a non-website related note, Aj seems to have caught a cold. :-( 0 comments

9-19-2006: i was wondering lately... if you (or anyone) were to chop off somebody's head, but somehow keep a steady supply of oxygen/nutrient-rich blood flowing to the brain, do you think life would be sustained? The brain basically is all there is to a person. The body's sole purpose is to support the brain... and to reproduce. So if the brain could be fed mechanically(!?), then rest of the body is pretty much useless. eh? 0 comments

9-20-2006: I've noticed that i tend to constantly look at my watch without actually looking at it. I'll look at it, and 2 seconds later have no idea what time it is. I'll have no particular reason for looking at my watch, i just do it. Habit, i guess. anyways, i just thought i 'd let everyone know that. ;) oh, i almost forgot... i've always wondered what my watch looks like on the inside. My watch is an analog watch. And my watch is also very thin; i measure it as about 5 to 6 millimeters at it thickest point. Back to my point, i wonder what's on the inside. Does it have gears inside? If it does, they must be super thin. I'd like to see how they would produce and assemble such delicate things. 0 comments

9-24-2006: I really don't like alarm clocks. The first reason is because they wake me up. Which, is their intended purpose. But nobody likes to be woken up. Especially in the middle of their REM stage (Rapid Eye Movement (learn your sleep cycles)). It's just impolite. The second reason is the snooze button. While they seem like the best thing in the world at six o'clock while your alarm clock in blaring, they are the creation of the devil i tell you. The snooze button on my alarm clock turns off the alarm for nine minutes. Which make me wonder -- why nine? why not ten? Anyway, sleeping for ten more minutes isn't going to make you any less tired. And i often times end up hitting the snooze button like 4 times, which pretty much defeats the whole purpose of setting your alarm. They should make it so that the snooze button can only be used once. But i guess alarm clocks are a good thing in the end. They wake you up in time for the stuff you have to go to early in the morning. They keep our lives synchronized. 0 comments

9-25-2006: AJ wrote a paper this weekend. I had put tons of work into this essay. Atleast two hours, minimum. Even after all the work, i'll be the first to admit that it's a terrible paper. Anyway, today in writing class we had to do paired review thingers, where each student pairs up with another student, and they read each others papers. And the kid that read my paper said "seems like it took 5 minutes to write" in his sloppy handwriting. Which got me thinking, what if i could write a paper of equal quality in five minutes? I'd save myself a lot of time. 0 comments

9-26-2006: vending machines are evil. as best as i can recall, the last three times i bought, or attempted to buy, from a soda machine, i have been cheated. I remember during the summer, at work, I was feeling quite parched, and decided to get a drink. So i go up to the vending machines, and look at the selection. I see Pepsi Vanilla, and i think "hmmm... vanilla pepsi. that's really good; haven't had that in a long time." So of course, i insert my money, press the pepsi vanilla button, and what comes out? water!!! now i like water just as much as anything, but if i choose pepsi, it should give me pepsi, not aquafina. Then just yesterday, i didn't really have a whole lot for breakfast, so before i go to my first class, i go to get a drink from a vending machine. All beverages are $1.25. So i insert my dollar bill. Then i continue to put my quarter in the coin slot. Then something appears in the change spot -- my quarter. So i proceed to put the quarter back into the coin slot. It then appears back in the change recepticle. So i inspect my "quarter" to make sure it's actually a quarter and not some similar coin. It was indeed a quarter. So i figure the must be all sold out or something. So press the 'coin return' button to get back my dollar bill. Nothing happens. So the machine took my dollar, and i didn't get a drink that morning. Then just last night, i went over to a different dorm to work on a project, and when i left, my mouth was pretty dry. so i stopped in the lobby on my way out to buy something from the soda machine. After looking at all that was available, to chose Pepsi Vanilla. So put in my buck-twenty-five, press the appropriate button, and then what do you think happened? it gives me brisk iced tea. I like brisk and all, but i wanted my vanilla pepsi. Maybe pepsi vanilla is cursed; maybe not. Maybe pepsi employees should pay more attention when filling the machines. speaking of soda machines, I actually know how to hack them. Once hacked, you can see how many of each item has been sold, how much money the machine has in it; things like that. And, depending on how the machine is programmed on the inside (can only be changed by employees), you can change the price of the items, change the temperature of the machine, and other things. It's a pretty nifty trick. 0 comments

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