January 30, 2003 - 5:35PM

Just fixed a display bug that didn't show up in IE but showed up in Mozilla/Netscape. bah...I also moved the December entries into archive and fixed the div-content length again. bah...I'm gonna kick myself for not moving to a database entry system or I'm going to kick myself for doing it. bah...I'm thinking about it though. Really nice part of it would be not having to pico into this all the time to do updates. Imagine a WAP portal to scratch over the cellular phone. Oooo...



January 30, 2003 - 5:15PM

Happy Chinese New Year!!! Well it's almost there but not quite. Couple of announcements to make since that last "update". My eyes are getting to the 20-20 area. Still fuzzy but that's due to my eye's drying up too quickly. For the first week after surgery, I was basically shielding my eyes from the glare of the sun/pavement/window/monitor/car. All is well now except for the fuzziness which I'm told, after my eye checkup today, will get better if I apply natural tears once a hour. Thanks to all the people who called me up to see how I was doing. Much appreciated. I don't know what I'd do without you guys...hahaha. Next is that I'll be traveling to Japan and Taiwan starting on the 5th until the 17th. I'll be going along with my Uncle Peter who I've never really travelled anywhere, besides Mt.High and Las Vegas, with. Should be interesting. A few weeks ago, I seemed to have misplaced my 64MB MemoryStick and was really agonizing over it since I hadn't moved all that stuff that was on it to hard drive. Thankfully, I found it stuck in a chair so I have them back now. Woohoo! Now I have 192MB worth of Stick action. Those things are so small...I hear that they're coming out with MemoryStick 2 which will allow for capactities greater than 256MB. Unfortunately, I don't think that they're backwards compatible or anything. Sony always finds a way to piss consumers off. Some interesting stuff was seen online such as the new Final Fantasy and Unreal 2 trailers. I've been working on DOA:XBV and that item collection system is something else. All those possibilities inside it that should be unlockable yet noone has figured out anything. Hopefully it's nothing like Animal Crossings where it has to be a specific date to work. My helpdesk tracking program is nearing completion. Some bugs haven't been worked out yet but I'm really looking forward to spiffing it up and making it look slick. Um what else...the Burger King on Shattuck wasn't replaced by an In-N-Out as was previously rumored. It's now been replaced by a "Curry in Hurry". Maybe they couldn't afford an "A" but who knows? So now instead of burgers, you can get your Naan, riata, and lamb curry. What's interesting is that they kept the decor from Burger King. I think they're trying to keep costs/risks really low. I don't think I've been anywhere interesting for food lately. Due to budgetary cuts, I'm pretty much eating tofu at this point. hahaha, actually tofu is kind of expensive. I should move onto cheap stuff like 5 day old moldy stale Safeway bread. Did go down to San Mateo to see Jasmine along with Adam, Chris, and Jackson. Went to Macaroni Grill and then bowling. Although, I won the first game, my bowling just went downhill from there. I blame it on the flashing lights, the blacklight, the noise, the butt jiggles, and Chris. Actually Chris helped me along to a Double but the game just suffered cause he was there. :-) Jasmine got her first >100 score that night though. She took a picture of it just like I did so we can both prove to others that we've done the unthinkable. I guess the next order of business would be to do a picture album like Jasmine but I just know that I'm going to change my mind on how to present them over and over again. I'd almost rather work on the stylesheet changer. That would be awesome.

Oh yeah, I'm planning on moving out of Berkeley. Anyone know of a good place in Emeryville or Richmond/Pinole? Scratch a note or something.



January 15, 2003 - 11:14PM

Just so darn tired now. Anyways, here's some stuff I found interesting.


Brent Moffatt broke the world record for most piercings by sticking hundreds of surgical needles thru his legs and torso in Winnipeg, January 15, 2003. Moffatt broke the previous Guiness record of 200 piercings in about one and one-half hours and planned to stop at 1000 piercings.
Full Harry Potter Story
Harry Potter fans will get a weighty fifth installment in J.K. Rowling's series about a boy wizard when "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is released on June 21, her publishers said on Wednesday.

Simpson Garfinkel, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science, holds a hard drive in his Belmont, Mass., home, Monday, Jan. 13, 2003. The drive is one of more than 100 used hard drives he bought, most of which still held personal and financial data from their previous owner. What is the anime that is playing on his computer screen?

A model displays Japanese toymaker Takara Co's 'Bowlingual' device, which the company says 'translates' dog emotions, in Tokyo January 15, 2003. The toy analyzes a dog's voice with a wireless microphone attached to its collar, then displays expressions such as happiness and sadness.



January 12, 2003 - 11:45AM

Hey all! Well my surgery got moved to this coming Thursday where I'll be doing both eyes at the same time. Don't expect anything updated after that cause I'm going to be in a world of pain. Interesting thing. Check this site out! You can vote on what will become the California quarter. Pretty neat stuff. What's up with some of these designs though? Just look at Coin 12. Crappy USC.


Chef Eddie Gozdz prepares 20-ounce burgers fashioned from ultra-tender Kobe beef at the landmark Old Homestead restaurant in New York, Friday Jan. 10, 2003. At $41, it is the most expensive hamburger in the city.

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January 08, 2003 - 1:07PM

Work work work...no time for a big update. Didn't do all that great on the lanes. Eye surgery is tomorrow.

1. The Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's National Automotive (NAC) unveiled SmarTruck II, a versatile prototype, multi-purpose vehicle capable of both counter-terroism support and homeland security
2. Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs holds a new 17 inch Apple G4 Powerbook laptop computer which he introduced during his keynote address at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco on January 7, 2003. The 17inch screen G4 Powerbook, which will sell in February, will be the largest screen laptop on the market.

January 07, 2003 - 10:26AM

Just wanted to say Happy New Year!!! Really really busy at the moment. I've worked quite a bit over the holidays. However, I need to remind myself to talk about Thanh Long and review it, Kintaro and review it. Had an interview yesterday. Uhhh...oh yeah, I scored a 140 in bowling largely due to a turkey!!! I've never even gotten a double before! hehehe oh yeah, my website for that Irvine art/music school went up. here's the url http://www.irvine-art-music.com. It's not incredibly spiffy but I think they got a lot of value for what I got paid for it. I also had my last laser eye exam before the surgery yesterday, though it was mostly question and answer time.



1. Who knew the Colonel was such a brute?
2-4. Chrysler's new motorcycle concept
5-6. New Gameboy Advance! Lit screens and folding!!! w00t! It is slated to hit Japanese stores Feb. 14 and stores in the United States about a month later
7. SoloTrek XFV Exo-skeletor Flying Vehicle
8. Stop molesting the baby!!!
9. Princess of pop Kylie Minogue scored a triple hit when she was voted the sexiest female celebrity, most beautiful woman and favorite pop star of 2002 in polls released January 7, 2002. Poor Adam. heh
10. Dang that's cool!
11. One scary picture...
12. An equally scary picture...
13. Impreza WRX STi

More Gameboy SP goodness...