Tim’s Blog

It is still being worked on, but the core works pretty good. There is virtually no security, so don’t screw it up. Here is it.

Unfortunately, the current website has some “undocumented features” which I would prefer that it did not have, and some non-existant features that I wished it had. This calls for The Website of Tim (v2.0). I am almost done with the photo album, after I am finished with that, maybe I will recode this site. Of course that depends on how much school work I get over the next couple of weeks.

Ummm…

I accidentally deleted all of the comments. Ryan suggested that I edit one and I don’t have that functionality built into my website. So I decided to open up SQLiteWebAdmin to edit the comment in the database by hand. Unfortunately, I could not find the correct way to edit the comment. Instead, I accidentally deleted the comment table. I thought for sure that SQLiteWebAdmin would prompt before such an action, but I guess not. I have to go to class now, but later I will get another table made.

Bummer, I had some really good comments.

Three weeks ago, I stopped shaving. Quickly, it became apparent that I can’t grow a beard to save my life, but I held on. When my scruff just got longer, I finally decided to shave last Saturday. Oh well, I will have to try again next year to grow a beard.

This weekend has been filled with lots and lots of coding. I learned that trying to complete 2 complex programs at the same time is a bad thing. I was trying to do my computer science outlab (make a GUI frontend for an already created Mastermind game in Java) at the same time as coding the soon-to-be-released photo album in php. The original idea was that when I got stuck on one project, I would switch to the other. Unfortunately, after 14 some odd hours of this, I got completely drained. It took lots of caffeine to complete my outlab by the deadline of midnight on Sunday. Hopefully I will have the photo album done by next weekend, but that will depend on the amount of homework I have this week.

Tell me if any part of my website is broken. I started to code the picture album, but I got hung up on how to upload multiple files. I tried to make it so that all the user has to do is zip all the files together and the php code would unzip the file and parse the images out. Unfortunately, I could not get the unzip function of php to work despite 2 recompiles with various options changed. I need to spend more time reading up on how to install the correct support. It would be nice if there were an easy way to upload multiple files with some html code.

It has been a while. Between World of Warcraft and school, I have not had a whole lot of time to update. On Friday, I went backpacking with my roommate Isaac and Corey, our next door neighboor. We rode our bikes up to the M (6 miles away) and hiked up to snow covered meadow where we camped. Unfortunately, we did not get started on Friday until about 4:45, so we ended up hiking and setting up camp in the dark. The next day, we climbed Mt. Baldy (8914 ft), hiked to the trail head and then biked back. As soon as I have enough time, I will post pictures. Hopefully, I will get a photo album page programmed and set up which will also be used in TitanRobotics.Net version 7.

Don’t you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?

I got World of Warcraft in the mail today. I have never played an online massively multiplayer role-playing game before, this is the first. And I played for 5 hours straight. I am very impressed with all aspects of the game, including the graphics which is rare for an online game. I can pretty much kiss my homework goodbye for the next couple of weeks.