Well, i’ve always said that i deserve when things go wrong… so i’m just trying to remember what i did for this…
Health: blood was found in urine -> many unpleasant tests -> no firm diagnosis, but at least they have an idea and it doesn’t seems serious. Solution: have some drugs.
I actually cleaned up around my desk… it’s really quite amazing. Saw Castle in the Sky: pretty good although it seems as though the lack of violence makes it kinda corny like the A-Team. I also finished all my php study guides. My test if friday…
Well, on a lighter note, Studio Trophis brought my love of adventure games back to life (like the old Lucas Arts games Full Throttle, Day of the Tenticle and so fourth) with their short but sweet game called “the white chamber.” It’s a very nice adventure game with a violent but good story. The puzzles were a bit easy, but it would be great for anyone just starting adventure games. Because of that, i just ordered The Longest Journey, an older adventure game from Funcom, a Norwegian development company as far as i know. It was only $20, so it should be worth it.
On the tech front, I updated some of the apache error handling on my site and organization. Since I like using directories as organization, i set up http://quad341.com/projects/ to redirect silently to the projects page i added to WordPress, this blog. Also, if you type in any wrong directory/file name, it will just take you back to the index instead of giving you a 404. I like that better hoping you can find what you were looking for that way (although it does make error handling more challenging… i’m thinking of setting up the headers so that it will send the 404 status code but display this page. that makes it so that automated link checkers will still see the 404 response code instead of 200 but users will see the homepage which I may append a note that the requested page was not found. That’s a todo)
Also for the todo (maybe tomarrow…that could be fun), i thought of an interesting way to make a site nicely up to date using AJAX for data, but still allowing it to be spiderable and directly linked to. it would do this by having an onClick behavior that returns false but changes a div section in the center. This would make the site cleaner and allow for a better background without reloading. essentially it would simulate an iframe without the actual frame (which serves several advantages, mainly not bothering the people who dislike frames in general). The actual link, though, would be another “page.” I put quotes on that because it would look like a legitamite page to search engines and by inspecting the link, but in reality, it would be using apache’s mod_rewrite to have the page be created by php on one template engine. this lets it still be spiderable and you could directly link to it. here’s my delema though: it could be directly linked to through the links on the side, but using ajax, the url bar would not update. also, the links would not show that they have been accessed. for accessed, i was thinking of manually changing the colors to simulate this, but again, it isn’t quite right especially if the user returns (when you have a lot of links, it is nice to know which ones you have visited). what i need to find is a way to have the javascript grab the browser after it thinks it has clicked but before the page goes to change (so the url bar would change and the link would be clicked but the page didn’t move). as of now i don’t know how to do this and i’m tired. i’ll look tomarrow to see if i can figure that out. if anyone has any ideas on how to accomplish this, that would be greatly appreciated (just add a comment to this post or contact me how you know to).
and now i’m out.
oh, the Zone is having their second extreme night out. you can go to both shows for $30. it soulds cool, but i need to find someone to go with.