Category: General

One of the most basic pieces of advice given to people is to be true to yourself.

However, this simply piece of advice doesn’t give any hint as to how to apply it if one finds themselves changing over time. Should that person remain true to themselves in a way to prevent any change? If they’ve changed, should they be true to how they were, or how they are now. What if they don’t like how they are, should they still act true to that nature? Or should they be true to themselves as they wish they could be in the future?

Nothing is ever easy, particularly when “truth” is involved.

As you can probably see, I added a countdown to Spring to the top of the journal.

I created it as a self-taught lesson about creating dynamic images through PHP and the GD library. When the page is accessed, the web server reads in the script that generates the image and then contacts the NOAA weather site to get the current temperature for the Cleveland lakefront area. The server then calculates the number of days between now and the first day of Spring and finally creates forty random snowflakes and scatters them across the image. Once all that is combined with the background picture, the resulting image is sent to your web browser.

If you refresh your browser window, you’ll see the snow change.

A nearly useless waste of computing power, but still fun none-the-less.

MSNBC has a piece that applies to many of the technologically-literate:

Next week, millions of college students and young professionals will head home for the Thanksgiving holidays. We’ll sit with our families in warm, candle-lit dining rooms eating stuffed turkey, reminiscing over old photographs, preparing holiday shopping lists and … Please. Let’s be frank. We are going home to fix our parents’ computers.

The rest of the story can be found here.