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Beijing 08 Olympics

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:36:54 -0500

I love the Olympics. Even though the summer ones are least favorite they're still fun to watch. I especially enjoy watching the gymnastics and swimming. I also like all the odd sports on like handball and shooting. Michael Phelps is just plain amazing. Greatest athlete ever. Boy, I'd like that title! Amazing. And he's only 23!!

School

Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:06:53 -0500

Schools about to start. Normally I am excited... this year I'm not sure. But I think I am. I am trying to convince myself I am. This year I will no longer be a "sevie" but now an eigth grader in Geometry. Well saying I am typing from Best Buy, I should probably go.

3 years

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:05:26 -0500

So, a couple of days ago it was Jtmcgee.net's third birthday. Happy Belated Birthday!

Worlds of Fun!

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:28:18 -0500

Yea! Tommorow I am going to Worlds of Fun! For you non-midwesters it's a big theme park in Kansas City, MO. Yea, I got some tickets to Heartfest at night there and rides in the day! My siter and brother-in-law are coming along, well so is my dad. I am so excited to ride the Patriot. Worlds of Fun is so much fun. Except maybe the Mamba, it's sucks it just goes up and down the Patriot does everything! If you have never rode the Patriot, click here. Scroll down and click on a video to watch. Of course it's so much better there!

I was speedin'!

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:08:34 -0500

Today I think I had the fastest download ever, I was downloading from Adobe.com and had speeds at over 2MB/second! KSU has a pretty fast network :)

I want XP Back

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:33:51 -0500

So, I was bored one day and I had Vista sitting in my room. XP was running great but I wanted to try Vista. Well I tried it, it was so slow I couldn't really even work on it. Long story short, I've tried a million ways to get it back and right now I can't. But I hope to in the next week or so. And thats not the worst part!

I have been working on a new version of my CMS for a while now, a couple of weeks. Well to say it short, there all destroyed. Backup #1, on my computer which had to get erased for Vista setup. #2 My backup drive corrupted. #3 I backed up the wrong files to my dads backup. So ya, I've got a little bit of make up work to do!

Linux Server

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:16:41 -0500

I'm getting an old computer in a couple of weeks. I am not sure of the specs but I am going to be making it into a Linux server I think. Well definitley a Linux but I am not sure if it will be a server or just a regular desktop. Anyways I know I will use Ubuntu.

Oh and, you know that new CD drive I got? Well acctually you probably don't but a couple of months ago I got a new external CD drive because my internal on my laptop broke and I am off waranty now. So yea, that new thing just broke. I am gonna dig around and hope there is maybe like a 90 day waranty or something.

Joke

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:43:39 -0500

Barrak Obama and Hillary Clinton fall off a cruise ship. Who get's saved?

America.

Web Business

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:01:48 -0500

I am about to start having a Web Designing businesss. In a couple of days I will post pictures. I can do basicly whatever you need me to. I have an almost finished CMS I have been working on, which also doubles as Jtmcgee.net's cms. And I have been creating some themes the can use with it and I like on of them a lot, I am probably going to use it on my site to spice it up a little, everybody tells me that my site is too... 2d and ungraphical.

Firefox 3

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:31:50 -0500

So far from my short expierance with it, it seems nice. One thing that really let me down though was the RSS. I thought it might look different than Firefox 2, but it's not. I like the new default theme a lot! I like how the back button is really big. I also like how the address bar is smart and helpful. I am a little mad too that I have to fix my administration panel because it doesn't run as smooth with this version as it did with the last. So far right now it's not up to what I hope it would have been. Maybe that will change in the next couple of days though! :D

Pages

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:57:46 -0500

I, today have released Pages! Now instead of having to go into Dreamweaver to edit the content most of the pages are now controlled by pages! Of course it is impossible for you to know the difference, the HTML is the same, the url is the same, every thing is almost the same. Instead of text in a page most of the pages are now controlled by the DB's, like the posts, links, and youtubes before them. Why I keep saying most is because for right now certain pages cannot be saying how they have to be able to use PHP. But eventually I will probably do a migration. I have had the whole system done for weeks but until today I could not get the .htaccess to work. Of course I have only worked on it a few times - explaining why it took so long. Well hope you like! Even if you can't tell the difference

Oh, and also if anyone is interested in getting Pages just contact me.

Back and Forth

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:32:17 -0500

I think that my administration pannel is the best website I have ever made. I like to keep adding to it and making it better. Sometimes when I am away from the internet, like on road trips, I download it and work on it on the road on my laptop. Well it seems like anymore I am doing more of adding the innovations into the website than acctually making it. For example on a road trip I created something I call pages, with this program and its WYSIWYG editor it can edit any page. I have to update the website with it from my computer. And I just finished up this project I have been working on on the website where I can add, view, delete all my online photos from here. Now I have to download that so I can work on it, on roadtrips. Well now that you have heard me ramble I shall get back to installing Pages.

I'm done here

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:39:20 -0600

Well I am not like leaving or anything, but my programming and designing atleast for a little while is done here! Now I can't just let my skills go rusty until 2.5, and I need to start forming a portfolio. I need projects! Right now I am in the process of working with the childrens director at my church to make a nice site for the children's ministry. But what it is probably going to be is just making the Joomla! page that they already have a little cooler. This is not my first web project with my church, I was the technical man for when it switched to Joomla, I would have to fix the problems and do the programming when needed, but for the content and stuff like that Anna and my dad did that. So if you guys need a designer to do things I am open!

New Books!

Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:12:32 -0600

Well my dad came home today from work and said somebody sent him some books at his job and he didn't have any use for them, and guess what type of books they were! They were Web Design and Development books. Why are all programming books so expensive? These two books together cost $95! These books look pretty awesome, I am not sure that I am ready for the JavaServer pages one yet, but I'll definitley be reading that Adapting to Web Standards Book soon! I've never really done anything with Web Standards before, I have been to busy learning the art and tricks of Web Development. Now I will be able to learn about these "Standards" of the Web. The Web Standards book says its about CSS and Ajax mostly. I use CSS all the time but yet I have never used Ajax. I have seen many things using it and I am excited to try out the power of the popular Ajax. Why does it always seem that design books are so much smaller than programming books? I mean well probably because programming there is so much, but design its a little bit of stuff, and you just be extremely creative with it to create new things. Overall I look forward to reading both of these books in the near future.

New Administration Panel

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:16:41 -0600

Well, it's not completley done, but its got most of it done. I did a total redesign back here. Well the last thing we had was about 10 minutes of CSS thrown together and it was ugly. This is a much nicer CMS. I'll post pictures tommorow. But tonight I am too tired. Everything is not totally accomplished, like I want a WYSIWYG editor back here, and I need to finish with the media /image upload section. The login section is pretty sweet too.