Boring People Say Boring Things

I'm kind of thinking I have one of the most boring blogs on the planet. As of late the only things on my mind are A) job hunting, B) web development and C) gaming. Oh well. Maybe a meteor will land on my car and spice up my life a little.

Spent some time redesigning my site over the past two days. Now I don't have to feel awkward showing potential employers a huge neon pink drippy skull. I decided to link my personal stuff instead of integrating it directly into the site, unlike the Blogger + Twitter + Delicious mess I had on the prior iteration. I know it's more "web 2.0" or whatever to cram as much stuff as possible into each page but I've always been the type to go against the grain at least a *tiny* bit wherever possible. I was also defiant by not rounding any edges in the layout... so there!

New addiction alert - Battle Forge. It's basically an RTS, but with card game elements a la M:TG. I never even really liked RTS, but this one is pretty cool. I think I'm going to play it after I finish writing this.

Validate Your Face

I fixed about 1300 validation errors on Bizarre Uprising. There are a bunch I can't get at because it's due to what the admins post on the site. What annoys me is that sites like YouTube and Twitter hand out invalid code snippets and screw up perfectly valid code. GRRH!

In other news, Amazon has like 1600 errors on their page. How important is it to even have super duper validated code, anyway?

Losing Weight/Mind

I imported my old weight loss blog in case anybody cares (and some even older posts from 4 years ago). I'm not sure this blog is read by anybody except for me, though. That reminds me, I should get weighed in tomorrow since I haven't gone in May yet.

The job hunt has been discouraging and my work schedule has gotten a bit lighter. I was already worried about paying the bills, but losing more hours is helping to enhance my stress level.

I'm trying to learn my way around Ruby on Rails. So far I'm encountering confusing IDEs and having a hard time finding the kind of information I need to get started. I have some books and tutorials I'll be burying myself in so hopefully the bewildered feeling will go away soon.

Programmer Personality

I'm a PHSB.

Games and Brains

I spent a decent part of the weekend playing Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. I really love the newer CV games because they play very similar to Metroid these days. I'm not sure which one I'll play next - I have Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood waiting for me. I can't really get into the ancient NES versions because the control is pretty terrible.

Tomorrow's quest will be to continue on the path to JavaScript dominance. If I can't swing the dominance thing, I'll at least try to learn some new stuff. I'm kind of thinking that setting up a separate part of my site for random experimentation might be a good idea. It would be sort of like Dr. Frankenstein's lab, except I'd be the one with brains in jars and strange code snippets running amok.

Chocolate Bunnies

Easter was pretty good. I colored eggs with Anthony's family on Saturday and had a bunch of food before driving home to eat another bunch of food. There's a ridiculous amount of candy in the house right now which is kind of rough. We'll see how good of a job I've done dealing with temptation at my next weigh-in. :)

Editors Are Exciting

I'm trying a new code editor called Komodo Edit. It's pretty nice - seems lightweight and has the ability to collapse code fragments. It's missing a few features which are apparently reserved for Komodo IDE, their non-free thing. Despite that, it's worth a try (and it's free)!

I normally use PSPad for simple stuff but certain things irk me about it - I still can't get line numbers to show up consistently and it seems to crash a lot. I also like Eclipse but sometimes it feels slow, and the lack of word wrap can make webpage editing truly painful.

In other news, I scrubbed the code on Bonnie's site and made it CSS/XHTML compliant. Yes, I'm just full of excitement today!