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!

Not Much

I managed to fix the code on the blogs page. The XHTML is now valid, and that makes me happy.

Rat Races

One job listing annoyed me today - it asked for examples of website design work, but specified "no freelance". Why do they care? Doesn't the fact that I've designed and written websites on an unpaid basis mean that I'm willing to work hard, even without the carrot of a paycheck hanging in front of my face? Do they only want people motivated by money, and not a love of the field?

I could understand if I were a self-taught physicist or mathematician trying to get a job... but any artist, designer or coder worth their salt knows that in fields like this, having a formal education and career doesn't mean an awful lot.

Random As Usual

I finished my site redesign and I'm kind of proud of it. It's pink and green and weird. The stupid Twitter and Delicious widgets made it so one of my pages won't validate properly at w3c. Gonna have to debug that later.

I'm still not having much luck on the job hunt thing. There's just about nothing in western MA, and not an awful lot of stuff around here either. The one response I've gotten back so far was to let me know the position was filled... then the same job popped up on Dice.com yesterday. Now I'm starting to wonder if my resume is crap!

I lost about a half a pound at my last weigh in. I'm hoping I can keep that up. I've been a little more diligent with the food tracking over the past 2 weeks... I was letting it slip for awhile.

I finished my site redesign and I'm kind of proud of it. It's pink and green and weird. Stupid Twitter and Delicious made it so one of my pages won't validate properly at w3c. Gonna have to debug that later.