The State of the Union is on - time to play “Find the politician without the Flag of America pin”…

Wow - what a day! I left my apartment at 7:10am this morning and just now returned at 11:25pm. thunk

Well, it seems my ISP has permanently blackholed my IP. I guess it’s a good thing I moved everything over to John Companies. I’ve been very happy with them so far.

I posted a couple pics I snagged from the trailer and put them in my geek gallery. Check ‘em out - it looks crazy!

I just the SuperBowl trailer for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions a minute ago. Looks like they’re going to be even better than the first in terms of FX - it gave me chills.

Before I hit the sack, I wanted to quickly describe how the new code is layed out. I’m making egregious use of objects on the backend. For example, right now I’ve got database, blog, and entry objects. While that doesn’t seem too impressive, that design will help with expandibility of the site in the future. Mary J. Bilge just came on VH1, so even though I’d like to break out the dance I have to go to sleep.

Remember old-school screen-scraping? Keith found an article about doing this with web pages. Nice!

It looks like the site is coming along nicely. Unfortunately, I’m back to creating new entries in SQL. Here’s a list of things I’ve done…and things to do.

• Mostly completed
  • Basic entry display
  • Basic layout
• To do
  • Administration section
  • Add/Update interface
  • RSS Feed - if any geeks read the page
  • "Prettifying"
  • Log viewer
  • Search function
  • Archive function
  • Even more, but I have to go to sleep

As you can see, there’s still a long way to go!

Kita questioned if this is how the male mind works. I don’t know why she questioned, as that is a perrrrfect example. grin

Yes, yes, I know - bed. But good tunes keep coming on VH1…go figure.

It’s 4am and I have to go to sleep, but at least I have something to show for my efforts. Check out the spiffy, new DCortesi . com!

It’s currently a work in progress and as you can obviously see, I’ve got a lot of work to do on it. While it may not look very different, it will function extremely different behind the scenes. I’ve also cleaned up the code behind it so that it complies with certain standards for good reason. I’ve read lots of things lately that convinced me to go ahead and do this, most notably dive into mark’s 30 days to a more accessible weblog. I also like some of the things he’s done on that site, such as the permanent links include the title names, which makes a lot of sense.

I also wanted categories, something my current code doesn’t allow. I also want to let other people like cia use my code. That’s not easily accomplished with my old, poorly written code. I have learned a lot about php and blogs since I began DCortesi a year ago.

But I really have to go to sleep, so I’ll stop my minutia.