I wish I had the patience to do this every year.   But here it is for all you ACC fans.

2008 Helmet Schedule

I am pretty sure our little dacshund lays in his pillow all day staring at the wall saying….duh!!!!

But he sure does love it when we come home!

So when I started this site, I told myself that I was going to post a few times a week.  If blogging were my life, that may have been an attainable goal.  But seeing as how there is so much going right now, I haven’t had time to devote to my personal sites.  This is something which should change in a couple of months so I will post what I can, when I can. 

I have kept track of some great tools and sites to write about and will be sure to do so as fast as humanly possible.  Of course, by the time I get around to it, you will have probably already found it on digg. 

First thing I will need to do is refresh the look.  This theme loads very slow and I want something that is more fluid in design.  I became bored with this theme in a quicker time than it did for me to find it…bummer

I need to zero in on a focus of this blog as well.  It started with me posting pointless entries about absolutely nothing which in hind sight, was a poor way of making sure Google had some content to index.  I have two passions in life besides my soon to be wife…the Internet and photography.  I already have my photography blog which also needs some work, so I will make the internet the focus of this blog.

Sure…I’ll admit I don’t have a slew of readers at this point…in fact, probably most of my readers are family (Hi Mom!)…but I hope to change that.

So my photography website is undergoing a major transformation. I was previously using a company called smugmug which was a paid subscription site. After a year, I just found it wasn’t as flexible as I would have liked it to be. The design is very Web2.0 however it has limitations. I must admit however, you have more freedom with that site than most.

For this redesign, I am hand-coding the entire site.  There are some scripts and files I’ve been able to find on line that have helped with this redesign.  For the gallery itself, I created a display and admin tool found on a tutorial here.  I’ve combined the gallery function with a javascript popup in a tool called highslide.  Getting the two to work together was a challenge as I only have basic understanding of php, MySQL, and Javascript.  So far, the results are quite pleasing as you can see from my galleries here.

I still have a few more bugs to work out and of course much more uploading of photography.  I hope to have everything done in the next few weeks.