Move along, nothing to read

After being downtown, I called Marissa from a landline because my cellphone battery died, and left to go up to SFU. The weather was really starting to get bad, with a lot of slush on the roads by this point.

At the corner of Gaglardi and University Way, where the bus normally turns left after coming up the mountain from Hastings, the bus had to go straight, because there was another bus that had jack-knifed coming down the mountain, and it was blocking the road. The amount of snow up by SFU was boggling. The better part of a foot of snow I would say.

I met Marissa, put a better graphics card in her computer (because I wanted the crappy 1Mb Cirrus card for something myself). We had lunch (subs, soup and strawberry milkshake), then because the weather was turning really nasty, I left right away to come home. On the #144 down, I ran into Leanne Page, but couldn't stop to talk to her for long. She looks like she has really matured a lot since high school, and she has gotten a bit taller too (She is taller than me!).

Trudged the rest of the way home in the slush, managed to get my socks quite wet, as well as the bottom of my pants. Tommorow morning I will wear my snowboots to go to TechBC, and put my slippers in my bag to wear once I am at TechBC. 8-).

So I wake up this morning, and it's snowing yet again :-). I'm going downtown in a bit, but I was tidying up my webpages a little bit more, to work nicely with Mozilla-based browsers. A good tidbit of CSS information for you:

body.journal
{	text-align: center;
	}

body.journal p table
{	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	}

Either way, this is an easy one to work around for now. I'm done this, so now I will go and work on my daily summary for HTTC before I go downtown.

I'm getting on with my school work slowly. A few more posts for PE, then I can start HTTC for tonight.

Hmm, so now coming home from TechBC. I think I am coming down with the flu :-(. My throat is sore. I have to do damage control e-mails as well to somebody at TechBC, because somebody is blabbing along the line. Bah!

Tommorow morning I have to go to a meeting downtown now, at NewMIC. They supposedly have a better setup than TechBC with their SGI Onyx and Rave displays. I hear they have 4 screens 8-)! That could be some wicked 3d surrond imagery. Anyway, I have to meet my boss at SFU Harbour centre at 10am, and the meeting will probably take an hour or so, then I'll head back in to Burnaby.

The homework is piling up. I have to the following over the next few days:

• 9 posts for History and Theory of Technology and Culture (Tuesday & Wednesday)
• 9 posts for Process Elements (Tuesday - Thursday)
• Process Elements peer evaluation (Due Friday)
• animated 16x16 icon for New Media Images (Due Thursday)
• Essay for Process Elements (Due Sunday)
• Essay for Business in a Global Economy (Due Sunday)

Ok, so I am sitting here in my Java class. Bah! It's boring, I have long since completed the in class lab, even the class only started at 8.30am. The instructor is still standing up there talking. I'm ignoring him, as I know all of this already. TechBC really needs a challenge program. I would be so much further ahead then!

Reading thru my livejournal, I see I have a new person watching my journal, diafae. Who are you? They seem to know the North people (cokemangs, galaxychild, kenacan, yellowjam, ziri) so logically there are a North person too.

I am done my work now, so I am going to bed shortly.

Ok, now that I have given Yvonne her gift, I can tell everybody else what it was:
Lady Cottington's Book of Pressed Fairies

I first saw the book last semester when Sarah stopped at a book store when a group of us at TechBC were going to have lunch. It intrigued me, the idea of squashed fairies.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the book Yvonne.

I'm good. *raises hands*. A little bit of good techno/rock/alternative music that encourages you can help you get a lot of hard tasks done.

What did I do you ask? On the TechBC conferences, I posted some of my daily answers to the wrong forum. I sent them to the forum for the entire TechOne, instead of my team forum. I had seen a delete button on the faculty's systems before when they had logged in, so I managed to figure out how to delete my own messages, which ET&L have gone to a lot of trouble to try and stop learners doing. But now I have got it figured out. I want to see about editing my own posts in the future too, as that would be really handy for some typos I tend to make despite the spellchecker, which I prefer not to use, because it destroys the HTML in my messages.

Hmm, maybe I will just end up creating my own documentation for the XML-RPC interface to the backend they are using, so that I can do what I want properly. I asked for the documentation about it once before, but they said I was not going to get it because of security concerns. It wouldn't surprise me if there is no real security on the backend, like there should be.

Reverse-engineering the CMS system will probably be a major PITA, as from what I found in glancing through some of the source, it has really been hacked up badly. But the advantages are that in the end, I can have a really decent client of my own to read the CMS, without having to put up with the existing one. Ideally I would implement my new one in something cross-platform, probably PHP+XUL with XBL. It would need some JavaScript on the client end too, to parse the XML into HTML via XSLT.

I bought a birthday gift and card for galaxychild on my way home today. I will see about delivering it this evening.

I have finally squashed some more bugs with my webpage! It now looks 100% identical in both Internet Explorer 5.5SP2 and Mozilla 0.97. Now I just need to get rid of the server bugs, then I will be all set.

Weird dream again last night. About my cellphone, aparently I didn't lock it, and it dialed somebody in the UK, and kept a line open for 3 hours. I shut it off quickly when I see this, and then Fido sends me a an SMS stating that I was charaged $28.17 a minute for my phonecall.

I'm going in to TechBC today, to drop off my fees and check up something on the Onyx, and I'm leaving shortly. Cya.