Games

I'm finding that, save for the odd Star Wars game, I can find plenty of fun games on SourceForge.net.  For instance, one of my all time favorites from the old DOS days was a game called StarControl2.  Now thanks to the Ur-Quan Masters, I can play it again and wallow in the nostalgia!

Class Project

Working on my class project, trying to get a
web page
to load an XML file.

UPDATE

Moved the school project to my own server so I could play with PHP 5. Rebuilt the XML functionality in about 10 minutes, which took days to get right in JavaScript. Check out the class project if you have the time, and feedback is welcome.

Feed Your Brain With Flash

I've come to the conclusion that the best way to learn and keep up a skill is through games. I'm not talking about big complicated games, but small simple flash based stuff. It's the equivalent of flash cards, only taken to the modern interactive level.

There's another conclusion I've come up with. My brain no work so good no more. Specifically, when I was a lot younger I knew something about music notes and could even do some math in my head. Reading notes off a sheet of music is not my forte any more, and I ain't so hot at math either.

So what's an old time gamer to do? Well find some games to help me practice this stuff of course! For math I stumbled across Add It Up. A bit of searching was required for my music education, but I finally found some games for sight reading that work pretty good. Now if only I could find some more games for learning Spanish!

SLIS 5715

Taking another class up at UNT. This time it is digital imaging, which should be fun. Here are some important links for the class, as a convenience to me.

Topics in Digital Imaging for Information Professionals

Course Description

Textbook

Digital Imaging for Photographers by Adrian Davies and Phil Fennessy,
Focal Press

Required reading

1. 
   
   The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to Interoperable
   Digital Libraries
   by Howard Besser (First Monday, Volume 7, Number 6, June 2002)
   
   



2. 
   
   IMLS: Publications & Resources: Publications, A Framework of Guidance for
   Building Good Digital Collections
   
   



3. 
   
   Free Virus Protection for Home PCs Travis Brown, Benchmark Online, Volume
   5 - Number 6, June 2002.
   
   

Darth Maul

dmaul
Originally uploaded by FlipSide3.

I'm just testing out a feature over on the flickr website. Its supposed to let me send a picture into my web log. Let's see what it does!

Another Site

I've been working on another site. This one is for both myself and my bride to be Bridget. It can be reached at http://www.greatwhitepaw.com/.

That is all.

;-)

The House and the Ring

I have some news that some might find interesting. I just asked Bridget to marry me! There's an interesting story about the parking lot in front of JC Penny, but let's just skip to the picture of The Ring.

Putting a ring on her finger isn't the only news I have. I'm buying a house and should close next week on my birthday (the 29th)! Here's the house and us in front of it.