Here's to another year of spewing out this pointless, self-serving drivel. This past year I've mostly been posting to the PhotoBlog and Beer topics, but occasionally have time to ramble on about other nonsense. Here's the obligatory links to previous blogveraries:
I've removed the Stocks page from the site. It served a purpose at one time, but I haven't been using it and don't think anyone else was either. If you were, sorry. Anybody that wants the code the drives it is more than welcome to it, just contact me.
And you also likely notice that back in September I added the small validation block just below the navigation menu. I'm big on standards —after all, it's my job! Thus I've long wanted to include these, but was having problems with deciding how I wanted to include them. For me the small buttons are ideal and the color scheme fits well. You'll find that nearly all of the pages are XHTML1.1 Strict compliant. Those that aren't are either older pages or 3rd-party software written by others. Yeah, I know…who cares? :)
So out of the blue I got an email today from a former co-worker, Eric Nagel who stumbled into my site. Eric felt my original lava lamp didn't look good enough. So he was kind enough to send me a new one that actually matched my color scheme. Cool, but it had a white background so wasn't going to workout immediately. So from the double cool catagory, Eric sent me a new one with a transparent background. So if you jump over to the PolarLava front page, you'll see this nifty little change. Thanks Eric. :)
Knowing the ills that having a "mailto" link on your site brings, I've finally gotten around to creating a Contact page. These have their own set of potentially exploitable ills, but I believe I've got that covered via data validation and not using the PHP mail() function. So there you go…yet another feature that will rarely if ever get used. :)
After way more mucking around than I wanted to do, I've converted my CycleLog to use my new weather class to populate the weather table. Writing the small script to stuff it into the database turned out to be the easy part. I then had to rework the ride display portion to handle the three different variations of weather that are contained in it. Hopefully this will be the last time I have to rework it.
