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Gardening

        
        

Some pictures of my spurring garden

Web 2.0 Expo

Fun fun exposition conference about the latest web 2.0 applications and software companies who is taking on the vision of web 2.0 into every aspect of their platforms and applications. Exciting new information for the geeks and techies who is looking to expand their knowledge and disperse it onto the web. I cannot say enough good things about it. One of the latest concept (and one I have thought constantly about since the acquisition of many, and diverse, set of techi gadgets. All working separately, and with each new equipment is more and more initial setup time. Enters www.mesh.com with the latest software to put everything together and let it access data from all the equipment you own. 1 software, infinite gadgets. Sadly, it is windows compliant, BUT, they are working towards one for Mac, so be on the lookout!

check out http://web2.0expo.com/sf

Creating better pages

Sorry about the bad image from the last blog. It was a copy and paste technique, that didn’t serve well when transfered, because the size was adjusted for the newsletter it came from! I just want to consider that as web designing experience, and maybe go back later to edit if i can. Otherwise, I would like to share with you the stuff i’ve learned of HTML and CSS. Both wonderful web languages to learn, and simplistically easy to apply! I am a little overwhelmed with all the combinations I can use to make excellent webpages, but i have to pace myself and remember, it takes time to be an expert. It takes time to incorporate new combinations of techniques learned to produce more unique and more fantastic pages! I pray that i will have this type of patience required of a person to enable that learning and creative process. The last lesson i have learned is the div and span tags, for which divs seem very useful, and spans seems ridiculously tedious! But, it does help produce the design wanted.

Frustration:
One frustration for me is learning to use the form tags. Not necessarily the form tags themselves, but using the get method to gather the users information in email format and have it sent. So far, the furthest I’ve reached is, opening the email client, and if I have some luck, get the information in the email, just waiting for me to press send. If not, just a blank email opened…i guess for me to input all the data i have already chosen on the form, again! in typographical format! I do not think this is what the form function has in its potential. Therefore, I have come up again and again about using CGI scripts to make forms interactive. I have yet to figure out how, after reading a couple articles/posts. This will take a little more time, i suppose. I believe this is one of the most important lesson in creating wonderful web pages. either for getting further comments from visitors, or if a business, requiring info from customers to do business. Alot hinges on this form. I do believe the smarter consumers, or the die hard, will be able to find the author’s email and do business that way. But for the wayward ones, the seller would not be so lucky.

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Everyone, Anyone, Someone, 

and No One

Once upon a time, there
was a big job to do and Everyone was responsible for completing
it.  But Everyone figured that since Someone was bound to do it
(Someone always did), Everyone didn’t have to.  Of course, Anyone
could have done the job, but as it turned out, No One did. 

This made Someone quite
angry because it had been made clear that it was Everyone’s
responsibility, not just Anyone’s.  Yet No One had envisioned
that Everyone would skip out on the assignment. 

When an explanation was
asked for, Everyone pointed a finger at Someone only to be told that
No One had managed to do what Anyone could have done.

An Old Story

SAD and fulfilled

It makes me so sad to see my old colleagues move on to bigger and better things. Things like engagement…go Hannah and Brandon! and things like new experiences and life. I feel as if i have been stagnant. Well, for me, i think stagnant is a good thing seeing as i moved like 6 times in one year!! I think I had more life experiences than all of Intervarsity combined that year!! So I am slowing down, and now wish i was not. Our mind is such a contradictory state of wants. Slowing down was what i wanted and needed. But seeing how old friends move on, seem like I am not achieving anything!! This is where I find myself with jealous feelings and such. Wanting what others have. And this is where I need to appreciate what i DO have. I have a wonderful set of parents who is willing to let me stay with them. A wonderful set of brothers who wants me to be happy. A set of cousins who keeps it real. And a wonderful aunt and uncle who is trying to keep it real for me! I have to learn to be happy with what I have, now. It’s okay to dream. Just make sure I know what is real, and what is a fantasy, and what are goals that i can achieve to better myself and my future. Appreciating what I have especially when others have something i don’t has always been hard for me. But hopefully, with the breakup, i will learn better what not having something still makes me a desirable person. As with anyone else who don’t have what I used to consider the “haves”. the “have nots”, are reality people who “have”, I just have not seen their “haves”. I “have” a whole lot. In fact, I have basically or simply, what i want at this stage in my life. I am happy for that.

I cannot have both things that I want, and things I don’t want but other people deem “happy” and “successful”. That is where I fail sometimes to differentiate and discern. It sucks knowing that, but being aware is a good first baby step. What makes others happy does not necessarily mean those achievements will make me happy. My happiness lies in what I grew up with, what I truly desire, and my beliefs. Without those, I am not me, but me in somebody else’s mind. Not an easy way to live actually. Not very congruent or contiguous. It’s like being trapped in somebody elses brain and even body. Man, that sucks!

What do i want? That will be the next post—and my journey

How to ZAP lactic acid buildup

I was running three days ago with my dad. two days ago, i did a half hour aerobics. Four days ago, i did heavy lifting around my house. So. Let’s pretend that I cannot move the major muscles in my calf. what do I do?? check this out.

http://www.acidzapper.com/index.php?page_id=228

Can we say
Milk of Magnesia, please?:)

Is God .an EMPTY void???

To be honest…my god has always been there for me, whether i prayed or slept. the only stipulation is that i had faith! yes. faith……..that dirty dirty word. it is so easy. the most ignorant of human beings know this. so what’s wrong with the intellecutals who try to obtain this conectp, called, faith? why is it harder to wrap their “humongous” brain around the word, FAITH. not faith hill. just plain faith. it is so easy. just believe. believe in what? well, believe that we are here with the time given to us…or better yet, gifted us, to do with as we please. the rest is up to us. i think what we need to do with that time is to give pleasure. yes, i said it. pleasure. do u actually believe that we would be gifted with this time here on earth to struggle and toil?? only the devil could do that. and he cannot actually gift us with time on earth. he just makes our time here as miserab le as possible. so, do we let him make our lives mjiserable? I choose, the earlier. make life as pleasurable as possible. that makes logical sense. now. about that laptop….

Letting God Out

As a response to my previous blog. My wonderful and wise brother hailing from San Diego, CA sent me 2 emails including one link each.  I will let you experience this for yourself first.

www.juliasweeney.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otlyx687ytk

One is an awesome singer, and the other, is just rofl hilarious.

For my weekend agenda, the weather was cloudy and cold.  Our house is a total mess because I decided to gather up energy to start a little spring cleaning.  This turned out to be a major thing because my parents chose to use chris’s(my younger brother) room for storage.  And I have a vision of turning that room into a study/work space.  Man, is it taking more work than I first realized!  I am reading Organizing Your Room Plain and Simple by Donna Smallin.  Wonderful writer and plenty of great references.  I took her inspirational writing and decided to categorize the living/dining room into 12 different categories.  

Cleaning was going well, listening to smooth jazz and italian opera to set the invigorating mood.  My dad had the great idea of pushing all the “junk” we don’t use into the attic. “great”, I thought.  ”Let’s put one trash of heap from one room, and just transfer it to another.  That’ll solve the “clutter” problem.  ”Clutter” as they would categorize this lump of mess in Trading Spaces. 

So this “Clutter” was absolutely horrific.

I tried to categorize the living/dining room into 12 categories. I even have “things to sell”, “things to give away”, and “memorabilia”. I guess I forgot the category for “foods that are supposed to stay good forever”, and the “projects that were meant to be finished last year but is no longer known to exist” category!

Oh, I also had to obtain 1 huge oblong container and two boxes to contain….food containers themselves!!!  Is this great or what?  I predict we will one day have more food containers than food itself to be held in the year 2010.  (or is that already true….hmmm).

I’m not even going to mention the backyard!

Look familar?

damn the whole religion "thing"

Why does it seem as if the whole WORLD is religious, and divided in that respect?  Who IS the true creator of human kind?  Does it even MATTER???  

I mean, so u find out that some god name “Mercutio” is the creator of all beings.  Why are you supposed to do what “He” says?  What would be the point??

Take it to a smaller scale.  
Our parents directly created us by way of sexual intercourse.  Are we supposed to worship our parents for the rest of our lives??  What if they died?  What do we worship, then??

this brings up another question….how do we know god is still alive??  I mean, do we have to have a god in order to live on this earth?  It seems sorta silly…imagine, we go to heaven because our parents die!  NO!  we keep on living.  because we are already made!  in our parents image, and free will allows us to do with our lives, as we please.  So what do we do with all this freedom?  That, my friend, is the question of the year!