This may be one of the coolest sites I’ve ever managed to learn about. And it doesn’t even give you any new content.
Nope, it gives you old content. The Internet Wayback Machine shows you what most any site looked like on days in the past, from 1996 to the present! For an example, here’s my page as it looked on March 15, 1997, pre-1122productions.com, pre-pressing on…, and when the fight song site was still unheard of. I kind of cringe when I look at it now…frames! Noooo!
It’s just that you don’t have as much time to update when you’ve got a job.
Sadly, the job is not of the permanent variety. It is, however, a pretty nice setup for a temp job. I can’t really go into the details. You’ll just have to believe me.
I’ve been doing this for a few days now, and hopefully I’ll get a few more before the position expires. Thanks, Mary Lisa!
Some random thoughts during the course of the past week:
And finally, a preview: look for information on Flannel Quest 2K1 and the special Iron Bowl edition of UA Football Facts!
It’s official. It’s time for a new computer.
I never thought that I would see the day that I would fill up an 8GB hard drive. When I got the computer I currently have (a little over three years ago) I wondered what it would take for me to fill up that much space.
Now that the system is dual-boot, with Linux taking half the space, it’s a tough fit. My C drive is full except for about 20MB. And that’s after cleanup. My other partition has a little more space, but it’s still a pretty tight squeeze.
I’ve decided that if I get a signing bonus wherever I go to work, I’m going to take some of it and get a nice system. Then I’m going to take the one I currently own and convert it to a full-time Linux machine.
But of course, I have to get the job first…why must so many things hinge on having a job? 🙂
The week’s UA Football Facts are now up, and the first wave of information about school colors has been completed at my college football tradition site. It was a lot of research, but it was really interesting. I’m not sure what will be next on the list.
This weekend, I’m going home to a family reunion. Sis and Mike, I’ll tell them “Hi” for you.
The team colors page of the college football tradition site has been updated to include all the research that I did yesterday.
I’m going to be updating it pretty frequently until I’ve got all the information that I can find on I-A schools. There are actually some pretty interesting stories on why schools have the color combinations that they do. It’s been interesting, to say the least.
Also, my days and nights are badly mixed up again. How do I know? I got up an hour ago. 🙂
For a long time, I’ve wanted to do a full-blown college football tradition site. One that took all the stuff that I’ve done so far (fight songs, rivalries, kickoff chants) and added tons more information.
Basically, I want something that people who love college football tradition could get lost in for a few hours. That’s the goal.
Well, the time is starting now. I’m starting to put together a college football tradition site. It will incorporate the features I’ve developed so far, as well as adding new information on lots of other topics.
This is a massive undertaking, to say the very least. But it’s one that I’m really interested in working on.
Anyway, there’s a new feature there already, school colors. While all it does now is give the official colors of all the division I-A schools, in time it will have the stories behind how the colors were chosen.
Look for more there in time. And I’ve put a permanent link to the tradition site on my front page.
So I’ve found something new to pass the time: Command & Conquer. Ricky has let me borrow one of the discs to play around with, and I have found myself engaged in virtual battle for much of today. And proving to myself that I would not make a very good general.
Ah, grandparents. My grandfather is something of a kidder. He’s always trying to push your buttons if he can, and he’s pretty quick-witted.
The other day, he bought one of those Sam’s-sized bags of Dubble Bubble bubble gum. You know, the pink, cylindrical gum that loses its flavor in about thirteen seconds? Anyway, he had a couple of pieces in his mouth, and they got stuck. He couldn’t get his mouth open enough to get them out.
As he tried to remove the gum, I joked that it was the first thing that I had ever heard of that could keep his mouth shut. I haven’t heard my grandmother laugh that hard in a long time. 🙂
In no particular order of importance, just based on things that I’m thinking about right now:
I picked up a copy of The XML Bible on Monday. It’s a comprehensive book on XML and everything that goes with it. It’s about 1200 pages altogether.
I’ve already read 250 pages of it.
Some people devour mystery novels. Some people like romances. Other people just enjoy the classics.
I apparently think that a computer language book qualifies as a page-turner. Could I be any geekier?