Not a lot of updates recently, I know. But I have been very busy recently, and I haven’t had much time to do anything other than working on research and TA work. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even gone to my algorithms class in four weeks! I’m farther behind in that class than I’ve ever been before.<\/p>\n
First, some will notice that the graphics on the front page of the site are a little bit different. This is due to my getting the latest version of Macromedia Fireworks, my graphics editor of choice. This was a little “birthday\/I finally have money” present to myself. The problem is that the bottom of the menu graphic will look strange in IE.<\/span> (Ed. Note:<\/em> I have fixed this by changing the PNGs to 8-bit versions.) IE doesn’t support alpha transparency for 32-bit PNGs. Translating the technobabble, this means that Microsoft needs to fix their browser. If you look at it with a recent version of Netscape or Mozilla, you’ll notice that the graphics have nice, crisp edges, even against whatever background I might have in the theme. No more artifacts (read: little grayish areas right at the border). It looks really nice – just the way that I’ve always wanted it. You’ll also notice that the typeface on the graphics changed…I finally caved on this because I figure that most people wouldn’t have Calisto MT on their computers (I don’t on my laptop), but most do have Georgia, and with a little tweaking of the sizes, the type looks just as good.<\/p>\n Now, away from the techie-graphics talk, and on to real life. Teaching is still quite fun, if still a lot of work. I have come to the conclusion that I really do enjoy it, and so I feel better and better about it the whole time. I have a good class; I believe that has something to do with it. I’ve heard horror stories about people in other TA’s classes in the past; I’m glad that I don’t have to deal with that.<\/p>\n Research is slow, unfortunately. I have been trying to work on it, to no avail, for a while. I progressively got closer and closer but just couldn’t get my implementation to work. After a meeting today, my advisor and I have decided to see if we can hash out what’s going wrong by determining exactly how we believe the implementation should work in certain situations. I will be working on it tomorrow.<\/p>\n In apartment news, I am still undefeated in the Super Tecmo Bowl season, although it was not without a fight. I beat one of my roommates 33-28, but had to hold on after starting out up 30-7. It was almost an Alabama-Arkansas moment, but I held on and won. That being said, my defense is still pretty atrocious. I need to work on it…when I get time and stuff.<\/p>\n I won’t get to see Kelly again until next weekend, when we go to the Bama-Southern Miss game. I do miss her, even though we talk on the phone daily. Sometimes you just need to be near each other, and we both feel that way.<\/p>\n Last week, my computer’s battery decided to lose its capacity to hold charge<\/span>. After much worrying about potentially losing data, a call to the good folks at HP was made, and I am now in possession of a new battery. My respect for them continues to grow…their tech support has always been great to me.<\/p>\n Well, I need to call my sweetie, so I’ll sign off for now. Enjoy the new look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not a lot of updates recently, I know. But I have been very busy recently, and I haven’t had much time to do anything other than working on research and TA work. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even gone to my algorithms class in four weeks! I’m farther behind in that class than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}