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That dude that writes the BlogWorks XML app (used on this page) noticed this site (a link to his page in in my about box on the right). Wow. I feel so special. It’s one thing to hear compliments and criticisms about your sites from your buddies, because… well, because they’re your buddies, but to get a compliment on content and design from a stranger who knows ASP (better than I do) and web design techniques and stuff… and stuff… I feel so special. I am reduced to giddy giggles. *Big, cheesy smile* As you can tell, I don’t get compliments from complete strangers often. The guy from freontech.com said…

My buddy Michael is an odd guy; he’s engaged to his “la hermosa”, namely Jenny, and seems to never look at another girl (other than Denise Richards, but then, who doesn’t?). But he has this thing with endearments. I’m unconfortable with my best friends calling me names like “deary” or “honey”, but Michael takes the cake. I’m sitting in Calculus, just before the final bell, on the day after Christmas break. I’m barely awake (see my entry “Ugh. Is it morning already?”) and just waiting. All of a sudden, I hear a voice in my ear saying “Hello, precious..” and my much belated gift is passed over my shoulder. “Precious”?…

First off, I strongly dislike musicals. All that droning and singing and stuff doesn’t get it for me. The only musical I have ever loved was The Sound of Music. Corny, right? I like quietly loud movies like Cast Away. That said… Wow. Damn. I am in awe. Assuming everyone was singing with their own voices (even Richard Gere), everyone had great voices, particularly Zeta-Jones. She played her role extremely well, as did everyone. Gere was hilarious and very attractive (something I usually don’t say about him). Queen Latifah was great, although she was a little bigger than I was expecting (surely those boobies were not all hers; she wouldn’t…

Affirmative action seems to be a major issue in America lately, both on the local and national level. Here in Charlotte, Charlotte-Mecklenberg School executives have been biting their own asses in trying to arrange, rearrange, create, and destroy bussing of students back and forth across the county to satisfy race quotas at public schools. On the national level, President GW is stammering his way through proposals to do away with affirmative action in education. But when isn’t he stammering his way through something? Until about two days ago, I cared not at all about affirmative action; on principle, I disliked it, as I found it demeaning that the standards have…

Wow. That was deceptively easy to fix. Why the hell couldn’t I figure it out last night? For the interested, here is the problem and its solution: I had to move over my old entries from Greymatter into BlogWorks XML. This involved copy/pasting all entries one by one (there were only about 20 of them), then changing the dates of each one. The problem was, however, that the “timestamp” XML elements/variable/whatever, used to state the time and date of the post, was derived using a formula in a function called “HumanToUnix” that basically converted everything to the number of seconds from 1/1/1970 (I think). After attempting to puzzle out the…