2003.04.17 @ 2321

One thing that has been bothering me lately has been the SARS outbreak in Toronto. My aunt has been looking after 2 patients there on 12 hour shifts. When I spoke to her the other day she sounded quite tired... And that is usually when people make mistakes. The are keeping the people in negative pressure rooms (so any air leaks don't let air leak out) that are ventalated outside. There is this "waiting room" thing before you actually get into the room where they put on double everything. Double masks, gowns, boots, goggles (well, maybe not doube googles...). Anyways, if they forget anything in the hall, they have to take it all off and do it all again. Of course there is lots and lots of scrubbing involved. Before they are even allowed into the hospital they have to take their temp. and sign a waver that says they don't have any symptoms. Scary, scary stuff.
I saw the hockey at Karen's house. Great game. It is always better to watch something like that somewhere else. I don't think that it matters if it is out at a bar or something or just at another person's house, as long as it is not at mine. I don't know why.

Listening to: Jones & Edelman - Last of the Mohicans - Elk hunt

2003.04.17 @ 1551

Well, I finally did it. I have my admin page working fine. Now I can go do some studying. Phase 2 is now compleate. Bwahahahaha! For some reason the resources that I was looking at on the web didn't seem to give me the right information. I decided to go right to the source of my problem (where the solution should be) and get the straight goods from them. Well, now I am happy. After exams I'll get Phase 3 working. But that will involve more work.

It's funny how the small little things can take the longest to do. And when you actually figure them out, they are the easiest to fix as well. Ah well. I'll continue my efforts to learn web programming. That is, when I am not reading Karen's blog. Ah, plug done.

Listening to: Andrew LLoyd Webber (Cats) - Macavity

2003.04.17 @ 0033

I think that I will forever be just one step away from where I want to be. It can be very frustrating because I feel so close to the answer. :-( I remember the third Indiana Jones where at the end the people are trying to get the grail, and they don't realize that they can't really get it. I think that I am there. I keep on fixing things and I keep on finding more things that need fixing.

And the thing that is bugging me, I think that the client should be able to do the work, but it doesn't. And what I am trying to do no one would see, only if they looked at the source code. And that pretty much means just me. All I want to do is limit the number of characters per line written to a freaking file. I think that isn't too much to ask. Well, maybe tonight it is.

One thing that I couldn't stop laughing when I read it was a Fox Trot comic... it was the sort of thing that took me a second to get, but I smile every time that I think about it. ;-)

Listening to: Goo Goo Dolls - Slide

2003.04.16 @ 2033

Well, I *almost* have my admin form working... I got some help from Karen. I was doing some really dumb things. Got those cleaned up now though. I am sure that I am still doing lots of dumb things though. I think that one of my last problems now is the stupid "wrap" with html forms. IE 6 doesn't seem to do it well, and my brain is burning out. I just have to get something in Perl to break up the lines nicely for me. So, so close.

One of the things that I wanted to talk about today was the purpose of this blog, site, etc. The blog is about 4th on the reasons that I have a website. The main purpose of this thing is for it to be a learning experience. I really don't understand how other people can learn stuff like this just to learn it. I need a purpose. I need some modivation. Having this page lets me have that. It helps me understand all kinds of things, which I won't get into now. I just wanted to have that little rant. Nice.

Not too much new here... Had a super big storm last night. Of course it took out the power and now I have to go around and reset clocks (which I hate). At least it kept the stupid wood pecker off of the TV tower. Stupid, stupid bird. How can it mistake a metal pole for a tree? It must have brain damage. Well, at least now it does.

Listening to: Bif Naked - If I

2003.04.15 @ 2005

Stupid figging Perl. I have wasted way too much time today playing around with it. And I am so, SO close with it too! Grrr... My problem is that I have to "untaint" an input from a user before I do something with it. Makes sense. So, all I have to do a run a regular expression on it. Again, makes sense to me. And do you think that I can do that okay? No. I think that I am running it correctly, but I can't get the answer back. I have a cgi/Perl book, and they say: Note that because the result of the regular expression is a list, you must include the parentheses around $filename to evaluate it in a list context.. I am doing it. And I am getting the error that they said that I would get if I didn't include the stupid brackets! Ahhh!!

*sigh* I think that I should just stop and study for my exam tomorrow. I think that it would be a good idea... but it ticks me off because I am SO close!!! :-(

Listening to: Sum 41 - In Too Deep

2003.04.15 @ 1223

Well, as always, I am trying to make slow and progressive improvements on this page. I just did a little tiny stuff by cleaning up some of the html. I still have a ways to go though. Eventually I'll get this to be a nicer site with all the pretty things that I want. I still think that I am going to try and keep it simple though... you know, with about five colours... clean layout, etc.

In other news, Karen has a blog! I am sure that everyone is happy about this. I know that I am. She's reading slashdot, has her own blog (using blogger), ... ahh, joining the geeks has she! ;-) Now she just has to dress badly and she will truely be one of us. I am not sure if she'll be okay with that. In truth, I am happy for her. Playing around with the web is the best way to learn. But the thing that I found funny is that with rogers she can't put anything in her cgi-bin directory. So that really limits what she can do server side. I somehow doubt that they have php or asp. Ah well. Best of luck. I just need to learn more Perl. ;-)

Listening to: Moxy Früvous - Stuck in the 90s

2003.04.14 @ 1523

Well, step one of fixing up my site is done. I now have it doing somewhat dynamic content. It is just grabbing the last 5 posts and displaying them. After this, I'll also do a web interface for me to do posts, and also a way so that (if anyone would ever want to) they could look at my old posts. I think that I'll just keep on playing around with it. The main purpose of this page is for me to learn (and vent if I feel like it), so that is what this is. Me learning html and Perl. I'd learn php, but I don't feel like it right now. Sometime later I am sure.

Well, other than wasting a lot of time on this page, I have not done any school work in the last day. I did the answers for some assignments for one of my classes though.. That is something I guess. Anyways, back to Law.

Listening to: Moxy Fr�vous - Gulf War Song