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Years ago, when I was developing the TV Show theme for this blog I wanted to do a flash intro with a theme song (rights be damned). I had decdided on Natasha Beddingfield's Unwritten. Well, yesterday my friend put on The Hills on MTV, of all possible terrible programming we could have watched. Guess what? They use Unwritten as their intro song. Dag, yo.

As a refresher on programming before I take a full year of computer science courses next year, I've decided I want to try coding a small blogroll for my blog in PHP. I used a Perl plug-in a while back and didn't like the output. It was pre-formatted so that people had to link to the developer's site. I wouldn't have a problem with that, but given the limitations of MT's template system it ended up being much more trouble that it was worth.

I don't plan on having a front-end for this. It will all be in a MT4 template module. Since I have no problem copying and pasting code, that will probably work best with an array. I'm going to start with several small arrays for different categories of links I have, i.e. blogs by people I know, urban focused blogs, economic focused blogs, etc. That way I will have a quick and easy output to shorten the list of blogs at the bottom of the page, and can have each category select a blog randomly. That will give me something to put up while I work on a ranking system for weights on a larger array with all of my links.

Ok, so I've hit a snag in the redesign. Being a sucker for shiny things, I decided that I wanted the flash version of the Flickr Photo Badge, because it shows a number of more recent photos and moves/zooms in on them and HOW COOL IS THAT? Well, whatever. I think it's cool.

Unfortunately, Flickr developers are jerks who have it spit out in an iframe. I'm not positive, but I think iframe's stopped being ok about 4 years ago. They definitely don't validate in XHTML. I thought I had found a way around it. I went to the source javascript that they use, and pasted it in an attempt to work out the problems myself. It worked for most of that night and I was getting closer and closer to the page validating. Then today happened, and the pictures stopped loading. Consider me back at Flickr Photos Square One. Let me tell you, it's not a pleasant place.

I'm in the process of redesigning the layout. So, if things suddenly don't show up the way they used to (i.e. the bullets now appearing on the links at the bottom of the main page), it's because I had to tweak the hard code and can't be assed to redo the old CSS. For the record, the new constantly publishing beta page can be found here for good.

As you can see, I've got the basic idea down. I'm having problems with certain layout sizes (the giant gaps at the bottom of the divs) and the actual way things are set up (what to put where). So if you have any comments, leaving them here would be great.

Holy crap. I just realised that after five years, I'm still here. Even if all the archives aren't.

I'm having a lot of trouble making MT's comment form validate. I already removed [ name="comments_form" ] from the base form and hoped that it didn't screw up the Javascript method that used it (I changed the call to the id for the same form and it seemed to work - I hate Javascript).

The rest of the errors can be seen here for example:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themikehaddadshow.com%2Fepisodes%2F2008%2F02%2Fmovie-quotes.php

I have no idea what those things are for, and I'm afraid to screw with them. Input is greatly appreciated.

It was Canada day on Saturday and I had a BBQ. As a result of my laziness and people RSVPing and disappearing, only about half of the people who were supposed to showed up. You'd think I'd be bitter or feel like a loser, but I really don't. I was afraid of people coming because then I'd have to entertain them. Instead I sat around and did nothing.

This is because I will never ever remember to tell everyone in time: Canada Day (also known as July 1st for people like Mel who can't remember) at my house there will be a Bring Your Own Beer, Meat (or Alternative) & Fireworks event. It's a chance to drink things like beer, barbeque meat and shoot roman candles at each other. Start time is 6:30ish.

"You got me a miksterbate shirt?!" "I wear it every night to bed. My dad thinks it's obscene but my mom loves it."

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!"

"You dropped my girlfriend's shirt off here?"

I dropped Kaman's off at her work. I think I offended a lot of people in there. I love life.

It was Josh's twenteenth birthday party on Friday night. He decided it was time for use to mature, so he held his party at a really swanky Jazz Bar and Restaurant: Alley Catz.