Happy Halloween!

This Halloween really snuck up on me. I’m doing absolutely nothing this year for Halloween… except that I’m going to school tonite to take a test. Joy.

No pumpkin carving, no costume, no haunted house, nothing….

Who does your life belong to?

I just finished reading the latest blog post from my favorite blog, Creating Passionate Users, and read something that struck me. The topic of the post is about reducing fear in people to give them a better experience, however what struck me had little to do with that topic and everything to do with person writing the post, Kathy Sierra. In talking about her fear of getting a mammogram she had this to say:

Nothing Dies on the Internet – Celica vs Mustang

Wow…

This is crazyness… I was browsing the internet(well, google is basically the internet now right?) for my name to see what sites have my name. I came across an old Toyota Celica website that I was a member of when it first launched. I posted my name and a picture of my Celica. Then that got me thinking about a set of 3 videos a few friends and I did. Two videos of my Celica vs Shaun’s Mustang and one video of my Celica vs Brandon’s sport bike. I can’t recall exactly but I think I posted the videos up on some personal site I did a long time ago and shared it with a few other sites. A few months later I noticed that someone picked up the video and posted it on their site which was the last I remember of it. That was over 4 years ago.

So I plugged into google Celica vs Mustang, lo and behold the very first link is to youtube.com with one of the old videos! Apparently it’s been on there since March 18, 2006!

When do I start collecting royalties for my artistic content?

Honey Helps Hurt Humans Heal

I know, corny title.

Here’s an interesting article about how honey can heal people where traditional medicines can’t. I normally don’t pay much attention to alternative medicines but the fact of the matter is that a lot of these medicines weren’t considered alternative that long ago.

Honey Remedy Could Save Limbs

I’ve used honey in a dozen cases since then,” said Eddy. “I’ve yet to have one that didn’t improve.

Eddy is one of many doctors to recently rediscover honey as medicine. Abandoned with the advent of antibiotics in the 1940s and subsequently disregarded as folk quackery, a growing set of clinical literature and dozens of glowing anecdotes now recommend it.

Most tantalizingly, honey seems capable of combating the growing scourge of drug-resistant wound infections, especially methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the infamous flesh-eating strain. These have become alarmingly more common in recent years, with MRSA alone responsible for half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms. So-called superbugs cause thousands of deaths and disfigurements every year, and public health officials are alarmed.

Tech Reference Links

Here are somelinks that I may reference in the future. I just wanted to jot them down so I don’t loose them. You can use them too if you want.

XHTML Reference – I posted a good XHTML reference link a little over a month ago. The only thing I didn’t like about it, besides that its an ugly site, is that it didn’t define what an XHTML tag purpose was. This is a much better reference for XHTML, it has everything the old one had (as far as I can tell) plus more!

http://xhtml.com/en/xhtml/reference/

Web.config demystified – Nice artical from sitepoint

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/web-config-file-demystified

Learning JavaScript for Beginers – From JavascriptMall

http://www.javascriptmall.com/learn/contents.htm

Accessing a Document’s Structure with DOM – From Apple’s development site

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/SafariJSProgTopics/Tasks/DOM.html

Javascript and DHTML content – an artical from javascriptkit

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/dynamiccontent.shtml