While I was planning on waiting for the next version of XmlHax to be finished before updating the live website, I changed my mind. The mock-up of the new style was so good looking that I decided to move forward with it.

There have been some structural changes to navigation in addition to the style changes, so none of the old stylesheets will work with the new site. As a result, the current style is the only one available at this time. However, once the entire site has been converted over, I plan on doing a style based on the old Neo Pink style. Whether any of the other styles will get updated for the new site layout remains to be seen.

I've also begun to make some small changes in the site's content. While it's not much, there has a been a small reorganization and several mostly blank placeholder pages have been eliminated. (Until they get some real content.)

After over a year of inactivity, I've decided that my website needs a major clean-up. Unfortunately, I haven't actually done any work on it other than to post that I've decided to work on it.

The first priority will be to refactor my custom content management system (XmlHax) to incorporate the features I always intended for it to have, but never got around to including. Primarily this will feature more automation, so that I can spend less time coding XML and more time writing content.

Currently XmlHax is a bare bones templating system that doesn't really do what one would expect of a CMS. It merely translates XML into HTML, adding a fairly generic header and footer. However, it does have the start of a sophisticated metadata management system that I intend to improve as I work on the codebase.

Features that are currently handled manually that I intend to automate are:

• Tree Management
• Navigation Menus
• Smart Uploading
• Blog Entry Dating
• Blog Archiving

Hopefully I'll have some useful results some time soon. Once I've got that out of the way, I'll get to work on cleaning up and expanding the actual content (paltry as it is) of the site.

Originally Posted On MySpace

For the last week, I've had the flu. It sucks really bad, but I think I'm getting better now. So, sorry for not hanging out with y'all, but trust me, you don't want catch what I've got. Furthermore, the one night I did go out lead to me feeling worse than ever the next day. Hope to see you next week.

P.S. If you're sick too (I hear it's going around), I hope you feel better sooner than it's taking me to get over it.

Originally Posted On MySpace

As you can see, it's been nearly a year since my last (a.k.a. first) blog post. I've never been very consistent in these things. For the few of you that care, 2007 has been pretty good so far. Unfortunately, concrete work has dried up for the winter, so I have, like, no money. This could become a problem pretty soon. Luckily, I'm owed a good amount of back pay, so if I could collect some of it, I'll be in good shape.

Bah, enough whining about my finances already. As for the rest of my life, things have been pretty O.K. I was with a girl for a short while (Those of you that know, know. Those that don't, don't ask.), but I don't think it's going to work out. I still have to work up the nerve to officially break up with her, but seeing as we never made anything "official", it's not a big deal.

Currently, I'm hanging out with Sharon while she does homework, cleans her room, etc. Lately I've gone nocturnal again, so I'm up at this hour. Well, see you around, or not...