So, here's my new site.  Looks a lot like the old one except for a few differences.  Thats because the real differences are under the hood.   This is run on Drupal.  I've been playing around with Drupal for a while now and I decided to rewrite my site as practice.

I installed xubuntu 10.04 onto my netbook. It's noticeable faster than the previous version of xubuntu that I had installed. It actually makes my netbook easy to use.

I've been really busy lately. I guess it's time to pay back the previous seven months :) I've been learning Drupal too. If you want to write a website without actually writing a website, Drupal is the answer. It's ashame that it's not object oriented, but I guess you can't have everything.

New pics are up in the pictures section. I took all of them at the 25th US Go Congress. It was my first time at the Go Congress so it was very exciting. I learned a lot, and my AGA rank went up 6 points after the results where reported (I'm now 22 kyu, up six ranks from 28 kyu).

I played in the US Open Go tournament. It consisted of six rounds, one round a day for 6 days. In the end my final record was three wins, three loses. I feel pretty good about my performance considering it was my second Go tournament, and definitely the biggest Go event I've ever been in.

Long time no post. First of all, I just put up a new project. Its a Sudoku game written in Python using wxPython for the GUI. I have to admit that I really like Python. It's so lean and clean. It removes all the syntax markers that you thought where necessary like end of line characters and it forces you to properly format your code. Also, I've never worked with an implicitly typed language but now that I'm used to it, I love it. No longer do I have flip through reference books and search google to make sure I'm declaring my datatypes correctly.

I've recently begun working on a suite of web services for social sites (MySpace, Facebook, Orkut). You can check out my progress at services.tolleycoder.com. I'll probably change the name and move it to its own domain when its ready for prime time, but its good where it's at for the time being.

Yes, I actually made bread. I like to cook. I don't do it a lot cause ultimately I'm lazy, but I like to try news things every so often. I found a bread recipe online and it looked easy so I tried it out. Click to see the resulting loaf. It doesn't look like much cause the bread pan I got wasn't big enough to give it the classic loaf shape. Next time I'll make more dough and let it raise longer.

Spent last weekend in beautiful Ann Arbor, Michigan with Adrienne. It was a lot of fun and we saw some cool places. The University is really nice. I put some pictures up in my picture section so everybody could see.

Zelda Phantom Hourglass is finally out for the DS. I've been looking forward to this game for quite a while now. Since this is the sequel to Wind Waker, I've decided to play through Wind Waker before I get to Hourglass.

I've been kinda busy lately. Work is crazy, but its ok cause we are about to launch a new version of one of our sites. It'll be nice to see all our hard work pay off at last. After that, its off to rewrite the next site.

Demo this script here.

I'm seeing more and more sites using a simple little text box effect. The text box in a form is loaded with some descriptive text in it like "Name" and when the user clicks on it, the box empties itself in readiness for input. It's a nice little effect that makes forms look cleaner so I thought I'd put up a code snippet here that does it for you.

I saw an article not too long ago describing ten different apps that you should use if you are running Ubuntu. One of the ones on the list was Katapult, the application launcher. I installed it (easy) but when I tried to use it, by pressing alt+space, all I got was the context menu. I did some googling and figured out how to disable that keybinding and got Katapult working fine. The next day when I tried to do some coding I found that the down arrow wasn't working. Somewhere along the line I've screwed up the key binding (I think.)