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Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone gets cool expensive presents this year and plenty of money. The true Spirit of Christmas isn't about Frosty, Santa, or Jesus. It's all about Presents! You know I'm just kidding! Anyhow I opened up a few more albums and I made it easier to distinguish between albums that are not completed versus the ones that are.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I plan on working on the photo album section of my website. I do have proof of my claim, check out the new album I created: Teacher of the Month

Last week, I recovered my old POP3 email accounts which were hidden away in my 2002 backup. Among one of the emails, there was an attachment of my long lost Hexen Theme. A Theme which I thought was long gone! I've added it to the downloads for all to download.

Most of the sections are now formated the way I want them to be. There are a few things I need to go over though, afterwards I will begin adding new content. My high priority will probably be the Fugly People. Per my page stats most people are coming to my site from the old http://topfugly.cjb.net link. Perhaps tomorrow evening I will begin working on new content before I work on the galleries.

Today's update I converted the Animated Cursors and the Movies page layout to look like how the Desktop Themes page looks like. For now, I disabled the Questionaire and the Feedback forms. They aren't working right now because they are setup with the internal crap from Geocities. When I have time I will try to get them to work on my server but for now I disabled them. So don't be surprised if you click on them and it dont' work! :-O I also recreated how the guestbook works. The function is the same, but how it is setup on my page is different. Go have a look and see. Be sure to sign it! =)

Today, I toyed around with the RSS feeds. I think I have it almost perfected. I'm confident enough to broadcast that this site has it enabled. You will find the links to the right above the poll. If you are not familar with RSS feeds, please read the help section I put together.

This evening, I mostly worked on the Awards section along with the Video Game section as well. I'm trying to prevent myself from doing too much at once otherwise I would lose interest and motivation.

I reduced the size of each HTML Document by 75% by embeding the Site Menu as a separate file which is embeded by the IFRAME tag. I'm in the process of recreating certain areas to match the layout of the rest of the site. For a better example, check out the Desktop Themes and compare it to the Animated Cursors and Movies pages. After I have completed these projects, I'm going to try to get the Feedback and Questionaire forms to work. Right now they are still setup as if they were on Geocities.

File restructure seems to be a success. It sure was a pain in the ass to update over 100 HTML files to reflect the changes. Thank god for EditPad, the best program ever made! :) I'm playing with RSS Feeds now. You should be able to add it to your RSS Reader, more to come though.

I spent a few hours trying to parse an XML file into my document. I learned a lot tonight, :) What that basically means, I was able to write my site news into an external text file. With that data, I was able to get my website to read it and display it. Unfortunately it won't works in IE. I don't do IE! So, I spent the past 2 hours trying to troubleshot this problem. It's not needed, but it would be very efficient in updating my site news. I'm calling it a night.

The structure of this site is a mess to me, I lost motivation to work on it because of Geocities. Now that I have my own server with more options; I hope do make the most of it.

7 Months later, next update. Unfortuantely, I gave up on the K-12 Morph project. I might post them later but for now I want to talk about something else. As you can see on "Joe's Home Page," I have my own domain finally! More to come!

Happy Birthday to all you people who are the wonderful water sign, Aquarious. Tomorrow is my birthday, and I am going to go celebrate it down the hill with a lot of my friends. I'm working on a project in which all my K-12 Pictures morph seemlessly. Right now, I consider it done sloppy, plus on top of that it is about 7mbs with the complete sequence. I am not happy with the outcome, so I will have to re-create it with perfect results. I just made a quick sequence in haste, just as an experiment. I will probably have it up and online next weekend.

One thing before I go, I want to bitch about the stupid side bar Yahoo Geocities just developed. Come on man, it sucks! I liked the original watermark, I didn't like the banner you guys inserted, I liked the side menu which can be minimized and closed, but I do not like the sidebar. In due time, I will not have to worry about it anymore. Until then I will continue to bitch! BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH!!! ARGHH!

Anyhow, be on a lookout next weekend. I hope by that time I will have more galleries up. I already outlined it, now it's time to fill them in! =)

Today, I began working on the photo albums located in the about me section. I will try to complete the structure tonight after work. Perhaps this time tomorrow, there will be new albums to check out! I changed the video game section, I linked to my 1Up page with all video games. Check it out, I bet you will be jeolous! Just like all my old high school acquaintances who don't talk to me anymore, haha!

I heavily worked on the Nextel Download area, but none of the ringtones are availible for download for now. I did remove some sections, like the weblog and essays. I will be adding more sections to replace them in the near future. For example, I plan on adding icons which I have created.

Happy New Year (25 days later)! I been busy with many other projects, and trying to play many new games as well. Too many games, so little time! There are many other sections that I will try to have up before I turn a quarter century old. I see many visitors are coming from the old topfugly.cjb.net URL, so keep in touch because I will open a mini-gallery very shortly. In the mean time, simmer-down now!