Archive for April, 2004
Random notes and updates…
Monday, April 5th, 2004
CSBS Website
Well…the deadline came and went without fanfare. The CSBS Website is up and running.
Right now, we’re offering a scaled-down version of the site, which is already filled with more information than the previous site. I plan to add a few things in the near future, though, when I find the time.
The news section and Dr. Blackaby’s Journal are built with the MovableType weblog application, which means they’re accessible in RSS news feeds, and can be updated through a web panel.
I’ve found using Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) quite refreshing. It plays nicely with Dreamweaver (which actually allows you to see the results of the includes, etc. unlike with PHP), and seems a fairly simple object-oriented language to learn (although I haven’t written a script from the ground up yet).
Basic geek highlights: MT-enabled sections, form mail (built with ASP), a cool “Zebra Table” javascript for alternating the colors in rows of tabular data, and of course the whole thing was built in CSS/XHTML.
Please let me know what you think!
Weather
I’m happy to report that temperatures have reached balmy here in Alberta. The last two weeks have given us mostly sunny skies almost 70 F weather. We’ve had the intermittent snow, and I hear that we’ll get a “big dump” sometime in the next month, but for now we’re not taking the weather for granted.
Family
Abby has found her place in our happy (and often loud) home. Brendan has really taken to her, and Caleb will often get within an inch of her face, shouting, “DUPTHUBTA!!!” Which of course means, “Don’t you do anything besides lay around?!!”
Abby has found her own voice, too. She’s been really cholicky (sp?) lately, and hasn’t found sleep to be something she wants in her life right now. Needless to say sleep has become a commodity to be desired the way…say…the average human being desires air and water.
I’m hopeful, though, and rest in the fact that modern science has afforded us several drugs that take sleep out of the “optional” category.
Brendan is in a Spider-Man phase. He finds the oddest ways to take on this spider persona. It started with taking his tuque (for those below Montana, that’s a knitted hat worn in cold weather) and pulling it over his entire face, which obviously makes vision difficult.
Apparently, Spider-Man runs around aimlessly until he runs into a stationary object that renders him temporarily disabled until he can regain his bearings and tear off again.
When the tuque isn’t readily available, Brendan has found a pair of red socks — well, I can’t call them a “pair” because they’re obviously different lengths, as one probably belongs to Caleb and one belongs to his mother — and puts them on his hands. He then balls his hands into fists, boasts a scowl on his face and says, “I’m Spider-Man!!”
Apparently, this Spider-Man is unmasked and has difficulty using his opposable thumbs.
Sometimes, he will scribble ink on the backs of his hands, which apparently makes him Buzz Lightyear.
Ah, the childhood imagination!
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