Okay, I know I haven’t done much to the site for the past month. Recently I started working for a new company as their Network Administrator and I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time brushing up on Windows Server 2003 and Terminal Services. I’ve also been spending a lot of my evenings learning how to code in Ajax and jQuery so I can overhaul my Tasks Manager to be more of an web-based application instead of the simple HTML version.

Though my site has been live for maybe 3 months, I have found that I am not happy with the layout and content. Originally I wanted the website to contain some personal photos, talk about my hobbies and keep my friends and family updated with things in my life. Now that I’ve been using the site it’s not very functional for me. My plan is to finish up with rebuilding my Task Manager and then I plan on changing the entire layout of the site again to more suit my needs while still being able to keep my friends and family up-to-date.

Until then, I’m sorry for not keeping things updated and I know you’ll like the site more once I change things around again. Remember… Progress is good, but sometimes it’s slow.

theBlaine

I’ve done some major back-end work on the site in the past couple of days. It wouldn’t be noticeable to anyone unless you dug into the code and the structure of the site, but it makes things easier for me from a website maintenance stand-point.

Continue reading ‘Recent Changes to the Site’ . . .

In the past week I’ve been looking into to how to use jQuery and Ajax for my Task Manager. I’ve got about 2 days of playing with the code under my belt. Now I feel confident enough to begin work on the Second edition of Task Manager.

Continue reading ‘Creating the Beta Version of Task Manager’ . . .

Now, THIS is really fascinating -- it’s rather dazzling to see it presented this way.

Continue reading ‘Humbling isn’t it?’ . . .

A few months ago I was looking for some sort of application that would would me organize my tasks. I found a few, but the nice ones cost money and most the task organizers I found required you to install a program onto your desktop. I was looking for something more web-based or even a widget for my Yahoo! Widgets.
Continue reading ‘Task Manager Alpha’ . . .

Here are some pictures from our first Linkin Park Concert. I went with my daughter, my step-son and my girlie during the summer of 2007. It was triple digit heat and an all-day festival. It was miserably hot!! Once you got past the heat and it got later in the evening, it started to cool down. Linkin Park didn’t hit the stage until after the sun went down so it was perfect for rocking out!! We all had a blast.

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About 3 years ago I wanted to pick up a new hobby. I drove to a local hobby shop and started walking around in search for my newest hobby. After about 10 minutes of wandering around I stumbled across a remote controlled helicopter.
Continue reading ‘New R/C Helicopter Category’ . . .

I am an avid model rocketeer and wanted to build a part of my site to include model rockets. I’ve been launching model rockets into the sky since I was a child. I started building rockets from kits I would buy from the hobby store.
Continue reading ‘New Model Rocket Category’ . . .

I’ve been pretty busy in the past 2 weeks and today I was finally able to sit down and play a bit with my site. I’m creating some new content boxes that will be used on the site to contain text. Now I’ll be able to start adding more content and adding more to the site. To be quite honest, this article doesn’t really serve a purpose. I’m writing it to test out several features.
Continue reading ‘Content Ready’ . . .

Tonight I modified the way my site is generating meta data. Meta data’s purpose, is to show search engines how to index my articles in their database. I won’t go into the details, but since this change is transparent to most of my visitors and the subject of meta data for Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, can be complex and detailed. So instead, I will give you a quick explanation of what I did.
Continue reading ‘Updated META data for SEO’ . . .