Today is a big day for me and my family.   Today I start my new job with E-Harbor — doing PHP programming for an e-commerce company.   A little bit different from what I have been doing at RM Plus, but not too much of a change. My other exciting news is that I’m [...]

[update below about Facebook app that shows old status updates] I like the idea of using my Facebook Status Updates as a miniature journal, but unless you want to copy and paste them out, it’s tough to archive them. Until now! You can now automatically get every status update emailed to you for easy backup [...]

At work, I’m in charge of getting information into and out of a big database of orders.   That includes linking the shipping information to the UPS WorldShip program that our fulfillment team uses to automatically buy UPS service. When the computer they’d been using out there for years just got too terribly slow, we [...]

Since I’m trying to become a better programmer, I’m updating my web site for a better user experience.   I originally built the pictures and recipes pages with SQL-based sorts, so that the user would click on a link that would reload the page with results sorted by the relevant column. Since going to work [...]

I added a new feature to my picture pages last night — a listing of related photos.   Now when you click on the photo of me with a parrot on my shoulder in Machiques Venezuela, you’ll also see a thumbnail version of me standing on the model of the solar system in the same [...]

I’ve taken down the Greasemonkey userscript section of this web site. I found that not even I was using it — uploading the files to userscripts.org was much easier and useful. So now the link above redirects to my list of scripts at userscripts.org.

I’ve decided to start a freelance web design company to help small businesses in the Salt Lake Valley (specifically the West Valley City area) get online. Since I speak Spanish, I’m especially trying to find latino-run businesses whose owners might be intimidated by the Internet. Of course, I plan to deal with both English- and [...]

I’ve added a new feature to the web site: comments. You can now make your voice heard on any of my pictures, blog entries, or recipes by clicking on the “Add a comment” link that the bottom of the page. Let’s hear what you all have to say!

I’ve updated the site to make everything CSS-compliant and pretty. Under the old design, Sarah had told me not to tell people about the site because “it doesn’t look good.” It took a lot of work, but should be worthwhile in that it helped me learn CSS.

I’ve finally gotten everything on my web site working more or less right. The address redirection took a bit of tweaking in the Apache configuration files, but I learned how to do it. Now there’s a couple of things I might do with filtering, and I definitely want to change/update the playlist… and oh yeah, [...]