Can’t believe it’s been 10 years…

I thought it’d be a good idea to check out my old LiveJournal blog for the 9/11 post I wrote in 2001. But when I looked, my LJ account wasn’t created until December of that year. Apparently, in 2002 after the first anniversary, I tried to look for my 9/11 post, but realized that it wasn’t there then too. So, in lieu of have my original 9/11 post, I will post my 2002 post that included a paper from 9/11/01.

For those that don’t know me all that well, I was in the first semester of my senior year in college when the attacks happened. So, without further ado, here’s my LJ post from 9/11/02…

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Debt Ceiling

Debt Ceiling

How to create a custom menu widget in WordPress

WordPressOne of the relatively new things I like most about WordPress is the custom menus feature, which was first introduced in version 3.0. For pretty much all of my latest projects, I use the custom menu feature exclusively when it comes to menus. Many themes have menu locations that you can create your own menu and then plug it in. For instance, my favorite theme, Genesis by StudioPress, offers 2 locations that I can make custom menus.

But for this one project I’m working on, I wanted to make a menu that can also appear in my sidebar as a widget. Hmmmm…

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My favorite “last songs”

This is a picture of the band Pavement, whom I had the privilege of seeing last Tuesday evening. One of the songs in that night’s set list was a song called Fin, the last song on the Brighten the Corners album. While swaying and singing along to this great tune, I started thinking of other “Last Songs” on albums that were well placed as the last song.

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Meow?!

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Stupid Bunny

snuggle bunny

Create a dynamic calendar with PHP & jQuery

So I’m working on a project where I have to put together a calendar feature that will eventually hold various tasks. So after a looking around the Internet, I found this Simple PHP Calendar to help me get the ball rolling. For the record, I don’t love the code provided here, but it was really easy to follow and there were some areas where I could improve the code. So yes, I’m going to show you some of the code that I lifted (and edited slightly) from mentioned blog post, plus I’ll show you the jQuery/JavaScript code I wrote to switch between months. I’ll try and explain as best I can from start to finish. And please, if you have any further improvements to my code, let me know in the comments. I’m not going to cover any ajax stuff in this post, but I’m thinking maybe I will follow up with it in a part 2 eventually.
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