I’m not too happy, since my uncle passed away today. Yes, the same uncle that my dad went to Bangladesh to see. Because of this, my dad is staying in B’desh a little longer, and not leaving there on February 2. Right now, they are supposed to be going to the town where my uncle lived to have a funeral and inter him. I heard that it hit my dad the most and that they had to force him to go to sleep, because he was crying so much.
My uncle died because of lung cancer. How did he get lung cancer? He smoked a whole lot of cigarettes, that’s how.
Update: It turns out he got radiotherapy too soon, which caused him to have a stroke. You’re supposed to get the radiotherapy a year after you get chemotherapy, and my uncle was diagnosed last summer. The guy who was giving the therapy just wanted the money. How do we know this? He said not to tell his boss that he was giving the therapy when he was since he might lose his job. I got really mad when I heard this. It kind of shows how greedy some people are in this world, valuing money over life.
Okay, let me just type this up before I leave for home. There’s a new line of Powerbooks out. Wait, before you shout out because you think it’s the G5, you should know that it’s still in G4. Of the new features are 512mb of RAM built-in and a new motion sensor so the hard drive can brace for impact. (via MacMischeif.) Gotta go, mom’s waiting downstairs.
I’m writing this from the school computer lab. I thought we’d have guitar today, but it turns out the guitar teacher is busy with other work today. There were only like 8 people who came to after-school today. I think it might be partially because the high schoolers get a day off from school, since they were busy taking tests the whole week, last week. It’s pretty quiet right now. There are teachers who, I guess, are learning how to use the computers to improve their teaching. Some seventh graders are playing games across from me. I think it would be cool to try some of the things Eric Meyer says to try in a computer lab. The only problem with that is that the assistant principal is also learning how the computers can be used. There’s also another thing that’s bugging me. These computers can’t render pages right since they use IE. I think I’ll finish my English homework now.
I had to get a book for English class, since my next project is on an independant book. I thought of using the RPS book I have, but I knew my teacher wouldn’t approve it. I think we have to write a 25 page report on a book we’re reading or have read before.
I decided to go to Barnes & Noble to get a book, since I didn’t have time to order from Amazon. I wanted to go to the Barnes & Noble on Austin Street, since I’ve always gone there since I was a little kid. This time around, though, I went to one in Long Island. I had been there once before. I brought a list of books with me to go through when I was looking for one to buy. Here’s the list:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.
- Down and Out in the Magical Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow.
- A Place So Foreign and Eight More, by Cory Doctorow. (I forgot we couldn’t use anthologies or collections of stories.)
- Eastern Standard Tribe, yet again, by Cory Doctorow.
- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Of course, I found two of the books I was looking for, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and Life of Pi. There was a guy at the bookstore who said Life of Pi is a really good book. I decided to get both books.
I don’t really like reading the books that are filed under “Teen,” since most of them are for the kind of girls who’ve been brainwashed by the media into thinking they’re too fat.
By the way, if you, the reder, aren’t from a time too far from the time I’m writing this, you should see the icons for the book in the sidebar. All Consuming is nice!
Update: All Consuming just reminded me of a book I saw at BN. It’s called Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World. It’s going on my wishlist.
My browser stats are pretty good now. Only 8% of my visitors use IE. THe rest use either Firefox, Mozilla, or Safari. All three are pretty good. I don’t think I’m gonna use Safari when I switch, though. I like the way Firefox works. I might try out Camino, though. It seems like a good Firefox alternative for the Mac.
Wow, writing up a site from scratch can be hard. I’m getting rid of all the files on the ftp server, so I can redo everything and republish. It’s hard, but I don’t think I’m gonna keep that blog up.
By the way, does anyone know how to use relative links to link to a another directory? Actually, I don’t know how to say it, so look below:
Is there anyway I could use a relative link to link from “dummyfile.html” to “stylesheet.css”? Please leave a comment if there is.
I never wanted to add HaloScan scripts to my blog. I did wfind a good use for it, though. I added it to the photo pages on my site. They were easy to add, but I had to manually set up each page. I also tweaked the stylesheet so the comment page’s link would come up on the right side of the photo’s page.
I have like three Gmail accounts, which means I have a lot of invites. If you need one, please e-mail me or leave a comment. Send an e-mail to ambia15 [at] yahoo [dot] com! I know that’s not a gmail address, but I have to keep mine as secure as possible.
(via Tangerine and Experimetal Film.)
I just finished setting up an album that I designed, partially using a Blogger template (guess which). It was pretty easy, but it was hard at the same time, since I got used to using automated scripts in Blogger. It was fun, though, since I got to practice a lot of stuff, like Roman numerals, CSS, and HTML.
I set up an album page (home.earthlink.net/~shahidambia/albums/), and a page for my ActionSampler photos (home.earthlink.net/~shahidambia/albums/actionsampler_i).
Also, I decided to switch from fireFTP to Filezilla, since fireFTP couldn’t delete files right. (Thanks, Lou!)
What I don’t get is why people I know can’t accept the beauty of Lomography. I think it’s sad.
I forgot that I had 10MB of space with my Earthlink account. Of course, I really get 80MB, but that’s only because I get 10MB with each of the 8 Earthlink e-mail accounts. I’d say this is a bit better than Geocities, since I get ftp support. I set up a “test” blog. I plan to get it off later. I think having a “free” host will hepl me prepare for when I get paid server space.
It’s located at home.earthlink.net/~shahidambia
Update: I put up the ActionSampler photos at home.earthlink.net/~shahidambia/actionsampler/ Be warned, though, I’m not gonna keep them up too long! They’re just teasers for when I upload them to Flickr.
Update #2: By the way, I’m using fireFTP and it’s pretty not nice!
