2007

There are two things in this world that I love, bargains and technology. When I found a website that specialized in tech bargains, I was very excited. We were planning on giving some big electronic gifts this year, so any bargains that we can get for them will be good. Plus if I happen to buy some stuff for myself, I can do so without feeling extremely guilty. I think my first purchase for myself would be a second monitor, my current second monitor is still a CRT and I would like to upgrade to an LCD sometime soon. The second purchase would be an LCD high definition television. I mean what better way to play Halo, or any other video game?

The gifts I can’t reveal yet because who knows who is reading this right now? I can say that tech bargains will most likely play a big role in my holiday shopping this year. I am going to keep that site bookmarked so that I can go there every time that I am buying something technology related, I mean right now it is only a television and a monitor, but down the line I might buy a new computer keyboard, and a camcorder, plus who knows what else?

I am going to try something new. I am a programmer, and I like to people out as much as I can. When I found a problem today, I thought I wonder if anyone else has has this problem, and when I Googled it, nothing came up. I am not going to star blogging about things that I have found and that should work but doesn’t.

In this issue of Programming Oddities I am going to be discussing disabling a submit button through way of Javascript and the effect that has on PHP. First why would I disable a submit button? Simple, I didn’t want people to click it again after the initial click. The problem with that is when it went from the page with the form to the response page, the submit button wasn’t being read with an isset PHP function.

The reason that I am guessing this is happening is that when it goes to disabled, it is, the browser is seeing it as not being part of the form, hence when it is sent to PHP, it isn’t there. The solution that I did for this, and you are welcome to post your own responses is that I made a hidden element and called it something futile and unique. This way if it goes to that page and sees that this post data is set then it will continue on.

You could have done it anyway, seeing if an already existing element was there, but I did it this way because depending on the variables set it would have different elements each time, and only the submit button would be constant across all the these forms, so I had to make something else that was a constant.

The talk of weddings and marriage have been coming up a lot. It is probably due to the fact that we know a couple people who are going to be getting married soon, or have just recently gotten married. We know this one girl who is having this big elaborate wedding with like 200 people there and is then planning two all inclusive honeymoons, one with her parents and his parents and then one just by themselves. I don’t know why they would take their parents on their honeymoon, I mean it is a nice gesture and all, but they could easily save some money and only go on one honeymoon.

The girl in that wedding wanted Krissy to be in that wedding. Krissy turned it down because she doesn’t even want to go to it, but when she was asked, it was being planned as if it would be in Jamaica. I think destination weddings are all right, but again you have a wedding, your family and friends need to fly to go there, I mean sure it would be a very nice wedding, with a beautiful backdrop, but for me a nice wedding is your family and some close friends and that is it.

I am not really feeling well, it probably has something to do with Bella stealing the blanket last night, so I am going to be spending most of the day resting and maybe playing some Halo. I also might sit down and do the Spiderman 3 section today, but that I am not sure about. I am not really motivated to do it just yet, I have to go out and get the 2 disk special edition, I think, because I don’t like the features the one disk has.

I have talked before about how I like very odd things, and things that you normally wouldn’t find in everybody’s home. Well I was looking at some grandfather clocks because my mother mentioned that she had always wanted one, and I always thought they were kind of bland, and a lot of people have them in their home so I wasn’t ever really interested in them. Well as I was looking around the Howard Miller clocks section, I came across one that I really liked.

I really like this clock. It isn’t the traditional grandfather clock, and you wouldn’t even think that it was a grandfather clock just by looking at it. I love the way it is so simple in design, but so complex at the same time. Plus the hanging bar is still moving, but I think it moves the top part with the clock as well.

Some of the other clocks on that site are cool looking too. I would definitely buy a clock from them in the future, most likely to put it in the new place’s living room, clocks like those need to be displayed after all, you can’t keep them locked away in a bedroom. I just hope that having more clocks in the house doesn’t mean that we get confused about the time change like we did last weekend when some of the clocks with dates in them changed on their own, like the VCR and the DVD Player.

We headed off to the beach last night to see the waves and it was really nice. Hurricane Noel was making the beach disappear with a higher than usual low tide, plus really big waves. If I was a surfer, then I would definitely be in that water. We stayed for about an hour and a half just watching it and talking. When we were leaving, though, that is when things got interesting. Apparently someone from around where we were had called the police because they “needed assistance”, but only said the street they were on and not where they were exactly, so the cops were up and down the streets and on the boardwalks looking for this guy.

I have a steady client, and my website helps me make money each month, but besides from that I am also a freelance programmer. Do you know how hard it is to find jobs when you are freelance? I mean especially if you sign up to one of those websites for programmers and you you don’t have any feedback on that particular website. Then there are some of the bigger websites that big programming companies take claim on and post really high prices for simple jobs, and that seems to overshadow the individual programmer who can do it in little time with little effort.

I decided that I will be getting a camcorder someday because I want to get into movie making/editing. Even if I just get a DV-R soon then I will start editing movies. If I want to do that though, then I need more space on my computer. That is why I ordered a 500 gigabyte harddrive last night. I ordered it from TigerDirect so it was pretty cheap. It was only $109, a lot cheaper than what I paid for my 120 gigabyte hard drive a few years ago. Hopefully that gets shipped out within the next few days or so.

I have been looking at digital camcorders recently. There was a VHS one at KMart last week for a good price, but I want to get into video editing, so I figured I should stay away from VHS. Basically I want one for a good price, and I am even willing to use some Free Coupons for it. I have been looking at the coupons for Best Buy and Amazon and they seem to have some good ones, but I just don’t know if I want to get it now or wait until after Christmas. I will tell you that either way I am going to be using coupons on buying gifts this year, mainly because of the savings they offer.

I promise I will have the Spiderman 3 part up soon. Some other things have come up that has taken my attention away from it, mainly work and playing with CS3. Plus the person came today and picked up the monitors and Mac, he didn’t think the Mac was that old, apparenly a PowerPC is still pretty powerful. I guess I don’t know much about Macs, though.

I have had people calling me up the last few days wanting me to do a home refinance so that I can pay off my credit cards. I don’t have a mortgage, and I don’t own a house, so I am not really sure how they got my name. I know I applied for a home loan before we got a personal loan, but I was denied, so that can’t be where they got that information from.

Even if I did own a home, I don’t know if I would refinance, not with the way things are in the housing market right now anyway, if anything I would do a home equity loan, that is if I actually did own a home. With a home equity loan you aren’t necessarily putting your house up as collateral, whereas with a refinance you are. I know that I am not always responsible with the bills, so I definitely woyuld not want to give up my house if I didn’t make a payment or two, or seven.

I haven’t sat down and fully played with Photoshop CS3, but let me tell you that Photoshop CS2 hardly worked on my machine, mainly because it isn’t a dual core processor. Adobe Photoshop CS3 does work, however, and let me tell you that I am glad that it does. II will give more of a review at a later time perhaps, I just wanted to post that it does work on my rig. Depending on how it performs when I am playing with things that need to be graphics heavy, instead of just opening it and seeing how fast it runs, I might be coerced to upgrade full time to CS3 and not just use the trial.