Stuart's Choc-chip and my Chocolate muffins

Us celebrating!!

Today in software (about 15 minutes ago) Mr Benic decided to celebrate Stuart’s and my birthday (yes, he’s a little late, but hey! We got cupcakes!) Here are two photos!!

Edit: Thanks to Sean for correcting some of my gramma =]

TTFN!! Ta Ta For Now!

Anyways, what I want to do in this post is ask you guys who read my blog: If I changed my theme to include a toggle-able  sidebar, would people get lost by it, or would they appreciate the change?? Or would that be rather pointless?? I’m lodging this to you guys because, personally, I can’t decide… =[

Also, would it be better to make the site fixed width, or flexible (with a minimum width)?? What do you guys think eh?? I'm edging towards a flexible option, but fixed is so much easier and retains a better standard look to it (besides, its the only way to get a rounded corners design in all browsers easily, not that I was going to bother with compatibility with browsers that don't support enough CSS3 *cough*IE*cough*Opera*cough* (why is it that with Firefox being behind Opera and Webkit for speed, it still has some of the best CSS3 support?? Maybe Firefox cares more about presentation than speed? I mean, Firefox 3.7 - now Firefox 4; running Gecko 1.9.3 - now Gecko 2.0; still doesn't achieve 100 on Acid 3......))...

Anyways. I'm gonna also try and work on actually making a mobile version of this site, for mobile devices with larger processors and screens, like any touch screen phone from Nokia from 5800 onwards (so, 5800, 5320, X6, N97, N97mini, N900, C5, N8... actually not that many phones, when you think about it), or all those wonderful other touch screen phones from like Samsung, LG, HTC, SonyErricson and once-upon-a-time Google. Oh, and I suppose if they work on those phones, they're bound to work on the iOS4 or even the iPhoneOS3+ products (like my brother's iPod Touch)...

Well, anyway, my plan was to sit down and design (or visualise) what I would like to have as a template for my website as viewed on a desktop. Then I would design what I would like to have as a template for a mobile browser mentioned above. Then I would try to write up (on paper at first, just some rough stuff) some basic XHTML to make it work, and when I finally come up with what looks like it'll work in both situations, I'll give it a go =] Don’t worry guys, you won’t really see any of the experimentation on this site. It’ll be on the ‘testing blog’ I set up, so you don’t have to be subjected to broken webpages too often.

Anyways, I’ve blabbed on long enough. BTW, I’m surprised at the number of people who have links to my blog on their blogs, that link to my old URL, Pressing-On.net or the blog subdomain. Even when I put in a redirect page. And then had it jump straight to MidnightFire.net.au, they still didn’t update the link (or mayhaps just never used the link. Oh well)… anyways, one person got it correct. Lenny =] I think… =S

TTFN!! Ta Ta For Now!

Also, Happy Birthday to Erin!

I goes to sleeps now.

Happy Birthday to Stuart, who was a year older on Thursday. Happy Birthday to my Dad, who was another year older on Friday. And Happy Birthday to Dietrich, who is a whole year older today.

Gloomy day to start the holidays. One of these days, I’m gonna walk down to that new Woolworths that has opened in Bella Vista, and see what else is in there. Might even be able to see a movie, or go out somewhere for a while to do something different for once. Oh, and having had a quick look at Mr Simmon’s “Virtual B15″, HE USES THE MANDIGO THEME for WordPress! Great Taste, Mr Simmons!

Slowly as my grade turns 16 (or 15), I think of how we are getting older, and I wonder what we’re going to do in the future… the future, such a weird place to think about. I’ll try not to dwell on it.

A late Happy Birthday to Bryan.

Congrats to the Senior and Concert Bands in the McDonald’s Peforming Arts Challenge. Senior came 4th in their division, and Concert came 2nd. Long story short, on Tuesday, very soon after school, the Senior Band members changed into their band uniforms and then boarded buses which would take us to our venue, Salvation Army Congress Hall. All nervous, as we came on stage for our performance, we played badly. The percussion and bass lagged behind, and the rest of the band followed. Our conductor wasn’t happy with us… Concert band went better though. On Wednesday, after school finished, we hung around, got changed, and then boarded a bus to get to the city. On getting there, we had some spare time, so most of us bought some food, and waited. When it was our turn to perform, we nervously walked onto the stage, got ready, and played. Overall, we played ok, a few mistakes here and there, but we still played well enough for our conductor to be happy. Afterwards, some of us left, while others stayed to watch and hear our result.

Tuesday had Yr 10 getting immunised for 3 diseases. Many people who had the injection complained about a sore arm afterwards. I’m not entirely sure what people were complaining about, I suppose my arm was slightly sore afterwards, but it didn’t really bother me… oh, except for when I thought about the needle, then I got an odd feeling in my arm where I was injected (conviniently in my right arm…).

Nothing else that interesting to talk about, off the top of my head.

Happy Birthday to Ben and Maggie, sorry I didn’t post sooner Ben! (Wait, he doesn’t read this, and no, it’s not Ben Lee). Congradulations to Jeff, Jazz and Fi in their piano exams!! I know you all put a lot of hardwork into your exams.

McDonald’s Performing Arts Fest. next week, Creative Arts Fest. this week, and life the rest of the time. Just great =]

I goz now.

Happy Birthday to Luke Wilis and Kenneth Chi on Wednesday! Happy Birthday to Jenny Wang and Christopher Nguen on Thursday! Happy Birthday to Kevin Zhu (the tall one) on Friday!

There, that’s over with. Exams done, and I’m already not looking forward to seeing my marks. I know I did bad (ohk, maybe I did “ok”, but for me, it’s bad). I didn’t study hard enough, early enough, so that’s my own fault. Good luck to anyone that hasn’t had their half-yearlies yet.

Went to see a movie with my family today. Star Trek. J. J. Abrahms and the script writers really changed a lot of things in this movie, and I’m not talking about the Character’s backgrounds (alternative universe created in the begining afterall!). Sure, they updated the whole thing, such as technology and stuff, but they also noticeably changed things that Trekie fans have come to known. Sure, for perhaps 99% of you, you wouldn’t know the difference, but I’m a Trekie fan, and I noticed =] Anyways, doesn’t make much difference (some of the changes actually make more sense, and it makes me wonder why they haddn’t thought of them before with some of the new series such as Voyager and The Next Generation, like Point-Defence Lasers (or are they Phasers?).

Anyways, I’ve been blabing enough. Movie session started at 4, and my mum needed a lot of plot explanations afterwards to help her understand it (she seems to need that a lot, but I guess it comes from her mind mixing things in the story up as she creates connections between points while watching, probably why she prefers books). My brother certainly enjoyed the movie, and so did my dad (they’re both Trekie fans themselves, my dad more towards the Original Series made in the 60′s and 70′s, my brother and I more towards the newer series made in the 90′s). Must say it was rather good.

Sleep last night was weird. Felt like I’d been living through several days before waking up. I feel the dreams were rather weird, but I just can’t remember them well enough to know why. They say everyone has dreams at some point in their sleep (happens druing REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, an important stage of sleeping), and that they are the mind’s way of sorting through its thoughts, things it’s learnt, and happenings. The only reason people say they didn’t dream was because they couldn’t remember them when they woke. I wonder what my dreams say of my state of mind… Then again, I can only understand them if I remember them… this was weird. Anyways, after my weird dreams, I woke up, feeling as if it had been some days since I last remember well, and yet I knew in the back of my mind that it was actually Saturday. I feel like a strange person.

If you read through all that… wow. You must be bored. As soon as I get my new HDD installed (still looking for a cable that fits), I’m gonna try the Windows 7 RC. Cya l8tr peeps!