Archive for category Miscellanea
The Search For My Great-Grandfather.
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Personal on June 19th, 2009
So the other day my mother emails me a link to this document. At first glance It looks like a boring old work men’s handbook from 1918. But as my mother explained to me, this was written by my great-grandfather, Clarence Westgate Cook, from my mother’s side of the family. I honestly don’t know my mother’s side so well. We lived in the mid-west they lived in California. My Uncles and my Aunt would visit from time to time but hardly often enough to be able to sit and talk about such things.
I must say when I found this link I was flabbergasted. Not only was it a revelation to me to see what my great grandfather did, it was also astonishing to me that anyone would scan in such a book, and make it available online in such a portable format. I quickly started searching for other references of my grandfather’s name and found these few links and he’s named here, here, here and here. I even found his name listed in a 1920 USC Year Book as a professor of social engineering.
It’s simply amazing that such rather mundane objects from that era would be scanned and digitally archived. Who would have figured anyone would want to see these books let alone want to digitize them. I also found it quite astonishing to find such a person in my ancestry of whom I had rather little information about. I think I need to find out more information about this.
Internet Explorer, the bane of all web developers.
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Miscellanea on June 11th, 2009
I really wish Internet Explorer would just die and go away. IE has been the bane of all web developers since the hay-days of the Internet. Be it quirky CSS behaviour to Javascript Incompatibilities. Today I wrestled with the latter. What sounded like such an easy idea of a rotating image on the front page became a debugging nightmare because only IE goofs the script up. I still haven’t found the solution either and it’s beginning to get frustrating. All of you still using IE GET FIREFOX! Use a browser that’s not gimped or hobbled by poor implementations of open standards.
Ultaviolet Light
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Miscellanea on June 9th, 2009
Much to my chagrin it was an overcast day with the sun poking through the could layer ever so little. These days are hard on me. Just a bit ago I drove down to get the mail from our post office box and it was near torture. I was fighting back a headache the whole trip just from the intensity of the light. Not the visible light, the ultraviolet light. It felt like a headache with the odd feeling just before you sneeze after you know it’s coming. It was only when I was indoors for the briefest moment at my destinations that I felt relief. It was very brief relief.
I believe I’m sensetive to high levels of UV light. I’ve tried using sunglasses to surprising results. They seemed to help keep things managable. The only problem is I either need to get contacts AND a pair of shades or buy a pair of prescription sunglasses. I’m not going to get one of those lame ass clip-on/slip-over/under/whatever sunglasses.
Spreading My Blog’s Tendrils
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Miscellanea on June 1st, 2009
So far I’ve submitted my blog to be spidered by Google, Live (or Bongo or Binge or whatever they want to call themselves today) and Yahoo. I’ve also submitted to FeedBurner and now I’m signing up to Technorati. Actually the main purpose of this post is simply to complete their registration and verification process. I need to put Technorati Profile in a post. There it is. Whoopie.
Diving Into the Blog
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Miscellanea on May 29th, 2009
Well here it is, the first real post in my new Blog. I’ve resisted creating one since they first started appearing back in 2006. At first I thought it was simply a fad and would go away. Obviously I was wrong. I never got around to making one before now because I didn’t feel I had anything worthwhile to blog about.
A short while ago out of sheer boredom one day I decided to poke around with Wordpress. I knew what it was but I’d never taken a carefull look at it. I must say I’m impressed with it. After creating a blog for TechLive Now’s Educated Toddler eTailer store I decided it was time for my own blog. Another thanks should go to Digital Nature and his Fusion Wordpress theme. I was too lazy to create a theme from scratch. It’s a very clean and efficient theme that I’ve stylized. It was very simple for me to alter his code and create the style I was looking for.
I’ll be posting some of my random musings and some of my work in the future.
Welcome to Phazeon.com
Posted by PhazeonPhoenix in Miscellanea on May 29th, 2009
Hello to all the denizens of the blogosphere! Welcome to Phazeon.com. This is my little corner of the ‘net.