Cats are doing well, all things considered. That’s good. We’ve called one Koko, because she is black and brown…and then the other Taylor. Works as a girl’s name, and that makes the two Koko Taylor.

Let’s see who gets this.

Raining…then sunny…then rainy…hell of a holiday weekend.

Cleaning my office; getting a little organized. Am I bored or WHAT?

On our way to get some other cats shortly. We shall see.

Job search has had two nibbles over the past couple of days, but we shall see.

OK, quotations are on Littleghost as a Perl script.

Wow, does my Perl suck! Good to get back into it however. Not exactly like riding a bike (I think I fell down a few times), but easier this time.

And learning any language without help sucks. What do you you look up? (example)

— Special characters

— Characters (special)

— Search

— Replace

— Search and replace

— Reserved characters

— (ETC!)

But that is how I have learned all my languages.

And that is probably — in part — why I SUCK at them all.

Du-oh!

Ah, progress has been made, and quickly. Damn! Getting better!

Damn. The randomizer was way too easy. Weird.

(To post random quotation )

110 authors; 144 quotations. I did the data stuff (maybe 50% of what I have); next is the randomizer and so on.

Pretty well got the add/edit/display feature going. Have to see if pagination is required anywhere.

While it’s only putting my quotations into my database, how nice to be back to literature for a change!

I do miss it.

Ok, built the quote-a-tron. Took pretty much two days, contains search, author list, real-time list of number of quotations and authors, add/edit screen with a popup to add author (Javascript opener; I had forgotten how to do that. Good to remember).

Got funky with the forms, applied colors and all to them; used a black background for pages. Interesting. Good learning experience.

Hope to load some data in today; that will show what work needs to be done (what needs to be added, what is broken).

Pagination of quotes might be necessary, and I’d like to add a random quote to the top page. We’ll have to see about that. Should be fairly straight forward.

I can build a view then that ties all I need together and then export that to a flat file for Perl implementation.

Working on the quote-a-tron.

I figure the more applications I build, the more I will understand them.

And that’s a good thing….not that anyone appears to care about all this…

Another week begins; another week without a job. This is getting ridiculous.

How can I focus this?

I suck.

Any questions?