I haven't had time to progress this site lately. I am actually working 4 jobs at the moment and it's tough... but finally paying off! I am thinking about coding my other site (brooksfsw.com) from scratch. See right now, it is using a web portal system built in PHP (PHP-Nuke). The features are great but the back-end coding is very sloppy. I could pretty much mimic something very similar to php-nuke... and I might try to do that in the near future. So, again, I'm busy, hehe.

There is 1 bad thing about today... and that is... I turn 20. yep, today, August 5th is my 20th birthday. I'm not too happy about it. I'd really like to be 19 for life... Actually 17 might be better cause then I wouldn't be old enough to get in trouble for stuff. Well, whatever age, I just don't want to be 20.

Another thing that sucks, is one of my real good friends (james) just moved to AZ. Actually 4 of my friends did. So I'll probably never see them again.

Ok, so I messed up my knee really bad grinding this "sideways kinked rail" toward the end of June. 2 weeks later I went to the Dr. to get it checked out because it still hurt real bad, and it was still really swollen. They ended up draining 20 CCs of fluid out. Then the Dr. scheduled me an appointment to get an MRI, wednesday of last week. So I went, and got the results back yesterday and they came back negative! Which means I don't have to have surgery. But they are still recommending physical therapy... So that's good news.

ok, not a whole lot is going on here right now, so if you're bored check out a couple of my friends' sites. they are both great, and have a lot of time put into them! both are pretty media-oriented... so they're definitly cool.

daveconger.com - A friend from a detroit whose site is not the worst ever.

kevinswitzer.com - my roommate's site, dedicated to his music and stuff.

check them out, and leave feedback here, let me know if putting up cool sites like this every once in a while is a good idea.

Alright, a few of you have seen the movie "Supergrub". if not, it's a movie I made when I was 15 for a class in high school. It was a great movie, but edited terribly... Mainly because all the editing was done analog by pushing play-pause-record on 2 VCRs. Well, I found the raw-unedited footage the last time I was home and decided it would be fun to re-edit it digitally. I'm about halfway done right now and it's going great, really funny, some new effects, TONS better editing, etc. I probably won't release it online because it will be 15-20 minutes long and will be a few hundered megabytes at low quality... but if there is interest, I might send the video out to people on a cd in .mpg format. Let me know if you're interested.

Ok, I worked on the forum a lot this morning, and after people showed some interest and request I threaded it... sorta. Now you can reply to people's comments, which is a lot nicer! Check it out, and tell me what you think of the format.

...that dude is sooo cool, hahaha. yeah, thats right... he's dancing.

look at that little bugger go!

A couple people have requested a Message Board/Forum on the site so I added one today. I actually got it right on the first try too, hehe. Anyway, if you just want to ramble about something, or read other people's ramblings, check out the forum.

I added some pictures to the People section... and changed it from friends to people. Although it will be mostly just friends... i will have family and other stuff.

I took the Webdesign link down today and changed it to "Professional". The reason being... I'd like to publish all my projects on that page. So it will include web design, database design, videos, and any other projects. I added a little to it also... so check it out.

Ok, broox.com is now officially online! I know that some of you had seen the site as I've been building it on my school server... but then you probably noticed that it got shut down. That's because I got into a little trouble for having an anonymous email system on Cornell's server. Anyway, they took away my php rights on the campus server, so I couldn't do anything more to my site. I then uploaded the site to my new host (nata2.com).

Ok, I have added more, edited more, and imported the databases... so now everything is up and running at it's permanent location, broox.com. I wasn't able to recover all the comments, but I got some of them... sorry if your comment got deleted during the switch. Anyway, the site is not complete... but …

Want to send anonymous email? I actually wrote some code to do so... Click here to check it out, but please dont be stupid about it, and don't get me in trouble. You are responsible for anything you send out using the email page. but have fun, hehe.

I'm gonna make a lot of songs out of various answering machine messages that I've gotten. Once everything is settled with broox.com then I will start uploading them in real audio format.

I'm gonna place beats behind cool answering machine messages and scratch the voices... I've got 1 done... should be cool.

So, I got the comment counter to work today. I also wrote a little statement that makes the word 'comment' plural or not depending on the amount of comments... easy, but still kinda nice.

Hey, if you notice the error for the undefined variable on the Home page, just ignore it. Also ignore the comment counters. They are SO close to working, but each number is shifted down 1 article. So if this article gets 2 comments, then the Mac 10 article will say it has 2 comments... and so on. Anyway, please just bear with me while I get this straightened out.

"Why did you ask me if I listened to mac 10? Is that some kind of lesbian music or something?"
-jill geerlings-schmidt

hehe, I love this lady.

Alright, I got the code done for the random picture generator. I tried using some code that I got off a friend, but couldnt get it to work, so I broke down and coded it myself. Anyway, every time the home page loads, it brings up a different picture. It also generates a new alt tag, so if you're confused about a picture, just hold your mouse over it for a short description.

For the few people that are checking out my site already... do you have any ideas for things I could put up on my site? e.g. - links, pages, etc. I understand that this site wont be that popular because its mainly just a personal site that will have a hint of webdesign advertisement for myself... but I'm looking for a few things that might bring people back to the site. I am working on a random picture generator, so that there will be a huge amount of pictures on the main page that could load. This might be something that keeps people interested.... but maybe not. Anyway, give me feedback.

Ok, yesterday I saw the coolest thing I've ever seen before (and kevin was a witness). I live in a building where the windows are sunken in about 3 feet, and when the wind blows it sort of creates a little wind tunnel in the little nook. Anyway, it was storming REALLY bad here the other day and kevin and I were watching out my window. As we're watching, tons of rain drops right in front of my window just stop in mid air. The drops just stayed in one position for a good 10 seconds. They did not go up, down, left, or right. They just stayed still... 40 feet above the ground...

I love the colors used on the site... I also noticed that there is a BrooX - Nice Try page when I was trying to surf through the BrooksFSW directories.