Well I just got my first paycheck, and bought myself a present… an iubi blue it’s still not available in the US, i ordered mine from the advancedmp3players[.]co.uk
what is it you ask? a music & video player / hard drive. it runs almost every codec under the sun: MPEG 1,2,4 DivX 3,4,5, Xvid, WMV9, H.264/MP4, AVI, OGM, WMV 7, 8, MOV, & more! The screen is very bright a clear, and you can see it from almost any angle.
here's a nice little snip of c# code. this is meant to be used in an asp.net web application. the following code will return either a querystring variable or a post variable, it tries both and finds the valid one.
public string RequestParam(string paramname)
{
string result = string.Empty;
if (Context.Request.Form.Count != 0)
{
result = Convert.ToString(Context.Request.Form[paramname]);
}
else if (Context.Request.QueryString.Count != 0)
{
result = Convert.ToString(Context.Request.QueryString[paramname]);
}
return (result == null) ? string.Empty : result.Trim();
}
i now proudly work for the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University. my official job title is web application programmer. i will be working with asp.net, c#, php, flash, mysql, mssql, and whatever else they need. all the projects we work on are grant based, so the CET staff are constantly writing proposals and bidding for new work. this means that the work we do is completely varied from project to project...
people look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. people look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access...
banksy
one of the other members of the 806 crue, drone, works with me at egobrain tattoo. his style is amazing, i really love the nu skool tweaked 3D perspectives he uses. but in the tattoo scene he is well known for his skills in biomechanical work....
with summer in full effect nina and i decided to take a vacation. we were discussing a trip to ocean city at willy’s house when his (now ex) girlfriend saunda proclaims she’s never been to the beach. so we invited her to come with us. in ocean city we stayed with one of my dad's old navy buddies (since hotel prices are astronomical these days). the first day was awesome, the weather was nice, the beach wasn't crowded, and we ate at spiffy italian place. day two however was rainy and overcast. so we decided to kick it on the boardwalk. we ate some uber-sweet cotton candy, i bought an aqua-teen poster, nina and i laughed at saunda’s failed attempts to be funny. after a while we were just chillin' on a bench trying to decide what to do next, when out of nowhere we see this dude with a pink mohawk and a fu manchu. then i realize, “hey i know that guy”...
donovan did it again! so he calls me last night at 9:45pm (he lives like an hour away) and sez his flash project for some college animation competition is due tomorrow and has no voice acting. so after some guinness related persuasion i come over to watch zhang's revenge. we probably watched it w/o audio like 50 times discussing the plot, what he wanted to convey, what he was thinking. all during this time the guinness is flowing...
