Take note, these took effect on Sept. 1
New Texas Laws

Looks like there are a few new laws in place. I thought the cell phone law was going into effect but I guess I was wrong.

For all of you non-“believers” out there of tableless web design, take a look at the CSS Zen Garden. The entire design (and every design on the site) is comprised only of Cascading Style Sheets, text, and images. There are no tables used in any of the designs. This is hopefully what badice.com will look like in the near future.

For those of you who wonder “why should I use CSS instead of tables” well the answer is simple. When Tim Berners-Lee (creator of the WWW) decided to write specs on the whole system he clearly stated that a means to separate content from presentation was needed. Since that time HTML has been corrupted with useless tags like <blink> and others. Designers started using tables to form nice flowing layouts and everything was nice except there was no conformance to standards across all browsers. So basically a site could look amazing in one browser but not even work in another. This is where CSS comes in. It allows designers to totally get rid of tables and completely separate their content from the way they present it.

Tables should only be used for tabular data, duh.

I made it through my accounting quiz with a 100, so I am happy. The professor made it a little easier by giving us a few hints and I’m glad she did.

The weather is getting a little cooler here with temperatures around the 60’s in the morning and mid 70’s in the afternoon. It’s going to be cold soon and for some reason I am not excited…. oh that’s right because cold here = 20 degrees!!!

Well I finally got around to updating the classes page with my new classes for this semester. I am still working on a new design but lately Accounting homework has been taking up most of my time.

Everything other than that is going ok. Statistics doesn’t seem to bad except for the fact that the teacher makes everything seem harder than it really is. My ISQS class is easy as pie but the stupid TA that teaches the lab didn’t tell us that we couldn’t buy the PIN number to login to the test page, so I gotta figure out how to do that… fun stuff.

I thought this was funny. Daily Utah Chronicle. This kid from the Utah Chronicle was in College Station for the Utah vs. A&M game and he wrote down pretty much what he saw in aggieland.

Johnny Cash passed away early this morning from complications from diabetes. It is a sad day indeed. You can read his obituary at http://www.cnn.com

John Ritter from Three’s Company also passed away last night after heart failure. I always enjoyed his acting, especially in Problem Child as the “dad without a clue”.

Take a look at the Special Forces screenshots at AAOTracker Stunning!! A new map, new weapons, new vehicles, can it get any better? I submit that it cannot!! =) I may have to upgrade my video card so that I can get the shadows to look like they do on those screenshots!!

There is a big debate going on at Sitepoint about whether or not Google uses the Meta tags in a site’s declaration. http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=122916

you can read the thread there and make up your own mind. From what I have gathered, Google only uses the tags to fill out a summary of the site, not to rank it.

I saw a brand new F-150 driving around yesterday and wow was it nice. Definitely going to have to go take a closer look/test drive one at the local dealership.

Accounting has just taken a leap to being the hardest class this semester. Statistics is just confusing with a teacher who can’t speak English but Accounting is plain hard. So much to remember and everything builds on the thing before it… I have done all of the homework for the class and I still have a hard time understand debits and credits but I think it is because you have to look at everything from the business perspective and not the consumer.

I was sitting in my statistics class today and I realized that there should be rules when it comes to teaching. I believe the ability to speak clear, fluent english should be at the top of the list. Apparently Tech doesn’t feel the same way. I catch about every 8th word my teacher says which is awful! I’ve met 4 yr. old kids who know how to speak better english! The woman did not know how to pronounce sophomore! It isn’t even that hard, just try… And don’t tell me to get another teacher because Tech is packed to the rafters and there isn’t a single statistics class with a seat in it…