This Looks Like A Job For...Me!

Well you see, I discovered I had a little problem with Mozilla, it had some problems with the menu. In Internet Explorer it required line breaks(they make stuff go on the next line down), and Mozilla didn't need those same line breaks it did it automatically, so in certain places it went down 2 lines making some gaps in the menu. So I had to find some code that would be able to tell which webbrowser a person was using and then added or removed the line breaks when necessary. This is something many sites need especially big company websites, since there are a lot of browsers, and other people who don't use updated browsers. A lot of sites use that kind of code to make different versions of their website appear depending on which browser a person uses so it always looks correct. But it was suprisingly hard to find. One easy way would have worked except for the fact that Internet Explorer and some other browsers don't Identify themselves as what they actually are.

Internet Explorer tells the Site something like this:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)
But every version of Internet Explorer says something slightly different

Mozilla Browsers tell the Site something like this:
Mozilla/5.0 ( ) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
plus their are a few different Mozilla Browsers so they all say something slightly different

This made my job annoying. Everyone had all these ways that supposedly worked but didn't, so I had to go mess with some guy's code that had a good idea, but didn't work because it tried to do 2 things at once, which made it not work. But I got it to work now by finding words that uniquely identify each browser in that line that's up above. I used a function that could search that line of information for specific words, Netscape is simply "Netscape", Internet Explorer is "MSIE", Mozilla is "Gecko" . If anyone else uses another browser that these 3 and the site looks wrong tell me.

Comings and Goings

Ah Well now that we're fully in the swing of things with the new look, and the cleaning up and trimming the site in some area. I have some announcements that have been made in other places but not here. But the Mighty Matrix has finished, me and Matty just never got the time or the drive back to continue doing stories...oddly enough we now both have started our own comic strips. But since it has finished, I will be taking down the Mighty Matrix Website, hosted here. If anyone wants they can find copies of all the Mighty Matrix stuff on Matty's Website.

While we say goodbye to MightyMatrix.theyanni.net , we say hello to insertname.theyanni.net . Insert Name, a comic previously hosted at Keenspace, is now hosted here. Made by my young friend Teo, we're setting him up here to join the family. The site is basically set up now but we're still working out a few bugs. I'll have to have a little web design brainstorming session with him to help him spruce things up, and get things more organized. Also for some reason when he uploaded his stuff, it initially didn't show any pictures for some reason, but yet when I downloaded everything from the site and re-uploaded from my computer, everything worked...really wierd. But yes I'm working with him, and I think we're going to try and spruce up TheCatherine also, she's been unhappy with her design, and we keep forgetting to mess with it.

And I also have been going through some of my old notebooks, and found some journal-ish stuff I wrote that predates anything from the 'Red' that I plan to add to it, and a few other things I wrote that will be a much needed update to 'Ego'.

And the Winner Is...

Oscar Time, and yeah I watched them, I took notes and stuff as I watched, and here they are.

Is Billy Crystal still using Marlon Brando jokes? Like all his jokes and impressions are from people long dead, or from about 15 years ago. Contemporize Man! But seriously the opening was atrocious, and I discovered I don't like Billy Crystal that much after all.

Best Supporting Actor: Tim Robbins (Mystic River) Good Guy, but never expected to win an Oscar, man his speech was long
Best Production Design: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, design in Seabiscuit are you serious.
Best Animated Feature: Finding Nemo ..I was rooting for Triplets of Belleville, but Nemo was really good
Best Costume Design: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
Best Supporting Actress: Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain)

Bob Hope sure did seem like a classier host than Billy Crystal could ever be.

Best Live Action Short: Two Soldiers ..Never heard of it
Best Animated Short: Harvey Crumpet ..Never heard of it
Achievement in Special Effects: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King

Hmm I mean Jennifer Garner usually looks ok...but for some reason she looked really hot up there, maybe it was the hair?

Jim Carrey got a little too personal, but the guy he was giving the award to was a funny guy, I should see some of his movies.

Achievement in Makeup: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
Achievement in Sound Mixing: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, That's 5 for 5
Achievement in Sound Editing: Master and Commander ..only because Lord of the Rings wasn't up for it

Why did Julia Roberts dye her hair blonde? I swear if one more person dyes their hair blonde I'm gonna go crazy. I go out with a REAL blonde, damn straight, accept no substitutes.

Oprah WTF?

Best Documentary Short: Chernobyl Heart ..no one cares moving on
Best Documentary Feature: The Fog of War *sigh* why Do Documentary film makers have to use the Oscars as a political pulpit, Son of a Bitch!
Best Original Score: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King ...and 6
Achievement in Film Editing: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King ..7
Best Original Song: "Into the West" Lord of the Rings - Return of the King ..8
Best Foreign Language Film: The Barbarian Invasions
Achievement in Cienmatography: Master and Commander ..again only because Lord of the Rings wasn't nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King ..9
Best Original Screenplay: Lost in Translation
Achievement in Directing: Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings - Return of the King) .. and 10, this was the only one I knew they definitely win, just because Jackson had s much to do with every part of this movie, more than almost any other director, he totally led this film to greatness.
Best Leading Actress: Charlize Theron (Monster) ..She's good, I mean she won and still looked really ugly in this movie. I thought she really looked as bad as she did in the movie, but it was just makeup.
Best Leading Actor: Sean Penn ...I know I thought it was gonna be Bill Murray to.
Best Picture: Lord of the Rings - Return of the King ..11 for 11, nice
come on it had to be.