My Mission Call

I got my mission call today.
I am going to the Scotland Edinburgh Mission
I leave on Jan 2, 2009.
I report to the Preston England MTC that day.
Here is a map of my mission area.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114337695735962286082.000457d6e3b76a4fe406d&z=6
I will post a count down on my mission on here somewhere.

Googles 10th Birthday

As I mentioned yesterday, Google is celebrating there 10th birthday. The official day is September 7th, but I think that they are using celebrating the whole month.

On the Google time line page you can see a lot of the Google logos that have been used over the years.

In honor of Google's 10th birthday, I decided to post those here also, so here there are. There are 315 in this set, but I know there are more then just these.

My website

I have made a small change to my site that I think you may want to know about.
I have changed my domain name from gbfarns16.googlepages.com to gfportfolio.googlepages.com
So now my home page is gfportfolio.googlepages.com/index.html.

I have set up all of my old pages to link to my new pages so that if you have my page bookmarked, it will automatically redirect you.

Street View Guy

Today I was using Google Street View in Google Maps, and I came a cross a special street view guy.




I know, it is not a very high quality image, but as you can see, the Google guy is holding balloons, and has a party hat on.
The people at Google like to play around with there characters some times, for instance, on Valentines Day there was a heart instead of the usual orange guy. But they usually have a purpose behind it.
I searched Google, but was unable to find anything about it. If any one knows what it is for, please let me know.


--Update--
It appears that today is Googles 10th birthday, that would explain the weird google street view guy.

Pandora Poster Contest

A while ago I talked about Pandora, well they have been having a poster contest.
The contest was to viualize what Pandora does with music.

Here are the to 25 that they chose out of all of the posters submitted.

I would like to here which one you like.

If you have a Votigo account, you can go to the website and vote for your favorite there.

My Website Version 3.0

Well I have done it again. I have changed the way my website works.

Originally when I made the site design, I wanted the area under inside the frame of wood to be the only place for stuff. I did not want the page to scroll at all. But I did not know how to make it to where the area that I wanted text was locked in size.

My multimedia teacher told me that it had to be done with frames, so I tried that, but could never get it to work.

Well the other day I came across a page where this technique was used, so I decide to look at the source code.

Here is what I found
div align="center" id="imges" style="positon:absolute; width:820px; height:615px; zindex:12; left:250px; top:170px; overflow:auto;"

Once I realized how this work, I was eager to put it on my pages, so now all of my pages use the script above to diplay there data.

So I implimented this into my sites, I also shifted some things around so that it fits on the page better.
I also got ride of the multiple director pages, and just used one.

Anyway, I have quite a few changes still in my mind, but this one is up for you all to look at. Once again if you don't know the url, you can Click Here.

Google Chrome

Yesterday marked another first for Google. The folks over at google have been working on this project called Google Chrome. It was finally released yesterday.
Google Chrome is a web browser similar to Firefox or internet explorer. It is open source just like Firefox, which means that anyone can get the code and edit it or play around with it.
From what I am understanding from Google, the purpose of Chrome is to create ideas that other web browsers can implement.

Now as many of you know, I run some websites. The first is for my company which is Simtek Fence. The other one is my GPC site. So I wanted to make sure that my sites work with this new browser, so I downloaded it. Luckily both my sites work fine.

But since I did download it, I thought maybe I would share some of my thought about it.
At first glance, it looks a lot like IE (Internet Explorer) with one notable difference. The tabs are on the top. Now you know I don’t like IE at all, so naturally I would of stopped here, but I love google, so I decided to explore a little. It has quite a few features that IE does not have. For instance, free tab browsing, and the “omni bar”, the bar that suggests where you may want to go. I also like the new tab page which looks a lot like Opera’s Speed Dial Page. It has a few features that allow developers like me to see what is going on, like a JavaScript Debugger, and a memory usage area. It also is set up to where it show your most used sites. In Google’s words “when you start a new tab, you want to go somewhere”, usually that place is one of your most visited sites, so right there on your new tab page is your most used sites.
Chrome also has a nice download feature, and the google team is set on giving you as much room on your screen as possible, so everything you are use to having like that status bar are invisible until you need them.

Now for some of the things that I do not like.
I am a avid user of Firefox. And I will always recommend it. Google chrome was created with help of Mozilla, but it is not quite the same. Even thought Chrome has the JavaScript debugger and the memory usage thing, it lacks on the ability to be customized. It is one color, and is not change able, just like IE. It also has all of the menu features hidden on the side under a little wrench button. I like to have the menus up on top. It is also in Bata right now which means that there are errors.

I think that once they get all of the features rolled out, and get everything fixed, it could be my favorite browser. Right now it stands at second.

Out of all of the browser out there, here are the ones I prefer in order from best to worst.
(If you would like to try any of these browsers you can click on the link.)
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Opera
Internet Explorer