News on the Front Page

I've found a way to display RSS feeds on my website. It uses CSS and JavaScript. So now you can see recent post titles from this blog as well as a couple from the United Nations when you visit dupyshon.com.

Big Changes

There are some big changes ahead! I've been very busy over break working on this website. Here are some of the things I've been doing:

• I bought the dupyshon.com domain name. I wanted to get kylan.com or kylanrobinson.com, but they were both taken. Dupyshon.com will be the new home of my website, and I'm already in the process of building the site. Don't worry, most of the stuff on my current site will make the transition over to this new site.
• I wrote a program for the CSOTW page. In C++, I wrote a program which updates the CSOTW list and outputs it in XML. Then I learned how to use XSL to format the XML information into a web page.
• My new website has an iframe sidebar menu. I think this system will work pretty well for updates and page layout.
  
• My blog has a new template, as you might have noticed. I adapted it from one by Douglas Bowman. To do so, I had to learn some CSS. I really like CSS because is it really powerful and reminiscent of object-oriented programming.

I'm most happy that this whole project has forced me to learn/use five different programming languages. It's been a good exercise to prepare for some of my future classes.

The Biggest Little City

I just got back from my roadtrip to Fernley/Reno. After finals, I rode with Rachael from Pullman to her home in Fernley, NV. It was a fun trip, even though it took over 12 hours to get there. We were going to go visit the Tahoe area, but it snowed pretty hard during the first night. That was okay, though, because we just stayed at her house and played pool and darts and sat in her hot tub. Her family's really nice. The next day we took a trip into Reno and saw the sights. There are a lot of casinos there, and we went ice skating at an outdoor rink downtown. You can check out some pictures on my website under the Albums section.

Website Update

I've just posted two new albums to my website. You can view them by selecting the Albums link.

Rtm86 - Home

Cool website, I especially like the Send A Dollar idea. This website won "Best Personal Website" for the 2005 Webby Awards.

Mr. Footbag

Wow, this is really a blast from the past. I was browsing the Internet today and remembered that I had a store at Cafepress.com. I had set up the account to make my own footbag apparel. Each piece of clothing featured a character of my own creation - Mr. Footbag. That was nearly five years ago! I never bought anything from that store, but when I looked at my account I discovered that two items have been purchased with the Mr. Footbag logo on them. I'm practically a famous artist! Somewhere out there, someone is wearing a Mr. Footbag shirt. And they have me to thank for it.