http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/chouchou-electric-butterfly-flutters-to-life-inside-a-jar/

Was slower than last year… probably because I was out with friends too long the night before again. Had a good weekend with friends and all the activities going on!

Split Time: 22:18
Rank: 717

I’m selling my 2004 Nissan 350Z. $17.5k.  Will consider other offers.

• 66k miles.
• Daytona Blue with Black Leather interior.
• Automatic with manual shifting.
• Air Bags – Front, Window, Seat Side. Both Driver and Passenger.
• Added Sat Radio inputs to stock radio and ran rca cables to glove box.
• Bose 6 disc cd changer, AM/FM.
• All maintenance and repair work done at dealership since purchase.
• I have been the only owner of this car.
• Just had the 60k maintenance and alignment done.
• Fits 2 golf bags!
• on Craigs List as well – http://quadcities.craigslist.org/cto/1858602303.html
• Contact me through the Craigs List or through email:  paul (at) pablosbrain dot com

Finished sorting plants and pre-orders

My little brother and I were in the Sunday QCTimes paper.  We were helping out at the Big Brothers Big Sisters plant sale this past weekend. Here is a link to the article online.

http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_36b706bc-5591-11df-8e86-001cc4c03286.html

The plant sale goes this whole week.  For locations and more information check out http://www.bbbsmv.org

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/microsoft-confirms-kills-courier-in-one-fell-swoop/

MS has confirmed it wont be making its way to production.

This looks quite amazing. I’m becoming more and more impressed with what Microsoft is putting out there. Windows 7… Their new phone OS looks pretty interesting… and now this. I could totally use this every day.

In working on building my own content management system, I’ve been learning about various ways to implement storage of the content in a database. This is a great article I found. Check it out.

To sort content in a hierarchy i have rows that have a sort_order column, like the following list.

id, title, sort_order
1, page a, 0
2, page b, 1
3, page c, 2
4, page d, 3
5, page e, 4

My question is when changing the order or deleting content, is it best to keep the sort_order clean without gaps in numbers?  or does it matter?

Clean
1, page a, 0
2, page b, 1
5, page e, 2 – moved up several rows and reordered
3, page c, 3 – the following items are then renumbered as well
4, page d, 4

Gaps (may occur after deleting an item or by just moving an item to the end)
1, page a, 0
(sort_order gap of number 1)
3, page c, 2
4, page d, 3
5, page e, 4
2, page b, 5 – moved to the end and just given a number one greater than the max sort_order number.

The desired affect is still achieved.  I’m just not sure there is any reason to worry about the gaps or not.  Hit me  up on twitter with comments or FB.

Well… finally decided to start working on cleaning up my site and the templates and everything. Be patient..

I’ve finally got almost all the basic score card functionality finished.  You can now manage all the cards in the database.  Delete them… Load an old one to edit and view… create/start a new card.

Along with that I also added a drop down panel when you tap the Score Card header to allow you to edit score card / round settings.  Such as the date of the round and a title / description so the various cards are more descriptive when listed.

The score card manager screen lists each score card by date, displaying the name or date of the match as the title.  It always will display the match date time as well as icons for each of the players that are in the card.  Hopefully this will make it easy to navigate a lot of score cards.  Eventually i’ll also make a drop down selector to only show cards for certain courses and so forth.  That will have to come after I get course data editing/displaying working.