The Next Rock & HHH

05.26.2004

While watching wrestling Monday night, something hit me. A lot fo the wretlers that hit their popularity peak in the 90's are now on their way out (getting older while being body slammed every night will do that to a guy). Vince has been pretty good about bringin up new guys as this happens, both the keep the faces on the rv fresh and to get the next generation of superstars ready.

They've been teasing a feud between Randy Orton and Shelton Benjamin. Orton has been getting a big push the past few months, and I think Shelton is on the verge of continuing a push that's just getting started. Orton has the IC title, so it's only natural for Shelton to go after that title.

This is the part that reminds me of HHH and The Rock. When Stone Cold decided to make the move to challenge for the world title, The Rock got the Intercontinental Title. It was here that Rocky started to shine. HHH was also a mid-level guy, and he and Rock had great, long feuds over the IC title, with it changing hands multiple times. I think it was here that both men took the step to the next level that made both of them main-eventers.

Now that Orton has had the IC title for a while, it's time for a challenger to start giving him a run for his money. He's already taken care of most of the "old-timers", so it would be perfect for him and Shelton to start going against each other and see if they have what it takes to reach the next level, kind of like HHH and The Rock.

Just my 2 cents, but I think it would work.

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Unpacking Is A Pain

05.25.2004

I managed to spend a couple of hours last night unpacking, cleaning up what I was unpacking, and straightening out the mess caused by unpacking. I think part of my disorganization comes from still having furniture and just general junk scattered about as I stay ready for the eventual painting of the innards (those blasted vacationing rednecks have not released my vocabulary yet!) of the house.

Today's picture is one of the few that Gina took while we were at the beach. As you can tell, she's much better at taking pictures than I am, which wouldn't make me angry if it weren't for me buying a $700 camera so that I could take better pictures!!! Bitter? Me? Nyah.

Is a nice flower pic, though....

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Vacation... Over.

05.24.2004

I've finally made it back home from a week of sand and surf at the Gulf Coast. I haven't been to the beach for a whole week before. Although the getaway was nice, my timing was a little off. I managed to get there along with a lot of other clans of rednecks (or near-rednecks, at least). Makes me think of how big a swimming hole that there ocean is!

Now I'm trying to get settled back in at home. It's amazing how unpacking, or trying to unpack, can make a huge mess. How can a week's worth of stuff, compressed into a bag, decrompress and take up so much more room than it did before it was ever packed? It's a quandry, I tell you!

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Vacation, All I ever wanted...

05.14.2004

Yes, official vacation time is finally here. At 9:00 Saturday morning I pack up and jaunt headfirst to Da Beach for a funfilled week of sand, surf, and shrimp.

Being the nerd that I am, I'm packing the essentials:

• Portable DVD Player
• Portable MP3 Player
• The old laptop, just in case I need it
• Digital Camera, along with
• a 24 pack of AA batteries I found on sale
• 2 graphic novel comic books (for quality time in teh facilities)
• 2 Star Trek novels that I've been meaning to read for the past year.

The hard part to remember are all the power plugs and adapters that I need to take to keep all that stuff working.

So, enjoy the lack of updates, as I shouldn't be near internet access. The image up by the logo should change on Wednesday. You'll still get a new babe every day. Most importantly, Jer should be back with his post hiking updates!

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Mozilla, IE, and Submitting Forms

05.12.2004

Today is brought to you by the letter "D", because I was reminded of something that maybe me yell "Dammit". A lot.

This is one of those posts that's mainly a codeing reminder for myself later, so I can say "I told me so."

Lately I've been using images as submit buttons for forms on web pages. It makes things look nicer, and it generally works pretty well. I have a habit of teting (in PHP) the length of the button name to see if the form was submitted. It's an old trick I learned when I first started making web pages, and it's been a hard habit to break. Everything works just like I expect it to, as long as I'm using Mozilla (or Netscape).

My problem is borne when using Microsoft Internet Explorer. It seems IE doesn't pass along the name of the button (or image object) which is submitting the form. I've run into this at leat twice before, but I seem to keep forgetting it. So, what do I do? If I find out that this happens too late in the web development life cycle (like today, when the site should be done in 2 weeks and I've been working on it for 2 months), I go back and make a hidden fieled with the original name of the submit button/image and use an onClick event to change the value of said hidden field to something usable. This works, I've just got to go back and track down all my submit buttons.

Yeesh, what a fun day.

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