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Pardon the French, but it has been like the craziest time so far this summer. As I mentioned previously, my Grandma has been in and out of the hospital during May and June. Now she is at home but not doing so hot. She is going mentally. I pray for her everyday.

I was also taking summer school for the month of June. No, not the bad kind, I didn't flunk anything. It was my choice, I took Physics. Now you are asking yourself, why would you choose physics. I'm stupid. No really, I was drunk. No, wait, I wanted to get it done and over with. Yeah, that's the one I am sticking with. So I don't know my grade yet, but I know I passed. I actually liked the class, it was a lot of hard math, well, not hard math. Easy algebra, it was just thinking of the correct ways to use the formulas. Problem solving skills. I think that is the only reason our department makes us take it. I'm not going to need to know how fast an object slides down a ramp with a certain kinetic friction coefficient when I program Microsoft Office 2010 am I?

Anyways between that and Grandma, posts have been scarce. Oh and the site has been down. I'm not mad at my old host or anything they have given me good service for over a year However downtime I just can't stand. Especially when Fred put me in his newsletter when it was down. As I promised Fred Langa's site is "[a] Free Site from Fred Langa Designed To Help You Get More From Your Hardware, Software, and Time Online."

Also, I have redesigned the Programs, My Links, and Wallpaper pages. Using Tags a la Flickr. I had fun with PHP and MySQL on those pages. You will also notice that just about every page has a breadcrumb on the top. I need to convert the Blog over to Smarty like the rest of the site, and then I will be done with version 3.0 of the site. Have I mentioned that I absolutely love Smarty. It's great. There are a couple things that I don't like though. For one, the caching doesn't work for my site cause the dynamic stuff like link rotator and random quote are cached. That isn't good. I wish they would add dynamic tags. I think they are going to in a future release. Then I could turn caching on and the site would be even faster. The other gripe I have with Smarty is that it is a little bloated. They have lots of features that you could just do with PHP on its own. Maybe they should have a lite version or something where you could turn off advanced features and therefore be able to not include library files that you are not using. That would be faster.

Wow, I hate catch-up posts. They end up being too long and nobody reads them anyways. Well, here it goes into the deep dark Internet Black Hole.