Gmail

WHY are the buttons in Gmail always changing their height? You know, the Archive, Report Spam, etc row across the top. 15px, 16px, 17 px, you think somebody could make up their own mind. I finally decided to take things into my own hands and go with 16px for myself:
.J-Zh-I {height: 16px !important}

Moving, Take n+1

Well, my parents successfully moved this weekend, and now begins the long arduous process of settling in. But not for me, since grad classes start tomorrow. When I can get my head above the waters of life, the salt spray will be refreshing. But I like swimming too.

Google Earth has a Flight Simulator?!

This isn't me; my computer isn't fast enough. But this is what I tried to do.

Online Web Programming Apps

These online apps allow quick testing of web programming code. I make heavy use of them.

HTML: http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_intro
CSS: http://cssdesk.com/
(Astounding) cross-browser CSS: http://css3please.com/
JS: http://railsdotnext.com/experiment/jssandbox.html
PHP (To be honest I've never used this): http://writecodeonline.com/php/
RegEx: http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
Browser comparisons: http://browsershots.org/
Web layout (Had to throw this in there): http://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/

Moving

My parents are moving across town on June 29 or not. We'll have to see. Not a big deal for most people, but for someone who has spent the last 19.5 year or 87.5% of his life in one house, it means something. Not sure what yet. We will be closer to people from church and further away from nature. I should take some pictures for historical comparison.

Then, the following week (July 5) I will head back to Lehigh to begin my graduate studies. Most of that move already happened, so hopefully it will be easier than this one.

Credit Cards

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/05/01/credit-card-concierge/ and
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/index.html
made me laugh out loud, which says something.

Forthcoming

Today I accepted Lehigh's M.Eng. program. This means I'll be returning to Lehigh by July 7th, and graduating May 2011. Two courses in the summer, three or four in the fall and spring. Some remaining questions: what do I do for the first half of this summer? take classes for fun? If not, should I take any non-major classes during the fall?