Updates: July 2002
July 24, 2002 at 10:45PM Eastern Daylight Time
I went to the airshow Saturday and...I'm
referring to it as a sunscorching. It was above 90 degrees Fahrenheit
(meaning it was probably at least 100 along the flight line, where I was,
discounting the effects of the insane amount of pyrotechnics detonated during
Tora Tora Tora and the American Warbirds [I actually think that part of my skin
condition may be attributed to the 20 degree jump in air-temperature caused by
the 1,000 foot long wall of fire]), it was quite sunny, and the dew point was
somewhere between unbearable and people-passing-out. Of course, that
didn't deter me a bit, and I savored all eight-hours of the show. Heck, on
Sunday, even after my skin was pachidermalized, I stood out in the sun for about
forty minutes to watch the Thunderbirds from the yard (I sure am smart, huh?;
seriously, it wasn't very painful, although that is probably because my body is
so used to this annual ritual now). I took some pictures of my
not-agonizing-to-me-painful-for-you-to-look-at burn; they may be found on the
About Mike
page. I changed some scripting so the name fields are no longer required
to register an ID
Number.
July 16, 2002 at 3:50PM Eastern Daylight Time
I've been working rather maniacally on
MSROCAI the past few days, producing massive fruits. To begin, I looked
over every page quite carefully to eliminate any typos, misspellings, grammar
errors, or coding problems. If I failed to catch something, please
inform me of
what the problem is and where it is located. If you opt to laze about,
assuming that other visitors are helping me out and therefore you needn't offer
aid, you will have no grounds for a complaint, including a lawsuit, when Ned the
CSS Lynx or Dave the Comma Buffalo cause you pain and/or death. While
hunting text errors, I made some minor modifications to
Updates,
Links, and
Contact.
Information and
Legal were
subject to larger changes, which were neccessitated by the addition of two new
features to MSROCAI:
Identification Numbers and
The
DBFCC. Please read over
Information for
detailed information on what these two features are. The non-detailed
versions are as follows: The fanfic review system and The DBFCC will no longer
accept anonymous activity. An ID Number and the associated password, which
must be registered,
must be entered into the forms to submit information, eliminating the submission
of reviews without a name or anonymous flames. Again, please visit
Information
for a more detailed explanation.
The
DBFCC is a much simpler addition. Essentially, it is a place where
Dragon Ball fanfiction authors and reviewers and every other involved party
may find and post information such as contest listings, fanfic hosting listings,
website announcements, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Some of you may
remember the DBFCC from a good while back. Yes, this is the same section,
but it is much larger and more awesome.
I need some more input from visitors to keep
MSROCAI healthy. I've only begun updating again in hopes that more people
will visit and interact with the site rather than watching me frollic about.
Submit a link
so other websites get traffic from MSROCAI and, since their operators are nice,
link back to MSROCAI, driving more traffic here.
Sign-up for an ID
Number so that all the work I put into the system doesn't go to waste.
Here's the big one: SUBMIT MATERIAL TO THE DBFCC! Last time not a single
person submitted anything, and the section was up for a while, so I figured
nobody cared and took it down. The DBFCC is totally empty right now, so
fill it up! The material submission forms are not yet up because they'll
require ID Numbers, which no one has been able to sign-up for yet. But
think of something you can contribute until they are up. And when the
fanfics return tomorrow (hopefully), leave a review.
I've been thinking of some completely new
sections to add for a while, and I'd like some opinions on them (another great
way to interact!). Please
tell me
whether or not you would be interested in any the following sections: (More)
Original Writing, SimCity, The Sims, HTML Tips, A Webcomic, Political Cartoons,
Martial Arts Information, Languages (a course and resources for different
languages).
July 14, 2002 at 10:35PM Eastern Daylight Time
The
updates have
been converted to the new whatever-you-feel-like-calling-it. Despite my
annual plunge into airshow-induced madness this week, I should have a
rather...big...update by Wednesday, though most likely tomorrow. Last
update I forgot to mention the new poll that is up and the return of the mailing
list. Indulge. The...big...update this week will require a lot of
visitor participation, so if the poll and mailing list aren't used the return of
the DBFCC is going to be just about the biggest waste of time in MSROCAI's
history.
July 13, 2002 at 6:30PM Eastern Daylight Time
I had more on my agenda this past week than I
thought, so little progress was made on the modifications. However, there
was very little progress that needed to be made before the non-content pages
would be ready for uploading. As such,
About Mike,
Contact,
Legal,
Links,
Updates (not
the updates), Thank You, and
MSROCAI Main have
all received their massive upgrades. Enjoy, love, frollic (-:
Please keep in mind that I did some fairly serious work on some of these pages;
errors are a very real possibility, so
e-mail me if you run into one (beware of Ned the CSS Lynx). I
anticipate the updates returning by Sunday. I'm pondering a bit on the
fanfics and such, so they will not be updated until next week.
July 3, 2002 at 10:40AM Eastern Daylight Time
I want to thank everyone who has visited
MSROCAI for helping the counter on the Fanfic Index hit 3,000! Thanks so
much! Yes, the counter topped 3,000 twenty-one days ago (I think), so it
may be quite obvious that this update is a little late.
Typical of me, just as I have a game
plan for MSROCAI and am finally bringing back all of the content, I decide to
and begin to re-design the website. Traditions are good in many
situations, but this one is becoming somewhat irksome; I should spend the summer
making updates in my free time rather than, again, re-designing the website.
Actually, it might be somewhat inappropriate to label what I am doing as a
re-design. Rather, I think it far more accurate to label it a major coding
overhaul; I'm not changing the layout of the whole site nor am I changing the
navigation system, but I am heavily modifying the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS of
every page.
"What's going to happen now that you've gone
crazy again, Mike?" The simple answer to that question is, "Not much of
anything dramatically different." Once this project is farther along I
will better explain what exactly it is that I am doing to MSROCAI and the
slightly modified plans for the website, but until then, please, believe the
following statement: MSROCAI's coding overhaul will not interrupt regular
updates after the middle of next week (unlike the undertakings of the previous
two years) and until then updates will be made on all pages except for the
fanfiction, fanart, and original writing sections (they will return next week).