I finished up a small splash page for my friends in empires all great dudes that make incredible music, sean kills it on this song, go download it for free over at Empires I think its a great direction for them and I wish them all the best in this new release.

After working on real projects all day I needed a break to experiment so I created this inspired by this. I really love the site that inspired it so it seemed fitting to give creating the navigation a go. I will post the source code up as soon as I comment it.

(warning nerd alert below)
Over the past few weeks I have been trying out some different linux configurations (debian, suse, and red hat) all on some reasonable hardware. I think its important that developers of any field dive into and setup a linux install… be it any distro. It give you a really good sense of using command line tools and can really drive home the differences between server side/ client side languages and techniques. 

If you own/use, mac parallels is a great application to get started and play around with some linux distros without needing a dedicated machine. I have had the best luck so far with unbuntu and openSuse. Later this week I will post my install/usage feedback on all the distributions so far. Along with some instructions on getting a LAMP stack working on unbuntu in a couple easy steps, and getting vnc,ssh, and ftp configured and running locally. Nothing beats having a local test environment to test in before they go public. 

So… tonight I took a stroll to the local place where I buy my beer…. I see a rather young looking girl in the store, not old enough to drink by any means she politley comes up to me and says “excuse me” as she is eying some beer in the fridges. 

I leave the store and walk about 2 blocks and run into this girl again, she starts a conversation about the fact that she just got back from denver, so I pry a little further into her trip, she tells me she ran away from home and got caught by the police. As I am walking I notice a missing child poster….. the picture on the poster looks familiar….. oh yeah cause its the girl that is chatting with me. I point this out; she grabs the poster rips it up and says “yeah these are no longer needed”. 

She seemed like genuine character that was just didn’t enjoy living her in chicago, she cited that she just wanted to be outdoors. and this my friends is what happens when you go to the liquor store at 7 p.m. on a sunday.