Journal Entry

:: Harry ::

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fun movie. The Onion's review of it, while largely positive, complains of it being way too action-packed, the pace too fast. I think the movie is a fun and faithful representation of the book with lots of great stuff. [Insert favorite artsy movie here] it is not, but that's also definitely not its aim.

I am, however, dismayed to discover that there's something extra at the end of the credits that we missed. After the ILM credits rolled (go Dave!) we ducked out, and apparently we missed something amusing. Ever since seeing Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I've tried to stick around until the very end just in case any little goodies are there. We missed it today. Sigh.

We tried to go to Uncommon Ground this evening to check out someone that Lisa knew in high school. Alas, there was no room for us except to stand, and the cover was more than we felt like paying to stand around.

I got tired of my slow-loading image on the home page, so I learned how to generate thumbnails automagically in PHP using the internal methods, and then again using ImageMagick. Both methods were very easy to do, less than an hour from deciding I needed to do it to making it happen. The home was always pretty fast loading, but now it's going to be a bit more bandwidth-friendly. Even though I'm a DSL snob again, I still feel the pain of the modem.

I'm gradually trying to phase in some of the stuff I'm learning while reading Building Accessible Websites, a full review of which will come shortly after I finish it. One thing I'll say now: it's very helpful and is worthwhile reading for any moderately serious web designer.