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I just want to say sorry in advance if I don't post for a while. I'm going though a tough time and might not feel the urge to blog all that much. Thanks for your understanding.
- Alex
Edit: this post was actually written before the KRADDY! post but because of the way I had it scheduled it'll be posted presently (well, by the time you read this it will have already been published... duh), so it'll look like it was posted after the KRADDY! post, but in reality it was written right before.

KRADDY!

Omigod, there's this new artist that I found and he's called Kraddy. I have the Labyrinth album and have been listening to it all afternoon today! That's almost 8 hours straight (although I actually had about 15 minutes in between). Go! Look him up on iTunes!

Hey, subscribe!

You guys need to follow my blog! Well, only if you want to, but, you know, FOLLOW IT! It shows on the right and makes me look popular :)
Hey, that was short. I never posted any blog posts before because I never really had anything I thought should go on here, but now I'm finding it easier to blog. Yay!
I think since I also have a Buzz, I felt like I should post all my short stuff there and only post really long posts here. Interesting; luckily, I have corrected myself and am now including short posts in whatever I think should go on this blog. Yay for me! (I'm a narcissist! Well, sorta.)

Okay, secret's out

In case you haven't already figured it out, the post with all the 1s and 0s was written in binary. Just run it through a binary translator to read it; there's a nice one available here. I used that site to translate the post.

I got a Blogger app!

Yup, I made it myself and actually, any one of you can do it! In fact, it works for any web application, like Gmail (got an app for that), or Google Docs, Google Calender - you can tell I really like Google - Google Wave, Grooveshark... etc. (got an app for all of those actually; I just listed off most of the apps I've already made.)
Instructions for making your own Blogger app -
1. Download and install Prism at prism.mozillalabs.com
2. Download a suitable logo image for the web app - the one I used can be found below. It would preferably be of high resolution. If you don't know what this means, just make sure that it looks ok and is reasonably big (at least as big as the icon will display in the final application, like on your Windows Task Bar or your Dock.)
3. Open up Prism (whether you got the stand-alone version or the Firefox extension)
4. For the URL, type the web address of the web app. In this case, it's blogger.com (or www.blogger.com, if you prefer)
5. Type the name of your application. You can call it anything you want, but in this case it would probably be Blogger.
6. Select whether you want the navigation bar to be displayed. If you select this, a bar will display at the top of your window with the URL, which you cannot change, a refresh button, a home button, and back and forward buttons. The home button will take you to the URL that you specified in step 4.
7. Select whether you want to display status messages and progress. If you select this, a bar will display at the bottom of the window showing status messages on loading the web page and a progress bar on loading the page. It will also display a little gear, which will let you modify preferences (note that the only thing that the preferences let you do is modify the default font and color and proxy settings - if you don't get that, don't worry about it). The gear will also allow you to print, do a page setup (for printing I think), show the Error Console, and manage extensions and extension preferences. Personally, I don't really care about any of that except the extensions, but it's your choice. Any extension icons that would normally display in the Status/Addon bar of Firefox will display next to the gear.
8. Select if you want navigation keys enabled. Personally, I always check this because I figure, "why not?"
9. Select where you want the final application to be placed. If you like, you can move it later.
10. Almost done. Last, because the favicon that Prism retrieves from the web is probably crappy quality, select Settings... on the right of the image at the bottom and click Choose image...
11. Navigate to the picture you downloaded in Step 2. Select OK, then OK again.
Congrats! You're done!
One last thing worth noting. Since Prism isn't well known, some websites won't recognize it. This can lead to them thinking that you're using a browser that isn't compatible or up-to-date enough, and maybe even them not letting you use the site. For example, wave.google.com in a Prism app will tell you that your browser isn't supported by it. If it gives you a way to try it anyway (Google Wave gives a link for this) you might as well see if it works, chances are that it will. Good luck!

Blogger Logo - make sure to get the full-sized version, not just the small one here. I think you can click on it to do this.

A post to say "Thank you"

Hey guys -
I was thinking and I really want to say thank you. I want to say thank you to everyone in my life for being there, I guess. 
For the SCDS people - I've known some of you for around seven years, and that's a long time. Some of you for not quite so long, but still time enough to know you guys and really like being around everyone. You're wonderful people. Thank you.
For Jackson - I've known you forever (or at least pretty close to it) and we've had some of the best times ever. Thank you for years and years of programming talk, LEGOs, forts, pillow fights and walks down the street. Thank you.
For my parents - I guess - thanks for the house. And the food and bed and stuff. And for being there.
To carpool - now I know that I've already mentioned the people in carpool, but they especially deserve to be mentioned again. These people are there, each morning and each afternoon, they're some of the best people ever (not that I'm trying say that other people aren't) and I honestly cannot imagine a time where I didn't meet them every morning to go to school. Thank you for what seems a lifetime of laughs, inside jokes, music, talk, and fun.
You guys are great to be around, and I get to be around you almost every day. And for that - thank you. Always.

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Cancer

Hey all, sorry I haven't been posting a lot. I just wanted to share the following status that's been popping up again recently.

♫ Every person has 1000 wishes. A cancer patient only has one: to get better. I know that 97% will not post this as their status, but I know that my friends will be one of 3% and put this as their status, at least for an hour, in honor of those with cancer.

I really encourage you guys to repost this. I know/knew a couple of people who had/have cancer - they shall remain unnamed - and it's really unfair that they got it. Thanks for your support to any patients that may see this status.
Pretty soon, I'll be posting some music I made in GarageBand. Coming soon! (actually, knowing me, coming... well... not particularly soon)