As it turns out, modes of expression are the "in" thing to censor right now. That’s right, a bunch of stupid politicians want to ban the sale of violent video games. Silly politicians.

According to aforesaid article on 1up, those silly Lousisianians are still trying to ban video games. I thought they had more important things to worry about than a possible break-out of independent thought.

Apparently, a judge from the state ruled against a bill approved by the state’s governor, but the politicians are preparing for round 2, seeking a quick, merciless K.O. Mike Michot, a senator from Lousiana, which, like most other states, has two senators (okay, they all have two), was interviewd on radio about the situation. He had the following to say:

"They [the videogame industry] feel like we are trying to stop the sale of these videos and in fact we are. It’s the least we could do."¹

Unfortunately, Mr. Michot forgot about one other alternative requiring very little effort: he can find something better to do. For instance, where is the crusade against violence in movies? Or, how about violence on television? Better yet, books can be pretty violent.

Yeah, let’s burn some books.

In summary, Mr. Michot, wake up. Even news media are violent, but I don’t see you leading a crusade to censor them. Hearing about this terrible game called Grand Theft Auto that let’s one kill hookers doesn’t give you the duty to ban any video games. If you want to protect your kids, don’t let them buy the ESRB-rated (M for Mature or AO for Adults Only in some cases) Grand Theft Auto, but don’t start telling people what they can and cannot play.

¹Quotation from Louisiana Senator Defends Bill.

Well, it’s July 1, and you know that that means.

Okay, well, you don’t, so I will tell you what July 1 means. It is the first day on which high school students who took AP exams in the past year can receive their AP scores. This is, of course, for a fee of $8, but I felt the fee was acceptable this time around, as I took three AP exams this year.

I’m feeling so-so about my AP scores. I’m glad that I didn’t get anything below a three, but I thought I would have done better on the English Literature exam. As far as Physics, I did as good as or better than I thought I would have done. Regarding US Government, I am elated about that score.

Oh, the scores; you want to know what my actual scores where? Well, I got a five on the US Government exam, and threes on the Physics and English Literature exams. Also, I got a four on the US History exam, which I took Junior year.

So, as far as college goes, I should receive credit for three classes (everything but Physics). I don’t know what will happen with the Physics exam (if I will get anything for getting a three on it), since RIT requires a four of five to be exempt from classes in your major.

Those experienced with the AP system will also now there is an award system in place. Actually, the award system includes no material awards (only if you don’t count the certificate). Regardless, I am happy to say that I am an AP Scholar with Honor. I could have been one with distinction, but I did not take enough exams to qualify for that level.

In summary, go kids with parents who don’t hold college degrees!

If the code is showing in this post, please ignore it for now. I’m tring to fix the admin control panel. Sorry about any inconveniences.

This post is about how movie theatres work. At movie theatres, a "week" starts on Friday and ends on Thursday. This is because new movies generally come out on Fridays. And, usually, which movies are playing and when they are playing during the next week are not made available to employees until that week arrives. Understanding this, let’s look at the conversation I had with a pair of customers yesterday.

The couple was about in the age range of 55-65. They came in and the lady asked to if she could find out the showtimes for Cars for Friday and Saturday. Knowing that the sheet with showtimes for the next week the manager puts behind the concession stand had already been taken away (he only leaves it there for one day until the actual week comes), I told them since Friday and Saturday are part of a new week, I don’t know exactly when the showtimes will be. The looked at and responded to me like I was stupid. "A new week?" "Well, our week starts on Friday and ends on Thursday," [Laughs of disdain]. Then the couple remarked, "Ridiculous".

Next, I told them that the showtimes will probably be very similar to this week, with shows every hours and at least seven to eight shows per day. With that statement I practically told them when the showtimes were. Then the man remarked, "What about at night?" I told him during the night as well, but if you don’t consider the evening part of the day, then of what is it a part? The they asked a couple times if there was a number to call, which there’s not, because our message only tells the person calling the showtimes for the current week. Then they walked out pissed.

I didn’t know for sure when the showtimes would be, but I more or less told them when I said it would be similar to this week. If you’re going to be unagreeable, stay home. Oh, and take your wet napkins out of the cup-holders.

P.S. We also do not control what is in fandango (or other sites) and in the newspapers (well, we tell the newspapers the right stuff, but occasionally there are typos).

As you can probably guess from the title, this post is about frustration over text sizes. Throughout my web design career, I’ve consistently been divided between text sizes of 10px and 11px. Since last night, I’ve been trying to decide on a text size for this site. Honestly I can’t decide which I want more.
This all started last night when I decided to add a stylesheet switcher that would switch between 10px and 14px. Well, 14px was too large, so I went to 12px. Now, I just don’t know what to do.
What made me add the style switcher was the fact that 10px is small. I wonder if, in the case that an old person views my site, will he or she think, "I can’t read this?" I hope not. That’s why I added the text size links. But then I thought that perhaps I should remove the links and make the default font 11px.
Don’t get me wrong, 11px is great. But for me, a person who wants this site to look the best it can and with normal eyesight, it’s too large. One pixel smaller is just right (for me). At 10px, letters are just slightly more compact and round. But I still keep thinking, "What if the font is just too small for some people?"
The thought worries me, especially with my Dad, who (I think) thinks the font is too small and does not know how to change the font size via the browser. I’m worried that there are tons of people like him whom I’m alienating and I don’t want to alienate people.
However, I just came upon some sort of a solution. This solution is based on the idea that a 10px font looks better but might be too small and an 11px font looks okay and is readble by most people. Regarding the actual solution, the text size links now link to stylesheets with font sizes of 10 and 11px. It’s not too large of a difference but it is still a difference and, for the moment, I’m satisfied with the current state of the font and the options to change it.
Also –> Two more php tutorials are up and I rewrote the first one, leaving three functional php tutorials. I am even sure that the code works, as it was copied from my own scripts.

See those two extra posts on this page and the new pagination at the bottom? Yes, those nice features are the results of the new news system I have up. Version 4.1 of ICOREY PHP News features varying posts per page, real pagination, and individual pages for every post on which users can post comments. I’m really excited that I got everything working correctly. It even looks nice. I just hope some comments are actually made.

There are still some kinks to work out. The most important one is that I do not have any sort of spam protection in place for the comment form. The other major problem is that I have no admin control panel set up. Given that there are comments and posts that aren’t stored in text files, I really need to make one. Editing posts isn’t impossible now, but a control panel would make things a lot easier.

EDIT: I just added a comprehensive control panel. Yay!

Regarding other changes to the site, I changed the appearances of input and textarea tags, but that’s not really a change since they were only in their original states on my site for about an hour. I also plan on writing a php monologue about my pagination and dead link methods, rewriting the monologue I already wrote, and putting zip files of the old versions of blog I made. Hopefully I’ll get that stuff done very soon.