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Happy New Year! Yes I've been largely absent from posting, and for that I apologize to my 3 somewhat dedicated readers. I took the opportunity to have a bit of a break, and of course, partake in the sacred Canadian winter tradition: watching the world juniors.

I hope you got fun, exciting presents for Christmas (if that's your thing). Or at least, a fun exciting sock, tie, odd ornamental piece you're not sure if you'll ever take out of your closet of "stuff" again.

I know it's somewhat fashionable to hate on Digg, and admittedly, it hasn't been in my RSS reader* for many years now. In case you don't believe me, I recently completed a scientific survey** via Google to prove my point.

• Digg Hate (10,700,000 results)
• Reddit Hate (6,600,000 results)
• Christmas Hate (4,230,000 results)

I know building a javascript fueled image gallery isn't exactly original, but I wanted an excuse to play around with jQuery a bit more. You can see the result here, which hopefully shows up in IE7*.

I'm not really that thrilled with paying for another copy of Windows, when I have an XP disk and Parallels lying around. If only I could find the license for it...

I collected a bit of information from mod_rewrite "fun" over the years at stackoverflow, but then figured I'd post it here too, since I've been a bit lax about writing. Don't worry though (because I know you are), I have a few things in the pipes, including the next article in our MVC bare bones framework series, and my take on a drupal based image gallery.

I was excited to find out my pretend best friend plays dodgeball too. Of course, in our pretend life we both play, but it's always good when real life overlaps pretend life too. The easy thing to do at this point is to write me off as crazy, but I think you should read on a bit before coming to that conclusion.

So that shiny new macbook the SO was so breathlessly waiting for? It lasted a whole 10 minutes before choking on itself. All that anticipation for a slender, eye-catching doorstop.

It was about time to put on a fresh coat of paint on the site, seeing as the old style was just some theme I found. Unfortunately, I really hate design. Well, to be fair, I really enjoy design, I just hate doing it. When it comes down to it, I'm really not that great at it, and the simplest of tasks end up taking a long time, or not looking the way I want it to.

Yes, I realize the title makes absolutely no sense, but really, you should be used to that by now.

Pagination (Node) has a new release (6.x-1.2), and you can read all about the fun additions there.

I've put my Pagination (Node) module up on drupal, and am looking to tackle two issues/features associated with it.

1 based paging

Currently, drupal pagination is 0 based, in that the URL will show "?page=1" for the link to page 2, "?page=2" for page 3, and etc. In the greater scheme of life, liberty, apple pie, and hockey, it's a pretty minor point, but it seems odd that the paging scheme ends up being "incorrect".

I've given ardarvin the first version of the buildering guidebook module. There's still some touch up features I'd like to add to polish it off, but it should serve our basic needs well. I'll post a link to it as soon as it actually goes up, and add it to the Random Code section for those interested in poking around.