So I noticed that my 'laziness' prevails most of my decisions and it has been a while since I have messed with the web world. Both for work and this personal project of mine. Long story short, its been a few months since my last blog.

The reason is as life is slow and dull on this end not to much to talk about. Yet another term ended and I have passed or failed another group of students trying to learn mathematics. Beyond that summer is approaching. As such I have already been on my first backpacking adventure. You can find the photo's here.

Well it is now March and my birthday is approaching. Birthdays in themselves are a strange critter. From the time you reach your first birthday your family celebrates your existance. So thus you think you have a day to yourself, and hey it is a great idea we should celebrate each others existance far more often.

Now as time moves forward, like it does so well, these days have turned into a time of reflection for me. My birthday is near the begining of spring, and it is the time for the snow to begin to melt in the vallies. According to astrology the spark of life is back again and so I will go from my hermitic winter and start getting out more. Yet with out looking into the future much and always pearing back into the past, reflection does not contain the joy that the hope of the future will have. So as usual I have been stuck in a funk, letting each day pass as I know something will happen.

Besides sitting around thinking I always have a few projects floating around. I have recentally found myself back in #math on irc.freenode.net. This is good cause I get to rember how much about math I have forgoten. Basically I still have the ability but the acual knowledge of 'how to do this abstract proof' isn't as avaliable as it was durning my schooling. Though I have little desire to presue mathematical research it is nice to know I can still understand it and with a little time be back to where I was.

I have been working on a 'skills for a sucessful student' for my Algebra class this semester. I am trying to point out to these students what mathematics is acually trying to teach and hopefully some of them will learn. I am against the 'formula memorizing' aproach to mathematics. Mathematics is laguange that allows you to make statments and answer questions. Giving these students good skills in that will be far more benficial than showing them how to 'calculate the answer and pass the course'.

I have been in the process of rewritting my fvwm-guide to be more percise and update some of the stuff that has changed in the development branch of FVWM. I am also hoping to be able to provide the guide as a single tar file so people can download it and view it locally. It also has a nice stylesheet. Once I get it finished I will put it up there.

Besides working with the guide I have been messing with my FVWM setup. I have wrote a nice perl script that I use as a frontend to mplayer (my media player). This gives me a nice little widget I have on my desktop to play any media (music and video) that mplayer supports (almost everything except some crazy win32 only crap).

Besides that I have just been working, doing some coding for the MindTime Project, taking Archimedes for walks and sitting around being me, what ever the hell that is.

I am in the process of updated how zensites deals with session managment. The basic thing is instead of using my own sessoin managment abilities by calling the database each load to figure out who the user is, I take adavantage of the default session managment. The difference is the data is stored on a file instead of within the database. This just saves on system load due to the fact I do not need to call the database as much as it is far easier to store and recall data from within a file.

Some things may not be working, please let me know any bugs you may find. Thank you.

Still finding some blogs and trying to work though some navigation design to clean up some of the chopiness of the site and give it a smoother feel. Now that I got the major pieces up and working it is now just a manner of fine tuning the parts I like.