I've set aside my usual lunch of tuna on salad for a similarly healthy, but much more tasty meal of reheated Bul-gogi, Gim bap, Gimchi and steamed rice. No, this isn't take-out Korean, it's homemade Asian goodness - in Tupperware.

Amy and I have been talking to our neighbor Kun Suk about the differences between American culture and Korean culture for a while. Kun has been trying to explain how different American food was from Korean foods and last night we finally got to experience those differences in all their culinary goodness. Amy cooked up a typical American meal, and Kun's wife (Hye Song) prepared a Korean meal, and we had their family (complete with their 2 boys) over for a feast of international proportion.

For our half of the meal, Amy made Chicken Marsala, served over farfalle pasta with a spinach salad and Garlic Bread. Yea, yea, mostly Italian, but it's a favorite in our house. Hye Song brought Bul-gogi, (translated: firemeat) a Korean marinated meat dish; Gim bap, Sushi-like rolls of rice, vegetables, and crabmeat; Gimchi, a very spicy fermented cabbage dish; and steamed rice. Both of our families had a great time, and at the end of the evening, we exchanged recipes and leftovers.

Nathan Bird, one of the brilliant programmers here at acceleration came up with a new bookmarklet/favelet that he calls Link Runaway. You can only use it in a browser that works (ie. Firefox) but it's great fun! I don't consider myself a programmer by any means, but I changed the bookmarklet code to make divs runaway instead of links. It doesn't do much for most sites, but it's pretty fun playing with it on my site.

Try it out: Click Here (When Done, Click Refresh!)

My plans for a complete redesign of this site are still on the backburner for now as I wait patiently for my current hosting plan to run out, but that doesn't mean I've completely abandoned all personal projects. My latest goal has been to produce a database driven website for the Young Marrieds group at my church. I want to create a site that will allow each couple to maintain personal info for the other young marrieds to see, and provide a central place to post news and events. For the news and events side of the site, I'm relying on blogger. I would have used the code I created for this blog, but blogger will make it much easier for the not so tech-savvvy folks to get in on the action. Blogger also helps because I can start with a basic css layout from the templates section rather than creating a design from scratch while I'm trying to work out the database of the site. For the whole database/user authentication/content management thing I'm starting from scratch with a custom php/MySQL solution. To see where I'm at so far, goto http://youngmarrieds.jasongraphix.com. It's been a while since I've done any of this, so right now I'm just taking baby steps. These may not be the accepted programming way of doing things, but the necessary steps that I see in getting this bird up in the air. Remember: I am not a programmer.

• Step 1: Plan out the relational database.
• Step 2: Plan out how I want to display the information on the pages.
• Step 3: Create pages for users to create/update their couple profiles - and if they are admin, allow them to edit group information.
• Step 4: Secure all pages that are not public access with a user authentication system.
• Step 5: Create pages to query the database by useful search strings.

Today marks Amy and I's one year anniversary! TO celebrate, we left last Friday and went to St. Augustine for a romantic weekend of historic tours, fine dining, and Geocaching! For lots of fun pictures go to amesnjas.com, click on the polaroid button at the bottom, then 1st Anniversary Vacation.

Some of you may not understand the usefulness of this at all. For those of you who develop websites, I think you will. I was considering installing Virtual PC or some other shell type program so that I could run Windows 98 on my Windows XP machine here at work so that I could in turn test websites in IE 5.5. You cannot run an older version of IE on a computer with IE6, and we have no computers in the office running anything less than XP. This would have been a horrendous waste of time, but I figured having the ability to test websites in the browser with the 3rd largest market share would make it worthwhile.

After a little bit of research however, I found standalone versions of IE 3.0, 4.01, 5.01 SP2, and 5.5 SP2 at skyzyx.com. Now I can surf the web with the worst broser of all time - Internet Explorer 3! Yay.

Every once in a while I enjoy taking a look at the usage statistics for Jasongraphix. This really is just a teeny porfolio/blog site that I maintain, but it's really interesting to see how, when, and why people end up here. Particulary useful is the top search strings. Just to give you an idea, here are some of the searches that actually brought people here.

• wedding invitation kerning
• mike gatton
• sears lil crafty
• crayola cerulean
• campus crusade for christ ucf
• backbooth directions
• publix prices
• iridescence
• men of metal hoax
• tb400-3355
• monkey cactus
• print magazine
• malebag
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• nesdrive
• grungy web design
• logodesign for free
• funky monkey graphic
• lords and ladies haberdashery
• webdesign bbs

I love this stuff. I need more obscure references in my site for people to find me by... words like phrontistery, grandiloquent, and spodogenous. That way someone looking for information on causes of waste material in an organ will be rerouted to this very blog entry. I pity you...whoever you are.