@_@ The bugs... in those JQuery exercises... were horrible...
(But it WAS hilarious that the exercise focusing on tabbed menus had a nearly course-breaking error with its tabs. Thank goodness for the Q&A Forums.)

Anyway, now I can try PHP and Projects!

And 49% on Python. Hooray!

It's amazing how much time in the day one has when one's incentivized. >_>

Currently reviewing HTML on Codecademy.
Have done 20 reps of a minor exercise today.
Reached L2 on Habit RPG.
(Incidentally, I beat a battle on Shining Force. Main character, darn you, stop gaining MP! You have ONE spell used to reset battles, and it costs 8 MP! You do NOT need anything higher than that, much less 12 MP!)

Want to play a quick hand of Blackjack? Right this way!

...I hadn't hit any Challenges for a while. :) I like the Challenges. They actually make me do something useful.

(*cringes* Meanwhile, I take a hit of 4.6/50 HP points on Habit RPG because I blew off my Dailies and other Habits to do 3x "Codecademy: 20 lesson" Habit entries. Damnit. That'll teach me to procrastinate...)

Given my amazing powers of procrastination-creativity, that should impel me to cure cancer, reinvent the toilet, and do all my academic work within the week. >_>

Also, who do I have to lightly slap with a fish at Codecademy to get the site to stop going into "Disconnected. Please try again." fits? Because it keeps spitting those out at random, and it's a little annoying. (Hmm, seems to have cleared up... That's good. Must have been a server issue.)

Man, this course is quick...

By the way, have you tried out the beta Create Entries page on Dreamwidth? It will look hideous at first, so you need to hit the gear icon on the top bar to modify your options and drag around the various panels.

This is freaking revolutionary. If they would only *COUGH*add the rich text editor*COUGH*, I'd be in journaling heaven.

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Also, according to the Authentic Happiness site, my top strengths are:
Your Top Strength
Creativity, ingenuity, and originality
Thinking of new ways to do things is a crucial part of who you are. You are never content with doing something the conventional way if a better way is possible.

Your Second Strength
Love of learning
You love learning new things, whether in a class or on your own. You have always loved school, reading, and museums-anywhere and everywhere there is an opportunity to learn.

Your Third Strength
Humor and playfulness
You like to laugh and tease. Bringing smiles to other people is important to you. You try to see the light side of all situations.

Your Fourth Strength
Judgment, critical thinking, and open-mindedness
Thinking things through and examining them from all sides are important aspects of who you are. You do not jump to conclusions, and you rely only on solid evidence to make your decisions. You are able to change your mind.

Your Fifth Strength
Kindness and generosity
You are kind and generous to others, and you are never too busy to do a favor. You enjoy doing good deeds for others, even if you do not know them well.

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So I'm a loony nerd with a sense of humor, a tendency to overthink things, and... a great deal of generosity? Well, the first four fall under the category of "me and three-quarters of the Internet". Fifth... eheheh, before you congratulate me too much, you should take the test yourself and see what other strengths didn't make the top five. You know, little things like diligence, self-control, optimism*, forgiveness...

*My scores on an optimism test basically said that I think good and bad things are equally fleeting, that good events are caused by certain factors, and bad things pervade everything around them. ...The classical sources agree with me. :B *dodges bricks*

The indifferent news is that it will have to be kept all on one page due to, ehem, my strong commitment to the internet 'How Much Can I Legally* Get Without Paying Anything?' ethos. >_>

That's actually TIME-SAVING, though, since the original project did have it all smushed together.

*Had to add this after realizing the original 'How Much Can I Get Without Paying Anything?' had unfortunate implications in the piracy era.


...And if I ever redo Dragon Fighter, I will forcibly disable the buttons until each flash is over. Despite the warning in the 'manual', I always end up making myself a bit ill with my rapid clicking. :\

Anyway, here it is, in case Codecademy ever dumps its cached projects.

I should update the Angelfire site further, but I'm really not feeling like it right now. :\ Sorry. The process of updating the HTML is... rather painful, since Dreamwidth/LiveJournal no longer automatically add <br/>s and Angelfire has an atheistic attitude towards plaintext linebreaks, but things may improve now that I've found this site, which automates such modifications. (Yes, I manually added <br/>s to all of the How James Got His Mojo Back sporking. That may explain a bit as to what temporarilly broke my will to update Angelfire.)

More online education courses should be motivated with points, percentages, and lots of shiny badges. >_> Also... I'm mousing around through free website hosting to see if I can host things off of Codecademy. Pardon me, but I'm acutely nervous about the long-term hosting capacities of an educational website. :\ Now, just a moment, I'm trying something.

Edit: ...Okay, disregard that. Apparently Dreamwidth is solidly allergic to in-post forms, even if it seems to allow it initially. I'm tempted to try Dragon Fighter, but let's just say I'm cynical about the whole mess.

...Tried it in a private entry. Cynicism justified. :P Free website hosting it is.
Webs doesn't permit Javascript, but Yola and Angelfire (?) seem to do so, so I'm planning on moseying on over to Angelfire. If that doesn't work, I'll jump to Yola.
[Why Angelfire? Because I know there are Angelfire pages that haven't been touched for years - probably over a decade, in some cases - and yet are still up. So they definitely don't delete for inactivity or go on arbitrary deletion rampages. I consider this a very good thing, so I'm siding with them first.]

...*resists the urge to sob with nostalgia* I just found one, on an unrelated search, that lists dates from 2001 as upcoming release dates. I feel so old. But my inner nine-year-old feels so validated. All hail the ETERNAL Internet!

(...Also, for all that I mock and dislike LiveJournal's changes, I appreciate its free image hosting. ...Thanks, LiveJournal. Nutty though you are... thanks.)

On a more amusing note, check out a guide on Everything Done Wrong In Bad Webpages. That's not quite the name, but that's certainly its intent. :)

YA Paranormal Romance Blurb Generator

Come on, come all! Don't you want to see your brilliant Mad Libs abomination totally original plot? :)

Here's an example of a possible blurb:( Come on, take a look! :D )

( C-Codecademy, did you REALLY mean to put that in as your example? )


...So, I think the exercise managed to accidentally give the entire page-source as its "example". 

Uh. Well, that was educational...
(No, I didn't read the whole thing. I probably WOULD learn an enormous amount if I read through it all, but - um - AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!)