Dan's Blog

To all my thousands of readers out there... HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!! As you might have noticed we have another new feature to my website, a new author. Yippy now I'm not the only one who can forget to post things here ;) Please give a warm welcome to my girlfriend Natalie. She is going to wow us with her distinct insights that come by virtue of her unique heritage of being Canadian. Yup that's right folks a real live Canuck writing for my little ole website. Try not to stare. Well TTFN, and oh yeah BOO... hehe got ya.

Happy Halloween! Does anyone know where Hallween started? In Ireland! Here is a neat little fact about Halloween in Ireland: A traditional food eaten on Halloween is barnbrack, a kind of fruitcake. It is a muslin-wrapped treat is baked inside the cake that, it is said, can foretell the eater's future. If a ring is found, it means that the person will soon be wed; a piece of straw means that a prosperous year is on its way. Anyway, there is your new fact for the day! Whatever you do, enjoy! More interesting Halloween History

As you may have noticed I have just done a complete overhaul of my site. I liked the old look, it served me well, but was far to inflexible. This site has been brought up to "state of the art" web standards and as it stands now uses NO image files on the main page, and yet has a slick multicolor interface with all kinds of neat effects. To accomplish this the site is now written using XHTML for the content and CSS for the layout... HUH ??? That's gibberish to most, but what it means is the layout of the page is now separate from the content. This allows me to easily change the layout (fonts, colors, positions of things, etc) without having to make those changes in a million places on a bunch of pages. It's now all in one place, my template file , take a look.

Yippy, we are finaly getting Simpsons Movies , you know you want it....