Signed Up For School
Posted by Jowlstar on Aug 30, 2005
So I go to the school to sign up and I end up sitting there for a hour and a half, finally my name was called. Then my schedule was changed about 3 times but then it finally was good and I didn’t really check it. I had gotten to meet many of my friends there and it was fun. So then my Mom takes a look at it and goes Jowl you got 2 science classes in 1 semester and I go well that shouldn’t be but I didn’t really mind because I had really waited a long time for the schedule. Aside from that it was a good morning and I say to myself why can’t I wake up at 4:00 am.
I missed me and ChefTD’s workout this morning but we are going later tonight, tomorrow is a challenge for myself to get up and be ready to go by 5:00am so we can workout. Back to my schedule I got Earth Science fist period, then health, and then I have Applied math, and last but not least Biology. I struck out on my classes because I wasn’t fast enough to really get in on the ones that I needed so that made me have to switch in and out of classes but I am fine with it and will enjoy starting school on Thursday. Also today I looked at some blogs that I liked that provided some information on hurricane Katrina and some other cool stuff.
No sound autoplaying onload please
Posted by ChefTD on Aug 30, 2005
One of the most annoying things for a website to do is to have sound immediately play when you first visit the site. It’s like blinking text and very rarely, if ever, should be done on the homepage of a blog. The quickest way to make me click away from a website is to put music or sound effects — especially midi files — to play when the homepage of the site is visited.
Now when does this make sense? On pages where you tell the surfer that music will play onload, artist/band official webpages might want to play music onload. A movie/TV show official website.
These audio ads that play (via Flash) inside news articles are annoying too. So if you want to annoy and alienate your new site visitor, just make sure you add some sound that autoplays when the person comes to the homepage.