I have often thought about making movies and writing stories and all the rest. It has led me to notice things in films that I had never picked up on before. What comes to mind is an ending scene in a movie where there are two characters standing next to one another each of them holding a cup of coffee. The cups of coffee (well probably tea considering the movie, and no I am not going to say what the film was so there =-þ) cause the viewer to connect the two in a much closer fashion than would ordinarily be the case. I thought it was interesting.

I would be upset by noticing things like this except I usually don’t unless I have seen the film several times.

The reason I was watching the film YET again is because I like having something in the background while I code and I have spent most of the day writing php. Not for homework as I should have been, nor was it for a job as would of been nice but just for myself which is the best of all. Evidently I do like to code. I am in the process of making a database driven wish list for me, my family, and my friends to use. I decided this way we wouldn’t have to keep doing the whole “what do you want for your birthday/holiday?” crap. It’ll be great. The things it needs are:

  • Individual user log ins
  • anonymous ‘purchased’ notification
  • easy item updating

and for the future:

  • Email notification for list updates
  • maybe an RSS feed instead of that

So far this whole thing has been kind of fun. It is enjoyable setting up the DB and the connections and learning about PHP and java script. These are all things I think I should have learned in school but we didn’t. All in all the programing curriculum at CSUCI is some what lacking.