Sunday, October 20, 2002
Once again |11:07 AM| Back at work. Half of the 10/19 entry was written while various drivers were loading, so if it seemed more disjointed than usual, that's why. The servers here are such tremendous pains in the ass.
I happened to catch "Spirited Away" last night, and I enjoyed it. I did realize something that I probably should have noticed a while back. A lot of the Miyazaki animes are definitely geared towards a much younger crowd. Spirited Away, Porco Rosso both have a distinct lack of more "adult" themes, no one dies, and the level of tension is never beyond what child or young teen could handle. True, they are exceptionally well done, and can be appreciated as such, but they are still for children. Not to say films like "Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind of the Bugs of the Moss" and Princess Mononoke are geared towards kids as well, they are the more adult offerings.
Oh! Spirited Away had no overwhelming, heavy handed ecological message. A lot of the Miyazaki films seem to have a very obvious statement that can sometimes be distracting. It's as if you want to say "Yeah...we get it...yeah, I heard you the first time"

It occurs to me that I might be stagnating again, since I'm pretty sure I'm starting to repeat myself. Well, besides the obvious repetition of stagnation.
Now I'm just waiting for Vid to get done dealing with time sheets so we can go haul printers around. Oh, speaking of hauling around, I helped a friend move last night. Oh, hell, back to work.


Alright, now that it's 10:30pm, I can finish this.
Well, maybe I can't. I can't even remember what I wanted to expound upon, much less....expound upon it.
ewwwww.

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We need one created for the years, and then the months. The months are the /////tricky ones, since they need their ID to increase more than the years, but since the functions keep referencing ///// the same name system, we have to be careful not to make the years close up when we click on a month. ///Set some Variables $YearMenuID = 1; /////What ID the preceding year link controls. Needs to be same for all the months under a given year. $MonthMenuID= 1; ////What ID the preceding month link controls. Needs to be the same for all the weeks under a given ////Month but not the same as any year, etc. $LastYearUsed = 0; $LastMonthUsed = 0; echo '

'; /////That should be the "Year" div. All the years should be in this one DIV. ///Start the main loop. foreach ($myDateArray as $key => $value) { ////Pulling the year/date. $month = ExtractMonth($value); $year = ExtractYear($value); $YearMenuID = $year; $MonthMenuID = $month; $PrettyMonth = $MyDateArray[$month]; ////Is this a new year? If ($year != $LastYearUsed) ///Then we need to put the year down. No DIV created quite yet. { ///First off, we need to close the preceding year's DIV. Twice if it ain't 2001 if ($year != 2001) { echo '

'; } echo '

$myDateArray[$key]

_HTML2_; ///That creates a DIV for the year (month based links) then the month (week based links). ////Then the first weekly link. ///That should have made a link to the weekly archive file. ///As well as creating the first month link, which is in its own DIV, } Else { ///Okay, it's not a new year. So, we need to check if it's a new month. If($month != $LastMonthUsed) { //So it's a new month. That means we need to put down a link for the month to control the div //that contains the weekly links. //First, though, we need to close up the previous month echo '

$myDateArray[$key]

_HTML3_; } Else /////////So it's not a new month, then we just need to put down the weekly link. { echo '

' . $myDateArray[$key] . '

'; } } $LastMonthUsed = $month; $LastYearUsed = $year; } ECHO '