Archive for October, 2008

…or maybe not.

October 29th, 2008

Well… my Border Hopping trip is delayed again!

If you read the last post you noticed that Abbott Pointe Apartments was responsible for my delay by towing my car even though they gave me permission to park.  Guess what?  They did it again!  Can you believe it?  I couldn’t.  This time I wasn’t even parking overnight.  I was only visiting my girlfriend and was parked for less than 5 hours (!!!) before I was towed–again.

You can read more about this story, Abbott Pointe Apartments (part 1), and Auburn Place Apartments (part 2) over at the Border Hopping blog.  Yay.

Update: Since I was one of many having problems with DTN I’ve created a gripe site that aims to bring attention to the problems with their apartments.

The act of Border Hopping

October 28th, 2008

Visit http://www.borderhopping.com/

My friends already know that I’ve been planning to leave on a trip around the United States for some time.  Well, that time has finally come–and this time, nothing is going to stop me.

To those that don’t know, I will be leaving on a yearlong trip around the United States.  I was supposed to leave today but thanks to Abbott Pointe Apartments I have been delayed until tomorrow.  But come tomorrow, I’m leaving and not looking back until this time next year!

While I’m on the road I will have full access to email, web pages, and other technology so this isn’t a vacation, but instead an experiment.

You can learn more about my trip and follow along as I make my way around the United States at Border Hopping.com.

An Easy Fix for a Minor Annoyance When Creating Widgets or Shareable Content

October 11th, 2008

For the last couple days I’ve been dabbling with creating a Javascript that will allow visitors to one of my websites to embed my content in their sites.  (It’s done and you can check it out at http://www.angieshealth.com/article-widget/)

To make it easier on my visitors when copying and pasting the code I decided to use Javascript to select all the code when they click on the textbox.
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