I found an awesome animated collapse/expand script by Harry Maugans which I've started implementing everywhere possible (including Notes).

My script differs a bit from the original one in the tutorial, though. First of all, it uses a toggle link instead of separate collapse/expand links, which also change between i.e. Add/Cancel, depending on the display state (block or none).

Another modification is dynamic heights (thanks to a comment in the article by user haxan). The original script requires you to define the height of of the stuff you want hidden, making it impossible to have any kind of dynamic content in the divs.

But the most interesting modification is the animation. The original animation is linear, essentially meaning that it adds the same amount of pixels to the height every second.

Now to be honest, this is kinda dull. I found a comment by the user JoeX where he's modified the animation function to use a simple exponential equation (pic. to the right).

Still, this doesn't look very nice either, since the div starts by expanding slowly and accelerates until it's reached its destined height. A much nicer method would be a negative quadratic equation or in my case 1.1x/(x+0.1) as seen in the picture to the left. This gives a relatively quick "punchy" start which gradually slows down.

You can see the new script in action when expanding most of the hidden divs on the website and also on Notes.

I've added support for BBCode on both the article and comment section and also stripped all HTML support in the comments. Hopefully this will make both writing articles and comments, and sharing codes and scripts much easier.

The current supported BBCode tags are as follows:
italic
bold
underline
http://www.aresdb.com
Designer Chateau
code();

Exclusive for articles
[img]

I'll probably add some more tags later.

Update: Added commenting with. Basically making content invisible.

I found some great songs to test out my speaker system's bass! Check out Techmaster P.E.B.'s song Bassgasm. AMAZING. I've never heard so much bass in my life.

BTW, the song is also called "THX - Ultimate Subwoofer Test"

We started getting spam in the comment sections (at least one per day). I almost feel proud that a bot actually found our blog, considering no one actually visits this website. Now, even though it might be flattering and pretty funny to actually get spam on your comment system, it still has to be solved.

I went down to business and searched the web for a while until I found a pretty decent CAPTCHA image generation script. However, it was a bit simple so I had to do some modifying.

While trying to implement the new CAPTCHA script, I stumbled upon a few problems. Luckily, Bandit was online so I asked him for help (I had to study so I couldn't waste any more time on it.)

Now the CAPTCHA system is up and working correctly, and we can finally get some sleep without having to worry about any more spam. =D

I've been thinking lately about what the future is going to hold for me. I've been doing some research on colleges that have the "Networking and Systems Administration" option as a major. So far, I've only found two possible colleges. The first one I found is R.I.T. (Rochester Institute of Technology) and the second one I found is M.T.U. (Michigan Tech).

The good thing, however, is that I can definitely picture myself as a System Admin. Something about it just seems like the dream job for me. Well, time to start on my homework. More to come.