I'm Jay, the 15 year old creator of this site. Currently, I'm a sophomore at LHS and I heart graphic design. I like to share my artwork and thoughts hence the purpose of this site. I'm not that interesting, but you can always - Oct05
ThisFiasco: Topic of Debate
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Just when I thought I was getting back to my blogging habits, time grabbed me by the arm, swung me around (8 times) and threw me back a few feet, struggling to take a step like a gust of wind was holding me back.
Grr, I hate being away for too long, well - at least not updating you guys about what’s going on in my life. After all, that is just part of my purpose for this site. What have you? Anyway, things have been rather odd in the Fiasco Atmosphere as I like to call it. My site grabbed the attention of some people and it has its perks of being recognized let me tell you.
Apparently, my site was featured on two websites. Both being sites that “show case” I guess relatively good sites. I should be proud? Well, yeah I am, sort of. 
I like that people like my site and all, but it made me realize just how competitive, or should I say significant having a really good site is if you plan on being part of cyber space. Personally, if I’m happy with my site that’s all that matters, but of course I yearn for any suggestions, improvements and the like. Lately, with time, I’ve rushed a lot of things just to keep up so now I’m apologizing since I haven’t really done my best with providing quality tutorials, and such. I’m going to get better.
The two sites I were featured on were RetroFreak and RooDesigns. Both fairly amazing sites I might add. In fact, Roo is one designer I’ve followed for a long time and use her site for a lot of reasons.. thanks Roo! Her design site show cases sites that people feel are popular or deserve to be recognized. Thanks to an affie of mine, I was one of them. Well, my site got tons of comments on the “review” part of the posts. Two fellow webmasters had a small clash or disagreement about my site and I was just shocked, confused and entertained by the whole bit. They’re small debate about my site lasted for quite some time. Try to spot the humor in between! 
Read the comments about my site by clicking here. Don’t be shy to leave one either.
If you read them, you’ll see that both of the main commentators have very different views about my site, yet I agree with both of them. So here is the deal: I will be changing the layout again, re-doing some pages and possibly adding things. I guess it’s a revamp, but not really. I just want to make the site better, and hopefully gain attention to other sites like the ones mentioned above. It’s about time I stepped up my game and put a little more effort into my site. Just look out for the changes.
A quick note about my life: I got a hair cut after ages. I like the way it looks now and I have a few waves. 
I had an interview on Saturday with the CYL (Clayton Youth Leaders) and I think I nailed it! Note: CYL is different that GHP so, that’s another story. I went to a football game, missed two parties and have a lot of work to do this week. The “revamp” will be done sometime before Halloween. I will try to blog at least once this week, so guys check back on a regular. You just never know when I might change something!
- Sep29
Operation Get Serious!
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First off, I want to make it aware that this is the first time in a long time that I’ve blogged two days in a row. Yes, please go ahead and stand on your toes and give me a round of applause, I surely deserve it!
It’s not like I have anything major to talk about, but I did say once I found out more about the government honors thing I’d tell you all about it. So, yeah. Today myself and a bunch of others who were nominated received a pass to to go to the counselors office instead of the last period of the day. I was angry because I had a test to take in that class, but it turned out I didn’t have to take that test. Any way, we all met in the faculty dining room. The lady told us what it was all about and it’s a very good thing to be a part of I must say.
So basically GHP or should I say Government Honors Program is when teachers nominate select students based on academic achievement, passion for a particular subject and everything of the like. Now, typically it’s expected that you get nominated for one subject. Fortunately I was nominating for three subjects: English (Literature), Science (Chemistry) and History. I was shocked to find out out of all the people were there, I was the only one to have three nominations. Unfortunately, we can only select one of the subjects to focus on. Well, once you choose (if you have a choice) your subject of expertise, you have to submit an application. Please note: these applications are a lot tougher and rigorous than the typical college application, so with that being said you should already perceive that this program is very prestigious and elite.
If you application makes it pass the county review, you will be put up for an interview. All in all, you’ll be trying to outshine and have a better application and interview than the other students of the state. The way the interview runs varies depending on your subject. Finally, if you’re selected out of all that made it to the interview you will be officially apart of the program and the program consists of taking enrichment classes at a College (Valdosta College to be exact) and live in a college dorm for 6 weeks with with the rest of the honorees. The actual program takes place during the summer.
That’s pretty much it. Now is the time I really get serious and ensure that I go far in the “competition.” I really am going to chose my subject wisely and hope I make it all the way to State! If I do it’d really make me believe that I do have the potential to succeed at pretty much anything. 
A guy who made it it all the way from our school told us that it’s really a fun program and before it’s over you won’t want to leave and you’ll have a new out look on school work and such. There are a lot of activities that happen while there and even better it looks great on your college application. It is very prestigious and wonderful. Wish me luck, and I’ll keep you guys posted.
Updates: Icon textures, 1 HTML Tutorial
Set Seventeen
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A tutorial was requested to lean how to center layouts view it here.
Now that I’ve blogged for the second day, I’m going to order a pizza make an attempt to do my homework and study for the three tests I have tomorrow. 
Oh joy. Thanks for all the comments last post, I’m glad so far people are fond of the new layout! Keep them coming.
