.December.28.2002.: Wow...time sure is fast...after Christmas we now have News Years to celebrate! .

Anyway, I've made some more cosmetic changes to my site. The most obvious is the header image that you see on every page. Well, if you are a new visitor, I had the same image previously but it didn't have the "sketch" effect on it.... I think it looks cool now (plus, the original header image was about 20KB -- , the current one above right now is just 14KB). Another change is the background. Instead of the plain dark greenish blue color, I've made a stripe (look closely) image for the background. It gives a better aesthetic ambience to overall site design (or so I think )....

Those of you who visit here regularly (just in case there really are regular visitors...) will notice also that I have removed my plan to write a DirectInput tutorial in the tutorials page. This is because, as most of you might have known already, DirectX9.0 has been released. And I don't know yet what has been added/changed to DirectInput in DX9.0...and I don't have any plans to write a tutorial for an old version of DirectX....

Overall, I'm happy with the direction that my site is heading (thanks to those that have given their suggestions and encouragements!). This site is starting to look and function A-OK!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

.December.24.2002.: Added another minor addition to the look of the site...I placed border on the body table of every page.... Also, I've placed some image links to popular websites on the Internet. Check it out.

That's all for now. Tomorrow is Christmas! .

.December.18.2002.: Wow, Christmas is near...just a few more days to go! . (I do not have the right smiley image/icon at the moment, hence the rolling-smiley icon... ).

Added a new header of my site on top. I think that header adds a better over-all look to my site. I have also added some pop-up text on my menu (go ahead, put your mouse over the menu on the right)...I used the free Overlib code. I forgot the URL where to download it at the moment, I'll update you where to grab this Overlib code again soon. The code was written by Erik Bosrup.

I have also noticed that my first math tutorial didn't look right when viewed with Netscape or Mozilla browsers. After some lengthy investigation (ie, 15 minutes ), I discovered it was because I am using Unicode characters in the tutorial...and it seems Netscape / Mozilla browsers don't show 'em like Opera and IE do....

I'll update the tutorial when I have time ASAP, changing the theta character into 'Q' (hey, it's the closest looking character in the alphabet -- for me at least), and the less than equal than character to '<='.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU GUYS!

.December.14.2002.: Uploaded today my first math tutorial, it's an introduction to vectors. Head over to my tutorials section and check it out...

I got myself an award today, it's the 2002-2003 Golden Web Awards! . I was fortunate enough for people to vote for my site to have won this, so if you're one of those who voted for me and reading this: THANK YOU!

Exams are finally over, I'm hoping I get good grades...

I'll get started with the texturemapping tutorial ASAP, now that "school-stress" is out of the way (FYI: I write my tutorials at night, so it might take a few days for it to finish).

That's all, keep signing my guestbook! Suggestions and everything may be posted on my forums also. Thanks!

.December.11.2002.: Added a new guestbook to my site! The link to my guestbook is found on the right side of the screen. Sign in and post anything (comments, reactions, suggestions, etc.) -- no profanities please......let's keep things good to the eyes of everyone...

I have updated Part13 of my tutorial a bit (in fact, the update is somewhat negligible -- I just changed an "a" to "that"...hehe). I also have updated the .css, making codes and the quote below have dotted and dashed border, respectively.

You will also notice that I have made another minor cosmetic change to this News Page, this is so that my past news can be viewed by visitors...

That's all. I have an exam to study....

.December.10.2002.: I now have a huge burden off my shoulder...the interpreter that we were required to submit as our project in school went better than I expected (my part interpreted the code A-OK...but the original language was trimmed down a bit due to lack of time)...except for the bug in one of my groupmate's module (some error in semantic analysis), I hope we got an OK score...that project really took a lot out of me (NOTE TO SELF: DON'T CRAM NEXT TIME!)

Anyway, this week is our finals week in school. This means I won't be starting any new tutorials until next week or so. I've also started (a good many days ago) in what will be a 3D math tutorial series in my site...so watch out for it...

I have a new 88x31px link-back button (courtesy of Trinh Nguyen -- thanks dude!). You can now link back to my site with that button, grab it on my links page....

As always, if anyone of you wants to reciprocate (aka swap) links with me, please say so.... Or if you have any news that you want me to post on my site, feel free to let me know...how? Just post in my forum (or send me a private message there). Thanks!