Posted by Peter on December 24th, 2007
Merry Christmas to all my readers! Here is a special desktop wallpaper that I designed this morning as a Christmas present to you. The photo was taken by me last Christmas. I hope you enjoy it!
To download this wallpaper, right click on the resolution you want below and choose “Save Target As” or “Save Link As.”
800 x 600 | 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 800 | 1280 x 960 | 1600 x 1200
Posted by Peter on December 21st, 2007
This past week marked the first birthday of my site, PeterAnglea.com (I know because I had to renew my hosting fees). Here’s a rundown of some of the things that went on in my neck of the web this year.
- 47 posts and 87 comments.
- 1,385 spam comments.
- thousands more link spam.
- 1 site design revision
Other notable accomplishments/projects hosted here were:
- My first WordPress plugin, wpSermons. This is a plugin intended for use in church websites that use WordPress to manage their content. It allows users to easily add mp3 sermons to their website at any time for all to listen to and download. Since its launch in May of ‘07 it has been downloaded about 500 times and is being used on multiple church websites here in America and around the world (and even some non-church websites that found the audio uploader to be just what they were looking for). In fact, I saw one person who make his own audio plugin based off of mine. I thought that was cool.
- BJU Online March Madness Bracket Content. I had about 20-25 people join in on a March Madness bracket contest for BJ students/faculty/staff. Everyone paid an entrance fee and the money went entirely to the BJU Bible Conference offering which helped to pay for the completion of the parking garage as well as the new entrance to front campus. Participants logged into the site to set up their brackets and view their progress as the contest progressed.
- BJU Coffee Tycoon. This is probably my best programming achievement to date. I’ll let the site speak for itself, but here’s a little info. Between 80-100 different students (about 50 at the most at one time) were playing this game where the object to sell more coffee on BJU campus than your competitors. The game is played in real-time during the course of the semester. You choose a location on campus to be and start selling coffee. Campus events dictate which spot on campus is more popular at any given time. It’s a strategy game where you must determine what to sell, how much to sell it for, and where to sell it at while at the same time keeping an eye on your competition and using your profits wisely to outfit your coffee stand with “enhancements” that attract more people to buy from you. It was a lot of fun and I’ve talked to several people that told me they spent a few hours strategizing with their friends as to how best to play the game. They were very competitive to say the least! The best part is that it’s not time consuming as you might expect. If you’re a BJU student, try it out next semester. It will continue to run in future semesters as long as people like playing it.
All in all, not a bad year for PeterAnglea.com. I hope you enjoy reading this site as much as I enjoy putting stuff on it.
Posted by Peter on December 13th, 2007
If you want to take a digital photo of any decent quality, a 1 Megapixel cell phone camera is probably not the best way to go. BUT, for those instances when humor comes your way unexpectedly and a real camera is not to be found . . . they do the trick pretty well.
I present to you now “The Best of Peter Anglea’s Camera Phone 2007.”
You can see some more of my less humorous phone pics here.
Posted by Peter on December 12th, 2007
That’s right, the word for today is w00t! It’s also the word of the year for 2007. From Merriam-Webster.com:
1. w00t (interjection)
expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay”
w00t! I won the contest!
I will now use the word w00t in a few sample sentences:
“W00t! I got out of school a week early!”
“W00t! I can finally use Facebook and Twitter now!”
“W00t! It’s going to snow this week!”
Update: Yes people, the word is spelled with two zeros, not two o’s. It’s hard to tell with the font I use on this site.
