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After my somber post from earlier, I needed to cheer up a bit. What better way to get happy then by reading a bit o’ Harry Potter news.
I checked in on all of the fan sites and read the latest rag. I also found this super neat HP button. Love [...]

I was still sorta in shock so I didn’t write anything yesterday…but now the shock has worn off.
I got out of the car yesterday and headed into work. My building is a 42 story high rise in downtown. As I entered the lobby, I saw a large group of people carrying boxes, it [...]

Oh my gosh….this site is so funny yet oddly disturbing. Check out Stuff on my Cat. Who thinks this stuff up?

*Listening to:* Annie Lennox “Bare”

Wow, the Superdome is taking a major hit from Katrina apparently. I’ve heard that New Orleans is seeing some major flooding but haven’t been able to confirm that online (and ya know it ain’t true until it’s on the net). ;)
Ever bite the inside of your cheek while your sleeping? [...]

*Listening to:* Coldplay “X&Y”

Wow. Cars sorta suck. We took Goldie, my 1999 Honda Accord, in for her scheduled maintenance today. Her brakes were squealing a bit, too so I had them take a gander at those while she was there. The result? $525.00 later, Goldie’s maintenance is complete and she [...]

Little Slugger? Nah. I’m wearing one of Travis’ old uniforms just to be cool.

Here’s little Piggy eating Cheetos with Travy.

Little autumnal baby.  He he.  That’s me.

Here I with my older brother Travis.

Here I am (the one with the dart on his forehead) at about 18 months.

I scanned a bunch of childhood pictures tonight, think I’ll post a few.

Ain’t I a cutie? :) This is my with my Aunt Terri.

Little Ryan with Aunt Terri.

It’s official: Google is trying to take over the world. Over the past few years, the numero uno search engine has expanded it’s potential coup by devouring several important, open source fledgling companies.
Mainly, I’m talking about their acquisition of the #1 free weblog provider, Blogger.
But did they stop there? Noooo. Google has [...]

*Listening to:* Lifehouse “Lifehouse”

I’m feeling a bit blue today. Down in the dumps. Sad in the noggin. Dunno why really. My birthday’s coming up and I always get a lil’ low around it; It makes me take stock of my life and make me think about what I’ve accomplished. I [...]

Heading out pretty quick but I wanted to sing the praises of an online service that I adore. Color Schemer is an online tool that converts Hex and RGB values into the actual color. For those unfamiliar with web design, every color you see has a numeric value (like white, for example, is [...]

Nothing to say, just a picture of a purty flower growing in our backyard.

*Listening to:* Jack Johnson “In Between Dreams”

It’s 8:31 AM on Sunday and I’ve been up for about an hour as the rest of the house slumbers on. I have a pretty reliable internal clock; at about 7:00 Am every morning, I wake up (whether I want to or not). It’s great of you [...]

If you can’t tell, I’m at it again! The previous design for this site was cute-ish but not so great looking when you’re using an alternate and obscure browser. So, I spent the past couple days trying to come up with a design that was simple, elegant and cohesive across all browser platforms. [...]

Click on the picture to see my Flickr set for this week. Here’s the rainbow that was hovering over our house on Thursday evening. It’s sorta hard to make out in the photo but it was bright and beautiful in person. They say a rainbow over your house is good luck, let’s hope [...]

My name is Ryan Arrowsmith and I live in Oklahoma, USA. For the most part, I’m your average mid-american yank; I love God, I love my country and I believe in the democratic system. But I’m also pretty liberal when it comes down to it. I took the world’s smallest political quiz [...]

Hearing all of the horror stories today about this new worm that’s attacking Windows users made me sooo glad that I have an Apple.
Apparently, the initial worm wasn’t much of a threat but over the weekend, rogue hackers rejiggered the worm and sent it back out making it more of a nuisance and preying on [...]

I stumbled across this super duper script while I was wandering the web looking for a better photo management system. Simpleviewer is a downloadable and customizable Flash script that takes your images, creates thumbnails and pops it all together into a beautimus PHP/XML masterpiece. I love the idea but I haven’t been able [...]

Want to RSVP for the wedding reception? Please fill out this simple little form so we can plan accordingly.
E-mail Ryan with any questions.

Click on the image to see a larger version. Image was scanned at a high resolution. If you would like a copy of the original scan (which is too large for the site), send Ryan an e-mail.

Welcome to Travis and Carrie’s website! Within these pages, you’ll find all you need to know about the couple, their upcoming nuptials and life in general.
Exciting times ahead so stay tuned!
Ryan
Webmaster

Today is almost my favorite kinda day; it’s rainy and overcast. Things could only be made better if there were a chill in the air. But this is still good, it gives me hope that autumn is coming - which, after weeks of 100+ temperatures, is cause for celebration for us pasty complected [...]

I’m hosting a site for my brother and soon-to-be sister-in-law to keep the masses briefed on wedding plans. Plans have changed, like they always do with a wedding, so (while watching the X-Files with Bri) I did an overhaul today.
Arrowsmith Wedding.
Ryan

Check back this weekend!

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Foregoing a “normal” wedding ceremony in the states, Travis and Carrie have opted to fly instead to Paris, France for their vows.
The couple will depart from Kansas City on September 3, 2005. This will be Travis’ first time on an airplane! Travis and Carrie will spend six days in Paris seeing the sites.
While [...]

The couple has registered with the following fine retailers! A link to each registry is provided below for your convenience. You can view and purchase any item from the comfort of your home. Purchasing through these links will also keep the registry current as the item (or quantity) will be removed from the couples [...]

I first heard the music of Rent when I was working in my high school’s performing arts center. I was fascinated immediately. Before Rent, I thought that musicals had to be prim, proper and show only the brighter side of life. But here was this gritty, tough show that was taking on [...]

Before I switched from Yahoo to Dreamhost, I was forced to live without the PHP/MySQL access required to use lover-ly services like Textpattern and Wordpress.

In those dark, dark times, I had to rely on the free services offered by Blogger.com.

But Blogger is sorta wonky in their coding. Upon importing my posts to Textpattern, the code quickly crashed my entire site. But like a good little techie, I had my files backed up. The site is back up and running…but I ain’t gonna try the import again.

If you want to read previous entries by myself, you may go to: http://piggydidit.blogspot.com/. But be kind, that was my first blog and many days have since passed.

Oh! He he. This is funny, too. Before I knew much about CSS, I made this blog outta HTML and frames (which is baaaad). But I thought it was cute and fun. :) Take a looksy.

Coming soon: monthly archives of the more recent stuff. Once I figure out TXP’s monthly archiving system dealy.

Ryan

I’m in the process of designing a new site for all of my music rantings, reviews and opinions.
www.musiceruption.com will be online shortly.
Ryan

I’ve been feeling sorta juiced, creatively speaking, this morning so I’ve whipped out a few coordinated sets.

Rent: A theme based off of the artwork for the upcoming feature.
Stepford Wives: A set based off of the artwork from 2004’s Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler pairing.
Bree from Desperate Housewives: Love the show. She’s may favorite.

I’m also [...]

Wow….this made me sad. Rick Springfield is selling full access to himself for only $1K. That’s right, if you buy the “Gold Package” off of his website, you not only get to meet Rick, you can dance with him on stage, have a drink or two with him after the show and spend [...]

I sometimes participate in a weekly web based illustration collective called “Illustration Friday“. Here’s one example of past entries. But basically they, or Penelope Dullaghan more specifically, post a different theme each week and the participants create an illustration (or an “illo”) based off of the theme. It’s a pretty interesting excercise [...]

Going along with the “get to know me” theme of my 100 Things post, I thought I’d finally fill out this little survey thing a coworker sent to me.
If you read it, you’ve been tagged. You have to fill out your own version and a) post it on your blog or b) e-mail to [...]

After two weeks of work, I finally have my “100 Things About Me” list completed. This is a trend sweeping the web started by Lisa but I got the hankering to do mine after reading Kitty’s. I think that I actually ended up with about 107…that’s my bad, I should have numbered them.

I [...]

It’s official, Harry Potter has taken over the world. When prisoner’s at Guantanamo Bay are wrapped up in the saga of the boy magician, you know he’s officially the mac daddy.
This story is from Entertainment Weekly’s website. I’ve heard of prison’s smuggling in drugs, weapons and alcohol….but children’s books? That’s wild.
This [...]

My favorite part of spending time at the hospital is how much attention they pay to keeping things on schedule. Wouldn’t you agree? Okay, so that’s complete sarcasm.
Brian had an angiogram this morning set for 7:30 AM to check on the condition on his heart. We woke up at 6:00 AM and [...]

Yay! The crew of the Discovery made it home safe and sound after a scary launch. CNN.com has a great story about the launch, landing and the future of the Space Program. If you have Windows Media Player 9, you can even watch footage of the craft landing safely in California.
We’ve been [...]

Did anyone else hear that Britney Spears and her team of bodyguards may be in hot water? Apparently, someone shot an innocent little paparazzi in the thigh with pellet gun as he lurked outside her home during Spears’ baby shower. Poor little guy.
To hype up the October 17 release of Madonna’s [...]

I know you are all sick of seeing me change around the blog but I’ve done it again. :)
I’ve changed software from Wordpress to Textpattern for ease of use and more support for Macs. Plus, Textpattern gives me the ability to run an entire site with little to no fuss.
Don’t worry, [...]

I was bored this evening so I made a free coordinated set of web graphics based off the 80s cartoon (and one of my favs) “Thundercats”. I haven’t compressed the set for download but you can take a look at it and save the pieces individually if you like.
Update: the zipped set is now [...]

I got both of Jason Mraz’s studio albums yesterday. “Mr. A-Z” is his new release that came out last Tuesday. It’s pretty good, I’m still listening to it, though. I love “Geek in Pink”…it makes me laugh. :) The rest of it sounds strong and well written but I like to listen through a few [...]