I struggled with this for quite a while. If you’re looking to do the typical:

var newLink = document.createElement("img");
newLink.setAttribute("onclick", "alert('You clicked me')");

You will be upset to discover this works in Firefox and IE 8, but not IE 7 or IE 6. After some Googling I found a nice explanation by Justin French.

The fix:

var newLink = document.createElement("img");
newLink.onclick = function() { alert("You clicked me"); }

Thankfully this works for Firefox and IE 8-6.

Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, predicted many of the economic problems we have faced since this recession began. Every other financial “expert” was laughing at him and calling him crazy for his predictions. While watching this video I had to ask myself, is Peter Schiff brilliant or just lucky?

I have applied to the Georgia Tech M.S. in Computer Science program. Since I’m an undergraduate at Tech I have the option to apply for the FastTrack program. Basically, if you’re a current GT student and have a GPA higher than 3.4 along with one letter of recommendation from a College of Computing faculty member then you don’t have to take the GRE and you have priority for admission. So, hopefully that means I’m pretty much in because I declined five job offers.

Along with the nice streamlined admissions process, I will also be a Graduate Research Assistant at GTRI. GRAs get their tuition paid for while acquiring a graduate degree. So, it was a great opportunity that was hard to pass up and I decided to take advantage of it. There’s a possibility I could finish my masters in one year which would be nice considering my late start to college.

One of my friends tells me the other day that I’m trying to be the most successful “goaly” in history. Basically, when I was in high school I was a slacker. I wanted to drop out and just get my GED. Therefore I was admitted into the GOALS program which is for kids with high CTBS scores but aren’t applying themselves in high school, more or less a drop out prevention program for lazy kids. Well, I graduated high school and then did the band thing for 5 years and now here I am getting my masters degree at Georgia Tech. It feels good to have come so far and I’m glad I’ve been given all of these “second-chance” opportunities.

I’ll update as soon as I hear word about grad school. Wish me luck, I hope I get admitted!

The facebook feed on cnn.com’s live coverage of the inauguration was impressive indeed. Happily, I was able to land a spot on the feed!

This blog is primarily for my school happenings and web development discoveries, but with the inauguration of Barack Obama occurring today, I’ve decided to give my political views on the situation, plus it’s my blog and I’ll do what I like

I voted for Obama and I’ve supported him from the beginning. I support him because of his views of Washington and how a restructuring of programs needs to be performed. I also believe in his foreign policy platform, mainly that we don’t have to control the world and we can negotiate with our enemies to try and achieve a compromise without war. I like that he opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning, as I did, and that he seems to oppose the idea of just attacking at a moments notice without reason. I do disagree with him on some issues like health care and oppose some of the other social programs he spoke of, but for the most part, we see eye to eye.

With all that being said, I really hope all of his talk during the campaign was more than that, talk. I think he could change America in ways that have not been seen in many years. I was young when Clinton was president, but I was old enough to know that we lived in relatively peaceful and prosperous times. I would like to see us back to the way things were during the Clinton administration and I hope Obama has the ability to achieve that plus more for our country. I have no reason to believe that Obama will not continue to back up all of the things he said in his speeches. He is a great speaker and I honestly believe that many people voted for him just because of his ability to speak and inspire people. I’m OK with that, since those same people probably wouldn’t have voted otherwise, but I hope his ability to speak does not outweigh his ability to make the correct decisions in tough times and clean up the mess left behind by Bush.

Good luck Obama and let me know if there’s anything I can do to help