Category Archives: DVD/Home Theater

Three movies added to DVD collection.

I actually got these for Christmas but just now added the last one to the website. They are:

In addition to the front case cover, I have started including trailers for new movies I add to the site. They are flash videos so if you can view YouTube videos, then you will be able to view these. As usual I don’t really say that much about the movies because if I didn’t think they were good or didn’t enjoy them, I wouldn’t have them. 🙂

300 Added to DVD movie collection, and other updates.

I have added the 300 2-Disc Special Edition Widescreen to my DVD movie collection. It’s an awesome movie! I have also added a NASCAR upcoming race javascript widget thingamabob to both the blog on the right side and to my NASCAR page.  Actually it’s been there for awhile now. I have also temporarily disabled additions to my guestbook and renamed the associated pages and scripts to see if I can get my guestbook off whatever list it must be on. Due the wide range of IP addresses these comment spam bots are coming from, many are probably people’s infected PCs or something.

Oh, my thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the bridge collapse in Minnesota. 🙁

Ghost Rider added to DVD Movie collection.

While I was out at Wal-Mart shopping for lightbulbs, I decided to go check the DVD new releases and saw that Ghost Rider was out. So, I picked up the 2-Disc Extended Cut Widescreen version! I have added a Ghost Rider page to my website along with a HiRes and LoRes flash version of the movie trailer on the same page. Concerning movie trailers, I am slowly going through my DVD pages and adding the trailers to them. So far I’ve added the ones for Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, GladiatorX-Men, and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I’ve been using 320 x 240 at 360bps and 480 x 360 at 768bps.  Since my folks have about the slowest broadband connection available (768/384), I will see if I need to keep making the LoRes version when I go down there this weekend.

Main website now in Standards mode and markrh.com created!

Well, I believe that I have converted all my pages to be in Standards mode now. Along the way, a fair amount of code was cleaned up and corrected. I have also removed any dead links that I came across and tried to find alternative links if possible. Man, I had a couple pages that had some really messed up code in them. I was surprised they rendered correctly.

While I was reading the If you had the chance to own any domain name thread at my webhost’s forum, I thought about markrh.com since I use MarkRH as a username in just about every forum and website I register on. Went to godaddy.com to check it out and whattya know, it was available. So, I now have www.markrh.com which is parked at www.markheadrick.com. :mrgreen:

My next challenge with my site is to figure out how I can get rid of these frames and still have an embedded media player that doesn’t reload with everypage. I tried IFRAMEs before but that didn’t work. If I somehow figured out a way, I’ll of course have to change every page in my site ❗

Ack!!  I forgot about my DVD Movie pages LOL.  Okay, so I’m not done yet.

Update: I finished all my DVD Movie pages. I also realized I was using the wrong DOCTYPE so I corrected it on all my pages including at www.pelicar.info They are all now (let’s see if I can remember the method for showing this code):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

I really like that WordPress Plug-In, makes displaying in-line code much easier and neat looking.

Casino Royale added to movie collection.

I’ve added Casino Royale to my DVD movie collection.  I actually think it’s one the better James Bond films that have come out recently.  While I was at Hastings, also rented Eragon and Dr. Who, Series 2, Volume 1.  Only had time to watch Casino Royale today since tonight was also the night for Survivor, CSI, and Shark.

Hmm..  I just realized that I need to target all these links to my main frame name so that when someone clicks on a link from within my website, that it shows it there and does not open a new window.  But, when viewing the blog itself, it will still open a new window.  So that will work.

Oh, I did change how I was referencing the dynamically created images on my MySpace page. I changed the code to actually reference a .GIF file (playing.gif) and then changed my .htaccess file to redirect it to the PHP script.  See:

RedirectMatch ^/php/playing.gif$ http://www.markheadrick.com/php/playing.php
RedirectMatch ^/php/album.gif$ http://www.markheadrick.com/php/album.php

Well, all for now I guess. I need to find a better way in putting code blocks into this blog. Somewhat problematic.