Nate's blog

The people who know me well will know that I used to drive an old 1993 Chrysler Plymouth grand voyager SE. Well it broke and thanks to the government we could get more money for it then it was worth, so today we took it to Glendale KIA (they were actually super nice and non-pressuring) and gave them our old mini van and left with a BRAND NEW 2010 KIA SOUL!!!!!!!!! There are pictures of it below.

Anyways, I am having a contest to name it, this week I will take name suggestions and next week I will post a poll where people can vote on names. If you would like to suggest a name put it in the comments below or email it to car@NOSPAMSnaterocks.com (remove the NOSPAMS).

Also, for the people that know my sister, do not tell her about the new car as we are going to surprise her with it when we get her from camp.

I normally make this post a bit earlier in the summer. The reason I make this post is a left over habit from when I used to play neopets. During that time I ran one of the most popular on-site sites and later moved it off the neopets site making it one of the most popular off-site sites. Anyways with a site so popular I got around 50 messages a day on neopets. They ranged from fan letters, to hate letters, to people asking me for advice, to people wanting me to give them free neopets items. During that time neopets set a limit of 100 messages per person, so naturally during summer when I went on vacation for a few days my inbox would become to full. To help explain to visitors why they could not email me I set up a page with my summer schedule. Here is that schedule.

Until August 14th I am working at CNES at UCLA and from Aug 16 to 23 I will be at my family reunion.

I just made the source for the WebPage Downloader public, you can get it from http://naterocks.com/php-coding/webpage-downloader/.

Have you ever been online and wanted to download a webpage but didn’t want to use internet explorer’s or safari’s propritary formats? Well after about an hour of work I have created a solution… the WebPage Downloader.

The WebPage Downloader will let you save files to your computer as DOC files and HTML files with or without images.

Also, I will try to post the source for it in a few days.

Go to http://wpd.nate.co.il/ to see it.

If I were an active reader of this blog (which I am) then I would really want to take a look at http://www.conradawards.org/mast around 1pm PST tomorrow (which I will).