Daniel Parson

Today is a monumental day. Hogwarts Now has hit its 300th player! If you don't believe me (or if we've somehow lost a few players since), here's proof:


As promised, tonight, Alex and I will shut down HN for a while, and add all the features we've been working on. Once they're up, we'll open HN back up, and welcome people to enjoy the *new* HN!

New Features

Hogwarts Now MotD wrote:We're proud to announce the arrival of several new features in celebration of Hogwarts Now reaching 300 players! Here's a complete list:

Global BBCodes
BBCodes can now be used anywhere on Hogwarts Now! Names, titles, comments, owls, and even petitions can now...

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This previous weekend was pretty busy for me. I didn't have much going on, but I did get a lot of work done on my websites, mostly Hogwarts Now though (see below for an explanation). I guess I'm going to try this list format for listing what I got done and what I'm working on for each website, and see how I like it:

Illinois River Demographic Study
The study's been put on hold due to the principal investigator writing a book, but I'm determined to keep working to make the website better!
Done

• cleaned up the interface a bit

Working On

• Live graphs of the data

Hogwarts Now
Sorry for the...

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Funny story first...

My aunt is technologically illiterate (no offense to her). As a result, she calls on me whenever she has a computer problem that she can't figure out. Also, she got her daughter (my cousin) a laptop for Christmas, so of course one would expect the number of computer issues to rise. Well, tonight was one of those nights.

The laptop would start, but then it wouldn't load the taskbar and desktop. I immediately expected malware, and so agreed to go take a look. When I got there, I was confronted with a window that called itself "Windows Privacy Tools", along with a billion error dialogs about memory access. What's more, I couldn't interact with the window in any way, Ctrl+Alt+Delete did nothing, and even Ctrl+Shift+Esc did nothing. I had no choice but to reboot. The windows login screen popped up innocently enough, but when I clicked the Log In button, a strange...

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This entry marks the launch of DanielParson.com!

First, I would like to welcome you to DanielParson.com, the professional website of Daniel Parson, website developer and software technician. Many people would assume that this website is about one person - me! However, that is not my intent. I would like this site to highlight my skills as a website developer and software technician, but I would also like to welcome others with similar interests to participate on this website. Even people seeking help on a relevant subject are welcome, and I will answer their questions to the best of my abilities. ...

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