garethhenry.za.net - calculated passion

About Me

I am a thinker. I think all day. While not working, I continue to think about things. Everything, no topic is moot for thought. There once was a topic I thought might not require any thought but then it was too late.

While sleeping I occasionly dream about samurai swords and giant peeled hard boiled eggs. One day I plan on writing a childrens book called "Sasha the killer purple pony and the infrared cats" More...

Current Project

Semantically Correct Design

Find a "arty/cool" photo of me to use as background
Apply a two column layout
Validate xhtml strict
Validate css
Find small xhtml and css validation icons.
Add slight transparency to main content div
Increase width of design
Use an Earthy Orange as contrasting colour for Hyperlinks and heading 3 graphics instead of blue.

Welcome

Under Construction

garethhenry.za.net is a project I will be working on in personal time.
While this site will ultimately be another place for me to express and share my life, the current goal is to develop my own set of tools to better understand the underpinnings of things like blogs / rss feeds and integrating with other organisations API's.

As such I will not be using one of the many free content management systems available. Instead I will labouriously spend many hours developing the kinds of features available on other peoples blogs (or maybe I'll give up trying)

My main motivation for this is that I (perhaps naively) believe I can code simpler, better, faster versions of these features. Of course I have no basis for this belief apart from how stuningly good looking I am (and my wife tells me I'm awesome).

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Projects

Here is a list of goals. Each goal must be done in such a manner that the previous goals are kept intact

Put together a design that is semantically correct by todays standards. XHTML | CSS
Integrate Ajax Functionality (cos its cool and it will save bandwidth
Build a Blog with functional RSS feed.
Build a gallery that can do albums / slideshows
Allow streaming of some of my own music (I sing and play guitar)
Look into other API's... perhaps show my shared google items, twitter feed, what ever is currently hot
Learn everything there is to know about SEO and apply it to this site
Look into Monetization (hey if I can earn money off this why not?)
Be the number one hit in google if someone searches for Gareth Henry. Currently it is some Jamaican Gareth Henry (with whom I'm not affiliated) that makes all the top 10 google hits