Book Ends

Hi everyone.

Just wanted to let you in on something. I've been playing around with PHP. I needed a new program though. Well I wanted a new program. A new code editor program. So I went with Crimson Editor. It's a nice editor. Similar look to OmniPad, but supports PHP. It also has word wrap, but I'm still not using word wrap. The date is different from OmniPad, if you didn't notice from the last post. In OmniPad you could pick what the date could look like. So that's a down side but oh well. It looks better I think. Macros didn't work in Vista for me in Omnipad so it's kinda nice to be able to use them with this editor.

I've been working with PHP as I mentioned. Considering I took a crash course via the internet, I actually know how to use it well. I've acutally found some ideas to implement it into the site. Now I need to take a crash course in MySQL. I've made a simple form with HTML, and it asked for name, age, and Hex color (HTML color). Basically what it did was if you were under 13 it would Display "You cannot enter" and if over 13 it would display "Welcome " name. and change the background color of the page to the color you picked. Simple stuff. I have a whole page with PHP examples from just echoing text from a variable to arrays. Yes I'm talking code talk so if you don't understand, I'm sorry. It's exciting to me. It's nice to know more than HTML and CSS.

Let's switch from code talk to book talk. I haven't talked about books in a very long time. A couple of video game series books have come out that I've bought. Diablo: Sin War Trilogy, came out a while ago. I haven't read them yet but a friend of mine says they are awesome.

Also Starcraft: Dark Templar Saga, the first two books are out. The last book, Twilight is to be release in Semptember. Haven't read those yet either.

Then there's Hellgate London trilogy. First two books are out, but the third one is due in August. They take place before the game.

In fact I think all of the trilogies take place before their games. I'm not sure about the Starcraft Dark Templar saga, but the Sin War and Hellgate London do.

If video game books aren't your cup of tea then maybe you'll like the Demon Wars saga by R.A. Salvatore. It's a fantasy series. I like fantasy. My favorite series. There are seven books in the saga. It's split up into a few parts. There's part one which is the first three books. They are about the life of Elbyran and how his home town was sacked by goblins when he was a kid, and he and Jilsponie survives. Well he thought he was the only one that survived and he loved Jilsponie. So he was sad. Anyways the elves saw him and was like, "Let's train him to be a Ranger." So they did. It's a good story.

The first part goes throught his training and growing up. Then it shifts to the Demon War. Basically a demon starts a war on the world of Corona. That's why the elves decided to train another Ranger. Elbyran finds Jilsponie and they team up against the demon and his Goblin/dwarf/giant army. Of course they fall in love again. They team up with crazy monk also. I love the crazy monk. They also team up with a half horse half man thing. I forgot what they are called. That's all I'm gonna say about the first part. I don't want to ruin it for you.

The the fourth book, Mortalis, is about Jilsponie. It's a transition between the first part and the second part of the saga. The second part of the saga is the last three books. Transcendence is interesting in the fact that it takes place in Behren, which was not talked about very much in the other books. It has a whole new cast of characters and it's sweet. Then the last book, Immortalis, ties everything together and then you truly understand why Salvatore wrote Transcendence. I love it.

I talked about that because Salvatore revisited the world of Corona with The Highwayman. It's a good book that takes place in the early days of Corona. They bring back a few things from the Demon Wars Saga. How magics work and stuff that is. It's a good read. Anyways Salvatore is writing a new series for the world of Corona which uses the same characters from Highwayman.

Saga of the First King is the same of the saga. The first book is The Ancient. I saw it at Barnes and Noble and picked it up. There were only two copies left and these were signed by Salvatore. I had no choice. Plus it was 20% off. I notice a little bit of difference between The Ancient and the Highwayman. The Highwayman takes place on a smaller scale. It revolves around Bransen and the Pryd Town. The Ancient revolves around Bransen, and a few other characters. Also the entire world of Corona is involved more. I think it's going to be sweet.

If you want to learn more about the books, check out rasalvatore.com or for more info on the Demon Wars saga check out wikipedia here. There might be some spoilers in the wikipedia article though. I guess it isn't so bad with the spoilers. What spoiled me was I hadn't finished reading Demon Apostle, and I read the back of Mortalis. I don't recommend reading the Mortalis entry on the wikipedia article. It also spoils it. Anyways yeah.

Those are books. I'm gonna read now.

Later.