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Welcome to Scott Arnold's personal web site.(5/28/2009)
Worthy of support: H.R. 1456: Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act
To extend the protections of the Truth in Lending Act to overdraft protection programs and services provided by depository institutions, to require customer consent before a depository institution may initiate overdraft protection services and fees, to enhance the information made available to consumers relating to overdraft protection services and fees, to prohibit systematic manipulation in the posting of checks and other debits to a depository account for the purpose of generating overdraft protection fees, and for other purposes.
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1/24/2009
I've been playing around recently with drawing on web pages using the <canvas> tag. Some early adopters of the canvas tag functionality do not provide a way to draw text onto the canvas. Below is a method I wrote that can accomplish this task using absolutely positioned div elements. While I wrote it specifically for canvas, it should actually work on any HTML element, should you find a reason for it. It could use a little more refinement, but it works well enough as shown. So far tested to work on IE6 and Firefox 2+. (note: to use canvas in IE, look up "excanvas" on the web)
PointAlign.LEFT_OF_POINT = 1;
PointAlign.CENTER = 2;
PointAlign.RIGHT_OF_POINT = 3;
PointAlign.ABOVE_POINT = 4;
PointAlign.BELOW_POINT = 5;
function PointAlign() {
}
function drawText(canvasId,text,x,y,hAlign,vAlign,textStyle) {
var canvas = document.getElementById(canvasId);
x += canvas.offsetLeft;
y += canvas.offsetTop;
var canvasParent = canvas.offsetParent;
var div = window.document.createElement("div");
div.appendChild(window.document.createTextNode(text));
var divStyle = "position:absolute; visibility: hidden; left:0px; top:0px;";
if (textStyle) {
divStyle += textStyle;
}
var isIE = /*@cc_on!@*/false; //IE detector
if (isIE) {
div.style.setAttribute("cssText",divStyle);
} else {
div.setAttribute("style",divStyle);
}
// div must be placed before offsetWidth and offsetHeight attributes provide proper numbers
canvasParent.appendChild(div);
if (hAlign) {
if (hAlign == PointAlign.CENTER) {
x -= Math.round(div.offsetWidth / 2);
} else if (hAlign == PointAlign.LEFT_OF_POINT) {
x -= div.offsetWidth;
}
}
if (vAlign) {
if (vAlign == PointAlign.CENTER) {
y -= Math.round(div.offsetHeight / 2);
} else if (vAlign == PointAlign.ABOVE_POINT) {
y -= div.offsetHeight;
}
}
div.style.left = x + "px";
div.style.top = y + "px";
div.style.visibility = "visible";
}
(1/5/2009) (4/25/2008) PS: The surveillance server is coming back soon! Stay tuned! (4/17/2008) (11/11/2007) (10/6/2007) (8/29/2007) (7/3/2007) If you are looking for the Citrix ICA Client for 32-bit Windows, follow the provided link. Bookmark it too, as I won't be providing a link to it for much longer. The file you want is ICA32T.EXE, the minimum Citrix ICA client for web browsers. Thanks.
New Page! (1/27/2007) 
I recently ran across this curious and cute little creature while browsing the web. It is a native of China, and is most commonly known as the Red Panda. However, it is also known as the Fire Fox. This immediately got me thinking about the best browser for the web, the Firefox browser. I've always thought the Firefox browser mascot was just a fox with a fiery tail, but maybe someone had the Red Panda in mind when the browser was given it's name. It looks like weather.com is trying a new temperature scale out. Temperature is measured in some unit that is represented by an "F", which I think might stand for FUBAR. 
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Sometimes we are the sun,
shining light on everyone;
keeping the world from an eternal night,
to bring us day this must be done.
Sometimes we are the shadow,
hiding from the light of day;
out of sight despite the suns glow,
only darkness leads the way.
Sometimes we are the man between,
sometimes hidden sometimes seen;
on one side shadow and on one side sun,
it is the nature of our being.
So when you turn and see your shadow,
and feel like running far away;
just turn again and see there's sometimes sun,
and light will brighten up your day.
-- Scott (~2/2004)
Gifts of Life and Love
I once had love, but it had a cost
Once was found, but now is lost.
The grandest gift, if one could choose
The grandest gift, that one can lose.
You and I, forever together
Simple dreams, nothing better.
But like a sunset, an end of day
You leave me cold, and drift away.
Thoughts of darkness that will never end
But time does pass and renew again.
A new day dawns and the sun does rise
Bringing forth again those beautiful skies.
despite the sadness, despite the loss
I find I'm stronger despite the cost.
hurt and strife, I rise above
for the gifts we know as life and love.
-- Scott (~11/2004)
Dogs Are Barking
dogs are barking
from their house on capital hill
never taking action
barking and standing still
meanwhile our guns are ablaze
fire lights the night sky
for years months and days
how many will die?
do we bring them liberation
or might we have gone wrong
are we an empirial nation?
who would Jesus bomb?
allies turn their backs
debts burn faster than cinders
dogs in their packs
how will history remember?
-- Scott (5/27/2005)
Our Love
Dedicated to Cari
a tribute to love
and to whom I adore
for the love we have
to share and explore
together in love
together we care
deep in our hearts
forever to share
a feeling of content
that will never die
a wonderful peace
that lives deep inside
-- Scott (7/30/2005)
Time and Friends
-1st segment-
I saw you walking down the street
Kicking rocks, staring at your feet
head hung low, walking slow
A heavy weight upon your shoulder
I walk closer, I start to approach
But I stop, I don't want to encroach
What should I do? I feel for you
The day is getting colder
I decide to follow you to work
I can see your feeling hurt
I saw you cry, but don't know why
There must be someway I can help her
Working at the corner station
Selling gas to endless patrons
I walk in the store through the door
Your selling tickets at the counter
-chorus-
Keep living
I've been there too
Don't give in
There's more life ahead of you
Keep searching
There's nothing else to do
You'll make it
Time will see you through
-2nd segment-
I stand there feeling sort of foolish
I'm not sure how that I should do this
Grab a can of pop in hand
I slap it on the counter as something to buy
She slowly spins around in place
She seems relieved to see a friendly face
She looks at me and I can see
She's near breaking down - a tear is in her eye
I say what is someone so smart and pretty
doing working in this part of the city?
doing chores for this store
Working for them when they should be working for you?
You say my life is mostly stalled
Sometimes I think of ending it all
But you come by again, and I remember when
you said "with time and friends you'll make it through"
-2nd chorus-
Keep living
I've been there too
Don't give in
There's more life ahead of you
Keep searching
There's nothing else to do
You'll make it
Time will see you through
-last segment-
You have your stories
and some of them are bad
We all have our stories
but they won't all be sad
Don't give up on time
Time won't give up on you
Don't give up on friends
Time and friends will see you through
- ending chorus -
Keep living
I've been there too
Don't give in
There's more life ahead of you
Keep searching
There's nothing else to do
You'll make it
Time will see you through
Keep living
We've all been there
Don't give in
to hate and dispair
Keep searching
There's nothing else to do
You'll make it
Friends will care for you
-fade out-
Friends will care for you
Time will see you through
Friends like me and you
In time we'll make it through
-- Scott (8/23/2005)
The Game
Life's a game. You have to play it. Play it right, and you just might make it.
They'll tell you it's not, they'll tell you that a lot. But watch them close, they'll take their piece and play it.
For every ninja in game, you'll find a ninja in life. They'll try to take your job, or even steal your wife.
Play it wrong, and you'll be called a villian. Play it right, and you're a hero to millions.
It's all in how you play, and that's the scary thing. That the villain and hero might have done the same.
Villain behind bars while the hero lives large, and that makes the hero worse, but that's how you play the game.
The righteous man stops...to think about it. How can he win the game without being corrupted by it?
Villainous hero or heroic villian. What to do? So he plays to hold; neither win nor lose.
But maybe that's the real game, like it was all a secret. To neither win nor lose, just pick a spot and keep it.
Can drive a man insane, to try and think about it. Where if you win you lose, but if you hold you win it.
So hold the line; that's the battle plan. Don't reach the bottom or top, just be the middle man.
So if you're on the right, move into the middle. For the middle's right; just come left a little.
A game where if you win you lose, but if you hold you win it. But you have to play; you're already in it.
And once you're centered and righteous, then just stay the same. Can't really do any better in this crazy game.
-- Scott (3/16/2006)
In Dreams
Dedicated to Murphy
Nothing can begin without an end.
But no matter how much I will miss you now, I'd do it all again.
And maybe it's not as final as it seems.
Maybe I will see you in my dreams.
I cried as I layed you out to rest.
But if you're still out there somewhere, and can hear one last request...
It doesn't have to be as final as it seems.
Will you come visit me, come visit in my dreams?
If you're still there somehow and fate allows, come and be my guest.
It doesn't have to be as final as it seems.
Come visit me, come visit in my dreams.
-- Scott (1/17/2007)
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