Ani-Jam, w00t!

Ani-Jam 2012 was just announced on Facebook, woohoo! It's going to be in the Ernest E. Valdez Exhibit Hall at the Fresno Convention Center, August 17th through the 19th. Ani-Jam is so much fun, and local for me which is an added bonus. It's great being around so many local anime fans (and folks from all over) at once. It's also been great seeing Ani-Jam progress over the years.

I've been going to anime conventions since 2003 and started with ReccaCon at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, CA. It was fun and really inspired me to try to attend more conventions. The same year, I attended the first Ani-Jam which was packed to the brim and I was so proud of Fresno that day for it's new, successful event. After that I started an event with my local Anime Club called Anime Day which is a campus-wide micro con. Anime Days are still going strong and have definitely grown and evolved into something great that I look forward to attending. I went to Anime Expo in 2006, their 15 year anniversary, and blessed to see CLAMP in person.

Besides daydreaming about Anime Cons, I've been searching/researching Ronin Warriors action figures. I've wanted them for ages and haven't been fortunate enough to get my hands on one yet. I wanted to see how available they are. They are still obtainable but, nowhere near their original price points which, is to be expected. The Rowen figured was the most expensive, running around $140. Someday...someday!

It's been great updating, since it's been ages once again, hehe. Ja ne, and hope to remember to glide back here soon!
 ~CG

1/13/12

In Development

Wow, it has been ages since there has been an update to CGD but here I am and here it is. I will be working on a new version of Cosmic Glider's Dimension. I will be reworking the layout and links and refocus the purpose of the website.
~CG

6/21/10

Reworking the Site

Well folks, I'm finally reworking the site using xhtml and style sheets. I am no where near a pro at web-standards, but of what I have learned from the World Wide Web Consortium, and from people that I know that use web-standards, I now have a strong belief in web-standards. Switching to web-standards will mean increased interoperablity (works with multiple web-browsers), and accessiblility (people with visual impairments will still be able to access the informaton on the website). This is only the start as I steadily learn more about standards set for the web by the W3C.
~CG

October 11, 2004

Books and Updates

Copies of the newest Harry Potter Book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling are in stores today. They're fairly hard to come by if you haven't reserved or preordered a copy in advance. I have yet to read it, but at the intensity with which my younger brother is concentrating on the book, it must be a very good read. I'll be cleaning up links and straightening out my plans so that I can put more of my focus on adding content to the site. I may not be moving the site to lycos.co.uk after all. They recently added two atrocious banner ads to every page and they're not very pretty. But I will continue to work on getting this site up to its best and hopefully, my dream of a payed host and domain name will come true...maybe even my own server ^_^. Well, see you all next update.
~CG

June 21, 2003

Switching Hosts

The site will be moving to http://members.lycos.co.uk soon. There isn't much there right now but you may want to bookmark it now and check there periodically because more, and more stuff will become available over the summer. This new account gives me the 50MBs that the US lycos once offered plus a 15MB e-mail account for you all to be able to send Fan Art, Fiction, etc. I'm mostly going to be working online during the process of the move. However I will link the homepage to the new message board so that you can all communicate with one another. while I'm working. Also, as the site gets slowly closer to being finished, new rules, goodies, and news may appear so keep on the look out for that. Also, I'm going to implement a new system of accepting art. Well, it won't be much different but I'm going to be raising the standards for the art (fiction, etc.) that will be actually displayed on the site. All other works that are not accepted for the actual say may be displayed on the message board freely. The only exception to this new policy will be the art that has already been submitted to me since before this message and any art that will be submitted by the first of June. So if you want your art on the main site without the harsh rules start sending it in now to cosmicglider@lycos.co.uk, do not send your submissions to any other email address on the site or they may get ignored or they may not arrive to my mailbox *some of the accounts have been deleted or I've forgotten about them, etc.* Well, I'll return as regularly as possible with up dates and goodies.
~CG

May 22, 2003

Rearranging

I've decided to start rearranging a few things since Angelfire no longer allows 50MBs and I still have over 50MBs in plans ~_^. I'm moving all image galleries to yahoo photos. Yahoo Photos gives 30 MBs for images and they make the thumbnails for you so it doesn't take up space on your account. This will be very helpful and I will be able to put a lot more images online. I am also rearranging the unrelated section so that there will only be on gray column on the page and drop boxes for all the different subjects.

Everything will still be accessable while I'm working with it (if it was already accessable). Other things will be working better that weren't very complete before. I've got my brother helping gather information.
~CG

February 1, 2003

Still Working

December 8, 2002

Well, I'm not going to lie and say that I'm almost done. Now that I seriously consider it, I have a lot of info to research and a bunch of images to collect. To top that off, I'm no where near being done rerouting my links. If you have already been visiting my site diligently, don't give up, you're bound to find new information at least every two weeks, even if it's only an update. Don't give up on me yet.
~CG

December 8, 2002