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Adventures In Microsoft Access...

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Movie List Table Structure This is a quite a bit off-topic and possibly more than a little boring for some people, but, I felt like sharing, so, get over it. I've been collecting movies for many years and managed to amass over 4000 DVDs. As detailed in my post on the Ultimate Otaku Fall Cleanup , I used to have over 2000 VHS tapes. For many years, I kept a spreadsheet with the various titles in my collection. Way back in the misty dawn of time, I produced printed books with a list of movies, but, after the movie list began to exceed 200 pages of printed text, I moved to presenting the list in electronic format using e-readers like Kindle . With e-readers, lists of boring text proved to be ideal as the early generations of e-readers did not really appreciate being asked to render lots of pretty pages with pictures and text. Eventually, the simple spreadsheet that held my movie list became a bit too unwieldy, so, I migrated the movie list to an Access database. This had immed

Beyond A Year With Contempo...

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Blood Marble Sphere This is one of my classic Blood Marble spheres on a Blood Sky floor rendered using POV-Ray 3.6. Since the last post, where I detailed my First Year With The Contempo Template , there have been some additional changes to the Anime Rating Guide . The Wallpaper Page received a makeover including new wallpapers and some CSS animation effects thanks to a page on Cool Image Captions with CSS3 by Thoriq Firdaus . The thumbnail images expand and the descriptions drop down over the thumbnails allowing visitors to read the descriptions (or not), but, still see most of the thumbnail images. Along with the new CSS animations, the page layout was changed to display the wallpapers in multiple columns. Likewise, the Anime List Page received some attention including zebra stripes and a touch of color. Under the hood, the section titles now hide themselves for small screens. I had been using an existing image substitution gadget to swap images on-the-fly for the rat