Awesomeness
Check it out:
It's my very own little "progress" bar script that shows how far along I am to getting my computer! I didn't realize PHP could output graphics, that's so cool! This brought me back to the days of Demonica (a playerworld Paul and I used to work on for Graal). I created an EXP, MP, and HP system MUCH different than that of the main Graal game (the main one was still there, one could never get rid of it entirely) and created little bars that could easily represent how much of whatever you had in a quick glance. The only real difference, however, was that the images weren't generated on the fly, I had to whip them up in Photoshop before hand. But this is so cool! Granted, I still have to edit the file to input a new value, but the fact that it will update everything else on it's own is awesome. There's also a vague little description of how I came up with the formula here. There's probably a better way, but this way works. Now I just need to stick this progress bar in my sidebar.
edit: Accomplishing this also brought me back out of my... um... "weird feeling"... Yea. Nothing like scripting to brighten one's day! Now I just need an [i]exact[/i] value instaed of 20.4. I chose that number because it sticks out in my head as my first paycheck ('twas just the training class) for some reason.
edit (12:20AM): Alright, exact value found. $20.89. Next paycheck should be a bit more, this last one was just the training class that I had.
edit (12:37AM): Added progress bar to the side bar under the "other" tab, resized and everything.