Well I am embarking on a journey to nowhere. A technology wank for the sake of wanking. Anyway here’s the deal. I want to change the image in the header of this blog based on the time of day. I could do this by simply writing a new image to the image directory from a database with php running on a cron job but what fun is that. The second part of this exercise in futility is to change the link colors to match the images color. So I figure what’s a little javascript to do it. Well JS can’t change the color of pseudo-classes like :hover so I am stuck. Oh and through all of this I have been thinking of making the header Flash so I can also add audio into the mix. So what to do. Here are some of the solutions that I thought of.

• When a user comes to the site they load the image and style for that image and it remains static for their session, boring.
• I use flash to randomly pull images in based on time and leave the styles a generic grey or something equally as much of a cop out.
• I get flash to load an image and then use JS to refresh the page to load a new style sheet for that image.
• Lastly I use Unity to broadcast to all active users that they need to change their image to the same one. Flash then uses FSCommand to trigger a JS function that changes the class or the body tag to change the link colors.

All of these options are pretty ridiculous and really a waste of time but boy will I have a kick ass header!

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