Alright, it is time for me to enter the world of weblogs.  Everyone tells me that you ain't a web citizen without one.  The question is how to come up with something that hasn't already been blogged to death.

Why would you want to read my blog?  Well, maybe I just write it to satisfy myself.  And if you happen to want to peek into my mind, well, be warned.  It ain't always pretty.

I have published this website to sell the used stuff that has accumulated in the bookstore where I work.  I just bought a year of hosting from godaddy, and started putting some html together.  The biggest problem is that the books are for sale in the store, so if something sells, I may not find out about it for a while.  And if someone tries to buy it online, I might go look for it , only to find it was already sold.

Secondly, I want to use a database for the items, but creating a database of many unique items is incredibly labor intensive, not to mention without a lot of worth.  Why have a database full of items that have an inventory count of 1?  Create a record for that item, then delete the item when it sells. 

Anyway, I have created a small test database in SQLite, and I have written some code in php to access the data.  It works okay, but it is going to be a bear to enter all the books.  I have set it up to be able to get the UPC code with our POS scanner (if the book has one, they all don't).  It would be cool if there was a program that could read the UPC from the database, do a web search for the title, author, retail price, etc., then update the appropriate fields in the database.  Pipe dream, I guess.

Anyway, if you want a peek at the test database, go to my Sin City home page, then type in /books.php at the end of the address and it should come up.  Suggestions and critiques are always appreciated.

All for now, so ends my maiden blog entry.  See you later!