Educational Drop-Outs
Observations on high school drop-outs and society.
Society's sentiment towards evolution
People argue against evolution all the time when they've never read about it.
Get a Form Element's Label with JavaScript
This JavaScript finds the label for a form element, which is helpful for dynamically highlighting or changing a label based on user input.
Obama's Health Care Reform
A skeptical view on the political debate on health care reform in America. This article questions the entire premise of forcing health care insurance on the public.
Filter XML Data Based on Dates in ActionScript
You can filter your XML data based on dates in ActionScript to limit results in a component's data provider to one that is relevant to the given task.
My Experience at Westland High School
How an honor-roll student can lose heart and drop out
An overview of Shawn Olson's experience at Westland High School.
Flash bgcolor and allowFullScreen Parameters Not Working?
I spent half a day trying to figure out why a Flash project suddenly stopped honoring bgcolor and allowFullScreen in IE but not other browsers.
Google Page Rank Woes
Google has sliced and diced the page rank of many websites, including this one.
My failed faith
The evolution of Shawn Olson's views on faith, religion and ethics.