New Year 2005 is nearly upon us. It’s the time to look back over the past year and decide what was right, what was wrong, and what we can do better in the coming year.
2004 was a good year, overall. To others, looking in from the outside, it may appear that life was sucking pretty [...]
December Ramblings of the Mildly Insane Archives
There Are Only A Few Hours of 2004 Left
The Strange Ways People Find My Site
I was just checking my logs and the search phrases people use to find my website are just…um…interesting. I think I’m going to bite Rae’s idea and start listing my top 5 search phrases each month - she does 10, but I’m different.
On another note, I noticed an odd search phrase “the teli” and [...]
Disaster Relief - Make Sure All Your Money Gets There
I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers sending people to Amazon to donate money for disaster relief, however I’m not - why? Because 2.9% + $0.30 of your transaction goes to cover “administrative and processing costs” - so not all of your donation is seeing it’s way to the people of the affected countries. Depending on [...]
I love this song…I just wish someone else sang it
While speaking with a potential client, I remember her mentioning Hilary Duff’s website. I remembered the site being very light (white, blue, pink, etc.) and very well done - but when I went to hilaryduff.com it was green and tacky (what’s up with the Target banner?) - then I realized, the site I had visited [...]
I Think I’m Getting Old
I heard All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera, and I’ll be damned if a tear didn’t try to squeeze it’s way out. I must have been some opera freak in a past life or something because I really love opera. I’ve seen just about all of them (on t.v.) and I [...]
This Spam Fix Seems Promising
While browsing the TextPattern forums, I came across an interesting thread which linked to a spam fix that anyone can use regardless of blogging platform. This is something that I had not come across as yet - similar fixes using mod_rewrite, yes, but this - no.
After reading it, and going “hmmm…”, I’ve decided that [...]
5 Days Until The New Year
The new year is almost upon us, and I believe alot of people are in accordance that this will definitely be a year for change. I’m looking back over my life this past year and I realize that I’ve had many horrible want to crawl under a rock and hide moments, but I’ve also [...]
Happy Merry Chrismakwanzakah, No Really - Merry Christmas
Well, Christmas is here. Taking a que from the OCHairball, I want to wish you:
English: Merry Christmas
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Philipines: Maligayan Pasko!
French: Joyeux Noel
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan’Gung Haw Sun
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
And of course, there are many more languages in which to say Merry Christmas.
May [...]
If You Don’t Believe In Jesus Christ, Why Celebrate Christmas
It makes absolutely no damn sense to me. If you do not believe in Jesus Christ, why are you going to celebrate Christmas - the birth of Jesus Christ. This Christmas, I hardly seem in the spirit of things. It’s been a hard one, everyone past ‘92 has been a hard one and it only [...]
Dynamic Desktop - Notes
As promised, this is a set of more cohesive notes on actually setting up the dynamic desktop. The following notes apply to Windows XP - however, I’m sure this can be used on any Windows system with a little ingenuity. I won’t go into a lot of detail because the point of this is simply [...]
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