tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37957662323401279262009-09-30T11:10:52.805-05:00An archive of "The most eclectic collection of crap on the internet."Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17457092946924051692noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795766232340127926.post-74644906702832743352009-08-09T14:28:00.000-05:002009-08-09T14:29:18.831-05:00

Sometimes I get bored and start digging through my rather extensivelist of bookmarks that I have saved over the years and clean outthe dead ones and explore places I had forgotten about. One suchlink was to a free host I was playing with a couple of years agowhile trying to redo the old Steamroom. As I was looking over their list of features I saw that their auto-installer had quite a nice

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Yah yah yah, another one of my rambling blog entries so read atyour own risk… I stumbled across a couple of articles the other day and posted themin the forum that struck me as showing the extremes we have in theU.S. One about a man who entirely gave up money and is living quitehappily in a cave and the other about yuppies paying hundreds ofdollars for clothes and hairdos that make them look

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Saturday our pickup decided it was time to make a nuisance ofitself and stop cold on the side of the highway. We already knewsomething was not quite right when it had trouble getting crankedearlier that morning and was being a pain when we were out doingsome shopping. At first we thought it was bad fuel filter but it checked out justfine. This after I had to push it to a parking spot in the

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Over the last week or more I have had the distinct displeasureof watching the media talking heads drooling over both livingand dead celebrities. Mostly the dead ones… Oh, where to start… ? Farrah Fawcett? Micheal Jackson? Billy Mays? Ruth Madoff, yeah, Iknow she’s neither dead nor particularly famous save for her criminalhusband’s efforts to make Ponzi look like an amateur. As a rule, I

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Allowing guests to post on you site can be a great thing intheory but in practice, not so much. If everyone behavedlike adults and thought before they hit submit things wouldwork out just fine. However, too many people seem to think that being allowedto post comments anonymously gives them the right to beincredibly rude and to bluntly show their butts in public. I’ve tried several times to

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Is it physically possible to be bored out of your skull? I’m not sure but I just looked over and waved at myself. So I’ll assume it is possible… Or sumpin’… At any rate… I’ve gone all this time and not posted much of anything latelyand decided it was time to get off my butt and make some effortat being remotely entertaining, as opposed to being remotelyviewed. In a way I kinda

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It’s a funny thing, normally I am not one much for making randomblog entries with no topic to start with. I guess I am breakingtradition here. So, what to write about tonight? Bitch about the side effects of chemo? Nah… I doubt I’d be thefirst or even the best at that. (Though I may do so anyway later.)Oh yeah and the wonders of having your hair fall out… Gripe that I can’t think about

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I expect people to lie to me as a general thing. We’re lied toas soon as we are able to understand the spoken word. We’re liedto by almost everyone; parents, friends, teachers ,authorities,our governments. Some lies are meant to protect us from painfultruths that we would not want to look at and have to deal with.Some are meant to pull the wool over our eyes so someone cancover their butts for

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I originally created this as a gag auction for eBay justbefore Halloween of 2008. I am publishing it now purelyfor the snigger factor. They started their existence long ago when they were enslavedby greedy men looking to turn a fast buck. Over time they lostthe will to live with their masters and simply ceased to be. Mostwere cast aside like empty shells while others were given burialsby

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The darkest hour is not a time of day. It is a matter ofperspective. We all have our own dark hours in our lives.These dark hours are the times when we look at our livesand feel all is lost. Hope is what keeps these times atbay. Hope for a brighter tomorrow or a second chance.Hope is the one thing you should always keep with you. Withouthope there is no life. There is an old maxim among

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I remember reading and hearing many times about the state ofaffairs during The Great Depression. Mostly what comes to mind isthat people frequently comment that in regards to money it's that itwould buy a lot but that practically no one had any.I look at our current situation and have to admit that people wereactually in a better position generally than their descendants arenow. Back then, a

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Forums are a great way to meet new people that mightbe interested in what you do or that have interests thatyou want to learn more about. They also make a greatway to promote your site.However, there are some, often unwritten, rules topromoting your site on forums.In no particular order...If the forum allows you to add your site's URL to yourprofile, do it. This is a perfectly acceptable way

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I've noticed over the years that a lot of webmasters canbecome obsessed with themes, CSS, and the overallappearance of their web sites. Sometimes they becomeso obsessed with their site's aesthetics and neglect it'smost important aspect, the content.I won't say that a really cool theme doesn't help a site.However, no matter how cool the theme is a theme addsnothing that your visitors are really

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Simple antlers beads are easy to make and can be used for primitiveand mountain man style jewelry and accessories.Tools needed:A fine toothed saw, a coping saw will work just fine.A drill, an electric drill is ideal but an old fashioned hand drillwill work.Drill bits, Depending on what you plan to string the beads on,1/16" to 1/8" are the best sizes.A belt sander, This will make rounding the ends

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ust before the presidential election the stock markets looked tobe recovering a bit. Yet now that it has past they have nosedivedagain. Why? Did all of them suddenly decide that our new President Elect’smessage a hope and change were suddenly no longer valid? I havenoticed that a lot of the so called financial “experts” keep makingdire predictions that only seem to turn into self

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I noticed that a video clip is making the rounds from Youtuberegarding an increase in gun sales recently. The media, of course,is showing it’s natural fear mongering bias by pointing out thatsome people are, to be blunt, pissing their knickers over the factthat Barack Obama has taking a strong lead in the presidential raceof late and are a afraid that another “gun grabbing liberal” isabout to be

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Having Global Moderators on your forum can help youas an Admin since they can take of a lot of day todaymatters, like moving posts to the correct board ordeleting spam from the forum. With SMF you needto pay a little extra attention when setting up thepermissions for Global Mods though. The default settings for Global Mods are missing afew important things that should be corrected earlyon

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This is not really related to building a web site but I wanted to helppromote a friend’s new forum, of which I am a member and administrator. Barter Boards link This is the site you want if you are looking to save money in thesehard financial times. It is primarily for people to barter, swap, andtrade with other members. Myself, I am offering my serviceshelping with web sites as a barter

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Let me state again for the record that I hate politics… However, I feel the need to say a few things regarding thislittle matter. I just got through reading about the latestpart of the interview at Digg and they are politely mockingher into oblivion. Normally Katie Couric is not one of my favorite journalistbut I have to give her credit for being extremely professionalduring the parts of the

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There are any number of recipes for this simple dish, so heremy contribution to the list...Ingredients:Beans: 1 cup of dried beans or one large can if you arein a hurry. What kind? Pinto or Red Kidney are best dueto their general size. But don't hesitate to experimentwith your own preferred kind. Sausage: 1 large smoked sausage sliced into pieces about1/2" to 3/4" long. You can use most any kind

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Ingredients:California style mixed vegetables: About 2 cups (broccoli,cauliflower, and carrot slices)Rotini or egg noodles: roughly two small handfulsPolish sausage sliced into 1/4" thick piecesCheese sauce: Reciepe herePut the vegetables, noodles, and sausage in a 2 quart pot andcover with water. let the water just starts boiling and turnit down to about half and let it simmer. Cooking time is

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I’ve noticed that some people have referred to some of the topicsin the forum as being “fringe” topics. Why? What makes the paranormal, conspiracy theories, or alternatespiritual and religious beliefs and ideas “fringe” topics?Because they don’t follow the “established” ideas? Or maybebecause they make you have to pull your head out of the sandand consider the possibility that what you were

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In modern (US) politics there are three primary groups, Liberals,Conservatives, and Pretenders. I’m not going to go into the variouspolitical parties as there are many even though the media acts asthough there are only two, Democrats and Republicans. Many people automatically associate liberal politics with theDemocrats and conservative politics with Republicans. In myexperience that isn’t

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I downloaded Chrome beta after having read a bit about it on Digg.The general consensus on Digg is that it sucks. So far I have to agreewith them for the most part. It has a few annoying problems and whatI have to call design flaws. These may only be typical beta problemsbut they still might discourage a user from dropping IE or Firefox infavor of Chrome. Installing it went fairly quick and

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“You’re meant to be online for your own reasons not for everyoneelse’s.” This was something a friend told me a few years ago. Ever since, ithas been something I have pondered from time to time. At first blushit seems a simple enough thing and is fairly straightforward in natureand it is. But the longer you think about it the more you have to askyourself, What is my reason for being online in

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