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Name That Movie (Invisibles Quizzes)

Many of you liked the
Name That Movie Quizzes that I had a while back. For those of you who can’t get enough, I’ve found a
whole site full of them. There are well over 70 quizzes currently active (another 150 are locked away in their “vault”), with 8 images per quiz, [...]

Site Update

I made a slight update to the navigation of the site. I added “archives” to the site menu up top, while removing “Top 5 Lists” and “Polls.” The Top 5 Lists and Polls, as well as some additional archives, are all on the archives page now, accessible from the link in the menu.

The ‘What is…’ Series: RSS

As promised
previously, here is the first of my series on “What is…”
Q: What is RSS?
A: In a nutshell, RSS is an XML file format designed to syndicate headlines and other content from web sites, such as major news sites (CNN), news-oriented community sites (Slashdot), and personal blogs. These RSS files, also called [...]

2005 Goal Checkup - Jan

It’s the end of January, so time to do a checkup on the ol’
2005 goals

Find a job
I have an interview with Comair this week, as well as a couple of other potential leads, but nothing solid yet.

Find a church
Went to Fellowship of Believers today, but caught them when they were welcoming a new [...]

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday, dear Melanie D
Happy Birthday to you

Two Line “Love” Poems

A little humor on this Saturday night. Thanks to Scott for sending these my way.

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl’s empty and so is your head.
My love, you take my breath away.What have [...]

Opening Hooks

Openinghooks.us is a nice site with a database of opening hooks from many, many books. What’s an opening hook, you ask? It’s the first sentence or paragraph or a book, short story, etc. It’s what stops you from putting down that random book that you picked up at a bookstore because [...]

Last Message 4 days, 23 hours ago

Bryan : Meh... I've been reduced to using the Wii to surf the internet. Though coming to this site doesn't exactly constitute "surfing" hah.
JenHardy : Hey! Thanks for the donation! I'll send you a true thank you when I'm back in the states.
Chris : Hey friends - donate to Jen's fund!
JenHardy : Tell your friends to donate, too! Love you! - Jen
JenHardy : Hey! Have fun on your vacation! And if you have any $$$ left over after the vacation, please consider donating to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society! My fundraising page is: «link»
Chris : Woohoo, vacation! Beach, here I come!
Chris : Only 3 and a half working days for me...
Chris : Woohoo!
Lori Staifer : 6 more working days until the 4th of July!
Chris : It's actually built into the theme, but based off of jQuery: «link»
Paul C. : Hey chris - what plugin are you using for the tabs at the top of this column? I dig it!
Chris : yeah, finally
Jeff : Saw you finally started sharing on google reader.
Chris : Anyone been watching When We Left Earth on the Discovery Channel? Good stuff!
Paul C. : looks like you got another spammer!
Chris : I do, carries two.
Dan : I don't know about biking unless you have a car carrier for bikes.
Lori Staifer : Wow! It's been a while since I've been on your site, and it has changed. Oh, I voted for Europe. Dan and I are going there one day definitely.
Chris : Yeah, the celebrity editions left a lot to be desired. The first two seasons, with "normal" people, where pretty good, though. Jury is still out on this season.
Paul C : I tried to get into it the last time it was on (with that Baldwin guy) and I just couldn't. Annoyed me too much
Chris : Any Mole fans out there? Season premiere was last night. Good to see it back. Really liked the first two seasons, yeeears ago. This one's not as good so far, but still interesting. Early bet is on Mark being the Mole.
Chris : I've been hesitant to do class a/b bans...guess I need to go that far. On a separate but related note...the amount of spam I've gotten to my gmail account has jumped dramatically in the past two days.
paul c : most of the spam i saw was coming from china, brazil, and italy. i basically setup class a/b bans for those ip address space. sure it *MAY* black legit stuff if I have a foreigner visit, but is only comments and doesn't keep them away from the site. will get that list to you.
Chris : Sure, why not...I've been looking for a pattern with the IPs, but there hasn't been any; it's all random. The thing is that the spam should be blocked - words are in the block list and they used to be blocked. Some upgrade I did along the way broke that, though... Trying to figure out what part of what upgrade caused it to not work any more...
Paul C. : Want me to send you the banned IP list I used on brian and ashley's website? So far I haven't had any more spam. Or you could use the shoutbox that I use. I've never had spam.
Jez : Nice clean looking theme. I really need to get a new theme, and start blogging more!!
Chris V : Shoutbox is back up, but it may still be hit by spam for a bit...
Chris : Shoutbox is broken, so hang tight while I try to fix it. Know the problem, just not a solution...
Chris : And we're back...
Jez : spam, spam, spam ,spam, spammity spam!!

Archive for January 2005

Name That Movie (Invisibles Quizzes)

Site Update

The ‘What is…’ Series: RSS

2005 Goal Checkup - Jan

Happy Birthday

Two Line “Love” Poems

Opening Hooks

Happy Birthday!

Episode III Opening Crawl Released

Happy Birthday!

Listening

Reading

Polls

ShoutBox