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Somehow we all knew this to be true, right? Guess it has gone from former addict back to addict...

I am 90% ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET.

Whoa, am I ever addicted! I'm probably a little over weight with lots of acne, feeling lost, and alone, trying to escape from my sorry life with an internet life. I must crawl outta the basement, see the sun shining....oooh, it burns!

Take the INTERNET-ADDICT Test at Fuali.com!

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[Friday, November 30, 2001] [08:18 a.m.]


Ugh.... some sort of cold nailed me Wednesday afternoon. Of course, just going outside significantly improved my cough. Kinda better now.

Got my favorite movie of all time on DVD... WILLOW! So staying home sick had an upside.

Also got the teeshirt...

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[Friday, November 30, 2001] [07:55 a.m.]


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[Wednesday, November 28, 2001] [01:05 p.m.]

"Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare." --Lane Olinghouse

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[Wednesday, November 28, 2001] [10:25 a.m.]

I've updated the movie list... 515 titles. Hyper-organized, maybe... summary, legend, top 30, display list, and everything else.

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[Wednesday, November 28, 2001] [09:09 a.m.]

Do you remember the stick characters fighting? The same author has a game where you can participate. Slick!!

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[Tuesday, November 27, 2001] [05:04 p.m.]

How about a Euphemism Generator?

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[Tuesday, November 27, 2001] [11:09 a.m.]

"Using a computer is a security hazard." - JAN III

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[Tuesday, November 27, 2001] [10:29 a.m.]

Got woken up at 2am to a knock. "Did you let Winnie in?" How in the hell did she come 3 miles across town... "No!?!" "Oh." Left my room and asked, "Winnie or Abbey? I did let Abbey in" "I did ask Winnie, didn't I?"

Had a strange dream last night. I was a police officer who caught a couple kids vandalizing a house. They resisted (mostly passively) and tried convincing me to just let them go. Almost did.

Found a program to play with yesterday: MailWasher. Works well so far. I can define legitimate mail, such as from email lists, which it will not show me for consideration.

Apparently a Green Party official, Nancy Oden, found airport security so much of an affront to basic liberty that she resisted being searched. She feels it is because the FBI flagged her as a terrorist (one articles said she does not even have a record). Politech Archive: Message

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[Tuesday, November 27, 2001] [07:52 a.m.]


Be careful in your email. There is a new virus out there... BADTRANS.B. This one looks for unread email and responds to it. Then the file is automatically executed without you knowing.

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[Monday, November 26, 2001] [05:00 p.m.]

Yeah... another test... it is a short one.


Take the Affliction Test Today!

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[Monday, November 26, 2001] [09:15 a.m.]


Back into the swing of things (more or less). Lots of spam. Little of anything else.

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[Monday, November 26, 2001] [08:52 a.m.]

Thinking of a new design. Might implement it in the next few days.

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[Sunday, November 25, 2001] [08:36 p.m.]

Scared of Echelon, yet? Maybe you should be... At the very least do not mention words like "bomb", "Allah", or "President" when making a phone call.

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[Wednesday, November 21, 2001] [11:09 a.m.]

From the NEWS of the WEIRD archive.
In September, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution profiled desolate Echols County, Georgia (between Valdosta and the Okeefenokee Swamp), well-known to the state's judges because that is where they encourage lawbreakers to go when they really want them to leave the state altogether. The Georgia constitution prohibits banishing people from the state as punishment for crimes, so judges merely banish them from 158 of the state's 159 counties, trusting that they would never voluntarily settle in Echols, anyway, and such strategy seems always to work. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 9-30-01]
So THAT explains Echols County! Need to start reading the AJC.

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[Wednesday, November 21, 2001] [10:17 a.m.]

Hate it when you are on a web page, your browser installs a plugin and promptly closes all of your browser windows itself. I'd love the opportunity to do something like bookmark the pages I want to come back to once the plugin installs?

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[Wednesday, November 21, 2001] [07:42 a.m.]

A couple of quote lists at topten.org... Kewl site.

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[Tuesday, November 20, 2001] [09:24 a.m.]



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It appears that webloggers are the new medium of choice to increase one's reputation. Web sites must court us to increase their reputations. They must provide those services we deem important to get us to link to them as a source. The Article: Of Google, Amazon and Weblogs: reputation management evolves.

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[Monday, November 19, 2001] [03:05 p.m.]

Made some consistency changes to the Fountain of Knowledge. Made a footer and dropped in all the items I wanted added. Found out how to make a server-side include to the current document for the last modified date (which is part of the server-side include applied footer).

Free shipping on orders over $99 at Amazon.

Have found something Dreamweavers sux at doing. For some reason the program has a problem uploading files as ASCII instead of Binary. What's up with that? It has a file to designate which files are ASCII and which are Binary.

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[Monday, November 19, 2001] [02:17 p.m.]


Found this Friday. Someone has too much time to do Monty Python and the Holy Grail in LEGOs. Impress all the same.

Saw Harry Potter Saturday. Thought the movie was pretty good. I've read some of the reviews and think some people need to get off the idea that the written word is canon. Movies are a visual and auditory presentation of stories. Books are a written presentation if stories. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Many of the books I have read are great for reading, but would put me to sleep as a movie because the development of the story is too long (nevermind it would be over 6 hours). Many of the movies I have seen would make very poor books because there is not enough plot development to support a book.

Saw K-PAX yesterday. Thought it was okay. It has an interesting story if a little too obvious in the direction it was headed. Joe didn't even tell me about one of the most important developments in the plot. I saw it coming 1/2 way through the movie.

Stoked about Spy Game (Tony Scott directing), Ocean's 11 (Steven Soderbergh directing), Ali. Of course, The Fellowship of the Ring has me trembling in anticipation and counting the days (30). I don't even know how many days are until Thanksgiving, Christmas, Ayyam-i-hah, or my birthday.

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[Monday, November 19, 2001] [09:58 a.m.]


Added a disclaimer to my work page. Will need to add it to every page probably. Thinking about changing it to an Server Side Include to dynamically add it to most of my pages rather than have separate page.

Time to go shopping.

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[Saturday, November 17, 2001] [12:25 p.m.]


Looking at Mediterranean dessert recipes for Med Night Cuilinary Guild. Some ideas:
  • Date with bananas
  • Baklava
  • Baked apples with honey syrup (actually my mom made this once when I was a kid... I loved it)
Will probably do the baked apples. Much easier than Baklava. The last thing I cooked was (and pizzas do not count)... Zataran's Black Beans and rice last Thanksgiving.

Once a year? Impressed, yet?

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[Saturday, November 17, 2001] [11:11 a.m.]


SurveyPro is a major pain in my ass...

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[Friday, November 16, 2001] [04:49 p.m.]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm... that is the first time I have EVER installed Apache with SSL and had it work the first time. Then again, it was a Linux box, not Solaris.

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[Friday, November 16, 2001] [11:22 a.m.]

A new Slashdot Untitled by Mr. Apathy is out.

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[Thursday, November 15, 2001] [02:12 p.m.]

This Onion article is SO true. Used to empathize with the characters in the video game. Then I got over it and let them over and over, especially when I got to the point that sometimes it was more fun to die than to succeed.

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[Thursday, November 15, 2001] [09:09 a.m.]

My log rotation script failed? My banner was ugly? WTF? At least the Apache Mod Rewrite worked. Rewrote it from memory.

My personal opinion/ observation: If the value of something exceeds $2 and there is no intention of replacing or paying for it, then do not call it borrowing.

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[Tuesday, November 13, 2001] [08:26 a.m.]


Chinese proverb courtesy of OEnone: "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it."

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[Monday, November 12, 2001] [08:29 a.m.]

My new car...


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[Saturday, November 10, 2001] [12:07 p.m.]

More spam...
  • Are you in debt?
  • Increase Sales, Accept Credit Cards! (I am not in business for myself)
  • INCREASE YOUR INTERNET BUSINESS (don't have one in the first place)
  • Anti-Aging Medical News... (hoping to die pretty young)
  • Quit Smoking by this time nextweek! (how can I quit something I don't do?
  • Eliminate credit card debt (by becoming indebted to you?)
  • We need your pics - do you have any sexy? (have you looked at me?)
  • the site I said I'd forward...
  • 9 out of 10 Women Will read this
  • EASILY COPY ANY DVD MOVIE FOR FREE! (got 3 of these)
  • New Pill Adds 1 to 3 inchs to penis-Guarentee... (got 3 of these)
I love the Bulk Mail folder at Hotmail and Spamguard at Yahoo.

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[Saturday, November 10, 2001] [11:35 a.m.]

Ohhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! someone has a crush on me! Really?!?! I'm so excited... no, really... okay, I was kidding.

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[Saturday, November 10, 2001] [10:51 a.m.]

Now I am getting french spam...
  • Femmes, Hommes, Couples ` la sexualiti dibridie
Yesterday was fun. Found that lots of people were hitting graphics on our web server through eBay web pages. A few people I might overlook, but these were thousands of hits from a bunch of auctions.

All Your Image Are Belond To UsPulled out my haxor tricks to make the web server redirect traffic for these images from ebay to this graphic:


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[Friday, November 9, 2001] [10:39 a.m.]


Trying to finish up the redesigns of 2 web sites. A total overhaul of the Evening Program. An update and slight redesign of Judicial Affairs.

Throw in some WebCT course creation, web site permissions mods, and setting up online surveys... well, you can see I am a busy guy right now.

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[Wednesday, November 7, 2001] [03:17 p.m.]


"When the solution is simple, God is answering." -- Albert Einstein

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[Tuesday, November 6, 2001] [12:51 p.m.]

The high estimate for fixing my car is $1200. That depends on how much the transmission will cost, obviously. Looks like it is time to look at another car.

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[Monday, November 5, 2001] [01:59 p.m.]

The Freak Test (from bantrobel, Calhoun's friend)... I got a 14.2% freak.

Will have to investigate the tests there...

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[Sunday, November 4, 2001] [04:48 p.m.]


Tron on DVD is cool. Would like a computer capable of playing it and a whole lot more, BUT have to fix the car first.

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[Saturday, November 3, 2001] [02:35 p.m.]

My car effin died on me. Has to be something at the least moderately serious like the transmission or elsewhere in the drive train.

Paul and Sue's pig pull was kewl though. Reach right into the pig and pull out the meat you want. Was a good weekend.

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[Saturday, November 3, 2001] [6:22 p.m.]


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