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Archive for April, 2005

Honey, I Moved The Webcam

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

I hadn’t updated it since January anyway.
It occurred to me as I was talking to someone rather inspirational who often inspires me that in the Wordpress 1.5 scheme of things that the webcam really belongs on a Wordpress-generated “page” - that coincides with the design of the overall website - instead of […]

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Yes, even some of the “smart” ones get suckered in once in a while.
Kazaa 3.0 promises to be spyware free. Most respectable applications that make this claim are usually on-the-level but Kazaa clearly is not. The 3.0 version has just as many cancerous little minions that will fill your screen with popups as […]

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I don’t mean to rain on Pope Benedict XVI’s parade but surely everybody must realize that he’s not going to be a 20+ year Pope like John Paul was. Heck, with the odometer reading on this one we’ll be lucky to get 10 years in all likelihood.
In the 2004 calendar year this domain had […]

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Oh Let’s Go For Two…

Monday, April 25th, 2005

This one is funny. Chris will be analyzing the results of this one for weeks.

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Extraversion
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73%

Stability
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16%

Orderliness
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26%

Empathy
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70%

Interdependence
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23%

Intellectual
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30%

Mystical
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30%

Artistic
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90%

Religious
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76%

Hedonism
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23%

Materialism
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70%

Narcissism
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36%

Adventurousness
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43%

Work ethic
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30%

Self absorbed
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50%

Conflict seeking
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56%

Need to dominate
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70%

Romantic
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83%

Avoidant
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43%

Anti-authority
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43%

Wealth
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36%

Dependency
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30%

Change averse
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70%

Cautiousness
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63%

Individuality
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56%

Sexuality
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83%

Peter pan complex
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63%

Physical security
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70%

Food indulgent
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76%

Histrionic
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70%

Paranoia
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83%

Vanity
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50%

Hypersensitivity
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76%

Female cliche
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36%

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And even though some people wouldn’t be brave enough to post the summaries (which are […]

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Anybody who knows me personally will attest to the 20% Dixie.

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

20% Dixie

20% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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The Freeware Awards

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005

Ever wanted to find the best freeware for Windows? This page is sure a good place to start. I was happy to find out I’m already running most of it.
Thanks to Amber for this.

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Internet Explorer 7 *cringe*

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005

It looks like we could have a public beta release of Internet Explorer 7.0 by summer.
In related news, the Eli Lilly company has ramped up production of prozac to begin sending targetted samples to IT departments worldwide. More to come.

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