You’re Watership Down! by Richard Adams Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you’re actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You’d be recognized as such if you weren’t always talking about talking rabbits. ...
My blog is worth $564.54. How much is your blog worth?
I took a short online personality test, and I realize since I started working my current job I’ve changed from an INFP to an INTJ. Seems appropriate, given the recommended jobs, but it also seems odd that a few years of web development would change your opinions about interacting with others and the world around you.
I have been using Singapore for my photos, but I like the bandwidth deal on Flickr, so I’ve switched my photos over there. Perhaps the ease of uploading will encourage me to get the rest of my pictures up as well. :) Anyway, no knocks on Singapore. they have a very good program, and I encourage anyone who wants to host their own pictures to take a look at it. They’ve recently moved to a database-oriented system. ...
Supposedly these are questions asked in the Church of Scientology while people are hooked up to the E-meter. (However, the questions were pulled from the first issue of Radar, so who knows where they came from.) I shall endeavor to answer them, even though I am not currently in possession of an E-meter: 1. Have you ever enslaved a population? Well, no, but if this is to be part of later performance evaluations, I’ll need a measurable. How large a population? 2. Have you ever debased a nation’s currency? I ripped a dollar to make a point one time. Then I taped it back together, but it wouldn’t work in the vending machine. 3. Have you ever killed the wrong person? I haven’t had occasion to choose between people to kill. 4. Have you ever torn out someone’s tongue? They’re slippery, so no. This fellow did it to a leopard, though. 5. Have you ever been a professional critic? Enthusiastic amateur. 6. Have you ever wiped out a family? I don’t think I did it, but I’ve met some families where it would be hard to tell. 7. Have you ever tried to give sanity a bad name? Only by example. 8. Have you consistently practiced sex in some unnatural fashion? Uh, no, I don’t think so. Of course, the questioner could be going off a different list. 9. Have you ever made a planet, or nation, radioactive? Only in my imagination, when I was a kid. 10. Have you ever made love to a dead body? No. If that’s not covered by question 8, I don’t even want to know what the list includes. 11. Have you ever engaged in piracy? ARRRRR! 12. Have you ever been a pimp? No, but I’ve always been envious of the tall-soled shoes. 13. Have you ever eaten a human body? That would have to be a really small body. I’m not the best at cleaning my plate. 14. Have you ever disfigured a beautiful thing? Only in misguided attempts to make it more beautiful. 15. Have you ever exterminated a species? Maybe. A rare spider species, perhaps. 16. Have you ever been a professional executioner? Enthusiastic amateur…of spiders in the house. 17. Have you ever given robots a bad name? I usually have the opposite problem. I know they’re talking about me behind my back, whispering… 18. Have you ever set a booby trap? Yep, also elementary school. Kid was stealing my pencils. 19. Have you ever failed to rescue your leader? No, because I’ve usually put them in that situation, so it’s easier for me to get them back out. ...
Pre-1985, at least. The good years of video games. :) I am a Defender-ship. I am fiercely protective of my friends and loved ones, and unforgiving of any who would hurt them. Speed and foresight are my strengths, at the cost of a little clumsiness. I’m most comfortable with a few friends, but sometimes particularly enjoy spending time in larger groups. ...
It’s interesting what you miss when you’re moving. I’m spending my time trying not to forget things like bills and address changes, and I completely miss the one-year anniversary of The Phantom City. When I started this blog, I figured my biggest problem would be keeping it going. After 241 posts, that doesn’t seem like a problem. There’s a lot to write about out there, in a lot of different fields, a few of which I actually pay attention to. ...
Very cool. You can zoom into various sections and look for different cities, or at least the communities that made up those cities. (For Greensboro, look for New Garden Meeting House. For Winston-Salem, look for Salem and Wachovia just to the west. I grew up near Upper Saura Town, just to the north of Wachovia, and I had no idea there was a mountain called Ararat nearby.) Link courtesy of Tar Heel Blogwatch ...
WordPress 1.5.1 is out, and given that it included a security fix, it seemed like a good idea to go ahead and upgrade. The upgrade went pretty easily, as near as I can tell. You really can just overwrite the old files, assuming you don’t do like me and drop them into the wrong directory. The only problem I had was with a stats plugin I was using on the admin side and the fact that I really should have deactivated/reactivated the plugins during the process. ...
A meme that will hopefully go around pretty quickly, as I’m always curious about how folks run their sites. What plugins do you use on your blog and how do you rate them? I don’t know that I could rate them in importance, so I’ll go alphabetically: Backup Restore - I’ve got v1.5, but I can’t find where to download it right now. The important thing is, you get a one-click backup for your database and your files. Seems to work quite well. ...