SpamPoison - Cool little link to help fight spammers.

It apparently generates random email addresses which makes their email lists they get from it worthless.  So, I'm putting it up on my page here to do my part to fight spam.

Use the following code:<a href="http://english-102020522260.spampoison.com"><img src="http://pics3.inxhost.com/images/sticker.gif" border="0" width="80" height="15"/></a>

It should appear as the little tag below:

A Fun Definition of Christianity

This is fascinating, apparently coming courtesy of someone's comment on slashdot.

"...the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree..."

Gotta love it! ROFL

- Drake.

Alive! ALIIIIVE!

Yes, y'all... I'm still here.  It's been a long time since I've added to my blog.

But I've decided that since I don't have any real outlet for my day-to-day thoughts, I'd put this blasted thing back in use.

First off, I am a bit miffed at my hosting provider.  They ran thru a 29.95 charge, and it was on an old address.  So I went and corrected it, got everything set up, and contacted them to tell them I had the $30 in there and ready to go.

So what do they do? Tack another 19 bucks on it and THEN run it thru. So of course I had just over the 30 bucks in there and so of course it didn't go thru.  So I had to call them AGAIN and complain about the damned extra charge.  And they said they could waive it... but not until THE WHOLE THING COULD GO THRU.  So finally I have it set up to do that, and now I wait - they said it should go thru "next business day."  That was yesterday.  This makes two business days, and it still has yet to go thru.

GRRR... I want to flog their billing people!

anyway, I'll chat y'all later.

Take care,

Drake.

Wow. This test pretty much nailed my issues. What a trip.

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Low
Schizoid:	Low
Schizotypal:	Low
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	High
Narcissistic:	Moderate
Avoidant:	Low
Dependent:	High
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Moderate
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information --

Windows Live Writer (beta)

Well, readers, I know it's been a long time - most of our posting is done in the forum now.  But I thought I'd give this thing a try.  It's the latest in a series of freebies from Microsoft for Web 2.0 use, the Live series of products.

So far, I must say I'm impressed.  It actually downloaded the template for my blog, got all the support files (even though it's blogger and NOT MSN Spaces!) and set me up in a box that looks just like, has the same fonts, styles, and colors as, and lets me type in the style of, our blog!

South Sacramento

It also has a full range of other goodies, for editing, such as:

Access to all of the blog template's styles

Ability to use all the standard web font styles, i.e. bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, colors, etc.  

it allows hyperlinks, images,    maps,

 etc.

This was just too cool not to post - Titanic - Two the Surface.

 

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Here's something near and dear to my heart (besides Beth, of course.)

Save Star Trek! -Drake.

Okay... so I saw this lovely article online today about http://www.ajaxwrite.com - it's a Word Processor written in the oh-so-newfangled-and-fancy-pants AJAX stuff, basically making your browser act like a piece of standalone software made to do something else; in this case, a replacement for Microsoft Word.

Nice try, but no dice guys. Keep working. Here was my review I wrote IN the AjaxWrite software... (Let's see how Flock formats the copied-and-pasted from word version!)

Testing AjaxWrite
by Drake Steele.

Okay, here we go. What can I say? Honestly?

Not bad. I've used worse word processors. Though it's been a few years. AjaxWrite feels a bit unfinished, but it has all the basic features someone needs to type up a document, do some basic formatting, and save, send or print it.

It's really not bad for a free product. But it needs work. They're claiming it as a potential MS Word-killer. In my mind, it has a ways to go, before it gets to that point... Today, it's barely a WordPad-killer. But it's a start. And a good one. If they can just keep improving on it, giving it new features and such, it could conceivably replace Word for a lot of users who only need a basic level of functionality.

What it does have:

• Fonts and formatting
  
• Lists (numbered/bulletted)
  
• Indents
  
• Insertion of images
  
• Colors
• Tables and horizontal rules, and
• Two view modes, web view and preview.
  

What's it lack:

• Features are sketchy (in typing this list, when I hit enter twice to exit the last list, font and alignment both changed - to Times New Roman and Centered, respectively.)
• Intuitiveness - some things aren't where we're used to finding them.
  MORE features. This is very simplistic - GeoWrite for my now-ancient and long departed Commodore 64 could do all that this word processor does - and it was written in 1984.
• A very uninspiring and basic interface to match the features... C'mon, jazz it up guys! This is the 21st Century!
• My save to MS Word, after I opened it, made my document one character wide and about 20 pages. – I had to go change the paper type to make it come up right.
  

Overall, I give it about a 7 out of 10, but a big gold star and an E for effort! Keep up the good work guys, but give us more!

- Drake Out.

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Actually I think that the Flock Blogger did a better job of reading my Word paste-in than AjaxWrite did of making a Word file lol! But seriously, if you need a quick note jotted and you don't have a word processor handy, then try it - it's http://www.ajaxwrite.com. Later!

And I had to re-edit it in Blogger anyway, wouldn't you know it! lol - Drake

Brokeback To The Future... OMG too damned funny.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/brokebackfuture

This is just too damned well done. Someone put a lot of thought into this and it shows. Enjoy. It's right up there with "Love Trek."

- Drake.

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