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Somebody must actually follow those links, or they wouldn’t keep sending the stupid things…
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The Cafepress site now has even more options, including ski caps (the Ninja ski cap is up now), and – most amusingly – thongs. The thongs have only 2.75 inch squares to print on the front and 1 inch squares on the back, so I’ve got to come up with some new graphics. I have, of course, already put up a SGT Slut thong, but I doubt it will sell. None of the SGT Slut line has sold so far. Yeah, it was a joke, but c’mon – doesn’t anyone know a military girl with a sense of humor?

So, go to the store and see what you like. And, if someone has an idea for a new design, I’ll make it, set you up as a storeowner, and we can both try to make a profit. I’ve made next-to-nothing so far, but then I don’t have usurious pricing and I don’t actually expect to make ANYTHING on it. It is just fun.
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Updated the templates page on my site. I added a couple new types of images that are quick and easy to make, as well as adding a description of what is customizable in each type.

C’mon, you know you need a new icon!
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Amazing what blocking just a few domains does to my spam load.
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It’s at least a few weeks old now, but the Mozilla-based Phoenix is new to most people, I’m sure. It’s on version 0.3, so it may not work for some things, but it’s fast, simple, and has a couple cool features.

Selective pop-up blocking – by default, all unrequested popup windows are blocked, but you can add specific sites to your “whitelist” of sites that you will allow popups from.

Selective image blocking – rather than the usual all-or-nothing approach to image loading, you can specify certain servers that you don’t want images from. Saves a lot of time when you block the advertising.com server, among others.

Of course, it also has tabs, like every browser but IE, and it allows you to set a minimum font size, also like everyone but Microsoft. I want my mouse gestures, though, so I’ll probably stick with Opera for now. It’s nice to see browser development is not stagnant, though.
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How is it possible for there to be so many Canucks on LJ, yet my site (which gets most of its hits from LJ) only has 2% users coming from .ca domains? Do Canadians usually use .com domains? Don’t you have ISPs that use .ca besides Sympatico?

It’s all very weird, and I don’t want to work so I’m going to pursue useless crap like this. 🙂
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I think this is cool, but I’m sort of weird.

Nutrition Action Health Letter has a section called “Right Stuff/Food Porn” that is amusing as hell. That’s where I discovered that the Pecanbon from Cinnabon, although a taste treat, has 890 calories. Yes, one roll has half your daily calorie intake. And you really don’t want to look at the fat content of that bad boy.
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Sorry to the two people I told would get userpics Friday afternoon. Make that Monday.
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Yet another new store with a simple design.
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I find it amusing that half the feature articles written in Windows-oriented computer magazines can be summed up with the line, “How to make Windows stop doing stupid shit and behave like a normal person would expect it to.”

Wonder why the vaunted Microsoft usability studies never pick up on these things.
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pointed out this wonderfully inane petition. Here’s one of my favorite quotes from one of the petitioners:

i pray every day that mr jackson will see the light and pull the plug on this project. Mr Tolkien if that is his indead his real name does not seem to be a very christian person to be so cynically cashing in on this tragedy.

Yeah, Tolkien is so cynical and taking advantage of a tragedy, 29 years after he died. He was a freakin’ psychic, apparently, who knew that his 1954 book would be made into a movie a year after two towers were destroyed in a terrorist bombing using technology that didn’t even exist when he wrote the book.

The majority of the folks who signed that petition in support have no grasp of English, much less of literature. Astounding how clueless folks can be.
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I’ve got mad userpic skillz, yo!

Using Fireworks, that userpic is composed of 4 objects. The background is a bitmap, the star in the corner is a symbol that can easily be swapped with any other picture or color in one step, the text is editable, the purple box is editable. Coolio, eh?

I’m proud of myself, I’ve only made two of those “translucent box” things before and I’ve got it down to a quick-and-easy template now.
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Good thing I waited to buy the new Clie. There’s a newer one out soon. Anyone want to make my Christmas?
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Did you know that not all books pay royalties to their authors or estates? Public Domain is a great concept, in fact it is the default status for all works. Copyright is an artificial construct intended to encourage artists to publish their works, in exchange for a time-limited monopoly on copies. Gets the authors some money for their work, but the art is eventually free for all. When the USA was founded, copyright was set at 14 years, with an additional 14 year extension possible. Copyright now in the US is set at 70 years after the death of the author. Nuts, eh? How is giving his heirs a monopoly going to encourage the author to produce more work after he’s dead? The logic behind copyright is completely twisted by post-mortem rights, especially on the order of 2 generations.

Anyway, I’ve gotten up to 1995 in downloading the Gutenberg Project, and now I see this new thing. It’s a bookmobile that doesn’t loan books, it gives them out. That’s right, the books cost about one buck each, all nicely bound and laser-printed. The catch – the books are all public domain, which is the only way to afford giving them away, and led to my opening rant. Ta

Computer reviewers should really know of what they speak before writing an article as an expert in the field. From an article on Lindows:

The KDE desktop looks and feels like Windows, with a few exceptions. You have to double-click an icon on the desktop to get it to open, but only single-click an icon in the toolbar to get the same result.

Now, forgive me if I’m dense, but on the equivalent of the “toolbar” in Windows, the Quicklaunch Toolbar, do you single-click or double-click? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
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Why can I barely break 70,000 on Big Money for Windows, but I can reliably hit 150,000 on Big Money for Palm? I’d think the scoring and difficulty would be comparable…

Can you tell my job is not too challenging at times? It’s like being back in the army – long stretches of boredom punctuated by short periods of panic. Management by Panic, suppose that’s a term yet?
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The store has some new stuff. The fine folks at Cafepress have added stickers, lunchboxes, and kid’s clothes to the line. Pretty neat.
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I made a few orphans this morning. Janeane Garofalo and Warcraft III. Nice combination, eh?

Anyway, they’re up at my orphan page, if you want a new look. The Garofalo ones are on the second page of unclaimed images, the Warcraft ones on the first page.
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In my continuing playtime with the Gutenberg Project, I discovered some cool stuff tonight. Not only do I have some photos from the Trinity Project and the Cave Paintings in France, but there is a complete copy of the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica. Cool, huh?

Update: Yeah, only the first of 28 volumes. Damn.
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One of the highest-traffic clients hitting my site is WestPac Bank in Australia. Um, do the banks in Oz provide internet access, or are there lots of bored tellers there?
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