January 2006 Archives

Ever since her rise to fame on the international party circuit, the debate has raged in the gossip columns from Los Angeles to London. Is the heiress Paris Hilton really the most air-headed socialite the world has ever seen? Or, as her supporters claim, is her dizzy bimbo act so outrageous that it can only be a deliberate, if off-beat, self-marketing ploy?[...]

Read about it here

A man goes into a shop to buy a Barbie doll for his daughter, looks at the various models on display and asks the shop assistant in a puzzled way: "Why is Divorced Barbie so much more expensive than the other dolls?" "That's easy, sir" replies the shop assistant, "Divorced Barbie comes with Ken's car, Ken's house, Ken's furniture..."

FAQ for Uploading a Picture to Your WP.com Space and Adding it to a Post.

Please note that the picture must be uploaded to your blog space for it to be seen. They can not remain on your local computer nor should you be using pictures hosted offsite as this just wastes other people's bandwidth.

Please also respect copyright and give the source of where you found this picture if it's someone elses. I found the kittie picture at randomdialogue.net via a Google image search for "random picture."

The thumbnails below lead to full sized pictures.

1 - Get a picture and save it to your local computer. WP.com appears to be able to use most graphic formats. These include *.jpg, *.gif, *.png, etc.

2 - The next step is to begin creating your post. Sign into your blog and click on the link to "Write a Post." This will bring you to your "Write Post" screen. Please note that for this FAQ, I am using the simple text editor, not the advanced one, as I want complete control over what goes into the post and I want to see my html.

3 - Write your post like you normally would. Make sure you fill in all sections of the form like you normally do, such as Title, Post, Categories (if you use them), Trackbacks, etc.

4 - Let's now work on uploading the picture to your webspace. Before we do that though, you need to decide where in your post you want the picture. Within the "Post" space of the form, click your mouse where you would like the picture to go. DO NOT touch this text area again until the uploading of the picture is complete or you will move the picture.

- Under the "Post" text area, you will see another form with the labels "Upload", "Browse", and "Browse All." This is what we're going to use for uploading your picture to your webspace.

- Click on the "Upload" tab.

- To the right of the File text box, you'll see a button labeled "Browse..." Click on this button. This will open a standard search box within your OS. Locate your picture on your hard drive and select it. Once you have it selected, the search box will close and you will see that the File textbox is now filled in with the location of the picture on your hard drive.

- Fill in the "Title" and "Description" text areas with any text information that you require. Note that this space is for text only, no links.

- Once everything is filled in, click on the upload button. This will upload your picture to your webspace. The "Browse" tab should now be highlighted and a small thumbnail of your picture should now be presented.

- Congrats! Your picture is now within your WP.com space.

5 - The next step is moving your picture over to your post. This only takes a few steps.

- Click on the thumbnail of your picture. You'll now get a small menu of five options. I'm going to list what you need to do with them to more your picture over and then explain them towards the end of this FAQ.

- Leave the "Using Thumbnail" as is.

- Change the "Not Linked" selection to `Linked to Image." You can do this by clicking on the "Not Linked" line and the selection will change.

- Click on "Send to Editor." This will fill in the necessary HTML code within the "Post" text area.

- Click on the "Close Options" selection just to get rid of it.

- Congrats! Your picture has now been added to your post.

6 - Finish up with your post if there is anyting else you need to add to it and click on "Publish" button once you are ready.

View the blog. You should see your picture included within your post. If you click on the thumbnail, it will load the full size picture within your broswer.

Often, when job seekers try to sell themselves to potential employers, they load their resumes with vague claims that are transparent to hiring managers, according to Scott Bennett, author of "The Elements of Resume Style" (AMACOM).

By contrast, the most successful job seekers avoid these vague phrases on their resumes in favor of accomplishments.

Read more here.

`Baby Jessica,' now 19, reportedly marries

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) -- A published report says "Baby Jessica," whose dramatic rescue from an abandoned Texas well was televised across the country 18 years ago, has gotten married.

When it comes to violent crime, New Orleans' gain may be Houston's loss

Crime may be down in New Orleans, but many of the city's bad guys seem to be turning up in Houston, which finds itself caught in the cross hairs of an apparent gang war between Hurricane Katrina evacuees from two rival housing projects.

Steve Jobs owns your living room

NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - On Wednesday night, Gene Munster was thinking about going to the movies; but he did something else instead. He spent $1.99 to watch a campy 1960s TV show on his laptop. The first season of the Munsters -- a comedy about a family of monsters and their struggles to lead an all-American life -- was available for download on iTunes. Munster, for obvious reasons, couldn't resist.

Lez Zeppelin: A band that flips the Page

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Four women rockers who took on the music of Led Zeppelin are driving club audiences to a frenzy and, offstage, whipping up speculation over their sexual tastes with the name of the band: Lez Zeppelin.

NutriSystem lures men with pizza and sex

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Nate Griffin, a former Army sergeant, watches what he eats. He's even tried juice diets to shed pounds. But ask him if he'd join a group to talk about weight loss and he cringes.

Museum visitor trips, breaks Chinese vases

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- A museum visitor shattered three Qing dynasty Chinese vases when he tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and brought the vases crashing to the floor, officials said Monday.

Al Qaeda's No. 2 taunts U.S. in new video

(CNN) -- Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared in a new video Monday, saying he is alive and well just weeks after a U.S. missile strike targeted him in Pakistan.

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) -- Just to make sure there's no confusion about which team they are pulling for in Super Bowl XL, the mayor and council voted unanimously to change this city's name.

Welcome to Steeler, Pa.

This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. These are straight questions with straight answers.

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?

5. What fruit has it's seeds on the outside?

6. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

7. Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

8. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

9. Where are the lakes in which the name the Los Angeles Lakers referred to?

10. There are 7 ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls (a walk) is one way. Name the other 6.

11. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

12. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'

For the answers read the whole post at Project C. Discovered from here.

Chapter 3 of my Daria/ Star Frontiers Crossover - Crash on Volturnus

I'm putting up a table of contents since it appears some of the incoming websites haven't updated yet for Chapter 5.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

Came across this wonderful tool that lets you compare results from the different Google datacenters. Find out if one datacenter sees your website different from another.

While I'm waiting for Chapter 3 of my Daria / Star Frontiers fanfiction work to come back from the beta readers, I've gone ahead and done up a quick hex map for those who want to follow along for some reason. The little triangle thing in the lower portion is where the life pod "lands." Yellow is desert and the blue thing to the right is...

Well, I'm not going to tell you yet. You'll just have to continue reading the story.

Crash on Volturnus - Chapter 1
Crash on Volturnus - Chapter 2