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I see what you mean now, Ozone. I can see where you're coming from.

You can't go wrong with Ella Fitzgerald, that's a fact. I love Jazz and would highly recommend you just go to the store and get a couple of "best of" compilations.

I'm so excited for you! Can't wait to see some pics!

Everyone knows you can't rip off a famous site and get away with it. My goal is to make my site so butt ugly that no one even WANTS to rip it off.

I'm not saying anyone is dumb or trying to insult. But I do think that we need to be careful that we separate the instance of religion from the purpose of religion. The fact that some people have used religion as a guise for control does not imply that the purpose of religion is control.

Of course, if you really do believe that the entire purpose of religion is control, then what I say doesn't matter too much :D .

Having used Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress and Textpattern, I can say with a good degree of certainty that it really matters what you're wanting to do with your blog. I find Textpattern easier to design with due to the template tags (though from what I hear, WordPress has template tags in the pipe.) Textpattern is great at natively dealing with comment spam without any plugins or extra countermeasures like Akismet, Bad Behavior or Spam Karma. Textpattern is easily the best choice for a "deep" site that includes more than just a blog. But if you're just wanting a blog, then WordPress is definitely what you should go with.

Heh, I wonder who would miss any one blog, should it disappear. My blog, Copyblogger, Tech Crunch, any of 'em. I think blogs only have meaning when viewed in community (like 9rules) Seriously though, I don't think anyone would miss any one blog for very long.

There's no need for an explanation. Sometimes society tends to try to push the ideal that a single person is half a person, that we become "whole" when we find the right someone. That's a lie. Everyone is a whole someome, single or not.

E-mail from my phone, and since I'm on Linux I use Kfilckr. It basically does the same job as flickr uploadr on Win & Mac.

"I drink coffee because I'm a robot. ;)"

LOL! Me too, Mr. Roboto all the way.

I dig the icon usage. I dig the dark background with a white page. It's a good effect. I think the narrow sidebar is cool too. Fat footer gets a thumbs-up.

I'd make the drop shadow in the header about half as dark. As in, when you do the drop shadow in PS make the opacity like, 25% or so from where it is right now.

The blue is a little too dark, and the main body text is a little too wide, maybe add in a second sidebar? Or ... you could just reduce the overall width of the site in general. Right now you've gotta be pushing about 950px. Maybe reduce that to 800 or so and it might feel less spread out.

You've got great padding on the sides of the content though, I don't feel like I'm going to fall off the page.

The dark blue text in the black footer makes my eyes go a little wonky. but I like the effect ;) .

But dude, it's a good job. And it reflects who you are, I think.

w00t! Another Linux convert! Sweet. I'd love to see my mom ditch windows, I'll look more into freespire.

Go for Vista, then you can have desktop effects that are almost as good as we have for Linux ;).

Nah, seriously though, stick with XP. It's been said before: Vista doesn't offer much more than XP.

The above link to unsleepable is incorrect. Please note that it's http://openswitch.org/unsleepable

It's all about the context for me. People who use curse words in every other sentence appear to me as having a small vocabulary. But then, sometimes a curse word is the only appropriate word that will communicate the thought. I think moderation makes cursing more effective, if that makes sense.

That said, I hardly ever curse on my blog or in real life. But some of my favorite blogs do have cursing in them.

ryanarrowsmith is right, once you "get" the loop the rest just falls into place.

I always write in my admin area.

Is it down to the metal?

I've been blogging for a little over 2 years now. It's a respectable amount of time, I think.

That's what you call advertiser overload.

That's a good analogy, CMarshall. I hadn't thought about it that way, but it makes sense.

I'd like to meet some 9rulers who live in the ATL area. There was a meeting before that was set up but it was on a Sunday and that's the worst possible day for a minister to try to take off from work ;). Any ATL 9rulers up for a meet?

Referrer stats are singularly the best thing about Mint.

@qwik3r: That site would totally walk all over you! HAHAHAHA.

But yes, a midi is NEEDED!

And if not a midi then some really cool animated gifs.

Dood. That rocks. Big rocks.

Mika. I'm loving this band.

Coffee. I could give it up but I don't want to. ;)

And I echo what Kamigoroshi said above about being addicted to blogs and blogging.

I'm a Christian minister in a Southern Baptist Church and I LOVE Harry Potter. Some of the best fiction ever written, as evidenced by the MASSIVE following of people of all ages.

As for this Christian group, bah. Morons. Did they forget that C.S. Lewis, one of the more prominent Christian writers and theologians, created the character called Gandalf? He was a wizard, doing battle with veritable demons on a seemingly regular basis. To embrace Lewis and reject Harry Potter is ultimate hypocrisy.

"Personally, I find it completely ironic that these Christians would rather burn a fictional character--were he real--at the stake (based on the OT verse that states, "Do not suffer a witch to live") than try to preach the salvation message to him. One'd think they'd believe Christ died for HP as well (were HP real, that is) and would want to show him the same grace and mercy they received themselves, you know?"

HAHAHAHA! Exactly my thoughts.

It's nutball Christians like this that give the rest of us a bad name. I swear, I literally spend more time refuting the wayward (and often harmful) beliefs of Christians than I do arguing with those who are of a different religion. Perhaps that speaks more of me than anyone else though. Dang, I'm gonna get flamed for that last statement.

"yes, you have to go out and buy windows if you want to use ie."

Man, that just sucks. Thanks for the straightforward answer, Ozone.

As for browsershots, that's really not an option for me. Especially when I'm trying to debug a design, it's a MAJOR waste of time waiting for those screenshots.

The absolutely BEST approach is to introduce yourself and then ask their name.

If you've got the money to spend on an iPhone, get one. You know you want it just like I want it, just like everyone wants it. Why prolong the inevitable? >:)

There are lots of double standards like that which are still carrying over from the Victorian era. A man who has a lot of sexual "conquests" may be seen by his peers as being something of a superstar. A woman who does the same thing is seen as a slut. It's ridiculous. What's good for a man is good for a woman.

I hate it when a link opens up a new window/tab. I'd much rather it take over my current window. I'm weird that way.