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1. Drawar
2. Fenxy
3. Decaflon
4. Two Credits
5. Wriging
6. Loose Suits
7. Chixe
8. Dud3s
9. Wing Colors

 

Meg Werner, easily my favorite.

These new shoulder pads are frickin' sweet!

Sometimes I forget to visit 9rules :(

Wow, that really changed my mind about the Onion. I used to think it was really witty and funny, but this was just crass. Not for one second did I find this funny AT ALL.

It's not just the headphones, it's that teenagers turn up the volume until they can't hear ANYTHING around them. Maybe that's escapism or just a natural response to the buzz of urban places. I just know that when I use headphones, I can still hear cars coming along the street, because I don't turn the volume up high enough to get myself killed.

You gotta get to know a person before you start with the kissing!

When Spice Girls came out I would have said:
Posh, Ginger, Baby, Scary, Sporty

Now, it's:
Sporty, Baby, Ginger, Posh, Scary

Yeah, something about her lame techno singing career made Sporty that much better in my eyes.

When I take a SS, I want the site only, no app corners, so I use ScreenGrab!:
http://www.screengrab.org/

Unless you live in a third world country I wouldn't loose sleep on wether the government will become a dictatorship overnight.

Ah, it's the old, "we are a rich country, we can't become a dictatorship."

Tell that to Germany in the rise of the Nazi era.

Tell that to Cuba before Castro took power.

If you want to get technical on their asses, you could tell them that "sun" is an apocope.

Gesundheit!

When clients think it's fair to keep changing the project as it's nearing completion... sure, you can charge them more for extra work, but even then it messes up your scheduling and keeps you stuck on a project that you are ready to be over with!

The short answer is, yes, if you can afford it, and you wouldn't mind learning the OSX interface, buy a mac.

If we are talking hard liquor, I'll go with a White Russian or a Beer Buster.

Beer, I have a soft spot for Hoegaarden.

Wine, definitely any decent Gewurztraminer.

Cappuccino: You can add me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/srch.php?nm=christian+montoya

If anyone wants some invites to cool apps I've built, let me know... via Facebook message, that is.

Abi: That's great that you mention that, I'm making a list of things apps SHOULD NOT do.

Facebook has privacy, which means it's not public information that you can get there... my friends on Facebook have access to my cellphone number, my e-mail address, my work info, hobbies, interests, personal photos I'll never post on Flickr, etc.

Facebook has way more "to do" now than MySpace with all the applications. If you don't use Facebook applications, you are missing out.

Scrivs: If you ever want to get into making an app, let me know. I've made quite a few (all with PHP & MySQL).

Just make it with low carb crust, a veggieburger, tofu fries, some lean-all-white-meat nuggets (or veggie nuggets), and some fat free cheese... same crazy concept, way healthier :)

If you haven't installed Leopard yet, you are not a true Mac fan.

Coming soon to a blogroll near you

I've had others in the past.

Ozone: Hmm, that's some food for thought right there. That's the kind of numbers I needed to hear too. The sites I'm talking about are seriously lacking in optimization, but maybe if I can improve them, I'll be able to scale down the number of servers we have, or at least free up a lot of resources for new ones. Thanks for the advice.

My thoughts were (just to provide a little more background):

- If each site is on its own server, it doesn't have to compete for RAM or CPU processes and if one site has issues, it won't affect the other two.

- If we get a big server that can more than handle these sites, then we can scale a bit better since we can add more sites on that server and still not have problems. (but this might not be true).

- I really can't tell the performance difference between the specs the one big server has and the specs of the smaller servers... I just want each site to be fast and handle all the traffic and then some.

Let me put it this way...

If the graphics/mockup are done (this is not part of the CSS you know), and the backend is done (and it's a properly coded thing, always helps), and it's really down to just writing CSS... max is 10 hours. Sometimes I can do it in 2.

Other people might give you higher numbers (and might tell you that they could never do it in 2), but that's because they don't know CSS as well as they think. And if you think I sound crazy, I should mention that I'm at a point where I rarely, if ever, run into cross-browser issues. I know what causes them so I don't make the mistakes in the first place.

Lancer, Alvin: I'm using uniqlock too! I love it.

Another good one is Polar Clock if you are into the visual clocks.

I wish I could find more animated screensavers like uniqlock, it seems like most screensavers are just slideshows which I hate. If anyone has any recommendations, let me know!

Here's my opinion on the matter, take it or leave it. A London 2012 spokesman said this:

"The emblem is flexible and will evolve over the next five years... Our emblem needs to be modern, bold, flexible and as relevant today as in five years' time... We want our Games to be different. We are hosting them in a different era, in 2012... The emblem needs to work across new platforms that reach young people."

So the whole point of the logo is that it's flexible. And considering that all it is, is 2012 in a mis-mash of colors and shapes, I guess that's pretty flexible.

I also think using the word "flexible" here is a load of BS. I think it's just a cover-up for a logo that doesn't communicate anything at all. It's flexible because it means nothing to no one. Unlike all the past logos, which say something about the design and cultural icons associated with the host city (and Chicago's current logo, which, you know, has something to do with Chicago being an important city for art), London's logo is just a blocky, barely recognizable stack of numbers. What does it say about London? Nothing. Could it have been used for another host city? Certainly! It's flexible in the sense that the designers could have used this for any event planned for the year 2012, because that's all it is... the number 2012.

And I think a lot of Londoners are feeling slighted because they thought they would get a logo that maybe represents their sense of pride in their city, or at least something they identify with, and all the got was a couple of colors and a number. It doesn't matter if this is going to be a trend in 5 years, or a work of art in 50 years. The people who have to live with it right now can't be proud of it, because there is nothing for them to relate to. It's just too "flexible."

And considering this was probably the most expensive logo yet, that's sad.

For the record, my favorite logo would have to be Seoul 1988:

brandon: I really doubt that's true. For the people who shun HP, this is just another drop in the bucket. For those who are okay with it, I'm sure they won't change their stance. If you can point to any group of people that have said, "that's it, I've supported HP until now but I'm no longer allowing my kids to read it," let me know.

anonymousJ: I'm glad to hear you are doing the right things.

I think a counselor would be very helpful, as long as it's someone you can trust. This is an opportunity for both of you to grow and if you are both committed to your relationship, I think you will both succeed.

But it's going to be hard! Just don't make the mistake of ever thinking that it's not going to work and giving up. I think you know already that this is definitely worth it.

Ozone: That's not an issue here, but I know what you mean.

The sites are doing much better today, which I'm guessing might be a combination of the MySQL indices and some caching that's being added.

I also discovered that PHP & Perl are running as CGI, *just* CGI, so I'm having Fast CGI installed. Can't believe it wasn't already there. That should double the speed alone.

Ha, update: I just discovered that our 2 MySQL databases didn't have any indexes. Considering that all the queries we ever do are of the form:

SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE field = 'unique constant'

That's kind of a big deal.

Anyway, they have indexes now.

jsmart: That's what I'm beginning to think... I want to get my employer off this "managed ds" crap and get a server with root access so I can figure out what the problems are and do some optimizations on the setup.

The host said that the scripts consuming the most memory are the ones making MySQL queries, but I'm thinking it's just a combination of things.

Also, I know the PHP/Perl/SQL coding is crap... I didn't write it. I just started working here so I "inherited" all this legacy code and it's terrible stuff. I want to update all the code but that would take months. Plus, these sites were working fine yesterday so that's why I am very suspicious about the whole thing.

Here's to the possibility that we'll be using a new host soon =/

I just want to add one thing to the discussion: stop putting videogames like WoW ahead of your wife. She's probably jealous of all the attention you give that game and she just hasn't told you. You need to talk to her and find out what you can do differently to make her feel appreciated.

I totally agree with Jeff; a girl should be cautious and "hard to get" but she shouldn't just play games to make herself feel better because a guy chases after her. That's just snobby.