Blog is back. Not much new cept found out that a coworker who had tried to fix me up with a guy just doesn't understand why it didn't work out. See, he went and poured out his problems to her after I wouldn't date him. He had a little problem. And she couldn't understand how not having a penis could make a difference. Well, if you want sex, it does and mind you we hadn't gone out once and he wanted sex. He was pretty upset that I didn't just want to hop in bed with him too. If there's a moral to this story, it is if you are going to be a guy, get a penis.

Musing on the possibilities, hoping that he is wrong. mike_hunt48 may be the Bob and he has been inferring that Y!WR will take over RingSurf. And of course Hunter is not around to confirm or deny such a takeover. He has in the past denied it. But he has been gone close to 3 months now. And Mike's comment bout James and Andrea's help being needed "here" is worrisome. M is obviously Marissa so it sure seems like he's the Bob. Maybe, he's trying to torture us, some form of payback for picking on him for banning and deleting us. Guess it's time to seriously consider Ringlink.

What have I been doing, oh yeah...working. Well, I found this: www.moonfruit.com. It's got a site building tool that is flash, all flash, big flash, need a T1 line here. Interesting sites, sometimes crash the compy. The question is how to do a webring with a flash built site. And of course the other question is how accessible is an all flash site for text based browsers, ie non flash. I imagine it might pose some difficulties.

Server was down briefly, it seems to be back up now. Stuff happens. Wonder where Dreamhost is located? Hope it's not California with their power problems. My only power problem is not having that Powerbook I want. ^_~

Today was the big day, court. And unlike what some people think about the lack of justice, it went well, was just, fair and proper for the offense. Everyone from the attorney to the probation officer were very good, and I am quite pleased with the result. I can rest easier now that that is over.

Now this is scary. I sure wouldn't want someone, Juno in this case, using my computer for their benefit at my expense. Course, seeing as most computers run Windows, that's a risky operation. They are as likely to get the blue screen of death as any useful data. Of course, they totally absolve themselves of any responsibility for damage to your computer. So, if they destroy all your data, that's your tough luck and if you don't comply, they will terminate your service. Better look elsewhere.

Having blog troubles, an edit is now a duplicate. Lots of error messages. Do I dare?

Dumb email, I quote. "I visited www.mindofmog.net and I noticed that you are not listed on some search engines. I am sure you can increase the number of people who visit www.mindofmog.net ." Course, it's not listed. I didn't go to all that effort to create a robots.txt to get listed. And in other news, Tripod is going on a site deleting spree. Why, clueless. Glad I'm not there.

Probably should post something. In the news, Yahoo! here, here, here. I could go on but I'm tired. Wonder who will be the next CEO? The Bob maybe???

How to move files from a PC to an iMAC and vs vs: Napster, AIM, ICQ, and if one has a CD-R, burning a CD. I spent most of the day doing the first option. I get awesome speed between the two machines.

Today is the anniversary of my divorce, actually had to ask my ex as I forgot the date, so I went out and splurged on more Trigun.

Yahoo! warns; CEO steps down in CNN news today. YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Note, I don't hold any stock in Yahoo!

Nother bad week, let's see, mentioned experiences I had on a ML that had a Christian music loving Christian on it. That created a stir, she flamed me. I still think Pat Boone doing Heavy Metal is weird. Maybe I should just leave my comments to my blog. I did find out that I could find out info on court cases, just search by name and get the complete case history (list of documents) relating to a specific complaint or indictment least in Superior Court. Why would I even be interested sides my kid is going to court? Cause certain people intend on being there.

Tired, bad week at work well I guess I don't get my thrills listening to a coworker read her Bible out loud then try to convince me I should go to some Christian movies. I'm still undecided bout seeing Hannibal cause of the squick factor. Anyway, relaxing, being useless and Napstering.

Earth quake today, 6.8, in Seattle, while Bill Gates was making a speech. Interesting, it wasn't during a Steve Jobs speech.

Thought I should comment on Napster now that my kid can play her MP3's on her CD player. I found it to be a great annoyance. First, she'd download some song I never heard of from some obscure group then insist on getting the CD. More often than not, we'd end up at Zia Records or Stinkweeds and still not be able to find it. Course, I have a pile of vinyl that I can't play. Stereos don't come with turntables anymore. And that Napster usually has what I am looking for if the stores don't. Can't have that. And friends sharing can be just as bad. One friend sent an MP3 of KMFDM. I went out and bought a bunch of CD's cause of that. Then, my kid took them so it's *grumbles* back to Napster. And yes, I've spent a small fortune on CD's. The upside of the new CD/MP3 Player is that she doesn't take a bunch of CD's to school where they get stolen. It does get expensive replacing stolen CD's, so I rather like the MP3 Player.

It works finally, got the CD creator to create a CD-R that can be read in the Memorex CD player, it reads CD-R's and MP3's. Course, I had to shorten all the filenames. I found I had to use the Easy CD Creator and create a single session CD, max letters it reads are 6 so all those names starting with "Wumpscut -" had to be shortened, and I made directories for each band. So, if anyone else gets one of those MP3 reading CD players, you'll know what works.

For fun I like to look at blogs, some of the best designed sites on the net IMHO. Anyway, noted that GeoCities blocking has messed up a few blogs too. The GeoCities files are gone, replaced by the dreaded red x (least in IE). Found some yummy ones here Bishounen Hunter Blog such a lovely occupation, and Elusive Heaven and check out her site, she has Utena, and the most droolsome site design. Now I will probably spend all day hunting anime related blogs.

I just love surprises...not! Yahoo did it again, this time GeoCities decided to block linking to graphics on it's servers wreaking havoc with a multitude of webrings. Rumor has it Tripod did the same thing. It would have been nice if they told us, but no. That's not their style.

Four weeks now, my kid has had her privileges yanked, she still has 2 months to go on the drivers licence suspension. She has snuck out twice that I caught her at, and allegedly went for a walk cause she had nightmares about being incarcerated. She asked if she could spend the night with a friend. I pointed out her recent noncompliance with the rules and got quite an earful about how I am ruining her life, I took her life away. I reminded her it was she who took the drugs, I didn't force her. Dropping her off at school, watching her leave, the picture of defiance in her spikes, full goth regalia. Musing on her life, drugs, sex and lies - yes great life.

Well, I did something not so useful, read a fic, specifically a Heidegger and Palmer yaoi fic, extremely squicky and extremely funny. Gotta bug Ritty and Cys for it if you're interested. They wrote it. Now, to check out my new dj, ah mail is good today.

Probably should write something, schedule is all messed up and I've been working cause today I had Jury Duty which meant I got to sit and wait my turn to get called to line up to go to the courtroom to stand around til time to go in then get asked if I felt I couldn't serve impartially. And since that particular trial was for possession of a drug for sale, I felt I couldn't be impartial. They agreed and so I was released. Now I have the rest of the day to do something useful.

A cautionary note, it is best to always back up your data cause stuff happens. In this case AOL 6 corrupted my files, and I lost all my newly sorted mail. Of course, I had a backup, AOL 5 still had the PFC intact and I had backups on CD-R too. I am not sure what happened, but I am guessing AOL 6 has a fixed limit on the size of the filing cabinet, beyond which it crashes. From my backup, I moved a bunch of stuff into subfolders and saved them separately, decreasing the size of the main PFC. So, hopefully it should crash less. I doubt I lost too much mail in the process, I hope.

Long night at work, upsetting night at work, why? Coworker, not real bright, just transferred into my department. She told me this sad tale of her kid gone wrong, from the way she talked you'd think the kid did drugs or stole stuff or committed some other crime. Well, she did say the kid assaulted her but a careful listening of her tale revealed she started it and is charging the kid with assault to teach her a lesson. So what did this kid do that was so terrible? She came out to her mom. I tried to tell her that you don't change your sexual orientation. Noone converted her, she has a gay child and will have to deal with it. And it's ok to be gay. I think the worst thing about her kid being gay is having to deal with her mother's ignorance.

Shopping, got The $$60,000,000,000 Man, Lost Past and Project Seeds, looking for more Trigun. Wolfwood/Vash yummmm. ^___^

Being innundated with mail, I really needed to be able to sort it.

As fast as Netscape 6.0
Handles CSS and popups with ease
Crashes in a flash
But it sorts mail....AOL 6.0

Yes, I installed it, now I'll probably get kicked off all these mailing lists for having HTML mail - no option for txt.

Useful link Internet Traffic Report at a glance you can see just how slow the net is cause people are swamping Napster to get those last few MP3's downloaded before the ruling takes effect.

Tired, so very tired, just wanted to leave it all. However, some nice email and a certain update early helped my mood. Sleep helped too. Now, bout the spam, got spammed bigtime, well so did bout everyone at Ringsurf.

Moving and sorting stuff is a big pain, just got thru sorting lots and lots of doujinshi. Hundreds and not one Gundam Wing dj and never enough Bart and Billy.

Nice to do something for myself, so I bought myself a lovely Vash the Stampede action figure, It's one beautifully detailed action figure.