Yearly Archives: 2005

New Year’s

I just returned from hanging out with a few friends from high school. Candice, Kim and Zack came by last night and we ended up going back to Kim’s house. While Zack left at about 1:30, the rest of us stayed up until about 4 a.m. and then talked a couple hours longer [...]
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shopping trip

I went shopping with my mother today and caught some great sales. I surprised myself by showing some restraint and not buying everything I wanted that I could afford. The only reason I had to go to the mall in the first place was to exchange a pair of Aeropostale pants (some I [...]
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site referrers

While checking my list of referrers, I found these comments and a link to my site on hexi-decimal.com’s admired list: “I adore Noir’s graphics, what kept me at her site was her great sense of humour and original content. It’s a shame that there aren’t more sites as unique as this, so not only should you [...]
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reading and movies

I just read the latest entry in Charlotte’s blog and this bit made me snort in laughter: Today, I thought, ‘Hey, God obviously wanted me to have unreasonably large boobs, so I might as well show them off. For this is the work of the Lord, and it is good’. I went to bed at some reasonable [...]
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suckers vs. lollypops

(20:29:35) Noir: when you eat a sucker, do you keep it stuck in one side of your cheek/ (20:29:36) Noir: ? (20:29:54) Trinity: a SUCKER??? (20:29:57) Noir: what the hell? my sucker is filled with small black spots. (20:30:02) Noir: yeah, those round sugary things? :D (20:30:04) Trinity: its a lollypop! (20:30:06) Noir: wtf! (20:30:09) Noir: it’s a SUCKER! (20:30:15) Trinity: [...]
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the alt attribute

Each time that you use <img> or <area>, you should include the alt attribute. An alt attribute is generally a short description of what the <img> or <area> contains or is pertaining to. Example <img src="frog.jpg" alt="My pet frog, Snooky."> Why Should I Care? It’s an easy bit of code to throw in and yet it’s quite helpful. [...]
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computer case mod

How Not to Mod Your Computer Case “As you can see I follow the standard safety procedures for working on a case. If you can remove the panel to work on it, do so. Of course thats not normally followed by the phrase “toss it down on the ground and whack it”, but hey, its fun, [...]
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slippery duck

Reading the entry and comment discussion here just chaps my ass. I hate the attitude that valid code is not something to be desired. Instead of climbing onto a very worn out but beloved soap box of mine, I’ll just throw at you an article about alt tags that I wrote the other [...]
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moving in, textbooks

I’m all moved into my dorm although there are still random things that need to be put in their place that are currently lying around the room. Jess and I watched Troy last night at her house. It was decent. I purchased my books today. The total was $237.10, which is about $60 [...]
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free use of 500 patents

How nifty is this?: IBM Statement of Non-Assertion of Named Patents Against OSS “We are pledging the free use of 500 of our U.S. patents, as well as all counterparts of these patents issued in other countries, in the development, distribution, and use of open source software. We believe that the open source community has been [...]
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first day of class

I just returned from running some errands. I found out today that the workbook I purchased for Spanish isn’t required, so I returned it and got my $33 back. Today went well. I was about twenty minutes early for Spanish just because I like being early to a class I’ve never been to before. [...]
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evolution

Georgia Evolution Stickers Ordered Removed “A federal judge Thursday ordered a suburban Atlanta school system to remove stickers from its high school biology textbooks that call evolution ‘a theory, not a fact,’ saying the disclaimers are an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.” That annoys me. I think the stickers should have been left on the books. [...]
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geeky pager

This is one of the niftiest things I’ve seen in a while. Gotta love that it’s running on a Debian system, too.
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the weekend

I had a good time at my cousin’s house this weekend. My one-year-old cousin, Julia, is just learning to walk so I got to hold her hands and help her toddle around the house a lot. Gina (Julia’s mother) and I stayed up until 1 this morning talking about various scary movies, books, [...]
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six freakin’ degrees

What the devil? My roommate just informed me that it is six degrees outside. Six. In all its single-digit glory and evathang. Lexington’s weather is truly sucking right now. I can’t remember the last time it was this cold during the day back home. Perhaps a couple of times [...]
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Seventh level of hell for me

The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell! Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level | Score Purgatory | Very Low Level 1 – Limbo | Low Level 2 | Moderate Level 3 | Low Level 4 | High Level 5 | Moderate Level 6 – The City of Dis | Very Low Level 7 | [...]
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random updates

I’m free! It’s so nice having only two classes on Monday and especially Friday. Last semester, I didn’t get out until 3p on Fridays and now I get out at a pleasant 11a. Jess, Steve and I got together last night and made our poster for the Posters at the Capitol program. However, [...]
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Lora’s boredom, icy roads

So I’ve managed to get Lora addicted to The Sims 2. I found her drawing little black and white boxes in MS Paint on Friday afternoon. “You really are bored, aren’t you?” I asked before having her come to my computer to play the game. Now she has it installed on her [...]
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disasters

My mother and I were walking down our road together. We got to a large barn in the middle of the road in a curve, and went inside. My dad was there. Some of our friends came up outside and showed us how they had learned to adjust a roof. They [...]
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Sarah the employee

I have a job! I’ll now be working on redesigning the UK web pages for $9-something an hour, beginning tomorrow. I went in yesterday for my interview and the lady hired me right off based upon a recommendation from another person who works for her (whom I know from this past summer: [...]
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