Wow! First Katrina, which I have not commented about. I just don't know what the say. The disaster was devistating. The one thing I find interesting: President Bush took full responsibility. Does he deserver *full* responsibility. Now I know there are Bush haters out there, but come on, no one person can control every aspect of everything that is happening in this country. I believe that there is blame to go around all over the place. The mayor of New Orleans waited to long to evacuate people. The federal government can't give aid until a state asks for it. So why did the governer wait so long? I think it shows what kind of man the President is. Now, tomorrow tonight, hurricane Rita is going to be bearing down on the coast. May God be with all those people.

Uh, sorry about that. So I was thinking. First time in a long time that I have done that.

Anyways, things have really been busy around here. I have been helping to move my Grandma, which isn't so fun, so I haven't had much of a chance to do anything. I have a pile of dirty clothes on my floor in a corner my room that has been there for a week. There is also a bunch of stuff I need to get done on the computer. For instance, I have two game demos I need to try out. I have a website I want to enhance. I have a programming project involving RSS feeds I want to do. I have music that I need to sort so I can backup my computer. I have links I need to sort through. When will I ever have time to finish it. I just realized that I never put question marks on the end of the questions. Here we go: When will I ever have time to finish it?

Remember Kids: If you've read this, you've wasted your time. And I've wasted my time writing something that would be read by people who'd waste their time reading what I wasted my time writing!

Just making sure this is still alive. I haven't personally posted anything in a while because I have been so very busy. Anyways, just a quick note that soon I will be updating the guestbook to include some anti-spam measures. Why my guestbook has been getting spam I don't know, why people do this, I don't know that either. Oh well.

*NOTE* Link is to a directory holding the image. Because the image is so large (14MB @ 9372 x 9372 pixels) clicking the image could freeze your browser. I recommend saving the image by right-clicking and opening it with a program like Photoshop. Image taken on Sept. 23, 2001 from an altitude of 3,300 feet.

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This thing is absolutely amazing.

After selling unopened copies of Windows XP and Office that both the store and Microsoft refused to allow him to return, 21 year-old college student David Zamos was surprised to find out that he'd been sued by Microsoft. Rather than just take it, he fought back, beating Microsoft into submission without so much as hiring a lawyer.

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Now, I love this story. I'm not a Microsoft hater by any means. What I do like is the fact, that for once, the little guy wins. I get tired of people with a bunch of money forcing their ways on others. Hurray, for the little guy.

Microsoft has been granted a patent on the double-click by the US Patents and Trademark Office. The patent, number 6,727,830, was granted on April 27.

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I must say the patent office is also as clueless as the courts.

Check this guy out, he's bought his domain name (www.milliondollarhomepage.com) and he want a million dollars for college. He's selling ad space on the site, nothing new there. However, he's selling it off in 10x10 pixel blocks.

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I only wish I though of this. Make a million dollars by selling ad space in 10x10 pixel blocks. It is so obvious now.

And to buy cheaper spaces consider The Million Penny Home Page.

Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at $199, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small design. So small, it will take your music places you never dreamed of.

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How much smaller are these things gonna get? Any smaller and you will have to use tweezers to select songs.

A federal court ruled Monday that the popular file-swapping program Kazaa infringes on copyright and gave its purveyors two months to alter the system so its users can no longer engage in music piracy.

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This is just another example of a court getting their hands in something they don't understand. Yes, 99% of Kazaa users (I'm sure) use it for illegal means. However I just don't understand how technically it would be possible to stop this. Yet they have to come up with a way don't they. While they do, their users will just be migrating to the next Peer-to-peer client or BitTorrent or whatever the next greatest thing is that comes out. The RIAA will never be able to stop it, although they can subside it by lowering their prices. Their greed is going to do them in.

FOXNews.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Talking Points - Keeping the Record Straight on the Katrina Story: Our great ally France has offered the following in the wake of Katrina: 600 tents, 1,000 cots, some kitchen kits, 60 generators and 12 experts to advise the American Red Cross. --I hope they speak English.
Now I believe the 4-H Club of Bangor, Maine, has topped that offer."

Not only is it the editor I use for my website, it is also a good descriptive word for this post. You see I had yet another weird dream last night. I and a bunch of other people (which I don't recognize them in the awake world, but I knew them in the dream world) were trapped in this maze.

First, we were sitting in this dark and gloomy area and in front of us were wires with little creatures on them. The wires were set up as trip wires. One of the people that was with us, tripped one, and all of a sudden, these creatures scurried off the wires and started to engulf the person. We had our phasers, a la Star Trek style, so we were able to thwart that attack.

Then, after that, all of the creatures disappeared and so did the wires. We were in a large room with several rooms off to the side. The rooms were very ornate looking, something similar to ancient Egypt. In one room it looked like an old Victorian house, were remnants of people that were there before us. There were notes and hand drawn maps of the area. This would come into use.

After we discovered this all of a sudden, a bunch of other people appeared. We could see them, but they couldn't see us. They didn't even know we were there. One of the people with me explained that they were out of phase with us, different dimensions so to speak, and they too were trapped in the maze. After some time passed, they slowly became in phase with us, and were there with us normally.

All of a sudden, a big screen appeared and started playing some video clip or movie. We watched it and when it was over we had to remember stuff that happened or we would be killed.

Then these two stone creatures appeared. They said they would have to fight one of us. If that person won, we would move to the next level, if he lost, we would all die. Naturally, they chose to fight me. They gave me a weapon that looked like a bowl made of tin foil. I asked how this was supposed to be a weapon. Well apparently, when you pushed a button on the side it turned very hard. You were supposed to slam this into people. Well after a bunch of fighting and me losing my bowl weapon, the second creature allowed us both to have a sword to fight each other. I was doing pretty good when the second creature decided to join in. So, I was in a sword fight with two of the creatures. That was fun. Then I discovered another button on the sword. When pressed the blade rotated like on a drill. So we all started fighting with our swords rotating. I ended up winning that fight, naturally. The only problem, I woke up after that. I don't know what happened next.

In retrospect, it seemed like we were in some kind of weird social experiment conducted by who knows what and who knows where. It was weird, but somewhat neat in a, well, weird sort of way.