February 24, 2005 - 7:11pm
The Recent Life Changes Questionnaire was developed to guage the amount of stress one is experiencing. Since I've been just a tad bit on edge (ah... sarcasm: the highest form of satire...), I decided to see where I scored.According to the scale, a 6-month score of 300 would indicate a high level of stress in my life, and an 80 percent increase in me contracting a serious illness. I scored a cool 654. Of course to be fair, about 80 percent of my score is the result of the past 45 days. So if you adjust the scale, I actually managed to score over a thousand! I wonder if there is a special secret society for people like me...
Update: I found a fabolous tidbit of news regarding my adjusted score of +1000
Research has shown that
accumulating more than 150 LCUs on the SRRS within 6 months correlates
with a high probability that a person will experience a negative health
change. The nature of the health change cannot be predicted, only that
one is likely to occur. Negative health changes include heart attacks,
accidents, infectious diseases, worsening of a previous illness,
injuries, and metabolic disease.
Let me be the first to thank the unfortunately named site "cancer source" for sharing that bit of info. Seriously, name your site "cancer info", or "cancer help"; perhaps even "cancer truth", but don't name it "cancer source"! Who could possibly let the fact that the site's name literally means "source of cancer" slide by?!
God, I need vacation...
February 24, 2005 - 4:06am
The pre-beta version of the
new American Street blog is now up and functioning off the the database at a live testing site.That took up a little chuck of time, boy, I tell you what. Wordpress was really easy to figure out, btw. I think I might use it in the future for some projects.
February 23, 2005 - 2:21am
Its an honor to be trusted with the responsibility of building the new American Street. Then again, all I've gotten accomplished tonight was laying a three-column layout from the ground up. It looks like crap right now, because you heathens don't understand the difficulty of CSS. You see, there is victory in getting three bars to behave properly across multiple browsers, and to the same time be css/xhtml valid.
Oh, check a page I did today that looks good. I wouldn't want you to think I suck at building websites. (I didn't design this page; I got a jpeg from a designer a mirrored it down to the margin, letter-spacing, font-weight, specific color, ratios, ect... ... its a lot harder than it sounds.)
February 21, 2005 - 7:20pm
On the left is a graph that was created by Steve Broback at the Business Blog Summit. It compares the alexa traffic rankings of Autoblog to the hardcore, and long running motertrend.com.
What does this graph prove? It depends... some would like to think its more evidence of the blog's business potential. Personally, I'm skeptical, because for one thing, most businesses don't have anything interesting to blog about (thus, nobody will read their blog).
However, I do think think there are certain industries that could capitalize effectively on weblogs. In particular, certain professionals, such as dieticians, personal trainers, and consultants have a unique opprotunity to break through google by way of weblog. More importantly however, a good weblog that is directed towards the interests of potential customers (read posting daily fitness tips) might have an exponential effect on traffifc to their site.
However, back to my skepticism: a lot of businesses who might be interested in using weblogs usually miss one key point: blogs don't perform magic tricks. You have to update them, and your content better be worth reading. More notes later, I'm running late to a sexy party at Austin's Hole in the Wall.
February 21, 2005 - 6:23pm
If you care about web design -- at all -- visit Webpages That Suck.. And actually, screw it, the articles are hilarious. You'll find the site entertaining even if you don't care about web design. <sarcasm>Humor makes learning fun!</sarcasm> I just hope Vincent Flanders doesn't find my recommendation until I get a chance to correct some suck-worthy errors I've made with this site's design. [link]
February 20, 2005 - 10:15pm
February 20, 2005 - 9:48pm
By GEORGE ORWELLChapter 3
Down and out in Paris and LondonOne day there turned up at the hotel a young Italian who called
himself a compositor. He was rather an ambiguous person, for he wore
side whiskers, which are the mark either of an apache or an
intellectual, and nobody was quite certain in which class to put him.
Madame F. did not like the look of him, and made him pay a week’s rent
in advance. The Italian paid the rent and stayed six nights at the
February 20, 2005 - 9:26pm
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it
because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who
have gone over." - Hunter S. Thompson
February 19, 2005 - 3:46pm
PHP, my darling, how could we have lived so happily without each other? You complete me, oh
PHP; you are my otherself! With your charming ways, I shall take over the world. But first, I must get to know you a little better.... Speaking of which, I'm not going to be blogging much for the next few days.
PHP and I will running off to our "secret love nest" this weekend. Don't be jealous, be happy for us! Though I hope
PHP hasn't noticed the way I have been looking at her sister,
Perl.... Oh well, perhaps I will marry both of them.
February 19, 2005 - 12:17pm
"He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not
so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort
of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.
Sometimes, he said, when sleeping on the Embankment, it had consoled
him to look up at Mars or Jupiter and think that there were probably
Embankment sleepers there. He had a curious theory about this. Life on
earth, he said, is harsh because the planet is poor in the necessities
of existence. Mars, with its cold climate and scanty water, must be far
poorer, and life correspondingly harsher. Whereas on earth you are
merely imprisoned for stealing sixpence, on Mars you are probably
boiled alive. This thought cheered Bozo, I do not know why. He was a
very exceptional man." -
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter 30
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