Anthony’s Ramblings

Your Seduction Style: The Natural

You don’t really try to seduce people… it just seems to happen. Fun loving and free spirited, you bring out the inner child in people. You are spontaneous, sincere, and unpretentious – a hard combo to find! People drop their guard around you, and find themselves falling fast.

I’m done…for now…muwahahaha. These things are addicting.

It’s amazing what an industrial shredder can chew through. See for yourself!

I swear, I’m done, now.

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Last Cigarette:	Took a puff of one a long time ago, nasty stuff, man…never again.
Last Alcoholic Drink:	Something nasty…nothing I’ve ever tasted has been good.
Last Car Ride:	This morning, but I was driving it, so does it count?
Last Kiss:	A little more than a couple weeks ago.
Last Good Cry:	Why would I do that? Suppress thy feelings and blow up later!
Last Library Book:	Censorship (for my English paper)
Last book bought:	I can’t remember…I have enough books that I haven’t read.
Last Book Read:	I haven’t read a book in a while, but I’m working on 1984…good book.
Last Movie Seen in Theatres:	The Phantom in the Opera
Last Movie Rented:	Oh god you’re asking me to go way back…
Last Cuss Word Uttered:	fuckingbitch
Last Beverage Drank:	Water
Last Food Consumed:	Banana
Last Crush:	A few days ago when a hammer was knocked off a bench in my garage…”crushed” my foot…hahaha.
Last Phone Call:	To a lady at work.
Last TV Show Watched:	Whatever was on TV right before I fell asleep.
Last Time Showered:	This morning.
Last Shoes Worn:	The ones I’m wearing now
Last CD Played:	It’s all about the MP3’s, man.
Last Item Bought:	Upgrade video card for my brand spankin’ new Dell Dimension 8400.
Last Download:	Gentoo Linux 64 bit minimum install CD.
Last Annoyance:	Myself.
Last Disappointment:	Myself.
Last Soda Drank:	Coke
Last Thing Written:	The word “Coke” as seen above.
Last Key Used:	The period key, as seen above.
Last Words Spoken:	“Nope”
Last Sleep:	Last night….11 PM – 7:30 AM.
Last Ice Cream Eaten:	Cowphooey…or however it’s spelled.
Last Chair Sat In:	My desk chair at home…it’s green…my color.
Last Webpage Visited:	Brittany’s LiveJournal…where’d you think I got all these things to do?!
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Yep, Brittany did this one, as well. It’s a bit scary how this is kind-of true:

Brittany did this one, too.

Brittany did this on her LiveJournal.

Today was pretty much boring. I got my car smogged, and of course, it passed.

I bought new tires for my car this weekend. One had a nail in it, and all of them had a pretty bad flat spot due to a stupid driver last Friday. He didn’t stop at a yield, but stopped in the middle of the intersection. It made me wish I had anti-lock brakes. The tread on my tires was pretty low, anyways…so it was time for tires. Exciting, huh? I got cheap-o Pepboys brand tires. P215/70R14

I’ve decided to give Asheron’s Call 2 another try. There aren’t nearly as many players as there are in World of Warcraft, or Ultima Online. It desperately needs more players, but nonetheless is fun (at the moment). I have to admit, the graphics in the game are stunning. Give it a shot! The software is a free download, and you get 15 days to try it out.

I have a Male Human named Stanley Yelnats (I bet you can’t guess where that’s from) on the Frostfell server.

It’s amost here.

Order detail – order placed 2005-04-11 17:15:09

Dimension 8400
Pentium® 4 Processor 630 with HT Technology (3GHz, 800 FSB), Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Unit Price: $1,059.00

Processor – Pentium® 4 Processor 630 with HT Technology (3GHz, 800 FSB)

Memory – 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2×512M)

Keyboard – Dell Quietkey® Keyboard

Monitor – FREE! 19 in E193FP Flat Panel Display

Video Card – 128MB PCI Expressâ„¢ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeonâ„¢ X300 SE

Internal Hard Drives – 80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)

Floppy Drive and Memory Keys – 3.5 in Floppy Drive

Operating System – Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

Mouse – Dell 2-button scroll mouse

Network Interface – Integrated Gigabit Ethernet

CD or DVD Drives – FREE! Single Drive: 16X DVD-ROM Drive

Sound Card – Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio

Mail- In Rebate – $100 Mail In Rebate

Dimension 8400

Save $300 on Dimension $899 and higher (Expires on 2005-04-13 23:59:59) – $300.00

Sub-Total – $759.00

Shipping and Handling – $0.00

Estimated Tax – $63.04

State Environment Fee – $8.00

Total – $822.04

After $100 mail-in rebate = $722.04

I’ve really missed having a non-mobile x86 system to work on. I found this KILLER deal, and well….bought it. I will be purchasing a KVM sometime in the future…my Mac isn’t going anywhere!!! Newegg is shipping me a new DVD+/-RW drive as a replacement…I don’t think I blogged about it, but my brand new DVD burner crapped out a few days ago. I do plan on putting my DVD+/-RW into my new Dell, swapping it out for the DVD-ROM. I also plan on upgrading the machien to XP Pro, and partitioning it so I can have a little Linux, as well. I still plan on buying a new Mac…just waiting for Tiger, now.

It took me a while to find a theme that I liked, but…here it is! This theme is coded very cleanly…very easy to tweak with. I was able to remove navigation that was at the top of the theme, along with some items in the sidebar. I’m probably going to do what Sam suggested a long time ago, and base my website on my blog. Once I finally start working on my website, again, I you’ll see the heading navigation appear.

The theme is Orange Sky by Nao.

Check out my deviantART account…I’ve posted some new pictures there.

I’ve upgraded to WordPress 1.5! Now, all I need to do is find a new spiffy theme.

The admin pages don’t seem to like Safari, too much, and the default theme does not show up under Safari.

I’ve been having a terrible time with comment spam, and feel that the easiest way to deal with it is to force anonymous commenters to enter a random string of letters and/or numbers that are displayed but not readable by bots. I’ve posted about it on WordPress’s website here.

I may open up the users section, to allow people to create accounts for comments (if they’d like)….but I haven’t decided, yet.

I oughta just upgrade to WordPress 1.5. I hear it’s better all ’round.

It’s a little late, but I’ll do it anyways…

“When in Internet Zone mode, HTML-based emails with active content will display their content just like a web page in Internet Explorer.”

I’m at work, so the nearest textbook is “XPTC – The Windows XP Tweaking Companion”.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

Sam did this a while ago.

Do backup servers really work when you have one SAN connected to two servers, and the SAN breaks? No.

At work, we have two Exchange servers. A primary and a secondary. It makes perfect sense, because if one goes down, the other can take over until the other is fixed. Well, both are connected to the same SAN (Storage Area Network), and in efforts to expand the storage capacity of our Exchange server, somebody broke the interface between the SAN and the Exchange servers. So, we will be without corporate e-mail until this part arrives. I guess it’s a good idea to have backup servers on their own SAN, or have their own storage of some kind.

It’s coming….soon! We can expect Apple’s “Mac OS X Tiger” operating system to be released any day now. They haven’t officially released, but according to Slashdot, Tiger has gone gold. Also, you can pre-order the OS at Amazon.com.

I have decided due to my urge to save money, that I will settle for a beefed Mac Mini once Tiger is released.

In efforts to find the backup of the database to my blog…it’s no good. Oh well, a new start may not be such a bad idea. Look for posts here sometime in the future, now!