So I saw a link to this loser quiz over at Blue’s News and figured it was one of those quizzes for me. You can find my results displayed proudly below:

The results go onto say in more detail that:

75% are cooler, and
25% are more of a loser than you.
What does this mean?
Tending towards loser status, get help soon

I can live with that.

Look at this, a post with no work hate. I’ve upgraded the poll system that I use. I’ve dropped the old perl version for a slicker php version. There are a number of advantages to this new system. The poll that appears over in the side there is random for one. Also the page listing all the polls (past and present) is cleaner looking. Another nice feature is the ability to limit voting by ip address and just by a cookie stored on your pc.

Eventually I will switch the whole site over to php. But I’m picky about way things are displayed. For example it took for ever to find a php poll script that automatically displayed the poll after voting instead of the poll choices. So by the time I do find everything I need php will have been replaced by some new trend. Of course I’m in no hurry to change.

So today is my day. In 1998 on this day I got shit canned from the same hotel that I work at right now. This day has become a pseudo religious holiday for me and I will never work this day again. This is a time I use to give thanks that my friends and family keep pulling my ass out of the fire. I would not be nothing with out them. This is six years now since that day. I’ve done this “Year In Review” every year since that day. You can read those by clicking the following links: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.

I mostly like to refer people to the one from 1999 because it still holds true to this day. Fortunately my friends have stayed constant. And as I say it’s not the quantity its the quality. The people on that list from 1999 are as I said the ones that keep me grounded. I just don’t have the words to properly thank all of them.

And as I mentioned last year I’m also glad my friends here on the net are there when I do need them. The great group of guys and gals in the Dark Age of Camelot guild the Acolytes of Destruction have been just as good as my “real life” friends. A few of them in particular I owe money and I can’t say thanks enough for the few times I’ve been bailed out.

I’m keeping it short I don’t want to run on and on. But as always I glad I made it another year. And I look forward to what comes in the year ahead.

Just sometimes Gawain says things so I don’t have to:

The point is, there’s no reason to vote since it won’t matter either way. So fuck pop stars, fuck mtv, fuck movie stars, and especially fuck Puff fuckin’ Daddy.

Amen!

This bit of news is kinda sad. It’s really fucked up that Superman is dead. To me Christopher Reeve is Superman. I don’t care who else they get to fill the red and blue tights. That guy was Superman. And while I may not really be a huge fan of the DC Comics universe, I do have respect for Superman. I offer the theme song from the classic movie for listening below to honor this great actor (Superman!).

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Today I want to talk about browsers. Now I know that the hot browser of the moment is Firefox, because of it’s tabbed browsing and built in popup blocking. And it’s great I guess. But I have honestly never liked Netscape/Mozilla based browsers. I like Internet Explorer. I know that is like a crazy thing to say. But those of you who like IE have a way of getting all of the nifty features of Firefox while using IE. It’s a free browser called Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2) that is based on the IE rendering engine. Maxthon has just about everything you can want in a modern browser. It’s got tabbed browsing, plugins, and skins, mouse gestures, and a whole lot more. Plus it features a very handy popup blocker as well as content/ad filters.

I also like just some of the ways you can customize the way it works. For example in the options menu in the Maxthon Options there is a Search tab that allows you to do all kinds of nifty stuff. Like being able to setup special searches through the address bar. For example I can preface my text of choice with hb to search my site. It’s all very easy to setup. And I have custom search aliases for the IMDB, Dictionary.com. and the Camelot Herald character search.

Some of the plugins available are also what makes Maxthon my favorite browser. Flash Save is a perfect example. This plugin gives you the ability to view and save Flash files. Another one that is a must have is the Kill Flash Ad and Flying Ad plugin. This one does exactly what it says. You go to a site and one of those fucking annoying flash popups happen you just hit the button for the plugin and whammo it’s gone. Another cool one is for a bookmark script called SiteBar which I have running on my site here. This plugin lets you run this bookmark script in a sidebar. You can get this plugin that works with my SiteBar right here.

The king of no respect died today. I guess the old guy wasn’t doing so well. I’ve always been a fan of his movie Easy Money. Great movie, you can see the trailer here (Needs Media Player). It’s got Dangerfield, Pesci, and the great Billy Joel tune Easy Money in the soundtrack. What more could you want? Here are some Rodney one-liners to give some respect to the guy:

“When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names – hers and her mother’s.”

“With my wife, I don’t get no respect. The other night there was a knock on the front door. My wife told me to hide in the closet.”

“With my wife, I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.”

I hope you get some respect in the afterlife man.