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And I don’t mean the comic strip. I mean this thread hit close to home. To those of my friends and family whom I have aided in the past, please do not take this as a slant against you.

But I must say that at times I am truly amazed at what destructive activities some people can accomplish with their computers. Back in high school I had a class which was a position in the school’s Help Desk (cheap labor ). I have lived the life of a computer technician at the beck and call of a working group. Reading threads and rants and articles of this nature is relaxing and a humorous pasttime. I also like to share these with people to let them see my side of my work. I do take pride in the fact that I have a skill set that many stuggle to grasp. And with that I love to help. Us IT guys are funny people and we live in our own little world. Sometimes we must be handled with care. But we are people, just like you.

Via Simon Willison, Lockergnome reverts back to a tables based layout. Simon does a good job of reaming Lockergnome for their hideous display of back pedaling web standards.

I just love what Jason DeFillippo said in this release article:

We’ve spent a lot of time and effort on our cutting edge CSS layouts and, while they are definitely fancy-schmancy, they detract quite a bit from our core efforts which are great content and easy access to it.

I’m sorry, but reverting back to this style of markup is a detraction from accessibilty. Enough said.

Via clagnut, find out what gender you write as, or anyone else for that matter, through The Gender Genie. I threw a couple samples of my writing at and much to my relief, I write like a male.

According to the scientific writeup by Koppel and Argamon, the engine uses the assumption that males use more noun specifiers than females, and that females use more pronouns than males. I’ve only skimmed the artical so far but it seems like a very interesting read.

Last night I witnessed The Passion of The Christ. This movie literally left me speechless. It is so moving. After the movie, I (along with nearly half of the audience in the theater) sat stunned, attempting to digest what I had just seen.

There has been much debate as to whether this movie could raise anti-semtic feelings. I honestly believe this is not the case. Sure the Jewish high priests were the chief architects of Jesus’ death, but if it had not been them it would have been someone else. Jesus came with the sole purpose of dying for all of our sins. In that light, we are all equally responsible for the death of Jesus. Unfortunately there are to many people that want to point the blame. To few who realize what Jesus’ sacrifice means.

Another issue that people have about this movie is the violent content. I feel it was absolutely warranted. Crucifiction was the most brutal form of punishment and death at the time and for many years following. That was life under the rule of the Roman Empire. Jesus’ sacrifice would not have meant near has much as it does had he been afforded and easy death.

Finally I would like to say that everyone should see this movie, and see it without any preconceived notions as to its content. Then, if you have not already done so, go and read the text that inspired the movie, the Bible.

To Mel Gibson, thank you so much for putting forth this so poingant reminder of Jesus’ sacrifice.

Take a look around. I have redesigned, yet again. I have dubbed this one ‘Ice’. The color scheme came at the aid of this color scheme tool. As with my previous redesigns, this one came about by my only changing the CSS file. Please let me know what you think and enjoy.

How many times have you gone to a movie and been turned off solely on the fact that the physics portrayed in the movie are completly unrealistic. For me, I cannot count the number of times this has happend to me. For all those who share in my pain at watching these horrid displays of physics, I present Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics, a site that gives solid proof that Hollywood has been lying to us about everyday physics. Enjoy.

Unattended XP Install. I plan on doing a WinXP installation sometime down the road. This unattended install bit will come in handy.

Via Stopdesign, Drawing with CSS is a stunning example and exploration into what one can accomplish with CSS. Specifically the creation of bar graphs. Not only does it work, but it just looks cool.

Simon Willison: Command line Futurama quotes, some of the most fun I’ve had in a long time using lynx.

Over the past few days I have been working on porting my blog over to the WordPress blogging platform. Thus far the transfer seems to have gone smoothly. Please let me know if you see anything go awry. I will also be looking out for known and unknown bugs.

On the whole I like WordPress. It gives all the features I was striving for with my home grown system but this is far more polished than I ever hoped to get to.