I helped setup a website this week, check it out: http://www.desertwheel.com/
The site uses WordPress, which I am strongly debating moving this site to. While I don’t have any significant issues with b2evolution, I really like the ease of use that WordPress offers.
I just wanted to give a shout out to Josh Clayton at Spiffy Life for an easy to use utility which saved me time and effort. I needed to look inside some “encrypted” content in a theme for a friend’s site because the theme was behaving poorly and this page made it very easy. Thanks a lot!
By the way, sure it was mildly difficult to get the data decrypted, but what was the point. You want to protect a couple spam links on the bottom of the theme to “pay for the theme.” For one, it wasn’t really tough to break, and two its part of the license of using the free theme. If you really wanted cash, you’d spend more effort on finding people who broke your license than trying to maintain some spam links.
I haven’t been posting too much lately. I have been having problems getting Google to crawl this site since moving to b2evolution. I was a little nervous that I’d have to move all content to new blog software, so I was a little de-motivated to write too much. However it looks like the crawl issues have been resolved, as I figured out that b2evolution doesn’t handle obscured URLs very well (or Google didn’t handle them very well). Either way, it’s resolved now—so I’ll start posting more often again.
Here’s a great email I was sent by someone who had become quite paranoid after reading. After a single read, I was quickly able to determine that this was crap:
GUYS PASS ON TO YOUR GIRLFRIENDS AND LOVED ONES!! WASH BRAS BEFORE USING. Most people do but its just a warning………to those that don’t…..Read the account first, then brace yourselves before looking at the pics………….Oh my god. This is disgusting. Forward to all females!!!! Wash your bra’s before you wear them!!! Please make it a habit from this point forward to wash your just-purchased Undergarments before wearing them. This is sensitive.
After anthropologist Susan McKinley came back home from an expedition in South America , she noticed a very strange rash on her left breast. Nobody knew what it was and she quickly dismissed it believing that the Holes would leave in time. Upon her return she decided to see a doctor after she started developing Intense pains. The doctor, not knowing the exact severity of the disease, gave her Antibiotics and special creams. As time lapsed the pain did not subside and her left breast became more inflamed and started to bleed. She decided to bandage her sores, however as Susan’s pain grew more intense she decided to seek help from a more certified doctor.
Dr. Lynch could not diagnose the infection and told Susan to seek the aid of one of his colleagues who specializes in dermatology. Unfortunately, the doctor was on vacation. She waited for two weeks and finally was able to reach the dermatologist. Sadly, a life changing event was about to unfold during her appointment. To Miss McKinley’s surprise, after she removed the bandages, they found Larvae growing and squirming within the pores and sores of her breast. Sometimes these wicked creatures would all together simultaneously move around into different crevices. What she didn’t know was that the holes were in fact, deeper than she had originally thought, for these larvae were feeding off the fat, tissue, and even milk canals of her breast.
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Please share with as many women and men that you know. Our undergarments are made in different countries all over the world. They sit in boxes and go through many hands and exchanges before we purchase them for ourselves. PLEASE WASH ALL NEWLY PURCHASED BRAS AND UNDERWEAR BEFORE WEARING THEM. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT PARASITES ARE IN OUR CLOTHING WHEN WE BUY THEM.
Sure, it’s a disturbing looking picture at first glance, but the entire story doesn’t even make sense. For one, nowhere in the story did the woman buy a bra, let alone within the United States. If the story wasn’t a total fabrication, then this was caused by a visit to jungles in South America, and has nothing to do with the safety of clothing imported into the US. Customs is very careful about ensuring that foreign creatures do not come to the US. If the worms were tunneling around in her breast, why were the holes on the outside look more like the center of a fruit or flower seeds with a worm head visible in each hole?
Of course, there is a mild amount of truth to this email legend. The story is either based on or been helped by medical journal articles like this one. There are untold numbers of parasites and accidental infestations in humans. It’s also likely a good idea to wash clothing after purchase. Some clothing may have chemicals sprayed on them to reduce mildew, or could have parasites from other people who tried them on before you purchased them.
What is important to think about is that many eLegends are completely fabricated. Even a simple query about such a scare-tactic email in any search engine will likely turn up plenty of proof that it is fake.
I found a pretty interesting series of videos regarding paintball drills to improve your game. Check it out!
I’ve been reading a lot on TV Tropes, in addition to Wikipedia. It’s a facinating site, defining and providing examples of common media plot devices. Very entertaining. For gamers, you can use the site for inspiration, or to avoid common plot pitfalls.
I’ll be the first to admit that there is a lack of Firefly/Serenity RPG resources. I don’t know why, but there is not a lot of official publisher support for the game. So here’s some resources I recommend for playing the Serenity RPG:
There is also a multitude of forums to look at that might have good content. There might be more out there, but these are the sites that I found that seem to have the best content. Let me know if you find others.
I’ve found a few sites with good tips and tactics for Woodsball:
Additionally, there are many forums out there. Too many to post, so find one you like.
We’re starting to save our campaign information to RPG Herald. We used to use Tiki-Wiki to save our information. In the past, we’ve run into two primary issues with saving our campaign information: attention span and ease of use. The problem with ease of use was that it was difficult to teach others to use a wiki, and how to use it correctly. The attention span issue was that only 1-2 people would ever have the ability to change the wiki, because it wasn’t always easy, and while a campaign might start well it quickly was forgotten until the start of the next campaign.
Hopefully the ease of use will be resolved by using the new RPG Herald web site as it is pretty simple to use while allowing for a lot of customization. The attention span issue will also hopefully be resolved as we’re going to have everyone in the group involved, to different degrees I’m sure, but involved enough to help keep the site updated. There are other sites which offer services similar to what we’ve setup on RPG Herald, but most of them are either pay sites, not any better than our previous wiki, or limit the number of campaigns you can have.
Additionally, RPG Herald is open for anyone else to use as well, free of charge.
Perdue sent me this great skeptic video:
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