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I watched Battlestar Galactica: Razor on DVD last night and was enthralled. With the scenes that were present on the disc, that had been stripped from the televised version, the story fleshed out so much nicer. And the incredible battle scenes from the first cylon war...the original cylon raiders, the original cylon basestars, all combined with intense gripping scenes of a young Adama (callsign

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I waited months with anticipation for "Battlestar Galactica: Razor", particularly since this BSG-event offered some background on Admiral Cain (Caine?) as well as flashbacks to the cylon attack on the scorpion shipyards. My desire to see it was further enhanced by fact one, that it will be a long wait between now and the premiere of BSG season 4 , and fact two, that Galactica is coming to an

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I went to see Beowulf again last night. And I liked it even more the second time. And that's not just because of the animated hooters worn by Angelie Jolie (let's be real for a moment: Jolie is a beautiful woman but her own wares do not come close to the cgi renderings of her beowulf character). I found the voice-over acting and the scene direction (director Robert Zemeckis) to be excellent.

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Years ago, I bought a used computer on ebay and it arrived as a broken mess (literally, the power supply had been rolling around in the case). From that point forward, I vowed never to buy used electronics on Ebay again. I guess it had been long enough that I forgot my vow. Recently, I purchased guitar hero on xbox 360, didn't like it, and decided to give it to a couple I know. They had played

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This is really just a continuation of the prior post. But I thought it would be interesting to look at where this site is becoming visible on the web. I thought I would first take a look at directories. SSDRC can be found on the following directories. The first is in the disabilities section of Elegant directory. This seems to be a fairly basic type of listing and to be honest could probably

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It's been an extraordinary long time since I've posted here. I've really just been wrapped up at work and with family life. Lately, though, I've been assisting a friend with a site that she created a while back. This is basically a human services type thing that offers information on social security disability, which is the disability program offered by the social security administration to

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Well, a Google update is in progress and this one has been christened "Buffy" by thew WMW mods. Updates, of course, are a time when many bad sites get spanked by Google. Unfortunately, so do a few good ones. Its too early to see what this update will do and, quite frankly, I'm just not up for watching the threads on this one. In all candor, knock on wood, I've never been affected in a

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No, don't think. In fact, I know someone who actually did this (wasn't her fault: she's over 60, the cat was about twenty, nearly deaf and blind, and had gone to sleep under the rear wheel of her car---not hard to guess what happened). And she suffered emotionally for several months over the horrific demise of "Big Kitty". A couple nights ago, my own Karma almost went bad. I was pulling off my

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Tech Crunch? According to Michael Kessler of USA Today, Tech Crunch, a blog that chronicles the rise and fall of Web 2.0 startups and has a readership of about a million, is the fourth most-linked-to blog on the net. I'd never heard of it until today and I'll bet that if I asked a friend of mine who's been in the computer industry for 20 years, he'll never have heard of it, either. Likely,

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I like a good sequel as much as anyone else (Pirates of the Caribbean 3 for example) and I hate it when a good movie series is flubbed by a bad sequel (just my opinion, but Spiderman 3 didn't cut it, nor did Shrek the third, though, in all honesty, that series collapsed with the second movie). In each of the examples I just cited, the sequels were spawned from an innovative, original, and

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Maybe Chloe is weird. But to this day, she's never eaten any of the ferret foods I see at Petsmart. And all those treat bags with the cartoon ferrets on the front, wearing a cowboy hat and a neckerchief (Bandit treats for your little bandit!), she's refused every one of them. Her foods of choice? Occasionally, blueberries and grape tomatoes, but Cat food for the most part. And sometimes dog

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I never would have believed this one. I went to visit my mom yesterday (I live in Wake Forest, North Carolina and she lives in Fayetteville, NC, about two hours away) and, after getting off the interstate, I decided to cut through a section of town to get to Toys-R-US. Wouldn't you know it, my car engine temperature shot up and I got to find out what its like to be sitting in 95 degree heat

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I've seen this phenomenon elsewhere: a fastfood restaurant getting more than a hundred percent health department rating. Ok, even if I was on acid and the possibility seemed to real to me that a burger joint could get a perfect score...even then it wouldn't seem likely that they could get more than a hundred. BTW, this snap was taken at a Hardees drivethrough. As far as fastfood burgers are

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title: Chloe on Counter, about to cause trouble Ferrets love kitchen counters...and cupboards, and areas under the sink, and table tops, and spaces between couch cushions, and medicine cabinets (a big big no-no), and book shelves, and, really, just about anywhere they can go, as long as there's something there that's of interest, or potentially of interest. This is one of the things that makes

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I used to hate web scammers immensely but now I just find them funny (except for the ones that engage in copyright infringement and I have a lawyer for those--its really nice when they have an adsense account because meting justice out to them is fairly easy). Wait, I take that back. I still hate the paypal spoofers because they tend to prey upon the elderly. I report those guys everytime and I

YouCanCallMe...Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27990220.post-73814775223238757952007-06-16T08:13:00.001-07:002007-06-16T08:27:39.166-07:00

I admire anyone who has a web business and can still do a lot of personal blogging. It can be difficult due to time constraints but also due to the nature of operating a web business. I read one of Opal's recent posts about the amount of time she puts into her web stuff. I understand completely. Myself, I typically start working at about 6am or 7am and, though I take periodic breaks, I'm still

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Google is link driven. And, typically, for the webmaster who wants his or her site to surface in the serps or to achieve some prominence in a crowded and/or competitive field, this means getting links. What kind of links? This is debated on a daily basis in many notable forums. For the most part, everyone agrees that the links should emanate from pages that: 1. Are indexed in Google. and

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Someone pointed this out to me last night regarding the final episode of The Sopranos. And I'm very surprised I'd hadn't thought of this. The final scene in the restaurant is filled with tension. People coming in, people at the bar counter, people moving toward the rest room. What is Tony Soprano doing the whole time? He's sitting there with his family. But...you have the clear sense that

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Paulie, a.k.a. Paulie Walnuts, was one of my favorite characters on The Sopranos. He was menacing and horrifically violent, yet humorous and endearing at the same time. Turns out, Tony Sirico might not have been acting that much after all when he played Paulie. Sirico was a genuine dyed-in-the-wool hood way back when, who made a living out of extortion. Here's some quotes attributed to

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I was one of those thousands of guys who eagerly anticipated the arrival of the yahoo publisher network. Finally, I and others thought, an alternative to adsense. No more being held captive to one dominant player in PPC contextual ad distribution. No more sleepless nights over whether or not you'd wake up the next day and find that your adsense account had been canceled (a couple years ago,

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I've been looking around lately at various blogs that do pay per post and, by and large, I've been fairly impressed. The writing very often seems good and incorporates much of what a blogger would ordinarily have said in a standard posting. So, what's wrong with pay per post then? Does the mere fact that Google doesn't care for pay per post invalidate the entire concept? Of course not. It all

YouCanCallMe...Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27990220.post-81780808730691473472007-06-11T04:49:00.000-07:002007-06-11T05:14:28.705-07:00

I read a review at The Rundown and it made think of the one thing that I always think of when I think about (what would my english teacher "think" about the way I phrased that?) my last trip to Orlando: the coca-cola dispenser at Epcot. I hit all the theme parks down there a few months since I hadn't been in Florida for roughly a decade. And I was surprised at how much more there was to do (or

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There are television shows, now and then, that etch themselves into your mind. But its fairly rare that a show goes beyond this level of attention paid and become indelibly burned into your mind. For me, The Sopranos is one of those rare shows. So, I just finished watching the final episode of this unique series. What did I think? As the character Tony Soprano might say, "You're asking me

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Good question. And, quite frankly, I don't absolutely know the answer. But I've considered the issue quite a bit lately (due mainly to Matt Cutts' pronouncement that Google would be taking a harder and closer look at advertising links that are being sold on every type of website there is: personal sites, blogs, internet news outlets, etc, etc) and I have a feeling I know where this is all

YouCanCallMe...Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27990220.post-30575079753974851712007-06-09T11:45:00.000-07:002007-06-09T12:01:03.387-07:00

Well, I suppose this is what happens when you have too much yardwork and too many websites. Something has "gotta give". The yard, BTW, got some serious work (raking, planting, watering, bagging) today and, considering how hot north-central North Carolina is today, that's saying a lot. Last night, I watched what I think was the third-to-last episode of Stargate SG-1. It's hard to believe that

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