My wife and I saw "Finding Nemo". Early on, the mother fish dies. This isn't a spoiler as the more we thought about it, the more we realize that mothers are pretty disposable in Disney films. Let's take a look: Move Fate of Mother Finding Nemo Mother dies in movie Aladdin Aladdi
It's the end of the world as I know it! ;)
I must admit that it's pretty cool seeing the Galactic Civilizations community coming into its own. Besides there being various "empires" of users now with their own websites to discuss strategies and exploring the GalCiv universe, there's now a regular comic strip for it. <img border="0" src="https://www.joeuser.com/images/Fa
The Canon Elura is quite fantastic so far but I've only had it a few days. It is tiny. Really tiny. The screenshot doesn't do it justice. It's not much bigger than my Little Elph camera that Canon makes (sheesh, you'd think I worked for Canon, I guess they're just on the
Got a lot of gadgets still to write up about. As fast as I type, it's not nearly fast enough to get everything that's in my head onto paper. I've got a neat headphone MP3 player to review, some noise canceling headphones to review, software goodies, and a few other things. Will get to them as soon as I can.
Ever since college, I've had a long term goal of becoming a fiction author. The problem is that while I can crank out words fast, their quality is oh so poor. I'm just not cut out for serious writing. I can be mildly amusing in a pinch but drama, eck. During my senior year of college, I actually started on the first part of the "back story" of the main set of stories I've had in my head. My wonderful aunt agreed to edit them. And so I handed in the f
On JoeUser classic no one could even comment on a blog. No matter how obnoxious my opinion was on some topic, no one could come on and say "Hey, you may not like your Mac but at least it's not constantly infected by worm viruses!" or something like that. Now, on the new JoeUser.com, you can. On anonymous comments I do have the right to delete them (so no more "Go back to Russia!" comment
Well what kind of blog doesn't have pictures and other personal stuff on it? Here's some pictures from this summer so far... Alex & Ryan at the zoo <p align="
Mars reaches the closest point it's been to the Earth in 66,000 years on August 27. Rather impulsively, I went out and got a telescope. The results have not been very good thus far. I got the Meade ETX-70AT. From what I've read, this is a pretty good telescope. What's really nifty about it is that it comes with a little computer that lets me just select what I want to look and and it will rotate and change angle to point at what I want to see. This is pretty useful.
XXX As you can see, the system is still under development and will be for the next few weeks. It'll be shaping up pretty quickly though I suspect. yyy Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor i
You know, the economy is in the dumper. Republicans blame Clinton and the Democrats. Democrats blame Republicans and Bush. Usually, recessions are hard to pin point. But this time around, it's pretty obvious who the blame lies with -- THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Every American who bought stock in some idiotic dot-com idiocy helped contribute to the recession. Let's face it, as a collective, we earned this recession. Any country that puts together the capital to support a pet
For the past year I've been working from a terrific program called CityDesk. The way it works is that it has its own built in database and integrated editor. When you enter in a blog, it can generate HTML that you then upload to your site. Unfortunately, it's become more and more of a pain to access mapped network drives from remote and JoeUser.com is too busy to have it on a local machine. At the same time, blogging has become increasingly popular and I wanted to start putti
“Can't we just get along?" If you hang out in a net community long enough, eventually you will have those who just don’t like you. The technical term I use for them are detractors and they fall into 3 categories: <li class="
Well I'm sure we'll somehow be blamed for that too.
Intellectual property rights is definitely one of the toughest things to balance. On the one hand, you want to protect the authors, creators of intellectual property. On the other hand, the increasing decrease in rights of those who "license" (i.e. buy) intellectual property is very troubling.
Fire - yea, I was being facetious. But really, OB and WB combined woudl be $40. So for $10 more you get DesktopX, IconPackager, WinStyles, ControlCenter, WindowFX, SkinStudio, etc. Stardock's dirty little secret - it's not the $20 sales that pay the bills, it's OD sales. If everyone who bought ODNT instead just bought say WindowBlinds, we'd be sunk. (Draginol == Frogboy on his home machine - with regular access so that the site is much faster).
There seem to be a lot of admins over there. But Miriku isn't the owner. Just one of the more recent active ones.
Shog - I'll send you the voodoo doll of me. That way when you're dragging yourself out of bed, you can whack it on the table. Just so that we're clear, even if the feeling isn't mutual, I do LIKE you, Shog. I just don't agree with you one bit. But in written discussions, it is often hard to differentiate ones feelings from ones opinions.
You are assuming that one admin == Custo. miriku != Custo. Other admins there have already publicly said that they are disgusted with him. /me is really going to bed soon.. HONEST!
Shoggot - have you READ the thread on Custo completley? Here's the link, I am content that others reading this can make their own conclusions: http://www.customize.org/forum/973 The "ad in a screenshot" is only part of that discussion. The overall concept of whether it's okay to sell skins is heavily disucssed as well. BTW, skinz.org used to be the #1 place to post ads in screenshots. Every app developer used to use/abuse it with screenshots of the latest fea
Phar0e, well said. I would say that as communities go, DeviantART is the best "community" site that I hang out on. It has features to foster that. Though I don't feel like I'm part of that community other than certain sub-groups (i.e. people like Jark and Attilla I relate to but most of the users there have completely different outlooks than I do). Each site has its own community and there is some overlap. I enjoy posting on WinCustomize and reading posts because of the maturit
Please don't twist my words. I am saying that I have no problem at all that the anti-commercial software people have left because I don't care whether they post here or not. I didn't say I am not interested in the other sites. I do, afterall, post on other sites more so than virtually any other site admin. Certainly more so than you do. I just don't see myself as part of the same "community" as some of the core regulars of some of those sites. People are free to call for my re
I have been part of virtual communities for the past 15 years. I know what they are. I started out in the BBS world and we had a local area virtual community. It didn't have a name but we were all literally tied together by what was in the local phone exchange. When the Internet came, I considered myself part of a larger community, the OS/2 community. A community isn't necessarily homogenous but what makes something a "community" is the sense that it exceeds a certain threshold
thnx!
I was looking to download those two really cool DesktopX themes by "The Artist" but they don't seem to be there now. Does anyone know what happened to them and The Artist?
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