I finally got around to posting one of my favorite videos for you.  It’s a comedy video and may be slightly inappropriate for work if you keep the volume up.  Hope you enjoy!

Oh, as a side note to my last post, I thought you might find it hilarious to know that most of the hits to my page from Google are based on the following searches:

And knowing is half the battle

Squid ink pasta

Confucionist way of life

How strange can you get? Guess I’m filling a niche market for someone.

You may have noticed another change to the look of my blog.  I think I’m going to stick with this one for a while because it’s a very advanced layout and gives lots of functionality to readers.  If you notice for each blog article, there are two small icons in the top right corner.   If you have Javascript turned on, one of the two icons will stretch the article horizontally – making it easier to read – and the other icon will actually collapse the article.  This new layout also has a calendar and the ability to view past months’ entries as well as a search feature so you can go through my posts much easier.

I hope you like it!

I installed a plug-in called Spam Karma 2 to see if that can reduce the amount of spam comments I’m getting.  It’s hard to believe that 8 days have already passed since my last entry.  Work has been keeping me busy and when I get home I’m working through a long list of new games.  I’ll have more info posted probably in the next 2 or 3 days.  If you notice that your comment was not added, please email me to verify.  I’m not sure if this plug-in will work, but I had to try something.  I’m getting infinitely more spam than real comments….and that’s just plain dumb.  Someone needs to violently stab some of these spammers.

I suppose the inevitable side effect of doing this kind of blog is that eventually you’re going to start receiving spam posts as well. Currently I have this beast set on manual administration so any time a new user posts anything I have to approve it first. If I approve you and you use your same email every time then you’ll have nothing to worry about.

The problem is that there are quite a few, what appear to be, blog bots running around logging my pages because of some of my most recent posts. It seems that talking about the music industry and video games are hot topics for getting spammed. I’m kind of curious to see whether or not just mentioning this two words will get me recorded by the blog bots. Looking on the bright side however, at least if I’m getting spammed, that must mean that someone is visiting my blog.

Ooohhh!  I found a great story about how a few antique planes were “pulled over” by F-16s because they took off while Bush was in town.  The planes were part of an air show but had no radios so they didn’t know about the no-fly zone.  That would be seriously scary to see one of those things coming right at you.

I’ve done some housekeeping and changed things around a bit. Feel free to use the smiley faces and various other stuff in comments now. I was having trouble getting them properly displayed in the last design, but that shouldn’t be a problem anymore.

Enjoy!