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The survey on youth sex trends also found that girls outnumbered boys at junior high schools and high schools when it came to those with sexual experience.
Students who often use cell phone e-mail more likely to have sex: survey - MSN-Mainichi Daily News
On a whim I clicked over to my LiveJournal. I haven't posted there since I started this blog. I had been thinking of this blog as sort of a new thing, but I went back and looked, and I've been at this web-based journal/blog thing for three and a half years now.
My writing hasn't gotten much better though.
Also check out the HBO Documentary on Google Video.
Whoa. I just had an Arizona Green Tea Energy Drink. Normally the effects from similar drinks on me are mild, but I feel pretty swimmy right now.
I gotta MOVE!
I like desktop wallpaper. I always make them for the bands I'm in. Good ones are hard to find.
When I first switched to the Mac, I was enamored with the way you could constantly shift your desktop wallpaper to different images. Every 30 minutes -- boom, different desktop. It's totally integrated, and the fadeout transition is pretty nifty.
Here's a link to Wallpaper Changer for Windows XP, which does the same thing. It's a little clunkier. I found it last week and have been enjoying it at work.
Oddly, I HATE Webshots. Mostly I just don't think their pictures are all that great. I prefer to find or create my own than to have someone else arbitrarily shove their idyllic portrait of outdoor life down my throat.
For more fun, here's some wallpapers (11MB zip) I downloaded from Hubblesite. They're all the 1280x1024 wallpapers that are available from their website. I think, since they offer them for free, that it's OK to put them here to download. If not, somebody let me know and I'll post links instead. It took me 30 minutes or so to go through and get them all though so I figured I would save everyone some time. Enjoy.
Everyone is bagging on the PS3. It's going to be expensive. It's going to be late. There aren't going to be many games. The games will be expensive. It's going to have all kinds of shit I won't need right away.
You know what?
Fuck it.
Why?
Oh, and screw Microsoft. I guess that's 3 reasons.
So, I've moved hosting for the Counterpunch web site to a new host. Well, the DNS people are moving with the greatest of trepidation, which is to say really fucking slow, so when it's all going to be up and running is anyone's guess.
I decided to switch from LiquidWeb to a Dotster VPS package, since I got a coupon for 25% off from Dotster. I have used Dotster for years for DNS redirects and stuff, so I trust them. With the 25% off coupon I'm paying $2.80 more per month for a full blown VPS through Dotster than I was for shared hosting at Liquidweb. Good deal.
The biggest thing I'll miss about Liquidweb is their free support. Dotster only offers free support on stuff that's on their end; for "educational" incidents, you have to pay for a support ticket. Liquidweb offers help on anything, from configuration to "how do I redirect email" to whatever. However, in the three or four years I've used them, 100% of all such calls have ended in, "sorry, we don't offer that on shared hosting accounts." With root access on the VPS I can do anything I need to do. And since I am a rather accomplished UNIX guru at work, I don't think I'll have much trouble administering the box. Plus, the new VPS uses Plesk as opposed to Liquidweb's CPanel. CPanel is kind of lame.
So, once the DNS people get the domain names transferred, I will be updating the Counterpunch web site. Finally. Yeah. I know. It's been down since June. But here's what happened. I took the web site down, planning on revamping it for a week or two, tops. And then guess what happened? We got a record deal with Radtone and had to re-record our album. So the web site was effectively shelved because I had to spend every waking moment on recording.
Once that's done, the plan is to finally figure out a good visual theme for this blog. I have been slacking on that too. I changed this one back to the default theme in order to remind me to change it to something that doesn't suck every time I look at it.
Why is MT putting all these funny characters in my old entries? WTF?
Shame on you, Movable Type. Shame on you!
