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1. My Wordpress blog is dead.

2. During college I got used to sending people IMs consisting of links to thing I found interesting on the internet. I'd send them to certain people depending on the topic and also depending on whether the person was online. Since we were all in college we were pretty much always online. However, now that I've graduated and many of my friends have too, I've decided to sign up to Twitter for divulging interesting links. Check it out.

I've decided to start another blog which will be far less journal-like.

At first, LiveJournal was fun. Then, I remembered how I hate talking about myself in this form. After some ups and downs but an overall downfall I kept LiveJournal around because of its RSS reading functionality (aka: the friends page). I milked that feature for all it's worth and was frequently dissapointed that I couldn't add my own feeds (and there's no way I was going to pay for it). Most of the time someone who does pay for LJ would have added an RSS feed that I wanted so I could usually get them, however it was a great hassle. So I've switched to Google Reader which has matured LOTS in the time that it's been public. I still look at my friends page from time to time because I haven't figured out how to view private LJ posts in Google Reader. But, for the most part, LJ is dead to me.

Here's to the new year!

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From the latest DailyWTF

Trippy. Deviant Art is one of the great places on the internet.

I've been working on getting a better Minesweeper score for a while. Well, approximately one minute ago I got 103!

My laptop screen hasn't been working for about a year and since I'm going to southeast asia I'm going to finally send it to Sony to get fixed (after falsely diagnosing it twice). Because of my new Minesweeper score, I'm really worried they might wipe my hard drive for no reason. (There's definitly no reason for them to mess with my hard drive, they better not)

The new Real Life has a comic that I can relate to very well, indeed.

Stargate has gotten two US Airforce Generals to cameo on the show so far. Apparently, "The Air Force reviews the script for every "Stargate: SG-1" episode, and suggests necessary changes...".

That's so cool.

Also apparently, the US Airforce honored Richard Dean Anderson for his fine work with the Stargate Series.

That's so cool.

It's no wonder that Stargate SG-1 is one of the only science fiction shows of which I can believe in the world, the characters and environment, created. They put a lot of effort into making sure things stay consistent both internally and, for all we know, in reality.

Ok, I totally want to go on a tour of King Ludwig's Castles and the Bavarian Lakes! It's just under $2000 USD and has A LOT of things included (except airfare ::sad face::). Happens this summer. My immediate family has been unhappy with me lately for my lack of asking for Christmas and birthday presents. Perhaps I will ask for the airfare as a combined present.

I don't know what my job prospects look like this summer. Since I don't think I can get a job in Asia this summer because of not being a college graduate yet and I think passports need to be 6 months mature before being able to obtain the necessary work visa (mine is expired and I haven't gotten a new one yet), I may either work at Cheshire Academy again in which case I could only go on the tour starting on June 9th (very remote possibility of June 24th) or I may work with my Uncle Dave, the CEO of a Cable TV provider in Texas (I haven't talked to him about it yet but when my Aunt was tipsy at thanksgiving she made a big deal about it and wanted me to), in which case I don't know which week would be optimal.

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Decisions, decisions...

I have two requests: one, advice on what to do; two, I would like a friend(s) to go with me because experiencing an important dream of mine (seeing castles--one of my favourite (if not favourite) structures; and not only that, but European castles (my favourite kinds of castles); and not only that, but castles built by the king who built my favourite castle; and not only that, but the castle that is my favourite castle!) with someone or many whom are important to me would make it all the more special and exciting (unfortunately, it does cost a lot).

Why do so many people think that outsourcing is bad? Apparently, they've not heard of competative advantage. I think My Outsourced Life shows how not only coorperations but also individuals can increase productivity, efficiency and the quality of their life by hiring others.