Painting Fences and Interiors My New Place

Painting the fences is the last big project I have done, that was at and around Christmas 2015, the paint/stain was quite expensive, NZ$86/4litres, used 5 tins.  All through 2016 I have been plagued by strange illnesses and am wondering if this has anything to do with the T.U.R.P.S. operation (google it) I had at the end of 2014 after moving into the New Place.

I need to put a new base on the garden shed to re-align the floor and stop the shed leaning but simply have not found the energy or enthusiasm this past year.  It's important that I do it so that I can re-arrange all the stuff in the garage from the old place and be able to find things when I need them.

Unusual Spam

Hi - my name is Alonzo, and I work at Artsy. While researching Salvador Dalí, I found your page: http://zqwerty.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_archive.html.

I am reaching out to certain website and blog owners that publish content in line with our mission (https://www.artsy.net/about) to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone. We hope to continue promoting arts education and accessibility with your help. 

Our Salvador Dalí page (https://www.artsy.net/artist/salvador-dali) provides visitors with Dalí's bio, over 445 of his works, exclusive articles, and up-to-date Dalí exhibition listings. The page also includes related artists and categories, allowing viewers to discover art beyond our Dalí page. We would love to be included as an additional resource for your visitors via a link on your page. 

If you are able to add a link to our Dalí page, please let me know, and thanks in advance for your consideration. 

Best, 
Alonzo 

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
-Salvador Dalí

It's been years since I have posted and in that time I have moved out of the family home which was devastated by the multiple thousands of earthquakes and moved into a retirement village.

I am happier here than I thought I would be.

The extensive garden of the old place took up lots of my time since Dad died in 2002 and I took over his duties.  Mum became increasingly frail and could only assist in a limited way.  I can't believe I kept up that amount of effort for 12 years or so without realizing how much I was actually doing.  Here I only have a very small garden and can keep up relatively easily.  This means I have much more time to do the things I want to do.

Mum died in 2013 as a direct result of having to move into an old peoples home and out of the old house which she loved because of the damage caused by the earthquakes.  I told her she should stay on at the house despite the risks and difficulty with heating etc, but outside family voices persuaded her otherwise.

Here is a picture of my new best friend, Stella.

And because we felt Stella needed a companion, we got Sadie puppy.

Here is Stella and Verne, Xmas 2016

Here are two delightful pics of Stella and Sadie, now much bigger on Rose's bed.

Here's a possible solution to the Win8 Start Menu problem.

Add a Free Start Menu in Windows 8

Haven't posted for ages.  The earthquakes in Christchurch have affected and ruined many peoples' lives, ours included.  Our beautiful house is badly damaged and will have to be rebuild but the Insurance Companies are not living up to the agreements that they supposedly have with people according to their policies and it is very difficult to get any action.

They are stalling and playing for time; many older people have already died from the trauma of losing their houses and possessions and then having to fight with the Insurance Companies.

Here's an interesting site detailing what has been lost in the transition from XP through Vista to 7 and now 8.

http://xpwasmyidea.blogspot.co.nz/2011/09/features-removed-in-windows-8.html

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsdeveloperpreviewgeneral/thread/27314d0a-9c70-4b79-93e7-23fe60e7e374/

MetaFilter

This is still my favourite site on the internet where I spend a lot of time reading:

PortableApps.com

Some very useful applications here, you can run the latest versions of products without disturbing your existing installation until you are sure you want the latest version

WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?

This is well worth having a look at, World Question Centre

Avidemux v2.4 for Win32

Imagine an application which does everything VirtualDub can do, but runs on various platforms, supports a lot of containers, comes with all Codecs you need built-in and doesn´t use the nasty VfW interface. That applications is Avidemux!

The Scientific Case for Common Descent

Common descent is a general descriptive theory that concerns the genetic origins of living organisms

List of countries by current account balance

Forget about Global Warming we've got bigger problems than that, so has America, Free Market Economics - the race to the bottom.

$315 billion dollars looks like

This

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

Worth a look

Expressive Monkey Pictures

Here

React Operating System

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.

Installing Ubuntu From A Windows System With Wubi

Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (a loopmounted partition), this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation. The resulting Ubuntu installation is a "real" Linux system, not just a virtual machine. Wubi makes it easy for Linux newbies to play around with Ubuntu.

AoA Audio Extractor Free

Provides you a handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files.
With AoA Audio Extractor, you can easily extract audio tracks from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV (Flash Video), DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and save them as MP3, WAV and AC3 formats.

Windows Updates Downloader

WUD allows you to download all of the current Windows Updates using a simple interface.

Now that AutoPatcher has gone you might need this

Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer

SUPER © (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) a GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora and the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. Player and Encoder of various types of multimedia files.

People say this is a good software

FIREFOX GOD

300+ Tools and Resources For Firefox

Damn Small Linux

Home page

Techmeme

A good site to find the latest tech news

Glary Utilities

Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC

THE LOW LEVEL RADIATION CAMPAIGN

Researching the health effects of low level ionising radiation

CARPET STAIN INDEX

Get those annoying stains out

Essential Utilities

Bootdisks etc

Exclusive Micro Spy Earphone

You need one of these, haha

FileMaker

Apparently a substitute for MS Access?

Shadow Protect IT Edition

Looks good

The park of Monsters

Bomarzo

Spanish Civil War Posters

Art Deco, surrealism, realism, and photomontage

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

Enterprise Architect provides the competitive edge for software design and systems engineering, requirements management, business process analysis, project management
Competes with Visio

New Webpage of Mine

Link

Aptana

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications, supposed to be very good

Install Ubuntu from Windows in 3 Steps without Using a CD

Read about it here

Tutorials for Open Office

Very useful

Painless Partition Recovery

Partition Find and Mount implements a new concept of deleted or lost partition recovery

COLLECTED WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Here

The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web

Here

Fallacy Files Weblog

Here

Dual-Booting Windows XP/Vista And Ubuntu 7.04

Here

Browser Emulator

Here

All the old browsers, Netscape, IE, Lynx

Laser Turntable

Expensive but desirable

Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

Play many old arcade games on your PC

The Stencil Library

Looks very interesting and comprehensive

Synoptic Time Table of Earth History

Moderately interesting

World Clock

Definitely worth a look

Free Vector Clip Art

Here

History of Europe

Some good maps here of ancient Europe

Philosophy of History

Wonderful site with many links

Asperger Syndrome

A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR PEOPLE WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME

Images That Changed The World

Worth a look and also many tips on a useful site including use of DBan HDD wiper

What is Server2Go

Server2Go is a Webserver that runs out of box without any installation. That means it is a webserver that can run directly from cdrom, usb stick or from any folder on harddisk.

More Origami

Here and here

YamiPod

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod

Colonial Pictures and More

Here

Sphere Making Machines

Here

Flying Game

Apparently very good



Also read here:  http://www.metafilter.com/62111/Bounce-me-up-Scotty

iTunes Sync

iTunes to any other mp3 player, freeware

LEGO Digital Designer for Windows 2.1

The latest version at Major Geeks

Historic maps and photos of Africa

Here

Maps of Africa

Here

Why I left Africa

Zimbabwe's terror



Truly Shocking

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.0.0.4 Released

This site has many portable apps



Main site here

TestDisk

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again and repair MFT

FreeUndelete

Go here

Alice Illustrations other than Tenniel

This is very worthwhile having a look at. One of the best stories ever and very surreal pictures come with it

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years

Very interesting

SysInternals - The Non-"p0wned" collection

Here

JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World

Well worth a look

Forget the Big Bang Theory

We all know the story, delivered in grade school textbooks across the country, of how the universe began. The Big Bang. Fourteen billion years ago. Space and time and everything, exploding into being in a flash, and still exploding as celestial bodies race apart across the cosmos



A Brief Introduction to the Ekpyrotic Universe



The Cyclic Universe: A Talk With Neil Turok

Free Will

I love this:



'It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable: it is with precisely this charm that it entices subtler minds. It seems that the hundreds of times refuted theory of "free will" owes its continued existence to this charm alone - : again and again there comes along someone who feels he is strong enough to refute it.'



Friedrich Nietzsche.



also:



The Coming of Wisdom with Time



Though leaves are many, the root is one;

Through all the lying days of my youth

I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun

Now I may wither into the truth.



William Butler Yeats

Just a season, but it lives on

Forty years later, the ripples from the Haight-Ashbury are still being felt in our culture. The event itself may have gone bad almost at once, but the Summer of Love had a profound and lasting impact on American life.

Flv-Player S

Details and free download here

Hippies

"But if you’re really bitter and shortsighted, you could say the entire hippie movement overall was just incredibly overrated, gets far too much cultural credit for far too little actual impact, was pretty much a giant excuse to slack off and enjoy dirty lazy responsibility-free sex romps and do a ton of drugs and avoid Vietnam and not bathe for a month and name your child Sunflower or Shiva Moon or Chakra Lennon Sapphire Bumblebee. This is what’s called the REACTIONARY SIMPLETON’S view. It blithely ignores history, perspective, the evolution of culture as a whole. You know, just like America."

The Assault on Reason

Everyone interested in our future should read this

Free Photoshop Plugins

Many good plug-ins here

Underwater Tigers

Here

Bushies Behaving Badly

Worth a look.  All the scandals in one place

I believe that the Governments in a lot of countries are so right wing that they amount to renegade organizations that are working on the side of financial organizations, this is happening in my home city of Christchurch and all over New Zealand as well. They are no longer on the side of the common people.

As said in the article we are all becoming serfs to the landed gentry.



Link

Virtual Solar System

This is worth a look

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom murder

This is an absolute shocker, do not click unless you are feeling certain about the goodness of man.



And more

How To Triple Boot (XP, Vista, Ubuntu) With Single Boot Screen

Ilya Hevnikov’s Blog

XP PRO IIS Admin 1.8.0

New Version of webmaster's tool to create multiple web sites on Windows XP Pro.

Designed to make and manage a multiple web servers on Windows 2000/XP Pro

The most beautiful islands on the world

See the pictures of some of the most beautiful islands on the world

Launchy 1.25 Adds Customizable Commands

Runny:  This plugin will let you add your own custom commands to Launchy

Howie's Software

Some interesting Programs here including ScrnSaver

DVD Pimper

All you need to rip CD's & DVD's

How to write well.


This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist

The Tao

When a superior man hears of the Tao, he immediately begins to embody it.



When an average man hears of the Tao, he half believes it, half doubts it.



When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud.



If he didn't laugh, it wouldn't be the Tao.

The Anonymous Liberal

"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held,
but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are
held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any
moment lead to their abandonment." -Bertrand Russell



Anonymous Liberal



"As an attorney who deals with subpoenas and requests for electronic
documents on a regular basis, I can tell you that if a private
entity--particularly one subject to legally mandated record keeping
requirements--were to inform government investigators seeking such
documents that they had been "mishandled" and were now "lost," that
entity would immediately find itself in a world of hurt and would be
lucky if it survived the aftermath. No amount of talking would be
enough to convince the authorities that there was an innocent
explanation for the missing documents. They would be absolutely
convinced that the "mishandled" documents were intentionally destroyed
in order to cover up wrongdoing."



Refers to this

Topic 296: Scott MacFarlane, "The Hippie Narrative"

Of all the topics I have read on The Well this is one of the best.

Example: "A great many people have talked about psychedelics opening themselves to believing in a higher presence."

Response:

"I can see why that kind of talk would be more compelling than talk about how a psychedelic experience brings the user an understanding of how there's no higher power, That It's All Up To Us." - Cynthia D-B permalink #230

Extraordinary, the whole topic is well-worth reading.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Here

AIDS History

This timeline contains selected events in the history of AIDS related to the response of the National Institutes of Health and other agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Ultimate Boot Disk

Here

Bibliography Relating to Sexuality, Feminism, and Free Speech

This looks fairly interesting

Gould Farm

Licensed by the state of Massachusetts, Gould Farm’s psychosocial sub-acute treatment program promotes hope, autonomy and empowerment for the guests who come for care.

The Highly Sensitive Person

See the self-test, I would guess that a lot of people see themselves as this

World Label

LABEL TEMPLATES,
Download Avery template, cd label templates and address, mailing and
shipping label templates

Douglas Adams: The First and Last Tapes

Here

Book That "Full Metal Jacket" Came From

The Short-Timers

Where There Is No Dentist/Doctor

Where There Is No Dentist

Where There Is No Doctor

Books to read or download for free.

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

Amazing Pictures

Tweako

Projects to undertake, ie Dual boot Vista and XP



Collaborative Computing

University of Oxford, Department of Zoology

Software developed by the group

DVD Flick

DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice.

ZS4 Video Editor

ZS4 Video Editor, the new incarnation of Zwei-Stein Video Editor, is advanced video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects.

GeeXboX

GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in the UK Air Defence Region

Flying Saucers

ScribeFire

The replacement for Performancing

Siouxie Images

Images

GB-PVR

GB-PVR is a fully featured home media center application, allowing you to easily use a remote to watch tv, schedule recordings, watch videos, watch DVDs, listen to music, view photos etc.

Bromley Contingent

While the music and image of punk was being formed by McLaren / the Sex Pistols and Vivien Westwood's clothes there were two other groups of people who would contribute to the scene. One was the loose pool of musicians like Mick Jones, Tony James and various members of the Damned and Clash etc who would be sparked into action by the Pistols and a group of fans who would come to be associated closely with the Sex Pistols many of whom would themselves form bands as the Pistols roller coaster trundled on.

This group of fans would come to be known as the Bromley Contingent and featured among others Siouxsie, Debbie, Soo Catwoman, Simon Barker, Sharon, Tracey, Billy Idol, Steve Severin to name a few and lovingly described in 'The Boy Looked At Johnny' by Burchill / Parsons as 'a posse of unrepentant poseurs, committed to attaining fame despite the paucity of talent other than being noticed; achieving their aim by displaying themselves in a manner meticulously calculated to kill.'



This is of special interest to me because I was born in Bromley and if we had not gone to Africa maybe I would have been able to be associated with these people and known them actually rather than just by reputation.

LEGO Digital Designer for Windows

Now at version 1.6, LEGO Digital Designer is quite simply the best virtual building system out there – with its “Click-Stick” method of 3D modeling winning praise from children, parents, teachers and design enthusiasts everywhere.

Older FreeHand Installers

Link

Network Notepad

Network Notepad is a Freeware program for creating interactive network diagrams

Scribd

Put your docs online

Sandboxie

Tired of dealing with rogue software, spyware and malware?

Tired of spending countless hours removing unsolicited software?

Sandboxie

BioMed Central

Publisher of more than 170 peer-reviewed open access journals

650,000 Iraqis

Could 650,000 Iraqis really have died because of the invasion?

PC Tools Firewall Plus™ 2.0 for Windows

PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful personal firewall for Windows that protects your computer by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or a network. By monitoring applications that connect to the network Firewall Plus can stop Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and other malware from damaging your computer and stealing your private information.

Top 20 Less Known BitTorrent Sites

Here

Linux on Desktop

13 Things to do immediately after installing Ubuntu

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows

UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair, restore, or diagnose almost any computer problem

SUPERSTORM

SuperStorm
allows you to hide your confidential files and folders in a wide variety of
media files such as pictures, audio, video, executable programs among many
other file types. Your secret file will be physically wiped out and merged
inside the media file. After the operation, your final picture, audio, video,
or executable program will continue to display, sound, play, and function
exactly like before.

Links to uplifting webzones

No insulting cattle-fodder commercials here, sit back... enjoy the best of virtuality - This page has plenty of visionary stuff plus sites by good people exposing the two-faced money grabbers and other elitist types.....

Plus HAARP

Jim Morrison's Quiet Days In Paris

The 'official' biography portrays Jim Morrison's time in Paris as being very romantic, if not a little disconnected from the world. Small wonder, as very little of his stay in the 'City of Poets and Thinkers' is as yet known to the public. This chapter, based on thorough research, will deal with Jim Morrison's "Quiet Days in Paris", as well as his death and Pamela Courson's death, all in detail.

MS Virtual PC 2007

Virtual PC 2007 is a powerful software virtualization solution that allows you to run multiple PC-based operating systems simultaneously on one workstation, providing a safety net to maintain compatibility with legacy applications while you migrate to a new operating system. It also saves reconfiguration time, so your support, development, and training staff can work more efficiently.

Multi-OS Network Configuration

Server Elements is a research and development group dedicated to the design and implementation of task-specific server operating systems for business or home office networks. Low hardware requirements and task-specific simplicity make our products extremely dependable and easy to install and use.

Vista Rewired

Vista tweaks and and tutorials

TomeRaider

There are 4,000 E-books and reference works available for TomeRaider

BHT In a Nut Shell

BHT is a compilation of Freeware applications, as well as some
shareware and trial software. It was designed to help a computer
technician with Spyware removal

Inno

Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability

Be the Bot

Now, all we have to do is trick the site's headers, into thinking that we ARE google

POSSUM LIVING

How To Live Well Without a Job and more

Photo Story 3

Create slideshows using your digital photos. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories.

No Escape

Adult content here, rape in US prisons



MetaFilter comments

SSCV Thialf

A very big crane

Valley News

Is this a typical web newspaper in America?

SpeedyVista

A Black Viper like page for Vista

A Soldier's Thoughts

Well worth a read



Especially:

memories-of-death

it-was-still-dark

my-thoughts-on-monsters

sticks-and-stones

our-walk-through-life

Bird Flu

The BBC has a Bird Flu Section

Lists of unsolved problems

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Generation On Fire

The political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s has become
a subject blighted by misconceptions and stereotypes. To
many, it is synonymous with widespread drug abuse, failed
social experiments, and general irresponsibility.



Welcome
to Our Generation

Be An Instant Expert On Bird Flu

NewScientist

funkytoad.com

A good Hosts file manipulator.



HostsXpert v3.7

DVD Flick

DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set.

Swampland

The great unwashed give some stick in swampland

Weebly

Web Site Creation Made Easy

Steganography

Apps that embed files and data inside other files, hidden from everyone who doesn't know any better.

Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu

A partially functioning prototype is now available for downloading and testing.



This is very promising, I am just waiting for the correct moment to abandon Windows.

Diagnostics | Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools.

Image and Backup logical Drives and Partitions

DriveImage XML

Free.

SimpleOCR is the only OCR SDK that's Royalty Free

Competitive OCR

Circuit Board Repair and Rework Guide

If your company complies with ISO-9000 or any demanding quality standard, you can refer to these guides as your on-line reference.



Link

REAPER

Powerful Audio Recording and Editing Software



There is a fully working evaluation period.



A powerful Windows application for multitrack recording and
editing of audio.

FileMenu Tools 5.0

Useful tools add to and adjust the right click context menu. I haven't seen anything like this for free that look as promising.



Go here

This site enables you to write in your language wherever you are in the world

Online onscreen keyboard emulator

Free File Hosting Made Simple

Go Here

14 Defining Characteristics of Fascist Regimes

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

4. Supremacy of the Military

5. Rampant Sexism

6. Controlled Mass Media

7. Obsession with National Security

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined

9. Corporate Power is Protected

10. Labor Power is Suppressed

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

14. Fraudulent Elections



Dr. Lawrence Britt

Lara Croft 10 years later, still sexy

Lara is going to be back in the form that she had in TR1 which IMHO was the best game of the series:



Link

How to do a reinstall of Windows XP

How to do a reinstall of Windows XP, a Windows XP Home upgrade, Windows XP Home install, a Windows XP Home repair, Windows XP Home Parallel install, Windows XP Home OEM installs, Windows XP Home reinstall, Windows XP Home, XP Home specs, Windows XP Home compatibility, Windows XP Home requirements, how to Windows XP Home, and Window XP Home uninstall.



This will be useful to those in trouble

Create a bootable USB disk with DSL

Go here

30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows

Some very useful programs here:



Link

Kant

Here are a number of mp3's for downloading covering aspects of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".

Link

2 Minute Photoshop Tricks

Useful Tips

Color Theory

This looks to be a very good site for in depth information on color theory.

Link

PC World - A Series Of Unfortunate Events Hobble Blogger Still unbelievably slow to blog using Blogger Bar on Firefox and I'm sure it is not my computer that is the problem.

The Bastards Nuked Lebanon - Signs of the Times - Mon, 30 Oct, 2006 Whilst the Israeli offensive was going on I read reports of people dying in ways that were not recognised, with strange burning on their skin.

U.S. POPClock Projection Just another part of the nightmare.

LTER Interesting info aiming to give more understanding of Global Warming

Devices pinouts @ pinouts.ru Very useful for Electronic Technicians

Google Operating System: The New Blogger Much too slow to load up in my Browser, I never used to have this problem, if they don't fix it soon I will be leaving.

TUMEKE! A good list of links to NZ political parties on this blog.

Shoutwire.com » Internet News for the Masses And here I am again after an involuntary hiatus of 4 months or so due to an adminstrative stuff up by Google, see the post below. How slack is that, to ban someone's blog without even checking to see if it is being used as a spam blog. This is the sort of uselessness that once upon a time I would have associated with Zambianisation but now I know better, it is just the average slack human being doing a job badly.

Many people are having trouble with Blogging from the BlogThis extension in Firefox. I have not used my Blog for months because of this. By chance I found this site through Technorati:

Link

This is the explanation apparently.

How annoying.

Faces of the Fallen | washingtonpost.com One face per page for all the wasted lives.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change It amazes me that people still seem to think that it is not happening.

Damen Amazing PhotoShop painting, 15,000 layers.

PandemicFlu.gov Central point for the coming Avian Flu Epidemic.

Winmx Fix/Repair PIE patch MXpie

Letterfu - Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue

Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for WindowsXP - PCStats.com

Lissa Explains it All -- HTML Help and Tutorial for Kids

How to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows XP

All the help you'll probably need to do this task.

Index of /modernworld/d

Einstein info and more.

TechCrunch » AllPeers Is The FireFox “Killer App”

This is going to be great.

Microsoft Security Advisory (912840): Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution.

Day1 info from MS

Medical Books - FreeBooks4Doctors

FindMyCover.com Cover Search Engine

This could be very useful.

Security Now! Notes for Episode #20

Information on the zero day exploits currently circulating on the web.

PCCHIPS Web Site

Note to self: This is where the Drivers are for the P4 computer.

Smoking
Interesting ideas on how the way you smoke reveals your inner self.

Minimal Surface Gallery

Image 1

famfamfam.com: Home Lots of free icons.

Tragic AIDS Story

This shows that old prejudices and human common sense often work together to shun the unfortunate.

They are often one and the same thing. Blogged using Performancing.

CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard - Zipping and Un-Zipping has never been easier ! This looks as if it would be a good alternative to WinZip.

InformationWeek | Firefox 1.5 | Firefox 1.5 Stability Problems? Readers And Mozilla Respond | December 20, 2005 Here is a disturbing story about problems being experienced with Firefox 1.5. Some of them have been happening to me but I see them as being quite minor problems and I am very happy with Firefox in general.

Photoshop Tutorials Blog ? Blog Archive ? Top 10 Photoshop Tutorials of 2005

Opium

Trying the new extension again, here is a link to an interesting site about Opium and the obvious pitfalls for users.

http://opioids.com/images/index.html