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  • The Mystery Of Code
    Some people that know me know that I like to read creepy stories. Particularly the creepypasta as its called thats born of the internet for fo...

  • It Is Alive!
    One of the primary things I have to do as staff of NotebookForumsis watch for spam and remove it. Whe...

  • Frozen History
    Now I could have sworn that I wrote an entry about the closing of GeoCities because I distinctly remember doing it....Oh nevermind that w...

  • Persona
    Well Windows 7 is officially released now. Unlike when Vista was released I wont be switching to 7 immediately. My desktop is slowly spiraling t...

  • Neutral Good
    For a good amount of time now Net Neutrality has been on the topic of the US Government. While most popularized be thea hrefhttpwww.youtub...

  • Browser Shifts
    I usually use IE8 on my notebook. Its a decent browser and much better than the dark days of IE6. Despite some unwarranted MS hate from people i...

  • Edited for Content
    If youve looked at my YouTube channel the first thing you see there are music videos I have made over the years. Theres five total. From there...

  • Small Fires
    Earlier tonight ImageShack was hacked. For several hours all the pictures were replaced by a message from some group with honestly some rather...

  • Virtual News
    The quote of the day today on my iGoogle page is Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one by a hrefhttpen.wikipedia.orgwikiA...

  • Internet Flu
    The internet is on fire. It has caught the infection of rumor over lack of knowledge of the new Swine Flu. One of the biggest infections is Twitte...

  • The End of History
    So Yahoo has announced that they are pulling the plug on GeoCities one of the earliest free web hosting sites on the internet. Its been years an...

  • That Which is Known
    If you ever are in an area of absolute quiet still your breathing and move not a muscle. After a few seconds you will notice that the silence...

  • Modern Description
    Posting from Linux right now using BloGTK. I would just do it from the website but Firefox is clashing with my color scheme settings and is makin...

  • Referral Remix
    Some time back I was just reminded Notebook Forums ran a contest. The contest was meant to bring in new members and revolved around the forums ...

  • Facebook Integration
    This isnt really going to be much mainly what I want to do with this post is test how Facebook handles RSS feeds from other blogs to see what it...

  • Traffic Spike
    I try to keep track of traffic on my sites. I regularly check the logs at the end of the month to see what sort of search results there were and if...

  • Re-sRc
    Over a year ago I spoke some of my new alternate alias sRc. At the time as I mentioned I needed a new alias to use in ...

  • Third Watch
    I havent had much to put on here lately. I got moved to graveyard shift at work so now Im here late where its relatively slow. I have tried fil...

  • Fill In The Blank
    Ive talked some in the past about using alternate alias in certain places. The main one I use in commenting in Blogsmith blogs such as Engadget...

  • AIM Talk
    So I just remembered Sony Ericsson phones have builtin functions for posting photographs onto Googles Blogger service. I had started setting it u...

  • Spam Overload
    Good mercy am I glad the spam filters on here work because I just happened to look at the spam log trying to find where these referrals from some...

  • Holder of Language
    Being from the internet I see a lot of it. A lot of misinformation a lot of fierce opinions and most interestingly a lot of culture. The intern...

  • Third Shift
    Our flights start leaving early tomorrow morning so we have to be to the airport early. I decided to just stay up and sleep on the flight so Im ...

  • DNS Unavailable
    When I first started Skewed I mentioned in the backstory about how in the midst of the initial infection the internet was quickly destroyed. I br...

  • Call Sign
    Ive talked about the Internet Archive once before. It keeps a history of the interne...

  • Double Vision
    One of the things that is supposed to be avoided in writing and spellcheckers freak out over all the time is words written twice. The obvious rea...

  • Firefox Day
    Hurry its the day of the Firefox 3.0 release. And theyre trying to set a world record for number of downloads in the first day so get on over t...

  • Small World, Small Internet
    A few months ago I sold one of my domain names. I had an offer to sell it for a rather impressive sum being that it was just for the domain name ...

  • Communication Failure
    Ive pretty much gotten to the point where I dont really care about my spelling in Messenger anymore. It has become riddled with mistakes such as...

  • Kool-aid Redux
    Some time back somewhere between June and October of 2003 before I began working Tech Support I was on the verge of working as a salesman. Not j...

  • New Machine, Review
    Since its finished I might as well link it here I finished the review on my new notebook its found on Notebook Forums.a hrefhttp...

  • Typing Gloves
    Since apparently a lot of people hit my site this month for search results varying on the theme of my typing with gloves I guess Ill go into them...

  • Close, But No Cigar
    Ive mentioned a couple times things about Vistas Voice Recognition and Dragon NaturallySpeaking and some of their quirks. I havent actually sho...

  • Broken
    I dont really have much to say today. I got stupider from reading the circular schizophrenic logic of an old man talking about a backwards concep...

  • Greetings to you
    One of my tasks at my job involves handling emails and communicating with customers with that fashion. I use a thin form for my emails a brief g...

  • Blogotubes
    It is now the end of the year and so its time to reflect over the last year and make new year resolutions. One thing I have noticed o...

  • Timeless Archive
    One of the unfortunate things about the internet is its ever shifting nature. Allows for always expanding amounts of information but old informati...

  • Umm, thanks?
    Usually at the end of each month I check the statistics for my sites for the previous month. My host has several tools for doing this but my favo...

  • A short guide to lolcats
    Originating in the depths of the internet on a day of the week known as Caturday now you can see the lo...

  • Two Strikes
    I usually tend to avoid searching for lyrics on the internet as lyrics sites are some of the most bannerridden popupridden spywareinfested si...

  • The Antlion
    One of the webcomics I read is xkcd a stick figure comic focusing on commentary of various things language include...

  • sRc
    Since I accidentally dropped it on the Gentoo forums and its a part of my Steam tag I guess Ill explain my alias name sRc.To do t...

  • Um, lot?
    Some words we use in common day to day speech arent actually words in the English language they are loanwords. Some of these can be easily recogn...

  • Plurality
    A while back I bought a domain name for a video game series idea for AnacondaSoftware The Only Thing ...

  • Crawling
    So over the weekend I traded off with my mom staying with my brother up at the hospital. I brought my notebook with me and planned on remoting in ...

  • Internet Speak
    Since I was first introduced to it Ive been a big fan of the .hack series. For those not familiar with it at its core it is a series of video ga...

  • A Failure
    Buying the mouse I mentioned yesterday isnt my only current activity on eBay. I also have a pile of some Pokemon TCG singles from the latest set t...

  • Mission Complete: Hard Mode Unlocked
    Ive seen some interesting things over the years in email. Most of it is spam so its not really worth mentioning because its garbage designed to...

  • Psoriasis?
    Sometimes I wonder how Googles ads work. Like just now when I came on here and the ad it was showing was for something concerning ps...

  • C-c-c-combo Breaker
    Well Im going to have to break off my seven days of Skewed updates because I still have some more things I have to take care of before I go to Ha...

  • They Need To Be Rounded Up
    Its our supervisors birthday next week and hes taking the week off for vacation. So my teams been planning a birthday party for tomorrow. One p...

  • Caffinated
    Here is a recipe1 Dictionary antithesis 3 MonstersInstructionsTake one person add 3 Monste...

  • You?
    So right now theres a Nerd Quiz floating around the OffTopic end of Notebook Forums. The highest...

  • Then There Was Than
    As if a sign of how prevalent mistakes are in our language the HowTo of the Day a few days ago was a hrefhttpwww.wikihow.comUseThanandT...

  • Where One Ends and Another Begins
    Been busy the last several days with some things while the rest of my family has been on vacation. Days filled with work around my house or being a...

  • Proper Documentation
    I dont like to forget things. Anyone whos a regular around Notebook Forums should know that Im a frequent poster and the member wit...

  • Too Late, Can't Think
    Im in training all this week from 3PM to 1130PM.On normal days I go to bed at the time Im just getting home.So I haven...

  • A Wrong Turn, Somewhere...
    So after I created this site I altered my MSN title to contain information about it. I changed it to The Anaconda RegularSpelling.comb...

  • Recommended Misspelling
    Google owns the internet.But we already knew that. Google has become synonymous with search. Google has a plethora of tools for getti...

  • Listen To What I'm Thinking
    Text is plain. Emotions cant be portrayed very well with text alone especially in just speech text. Forums email and chats are where these probl...

  • Internet Language
    So Im a librarian at my church. I make copies for people and I manage materials that get checked in and out of the library for the meetings. And ...