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I prefer to do all my sites in house excluding Photo Hosting as doing it reliably is extremely expensive. I use a photo hosting specialist Smugmug. But for everything else, I do it myself on my own server, but I am going to use FaceBook so I can find all my past and present friends. Of course my FaceBook Profile will be private as I will give allot of personal contact info for my Friends and Family to view.

Cya on the other side.

This is so amazing I downloaded the Concert for Diana videos for my mom (she asked for them) and QuickTIme wouldn't play them. This would be fine since VLC/MPlayer does, except I needed to make a DVD. Since I use Toast 8 and it requires QuickTIme for the Codecs to convert video/audio, I have been unable until tonight to be able to to convert an avi file with embedded MP3, even with Toast 8 DivX plugin as well as DivX player (Spyware, don't have installed). Perian solves this problem and can now rplay any format that VLC/MPlayer can play (I hope).

I started off the day feeling good as I have completed the server move for all my websites (to a faster server), putting in a support ticket to drupal for help with a problem, but then just a few minutes ago, I get this message Jelsoft's future: acquisition news when I visit the news forum of vBulletin. The best forum software around, has been acquired! Sure it sounds all good and dandy, but in the short and long term this is not good news at all.

Society warehouses the youth either being disabled, in the poor part of town, etc since they are required to stay in school. Freedom Writers shows how a teacher took the youth who where warehoused because they where the lowest grades and got them interested in education and wanting to learn. She did it differently and faced allot of red tape in doing so.

This movie in my opinion drives a nail home and sends a very powerful message. These types of movies get you thinking and are my favorite movies.

Well I just finished watching Family Guy season 5 episode 18 which is the season final. At first when I saw the chalk board scene I was (oh brother a Back to the Future knock off), but by the end of the show, I couldn't stop laughing and this episode is now my favorite episode!

After 9 years and 5 upgrades I have finally upgraded my ancient copy of Photoshop 4 (with 5 upgrade, but since it didn't provide a new serial number only 4 counts) to Photoshop CS3. But it wasn't as simple as you would expect. You see Photoshop CS3 upgrade only allows you to upgrade from Photoshop 7, CS1 or CS2 upgrade or full retail copies. So how was I able to upgrade my ancient copy of Photoshop? Read on and you will find out, and it was 100% legal.