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Thursday, October 20, 2005

silicone bracelets for "no cause"

Fed up with recent fads? I found a bracelet on ebay that lets me express this and my otherwise morbid nature. It's a black bracelet that just says "DieHard" as opposed to
"LiveStrong." I wear it proudly showing my conviction to nothing. If you can't find it on ebay I found this link for you http://www.collectorsparadise.com/newdiblwrbri.html

Show that you don't care about anything. I don't.

Here's a whole set of I don't care bracelets from Archie McPhee's
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Sunday, October 16, 2005

Mental Health Bracelets

My brother was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. It's a scary mental illness and it's very difficult to get through it, both for him and for the whole family. We are working through it though, and he is acting very normal more and more often. The only therapy I've found that really helps him is acupuncture. I take him to my friend, and former NightRider associate, Phranque Wright. You can see his website here: http://www.wrightacupuncture.com/

If you know somebody with a mental illness and would like to raise awareness of the possibilities of living a normal life and recovery, I found some bracelets you can wear also. The Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania is offering orange mental health awareness bracelets with the message "Embrace Recovery." http://www.mhasp.org/bracelet.html. They are silicone bracelets, like the ones for Lance Armstrong, Live Strong.
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Domains at Yahoo!

I used to make websites, and although I really don't care to anymore, this is about all I care to write about the intense commercial business of domain name registration.

This is a how to page to get your name on your website. Everyone wants their own website don't they? Do you have yours yet? I have mine! Of course perhaps what you need is a website for your organization. A company or organization without their own website is lost in the world. How will people find you? You need something to put on those business cards. A website is a place for people to go and find out more information about you; what you do your goals, how to contact you, how to make recommendation, how to use you, your products or your services. The best thing about getting your own website is its really easy. There are plenty of companies willing to take the hard steps for you, or for the right amount of money, all the steps for you. Hell, I'll do it, but I'm old school, you probably want some rediculous slick and somewhat annoying flash animations that go bling bling all over the place. I'm not so much a fan of that stuff. But anyway, here you go with the first step:

Domains at Yahoo!
Yahoo Small Business has a service to setup domains and names for your website. You can't go wrong with setting up your domains at yahoo.

website name yahoo is just one great place to do it. I've used godaddy.com, I believe it's cheaper than yahoo.com but it may be more complicated. Overall though, I'm satisfied with the experience. The most expensive, and most complicated, that I know of is internic.com, the grand daddy of domains. Avoid them like the plague.

After you've setup your domains at yahoo or elsewhere you need some place to put your site! Yahoo.com may just be an all in one solution for you. They host as well as do the domain names. There are free options, that will put some ads that you don't conrtol on your site in exhange for free hosting. There are also things inbetween that don't cost much. A popular option is to use a "virtual" hosting location, where basically you pay not so much a month to be able to do pretty much whatever you need, and you get a directory on some server. This works well for most people. You even get mail accounts usually. The next option is to get your own server. This gives you complete control over the setup of your site and controls, the protocols it can handle, mail settings and everthing else. The big problem with this is you need someone who knows how to setup and administer the server. The great thing is you can get anormous amounts of storage, bandwidth (often unlimited) and whatever else. You can even choose what operating system runs the server. Now you don't have to go out and buy actual machine and plop it on your desk. In fact, unless you have some fat internet cabling running into your building you don't want to do that. You can rent a server from someplace like ev1servers.net. They take care of the bandwidth and you just pay a monthly fee.
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WOW Pets

I've stopped playing World of Warcraft myself, but people seem to find the below information helpful. You can comment and add to it if you'd like.

I'm attempting to compile information about pets in world of warcraft. Choosing the right pet in world of warcraft can make all the difference for the succesfull hunter. I'd like to let everyone know which pets are the best and which have what special abilities. If you know a better source of information or have more info please post it here.
Forest Striders have cower
Bears, up to level 26 have claw
Bite can be picked up from some cats
Growl can be learnd from various pet trainers, and levels 1 and 2 are picked up somewhere.
I haven't seen any definitive use of cower or growl yet, probably because they're both enabled and cancel each other out. I would suggest right clicking on the one you don't want at the time.
Pet abilities are taught using the Pet teaching icon under the general tab of your abilities.
Pet abilities are learned by getting a new pet with an ability and killing one mob. You can then teach this ability to other pets with sufficient training points

Here's a growing table of pet details:
level 12 owl eats meat
attack 60 power 46 damage 13-18 defense 60 armor 580 strength 33 agility 28 stamina 38 intellect 23 spirit 25

level 13 tallstrider eats fruit
attack 65 power 48 damage 9-13 defense 65 armor 615 strength 34 agility 30 stamina 42 intellect 23 spirit 25

level 10 moonstalker (cat) eats meat
attack 50 power 42 damage 5-8 defense 50 armor 518 strength 31 agility 31 stamina 30 intellect 22 spirit 23

level 11 bear eats meat, fruit, fish, fungus
attack 55 power 44 damage 8-11 defense 55 armor 572 strength 32 agility 27 stamina 34 intellect 22 spirit 24

level 12 bear eats meat, fruit, fish, fungus
attack 60 power 46 damage 14-19 defense 60 armor 609 strength 33 agility 28 stamina 38 intellect 23 spirit 25 claw ability

level 19 wolf eats meat
attack 95 power 68 damage 23-31 defense 95 armor 867 strength 44 agility 37 stamina 67 intellect 26 spirit 32

level ?? cats eat meat and fish
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