My statistics service is down. :( Can't check traffic obsessively.

Still looking... Check this sweater out, and this suit, another sweater, a blazer, this sweater, and this suit. (The problem being that any suit I buy at Bluefly is most likely not going to fit. These are all clearance items and canot be customized. I wear size 44 jackets but not size 44 pants. Usually at Menswear stores I end up choosing "athletic fit" suits with wide shoulders and narrow pants.)
Sorry for the out of control materialism. Up next: expensive cars I would like to have!

I am always in the mood for extravagantly expensive clothes. I can't afford them and most likely will not be able to or a long time. But until then I can browse websites like Ben Silver. Yum.

This blog shows up in Google now! Try it!
Another really cool feature Google has added recently that I just noticed was mail order catalog searching. I am going to be a very happy shopper this holiday season.

Interesting link about an SDK (Software Development Kit) for developing a program to respond to chat messages. A very interesting idea indeed. I could see this being an interesting marketing tool.

My Mob nickname: The Butcher, Baker and Candlemaker. Courtesy of the Sopranos Mob Name Generator.
I know I just engaged in some stereotypical blogger behavior. I could be disingenuous and disavow such behavior (top ten lists, AIM conversations, bad poetry, endless moaning about my love life, etc) but I am not. I am going to tell you flat out that most people who promise to avoid such behavior are lying.
President Bush is out fighting the forces of darkness -- as represented by Bill Clinton and Walter Mondale, anyway. Democratic Senators need to learn to stay off small planes before Election Day. One thing that particularly interests me about this election is the continuing trend of late race replacements of Democratic Senators. Last Senate election, there was only one replacement, this year there were two. I see this as likely to get worse before it gets better, just by the law of averages - more senators will either be exposed for corruption or die than have before. I have no objections to Jean Carnahan running in her husband's place nor to Walter Mondale replacing Paul Wellstone, but Robert Torricelli's replacement by Frank Lautenberg sets a precedent. I can't say whether it is a good thing for poorly performing candidates to be replaced by new ones. I do know that the Democratic Party will soon be out of septugenarian former Senators willing to run for political office. I am waiting for the other shoe to drop and for the Republicans to gain an advantage through replacement of a candidate. On the other hand this could just be karmic retribution for the Supreme Court handing Goerge Bush a victory last election.

Not a mac fan but this is funny. The problem is that one could find 100 different PC related sites that are equally as good.

90% of the people visiting this website are using Internet Explorer. Granted 13% visit from my computer. :-P

Reading this, makes me a little uncomfortable. Bush means well, but if this guy is right, Bush is setting a dangerous precedent. Or the author could be paranoid and I am feeling uneasy for no reason. Ask me about it again in ten years.

Being a compulsive reader, I had to sit down and read the novel I linked earlier. I have read five chapters, and while I am not a literary critic, I'll say that it's an unfinished work. The author could use an editor as a few minor typos have slipped through, but worse books are in libraries today. This book deserves a wider audience.
The man who placed the lucky bets in the Breeder's Cup Pick Six just might be dirty after all. It seems he had a buddy with access to the data system and the ability to change bets. I was hoping he was just lucky.
Microsoft has finally settled with the Justice Department. I get the feeling that had Democrats been running the Justice Department the legal action might have been prosecuted with more vigor.

An interesting concept. The author is self publishing an entire novel online from his blog. The idea is to attract publisher interest. The novel itself is interesting if not exactly my taste in prose. (I tend to prefer more flash, and textual fireworks.)

I just checked, and this blog set a traffic record yesterday - Ten Visitors!. Woohoo!

A blog to watch for soccer fans: Soccerfever.org. It will be interesting to see if this site ever becomes anything. It already has a pagerank better than mine.

I am awake now. :(
I need to thank my good friend, Lynn, for giving me a cold dose of reality. Where I go from there I am not sure.

There should be a special place in Hell reserved for people who make phone calls at 2 am and hang up.
I actually don't mind receiving phone calls that late, but people who merely want to wake you up are petulant, mischievous children.

This is a public service announcement.

Lest it seem that the rating of the blog has slipped to R from PG-13, let me point out that while Christina Aguilera was naked, and I did post her picture naked, she did have the R rated portions covered with a guitar which she keeps handy for this purpose. (I mean who doesn't stroll around the house in the natural state holding a guitar so stray photograhers can't take pictures of their "naughty bits"?) This was in no way gratuitous use of nudity to attract traffic. Also, the last post was again not designed to improve the chances of people finding this blog. The names listed in no way have anything to do with any fantasy involving Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Jennifer Lopez, Naomi Campbell, Janet Jackson, Halle Berry, a video camera, and no clothing - in no way, shape, fashion, or form. Really...

I think I could get more hits if I used the word "naked" more often. "Nude" would help too. Especially in conjunction with names like "Britney Spears", "Christina Aguilera", "Gwen Stefani", "Jennifer Lopez", "Naomi Campbell", "Janet Jackson", and "Halle Berry". Maybe if I even put pictures... nah...

I was just looking at the traffic statistics and 13% of the visits to this site are from me. Sad but true. :-/

I don't know what any of it means but pretty pictures are always fun.

By the way the sweaters are Armani Exchange... my taste is moving up from the Gap, Banana Republic , and Ambercrombie and Fitch to Armani, Tommy Hilfiger, and Kenneth Cole. Unfortunately, my pocket book still likes Target and Walmart.

More clothes lust. Sweaters this time.


I need to stay away from this place till after Christmas. 56 shopping days left till Christmas.

A nice Halloween link for the kiddies.

I just realized what I want in a relationship. I want that feeling of closeness.I don't want sex, can't have sex (I am a virgin and I am waiting). I do want to cuddle. I realized this yesterday while staring at the Yahoo personals ad campaign that Yahoo has insinuated into my mail account. The couple in the pictures looks so happy holding each other that I can't help but feel jealous. I know they are only models and probably don't even really know each other, but I can't help feeling that Yahoo is taunting me. It happens every time I log on too. I am not going to slit my throat over it, but I might club a baby seal.

Christina Aguilera is naked on the cover of Rolling Stone.
I am not a huge fan of the "Dirty" look. However, I cannot argue much with this picture.

I just don't like the clothes she wears. Her wardrobe should consists of guitars only. :)
They ask who should be naked on the cover next. I keep looking for Britney Spears' name. Oh well, Gwen Stefani will have to do.

Check it out! This guy knows a band with my name!
I was having a discussion with a friend about economics and I thought ya'll (all four of you!) might be interested. My economics ideals might be mistaken for Communism if not closely examined. I want to see a society where every citizen is more explicitly a producer as well a consumer. Everyone who works is a producer of some kind. The problem is that many people are very far removed from their eventual product. I want everyone to be in business for himself selling a product to whoever will pay the most. Right now, most people sign contracts to sell their labor to large corporations at unnecessarily low prices. However, most people cannot realistically sell their labor on their own. My solution is to lower the price of the tools of production so that private individuals can compete with large companies. Not only is there a free market solution for this problem; it is already being solved. The tech revolution has cheapened technology and people are already taking advantage. What I feel is important is that large companies not be allowed to stand in the way of innovation and the empowerment of the people. My copyright idea is part of a framework to do that.

I feel this guy's pain. To all the other young men in the world - when a girl asks what you are planning next, say: "Whatever you want me to do!" "I dunno, what do you wanna do?", is good too.

I think my brother may have identified the reason for my recent habit of not spacing my words: a defective space bar! He had the problem too, and noted that only emphatic punching on the spacebar resulted in the desired space. We need a new keyboard!
I also realized (well I already know this but I need to explain this to other people) something about myself. I am an all-or-nothing type of person. My life is informed by my binary view of success. There are no partial successes, only total failures. I take risks and shoot for the home run. My view is that if you are good and prepared that you can make a good living this way. The failure is disheartening, but the success when it comes is an intoxicating drug. Men kill (literally) to taste of that type of success.

Everyonce in a while I browse through old posts and check up on blogs I have linked. I ate the poor once again and the taste frightened me a little. I hope she gets better.

How does the "10 fresh blogs" feature on Blogger work? I was always disappointed before that I didn't see my blog in that latest blog updated list. Now I have seen it 3 times in two days. Does everybody get the same list? How often is the list updated? I get a significant percentage of my hits from being a fresh blog though. Not a lot but enough that it matters.

Who are these guys? Can anyone think of a more bizzare name?

Does anybody know how to figure out what search queries bring up your website? I know it can be done with google fairly easily but how about yahoo, msn, metacrawler, or Alltheweb?

As a joke just now, I wrote Saddam an email:

to: press@uruklink.net
subject: Hi!

Dear Saddam,
I know someone has hacked your email account and that it is likely that you don’t actually read email. However, I would like to go on record as denouncing you as one of Satan’s children and a monster. Your depravations have earned you a special place in Hell, which I am hoping that you will soon visit. I hope that President Bush gets his way soon and blows you to tiny little pieces. I hope that each piece hurts. I don’t dislike you really. I hate you with the intensity of a million hell fires. Please die soon in the most painful way imaginable. You are a blight on humanity, a cancer. Your removal from existence will be a day of rejoicing for all humanity. I have temporarily exhausted my list of pejoratives, so I will stop here.

Respectfully yours,
Idahosa Edokpayi

More information about blogger being hacked. The wonderful thing about blogging is that news filters through to everybody virally, and fast. Blogger seems to be fine now however. We return to your normal programming.

I am positive I have numerous friends who would love to apply for this position. The link is from Womanchild. She's a weird but intriguing character. Read her every once in a while.
Blogger has been hacked apparently. Spread the Word.

Send Saddam email! May I suggest a subject line that begins with 'F' and ends with 'U'?

Heartbreaking diary from Slate.
I just paid off a credit card. I am estatic! I am also worn out from all the work I have been doing lately. If my life were a line graph, the line would be climbing up on the chart.

Last night was a little cryptic. Sorry...
I am tired. I slept in church. I am working hard, staying up late, and still lifting weights. I am gonna do squats tonight. Pray!
I have yet to buy the domain name. :( DOH! I should just do it, but something prevents me.
I am definitely gonna get that wild and crazy hairstyle I have been contemplating forever soon, maybe next week, maybe the week after next. I dunno.
I need sleep.
Go Giants!

Are men fools for loving? Do we care?