Well that is something to do. He can have my Grand Arms Kampfer drawing, since I'm really lazy right now and I haven't started on a special icon.

Hey Tay have you heard anything about a local band called "Red Shag Carpet" and do they have a CD out right now?

t-minus 2.5 until erocks b-day...thank goodness his b-day doesn't come right after xmas
everybody remember to get him something great!!!

Right now I have 5 different programs running in the background waiting to get rid of spyware. Thanks for the help guys! Are we doing anything soon? It is almost time to go back to school, we should do something before it is too late!

Either you have that particular link in your clipboard (copied), or you have the precise phrase that, when googled and 'I'm feeling lucky"-ed lands you at that page.

The ability to paste when middle-clicking is a handy linux (actually X-server) feature. It also allows you to simply paste into firefox to go to a copied link, rather than pasting to the address bar and hitting enter.

Yeah, there's a reason Bloc Party made it in my top 15 of 2004 list and Franz Ferdinand didn't.

Namely because they're better. And to quote that very same song you mentioned (Banquet), they're "so underrated."

How odd... I've just found out that clicking my middle mouse button takes me here. I have no idea why.

all of you 1970s post punk dancesters (if you're diggin' the Franz Ferd) check out:

Bloc Party: Banquet (Tony, they played this at MOD CLUB once but we didn't know what it was at the time)

The Rakes:
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/groups/index.jsp?groups=19723211
this is a concert- skip to 5min. that's probably they're lead single.
http://www.therakes.co.uk/

Moving Units: I Am. (it's an acceptable single)
The Futureheads: whatever Clarky would recommend.


and oldtimers "Gang of Four", and Wire

same damn thing.
TOP 40 WORST ALBUMS OF 2004

so... January 3rd... work day or replacement holiday? I don't think I was ever told. Do you guys know? both my parents have it off, but my brother's back in school. None of this makes sense. So I think I'll 'work' a bit today and call it even... but I just don't know. hmm

anyone want to throw in their judgement call?

and, on another note. y tu mama tambien ('and your mother too') is an incredibly sexy movie... but not in the north american/usa kind of sexy, this is smouldering latin sexy. if you plan on watching it, I suggest that you don't invite your parents along for the ride. It's also a coming of age movie, so it brings some of that early adulthood baggage into it too. but really, lots of sex and nudity. and the underlying subplot of exposing a lot of mexico's political unrest... very interesting how they wove that into the movie... great use of a narrator (a bit like Amelie in that regard) somehow it stays totally uncategorizable because it's just so different from everything else I've seen. it's no porn, though there sure is a lot of sex. anyway, good movie.

Al, Spywareblaster is another program that helps out with spyware. But for start page hijackers, you might want to use HijackThis to identify your IE startpage and remove that line, along with running your spyware programs