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While the Muslim world is filled with nutcases, even Christians have a few psychos in the flock...check out this crazy woman from this week's episode of trading spouses. She should have her own show cause everybody would tune in to watch this woman go ballistic each week...in the name of Jesus none the less! I'd be in stitches all the time around this woman. VERY funny!

• http://www.big-boys.com/articles/tradingspouses.html 

And then there's this guy...watch it all the way thru.

• http://www.big-boys.com/articles/lilmarkie.html

Courtesy of my darling Kim . . .

Courtesy of Lu (Murray) Tetterton

Now I know why they call them "bride-zillas"...I landed a wedding site late last week from a couple in New York which started out simple enough but quickly ballooned into a nightmare. I designed a great looking website (according to her specs none-the-less) but the bride-to-be has been micro-managing every little aspect of the design, making countless revisions and is quickly turning a great website in an "o-k" website. I'm glad I'm not in the wedding business cause I don't think I could deal with "bride-zillas" on a daily basis. !@#$%*&@!#!!!!!!!

Congrats still going out to Chad & Sara on the birth of their daughter Maya Jean Lloyd. I finally got some pics from the proud new mom and here's a few pics of the new "superstar." Mom, Dad and baby are all doing fine and we can't wait to see them this Christmas. :^)

This will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot. But you can't!!!

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!

I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it. :^)

Forget terrorism or bird flu, this is the most frightening thing I can imagine. Ever since the United States government created the internet, we have maintained control of the it and been it's primary guardians much to the dismay of the international community. Put quite simply, there are a number of "root servers" or computers (I think it's officially 13) that allow the internet to work by controlling what's known as DNS which stands for Domain Name System. These root servers tell the entire internet where to locate a site when you type in say, ebay.com or jimmypowell.com.

The United States government created a non-profit organization called ICANN to oversee all domain names and IP Addresses and coupled with our control of the "root servers" of the internet, the United States in many ways "owns" the internet and rightfully so seeing as how we invented it.

Even though we invented the internet we have obviously shared it with the rest of the world and never once abused our control of the medium, the international community along with the backing of the United Nations, is trying to force the United States to give up our role as the guardians of the internet and turn over control to a "body of governments" who will assume the role we have been doing flawlessly all this time.

The ramifications of this are immense. The internet has become the most important thing in the world today (think about it) and the thought of it being controlled by an international body of governments is pretty disturbing to me. Changes to the way the internet works and who has rights to domain names could be changed by an international body and there would nothing we could do about it. The internet could even be splintered into several internets meaning that several people or companies could own the same domain name depending on which internet you are on.

Considering that the top 10 internet companies (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Ebay, etc.) are all American companies and based here, the idea of American losing control of the internet's root servers are simply terrifying. I'll be keeping an eye on this story and praying that the United Nations doesn't steal control of the internet from us.

Can anyone say penis envy?

• http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1585288,00.html

As most of you can tell by the lack of updates lately, I've been EXTREMELY busy and have more websites under construction right now than ever before. In spite of all that, I decided to take the entire weekend off and just relax for a change. Spending 16 hours a day behind the pc is starting to wreak havoc on my back and eyes so I'm going to start limiting how much time I spend behind the pc whenever possible. I also started seeing a back specialist / posture couch last week to get my spine and neck back in proper alignment so I won't be one of those hunched over guys when I'm 80.

Getting back to the weekend...we did some prospecting for holiday decor on Saturday (see previous post) and went to Barnes & Nobile to pick up a few books we both wanted. Yes, another exciting Saturday night at the book store (ha-ha) but we actually enjoy it. I picked up a few business books and the entire unabridged version of the Chronicles of Narnia since the most popular book (The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe) is coming out as a movie this December. Kim picked up a book on scrapbooking as she's on the verge of diving into that hobby.

On Sunday, we lounged around for the better part of the day just watching TV and taking it easy. Eventually, I got up and started installing some new lights we got for the kitchen and went and bought groceries. Working from home, I've truly become the "domestic goddess" in our relationship (insert gay jokes here) and rather enjoy keeping a clean house and cooking dinner most every night. It's not so bad when you don't have to get up each morning and "get ready" for work and then drive to and from...my commute is about 20 feet and company policy allows me to work in my boxers if I choose...ha-ha!

We ended our weekend curled up on the sofa watching Dateline and Inside The Actor's Studio. So that's our weekend update for what it's worth! I can't promise many posts this week (busy, busy, busy) but if something come's up, I'm sure I'll find the time to share it with ya! :^)

All the big holidays are quickly approaching so we headed to one of our favorite holiday stores called Stats to check out their immense collection of Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas decor. The had tons of cool Halloween stuff and were just starting to put out the Christmas stuff. Halloween is Kim's favorite holiday and Christmas is mine so we both had a good time and plan to go back and pick up a few things next weekend.

Here you can see me in some monster mask and Kim holding one of the "smaller" skulls they had for sale...and whispering something in Santa's ear. Wonder what she's wishing for? :^)

Funny how little things can still get you excited. I go to lots of business networking events where you sign in at the door and they give you a sticker with your name and company on it to put on your shirt. I decided to get my own name badge made for when I attend these events and it came it today. It's just a magnetic name badge and as insignificant as it may seem, it's the little things like this that will set you apart at these events. I made mine so that as soon as anyone saw it, they wouldn't have to ask "What do you do?" As my badge clearly states...I Do Websites!

Wondering why there were no looters in Texas?

Courtesy of Lu (Murray) Tetterton

Happy Birthday wishes going out to our good friend Chad Lloyd today but more importantly...CONGRATS to Chad & Sara on the birth of their baby girl today. What are the odds of that? The baby was one month early but mother and daughter are doing fine from what I understand. She weighted 6.1lbs but no word on a name yet. I'll keep you posted as I find out more.

Update: It's a girl and her name is Maya Jean Lloyd

Update II: Just spoke with Chad and mother and daughter are doing fine and he expects they'll both be coming home sometime Wednesday afternoon and he plans to send a picture by the end of the week.

One of the fun things about Photoshop is that you can make some pretty cool composites from your photographs. I combined one of my nighttime shots of the Redondo Beach Pier with another photo of the moon to create this surrealistic shot. I've got a couple of different creations like this in mind and may even have them printed on canvas for greater effect.

A lot of neighborhoods on the northern side of Los Angeles were on fire last week as wildfires swept thru the foothills. A long, dark trail of smoke could be seen blowing out over the ocean which actually made for a pretty scene in spite of the destruction it was causing. Luckily, we don't live close enough to any foothills to worry about fires or mudslides.

Happy Birthday wishes going out to Sandy Wilborn today! Hope you have a GREAT birthday and looking forward to seeing you, Chris and the girls come Christmas and hopefully a lot more often next year! I'll try and track down Phillip (pipper-funk) and have him come by B of A and wish you a happy birthday in person! You'd be ok with that right? Ah-ha-ha-ha!

Being a big science geek and having seen a dozen shows on Architeuthis (Greek for chief squid) even I was beginning to wonder if the world would ever see a real live giant squid. It finally happened today when scientists in Japan captured this 25 foot giant squid on camera as they (ironically) used a smaller squid as bait. This one is only about half grown as scientists have found dead specimens as large as 60 feet. Kind of cool to know that there are still a few "monsters" left in the world.

• http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/09/27/japan.squid.ap/index.html