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comotized — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:43:23 PDT

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i found my hat!

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comotized — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:41:01 PDT

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oh yes, i love my hat!

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comotized — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:38:53 PDT

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lounging with a plastic lai necklace she stole from my niece.

Mello Sleeping - Closeup [Flickr]

comotized — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:53:27 PDT

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content eh?

Mello Sleeping [Flickr]

comotized — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:51:54 PDT

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stretched out guarding my flip flops & a super old cd case

Feedburner: subscriber growth not what it seems

Melissa — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:12:48 +0000

I, like so many others, was vastly overjoyed when I saw a nice jump in my feedburner subscriber count.

Sadly, it appears that these new subscribers are really just people who’ve followed us on friendfeed.

While I don’t discredit their subscription on friendfeed (every person counts!) it really isn’t valid to place them into our feedburner count as these people didn’t click an RSS button on our site/s to sign on for our feeds.

Not to mention friendfeed is more of a social network than anything and most users return follow anyone who follows them… I know I’m guilty of doing that so have no doubts that others do as well.

Hopefully google fixes this issue soon because it really is an issue.

I want to know how many people sign up for my RSS feed; not how many people sign up for my RSS feed AND how many people follow me on friendfriend mashed into a group pile.

I like my statistics simple, please revert and give me my correct numbers again. *shakes fist*

A few reasons why default favicons suck The only t

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comotized — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:56:47 PDT

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another goob shot. dunno why i was biting my tongue but at least my earrings kick ass!

Ethiopian Chicken

Melissa — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:15:17 +0000

I installed scribefire but as you can see that idea for motivation didn’t pan out as planned.

I figured if I had an editor at my fingertips during all my internet browsing rendezvous I’d get lucky and something would perk my interest enough to blog.

Yay for another failed attempt.

Right now the only thing on my mind is sleep, which I’m obviously not getting (note the sluggish typing of whiny post) and Ethiopian chicken, which just so happens to be the best diet food in town.

I’m tellin ya, if I get any more brain activity going on up in my cranium region I’m going to go into an epileptic fit, and I CAN do that. I do have epilepsy, so all of you out there snickering about ‘oh no she didn’t', oh hell yes I did. Eat me if ya don’t like it.

*sighs* I’m such a sweetheart.

Now on an ending note to this pathetic excuse of a post I shall attempt to explain what an Ethiopian chicken is and why you should start eating them if you’re trying to lose weight.

First and foremost I need you to picture one of those little starving Ethiopian babies you see on donation commercials late at night when you’re slumped on the couch in a fluffy pink moo-moo stuffing your face full of Ben & Jerry’s..

Can you see the little Ethiopian child floating through your mind yet?

Good.. now try to picture what their chickens look like.

If you’re anything like me you’ll see a shriveled up excuse of a chicken with an over-sized head, ribs poking out all willy nilly, malnourished belly poking out from air & other gaseous substances…. He may or may not be tied to a goat suffering the same fate.. but regardless of what he is, or is not, tied to there should be a caption under his shriveled feet with the statement of: “Spend more time chewing!”

After all, everyone knows shriveled chicken is one tough bitch to chew right?

And that my dears, is why the Ethiopian chicken is the best diet food around. Little to no meat but you’ll chew for hours, thus getting the effect that you’ve consumed a meal far bigger than you actually have while managing to dump just enough content into your tummy to shut it up.

With knowledge this golden you can share the wealth and take your old ice cream money to feed those damned kids. They gave you your hips back, thank them properly would ya?!

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Bronchitis is the devil

Melissa — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:04:03 +0000

Bronchitis is the devil.

I’m convinced and you can not change my mind.

I’d rather be attacked by a pig and have swine flu than this.

At least I can breathe when I have the flu.

As it stands I have a nice little wheezing noise with every breath I take, my head feels like a field full of cotton fluff and I can’t, for the life of me, breathe out of my nose.

I might also mention that my temperature is up, my cloths are sticking to me, my body is one giant shaking ache and I’m a tad bit disoriented.

I do not like bronchitis sam I am, I can not eat your green eggs and ham. I would make a valiant attempt but I’m afraid I would die from lack of oxygen.

Ah the joys of the sick season… fuck you bronchitis!

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Glue Me

Melissa — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:18:39 +0000

So yeah, I was licking a postage stamp earlier today. It’s a natural process that occurs when sending out a message though snail mail. And sometimes, if you’re unlucky, a very quizzical and thought provoking process at that.

While I was licking the stamp I got to thinking about how gross the adhesive tasted. Following which I started thinking about why some stamps are sweet and others are vilely bitter. What exactly do they put into stamp adhesive to give it such flavor?

So I put the stamp onto the envelope and set it aside for mailing. Unfortunately the thought process over adhesive ingredients hadn’t left my mind. Normally I’d push the thought away and search for a new topic but for some reason this one just seemed too interesting to pass up. So I let the wheels turn.. and turn and turn some more.

A million possibilities floated into my head but the one I found most amusing, and disturbing was my theory that the government had a set of elves mixing up each and every fresh batch of stamp adhesive. Now these elves are very special elves. One is a female named glue the other is a male who goes by the name of me.

Each day they wake up, put on their little glue suits and shuffle on down to their mixing stations. They work at the same factory but on separate ends (their supervisors don’t want them reproducing, they are special elves remember?), never seeing the other but each knowing the other exists.

The elves do their work but unlike most elves who are cheerful and vibrant these elves are forever downcast. Each one lazily dreaming of the one they know exists but can never see. It’s during these lazy, daydreaming times that the magical ingredient is placed into the adhesive.

For while their minds are preoccupied, their grimy, glue-covered hands are anything but.

It’s said that the male’s glue is bitter due to his sexual frustration while the female’s is sweet due to her everlasting hope that she will one day meet her missing link.

It’s a far fetched and downright outrageous theory but who’s there to prove it isn’t true? Furthermore it hasn’t been proven that elves don’t exist either so all in all it’s possible. Not likely, but possible. So before you go to mail another letter think about what it is you’re licking.

And if the elves don’t make you cringe, you can always stop to dwell on the fact that bug eggs or a highly contagious disease has been stuck to the stamp. As for myself, I feel much safer with horny elves than I do with eggs and disease. At least elves are partially human and won’t make me deathly ill. It really is your choice though.

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Bound to happen

Melissa — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:09:39 +0000

I’ve been meaning to blog for quite some time but life is hectic and there’s far too much on my mind to get anything worthwhile into a post.

Lots of stress and drama with a few good things thrown into the fray. My mind just isn’t in the blogging format these days. It basically consists of pushing the bad things to the back of my brain hoping they’ll magically rot into decaying nothingness. Forcing my mind on other topics that are more suited to happiness and relaxation which brings to mind a single topic but that’s a topic I’m not ready to divulge just yet.

But oh it is a wonderful topic and never ceases to bring a smile to my face and a sparkle to my eye.

I’m not abandoning my blog, I’m just waiting for my mind to collect itself in a manor that’s more blog-worthy. It’s bound to happen, I just can’t say when or how that will be.

For anyone interested in keeping tabs on me, try joining Plurk“>Plurk. I post there at least once a day, I’m not so big on twitter so I don’t suggest looking for me there. You could also contact me using one of the methods listed on the contact page.

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Blast from the past

Melissa — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:26:08 +0000

I missed the look of the old-school comotized so I pulled out the original theme and brought it up to par and voila, here we are again with a blast from the past!

There are a few bugs I need to kick out the door, most of them lie within the archives page but I’ll get to them in due time. I’m just happy to have the theme back up and working.

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Unintentional truth

Melissa — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:44:26 +0000

After hitting another dent in his love life my oldest brother slammed the question: “why are all women whores?” in my direction.

Personally I don’t believe that all women are whores but it is a fact that nine out of ten women in my area are.

Still that kind of question doesn’t have an easy answer, I have boobs but I can’t speak for the entire population so rather than try to give a serious answer I simply replied with:

“Because our orgasms are better.”

I meant it to be amusing but after I thought about it it does make a little bit of sense. We can get multiples on a good day and ours last longer so there was more truth to what I said than I realized and I do have to stop and wonder, is that part of the reason some women cheat?

I’ll never know for a fact why any person would choose to cheat but it does make you wonder.

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A few reasons why default favicons suck

Melissa — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:45:16 +0000

If your host comes set up with a default favicon do yourself a favor and remove it from your files.

You might think it’s a nice gesture on the part of your host but it really isn’t.

The only time you should use a favicon for your website is when you have an icon that is unique to your site. Otherwise it just defeats the purpose of using it in the first place.

Bluehost is a prime example of a host that places a default favicon on new user accounts. The problem is that no matter how good your site is that icon will always be associated with bluehost and a lot of people remember sites solely by their icons, especially in the current days and craze of rss feeds.

Do you think rss is going to go anywhere? I don’t think so. Do you want your readers to remember who you are and keep reading you? Do you want to stand out of the crowd and say “here I am, read me!”? Then change your favicon or don’t use one at all.

No favicon is better than using a favicon tailored for another site.

I can’t tell you how many people leave default icons in place. I can tell you that those who do are generally lost in feed readers and are very easy to be removed from feed readers because a reader doesn’t recognize anything but that icon and *gasp* that icon doesn’t represent what they signed up to read.

But I use highly descriptive feed titles and each post has a superbly keyword rich title! – that won’t save you. That icon sitting beside your titles just makes your feed and posts look like pages or sections of the site the icon really belongs to.

In short, it can be damaging.

It might just be a tiny 16×16 pixel icon but it does more than you think it does. In a sense it’s a big part of your online identity and should be respected as such.

If you’re one of the people using one of these default icons go incinerate it a.s.a.p. or replace it with one that you’ve created to represent your site. If worse comes to worse and you find you can’t create one on your own you can always send a buck my way and let me create it for you.

Have an icon you want to use that isn’t in .ico format? There’s a ton of online generators that you can use at no cost to you, check out the Google search results for favicon generator”>google results here.

Need help installing your icon? That’s a simple and painless process, just follow the steps below:

Upload your favicon.ico (make sure it’s 16×16 pixels!) to the root file of your site directory.
Place < link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >(without the spaces) between the head tags in your page code.
Save & refresh your site to view your icon.

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Win free Hello Kitty gear from KittyRulez!

Melissa — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:28:43 +0000

KittyRulez.com is having a contest that boasts the following prizes (view photographs below for visual confirmation) which include a Hello Kitty shaped pochette, Hello Kitty shoe strings and a Hello Kitty drink mug as the grand prize followed by a Charmmy Kitty bento box and Hello Kitty bookmark as the second prize.

Oober cute to say the least and it’s easy as pie to participate. Simply write a blog post letting your readers know of the contest then head over to the KittyRulez contest page and leave a comment with your post url.

The only thing better than oober cute Hello Kitty gear is free Hello Kitty gear. I’ve got my fingers crossed that my number will bounce out of the hat but I wish the best of luck to all who join in.

Contest ends on April 2nd, 2009 so get your name in that hat before all the slots are filled up!

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