Brian Gillingham

This looks like a good idea - to make a graphical layout and eventually break the bits apart to make the graphics for the various CSS elements, right? I could imagine a few "habbo" icons in use throughout - example: email icon in that graphical style, and perhaps something else in the background of the green area (or are you representing transparent with that "lime" color?).I took the approach of making the CSS layout first - for example: use of hover and horizontal CSS navigation menu, "box" divs, and styled rows, etc. I just used an initial set of graphics for the CSS to work; the graphics have evolved several times long after most of my CSS was finalized. Am I not making sense?In any case, after making the initial style and graphics, I decided to incorporate a user-switchable control for selecting styles. I have four styles "Blue", "Green", "Simple" (no graphics), "Tan". If interested in how to code PHP and HTML for the styles select - PM me. Notice from jlhaslip: edit to remove un-neccesary "quote" tags. The referenced posting is right above this one

I believe that some president in the future would not have made the same mistakes that Bush has -- especially given the historical lessons learned by Bush's mistakes (doh! ). You must have missed Barack Obama on Meet the Press today; his answers give me hope for more SMART politicians one day soon. It really isn't a question of rebuilding houses in Iraq -- I don't remember that being stated anywhere in the lead up to the war or after it evolved into a war for reasons other than WMD and getting Saddam and bringing democracy, and stopping torture (we SAID that we were going to stop the torture. Big whoops there!). I argue in a previous post here that the Mission in Iraq IS accomplished, so we should LEAVE NOW!!!. What is the mission in Iraq today??? The better question seems to be "Is Bush hiding his reason for staying in Iraq?" You must be an idiot to not have a good reason for being there -- when all 16 intelligence agency reports pretty much agree that the US presence in Iraq is spawning new anti-American terrorist at a rate faster than we're killing them. Is Bush an idiot? No, I think that Bush must have a good reason for wanting to stay in Iraq.... but he can't tell us Americans for some reason. He only says that we must win this war - nothing else is an option. The reasons that he gives are mostly factually incorrect and logically bad arguments.

The analogy to the building of a house is only fair if you first state that this house was first lived in by some Iraqi family BEFORE our invasion -- and that the house has been destroyed (directly or indirectly as a result of our starting the conflict), and now we are responsible to rebuild that house, eh? We have absolutely every obligation to restore more than just their houses - how about their electricity and clean water? Many reports have these utilities at lower % levels than before our invasion (remember our "Shock and Awe" which really destroyed 99% of electricity for months and caused great damage to the water supplies). Not to mention that total deaths in Iraq are much higher than before our invasion -- it could be inferred that if Saddam were still there, the world would be better off (many international analysts agree). I said that the use of ads like "The Stakes" by the Republican party - are terrorist actions by definition. You can't argue that -- and you make no point by saying that Bush isn't the only one who would have done what he did. What he actually did was attack a sovereign nation under the collective drive to find those pesky WMD (don't you remember how Cheney and Rice were being terrorists back then? -- "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud") and later blame the fact that we're there to those who gathered there to fight the occupation (we label them mostly as "terrorists" or insurgents). Look up TERRORISM in the dictionary - and you will have to agree that the latest RNC ad, "The Stakes" is a terrorist action. Can't you see that they are trying to scare YOU? You see, with terrorism, nobody has to die - by definition, they only must be scared enough to influence the people.

Bush will go down in history as the most stubborn and least wise of all Presidents of the USA. I emphasize "least wise" because I feel that there is no wisdom being used - only bad intelligence (remember the scene from "Team America"? Spotswoode "That was bad I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E., very bad I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E."). So, Bush said very recently "There is one thing we will not do: We will not pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete." I know that he is trying to straddle the line for support from moderate republicans, keeping up the "tough image". But it simply isn't wise. Read Bush resists course change in Iraq This all makes me wonder - especially after Bush spoke on the aircraft carrier with the huge banner "Mission Accomplished!" So, if the mission is not accomplished after you declared it - after we didn't find WMD, after we killed Uday and Qusay (sp), after we caught Saddam, after we brought democracy, after they voted.... The real terrorist today is the Republican party. Now, in this desperation, the Republican party has come up with an ad "The Stakes" using images of Osama Bin Laden that clearly aims to terrify people into voting for Republicans. Watch their ad - and ask yourself if they are trying to scare you into voting for them. They are using fear in an attempt to control the minds of the people - basically the exact definition of terrorism. Be afraid!!! Just don't be afraid of what they tell you to be afraid of - more frightening things include: Mass Starvation, destructive Climatic Change, New Pharmaceuticals, Idiot youth damned to repeat mistakes of our ancestors (lack of unbiased historical education), health epidemics, depletion of resources including WATER and AIR. If you feel that Bin Laden is a threat, blame the Republican party for not having caught him already. It amazes me that they'd be so stupid as to remind people that OBL is a threat - when they haven't dealt with that threat in any real way (diversion to Iraq probably ruined the early chances to deal with the threat) (CIA branch to hunt Bin Laden closed) (Bush don't care about Bin Laden). We'd have to be really stupid to vote for the people who failed dealing with the threat. After Bush failed to follow Bin Laden into Tora Bora, Bush said Now, let me get this straight... 2001 - Bin Laden executed plan for 9/11... Bush said "Dead or Alive". Six months later, Bush says that he doesn't care about Bin Laden.... now, we are told that Bin Laden is a huge threat again (he is a star in their commercial, after all). Remember that a few months ago, we learned a few months after the fact, that the CIA branch that was set up to hunt Bin Laden was closed. Bush denied that the office closed (typical), and Kerry wrote a letter demanding that the office open immediately and get the resources that it needs to finish the job and hold Bin Laden accountable for his actions - who's the tough guy here?

Thanks for the meaningful reviews. One problem that we don't know how to tackle is the duplicates. Software authors get around the restriction by either submitting under a new company name or a new title name. It doesn't look like there are too many duplicates in our database, but we are aware of the problem and are working on a better solution - your ideas are always welcome. We recently added some user-selectable themes. Blue is the default, but the simple one contains no extra graphics - and can load quicker if you have a slower connection. The "Tan" theme is my new favorite. Advanced Search | Grid View We finished the "Advanced Search | Grid View" that allows for more specifics when you are searching (optionally specify "Operating System", "Minimum File Size", "Maximum File Size", "Program Category", "Program Type", ) - with control over sort column and items per page. It is a much quicker way to navigate through the data and it may eventually replace our search results output page. There are still some features to be added to this, but it is currently published and ready to use.

My coffee cup holds coffee better than my fish net - but I still use Firefox for all of my browsing needs. If I ever need to view a WMP, I would probably use "classic media player" (not the memory hog "Media Player 9").

I have personally had many "images of the future" come true for me -- and I can also seem to find missing objects (like car keys) without ever having had contact with the objects. It freaks me out a bit, but I kinda think that there is something that I am in tune with sometimes. It helps to be "zen" when I notice any of my supposed powers. I guess that this speaks to the deep trance that is part of some mage and especially shaman pre-ceremonies.

I am also kinda anti-microsoft. I was upset when they didn't get CSS right for IE the last time. I really didn't think that Firefox would have this majority!! Firefox is the best IMO, but sometimes if I have a lot of tabs opened, it can take over 160,000 kb of memory (task manager - memory column).

You are funny. You didn't answer anything - other than raise a few more questions. If you don't have an answer, you probably shouldn't comment - like "You can't please everyone" doesn't answer anything for anybody.... we're looking for convincing proof - not suppositions. So, that one is a non-answer. It is barbaric to think like Leviticus - - this is as bad as the supposed bad quotes that the media in the west takes from the Koran. This is freaking insane - think about it logically for just a second - and ask yourself how killing one thing attones for something else = crazy freaking blood-thirsty savage behavior. So, I ask why sacrifice - and you say "because of BLOOD?!" I'd say that this certainly qualifies as a non-answer for me. Even if sacrafices continued as livestock, that's voodoo baby! It all gave me more questions about this thirst for BLOOD. There have barely been a billion christians to this current date -- through all of history, added up. Ummmm.... why did the gates of heaven have to be opened with a sacrifice? - no answer I have to quote you here -- because you fail a grammar check - and I need to have it here to reference.... what the hell are you trying to say? Are you saying that God created himself if I agree that energy can be created and nor [sic] destroyed? Not an answer. Not convinced... even more convinced that I am talking to a fool (like I predicted). I will have to give you a passing grade for the effort, but sadly - I am left solidly convinced that there is not a God - thanks to your ramblings. Does any Bishop or Priests want to chime in here???? I used to be an altar boy for 18 years, so you better be one of the non-abusing priests. (can you tell that I feel that the catholic church's official handling of known abuse cases has blacklisted them for me!)

When I was about 19 yrs - I had too many questions, so I asked my priest at the time to let me get a few hours of his time to talk about my questions about faith. Not a "newbie" to say the very least; he was my favorite at our old parish, and we had a few really holy men as "Father". I must add that this great priest was one who had seen time as a field priest (chaplain?) in Beiruit during the crazy periods (I think that some of it was during the worst period of conflict there during past 25 years - but, maybe today is worse). He had such perspective as he had held many dying soldiers in his arms.... yet, we discussed all of my questions in as great detail as we could - and he could not answer any of my questions to any level of my satisfaction. It all came down to "faith"... and I was similar to the "doubting Thomas - who had asked to see the wounds of christ". Why did there have to be a sacrifice of a living creature (I define Jesus as a living creature, wouldn't you?) - to open the gates of heaven? I wonder why does God need to see things from man's persepective - because I have been told many times that this is why God allowed his son to die. Why can't women be priests? I really thought that he'd have the answer for this one for me --- but his answer pretty much sealed the deal with my respect to further "Faith" on this behalf.... Women can't become priests because they have mensus! They bleed from the crotch - and that was once considered filthy and not to be on the altar - or something along those lines. Well, maybe he could explain the whole if God created everything, who created God??? Did he create himself? I really pressed him on this one - and again, "Faith". I say "there's more proof of alien visitors in UFO's than proof of God" - yep. God just - woke up one morning and decided he'd create himself? The real answer is - and this is historical fact for the weary, man created God - not the other way around. Don't even try to argue the fact that Gods were created by ancient civilizations long ... long ... long before Moses, Mohammed, and Jesus. No real surprise when some guy in a desert who has been without food and / or sleep for several days thinks that he talked to God (no specific guy in the desert, just pick your prophet). So, if you want to convince an athiest on the existence of God, you will most-likely be making yourself look like a fool to them. As to how to convince them??? Try answering any one of my questions above.

What are you smoking? I know that the connection about Jesus dying = opens gates of heaven bit came long after he died and the pope / bishops "connected the dots" - all "according to scripture". I also want to know - what the prophets were smoking?

Agnostics believe that there is a God, but don't adhere to doctrines. They just believe that something almighty is out there. The difference is that Athiests don't believe in God whatsoever. I agree with the last few posts - I think that even though people have freedom of speech, speech would all be better if it were limited to facts. Sure, it may be more boring speech, but at least it is factual. I am pretty sure that things were pretty boring on the planet Vulcan (Star Trek reference). Anyway, I have engaged christians and jewish people about their religion. I am curious what makes the believer's mind work like that - because they always seem to have these huge gaps of "faith" and contradiction. I have never once been convinced of anything about God by a christian or jewish friend of mine. I would talk to some Asians, Arabs and Eskimo about their beliefs if I knew any here in Pennsylvania, but that is what forums are really good for - talking with your extended neighborhood. The bottom line for me is : you won't ever convince me of God's supposed existence because I live in a world that is based on reality. My mind does not need to have a "god" character to help explain what I can't understand. There were many things that I didn't understand during my first year of college, but that all changed; I accept that there are just some things that I may never understand - but that certainly is not a reason to say that God did it.

In my opinion, this is the most useful web tool that I ever used to improve my pages. Try to get all of your scores in the green - and you should have made the bots happy. Widexl - Meta Tag Analyzer v2.1 This might not be that great of a help if you are running any php forum, but perhaps the settings are there to configure various meta tags per topic, etc. I know that I installed a MOD that achieves that with my phpbb forums.

I agree that this picture should stay up. Please do not remove this image and assist in the censorship that we are subject to daily. We should already declare that this is a closed case - in light of the last picture especially. Thank you very much for making the point that we are looking like the overall bad guy here. Nobody can justify these killings to me. If you disagree with what we are saying here, you simply don't want peace. That's the conclusion I have to make. Especially, no christian on the face of this earth should agree that the path to winning this war is through killing; we'd have to kill virtually all Arabs and then kill all who sympathize with Arab complaints - and then we'd probably have to quell the rest of the earth as they voice their dissent. Tell your Senator that you think that we should leave the Arab world - tell the Arabs that our bullets and tanks will no longer threaten their holy lands, and they will have to adhere to their holy words that you should only fight the infidel as long as he is in your land.

I have been a faithful NHL EA player since '92. Of course, I skipped a few years, but I am pretty sure that I played at least every version.I was really disappointed when they changed a lot of the menu response since NHL 2005. They didn't heed the creedo of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!".Anyway, I've just about played the hell out of Doom III by now (intended pun), and I am looking for some good hockey on my computer.Say, is NHL's latest version worth the $$$$$?

I will agree with this - Xisto hasn't seemed to ever time-out on me like another free host that I had. That host had 170 other sites running, but grew too quickly I feel ... large chunks of time without any service at times. I replaced that other free host with a virtual all in one dedicated server. That host rocks! I have as much bandwidth and space as the near future could ever demand. I think that you should be able to get a good feel for how good any particular free host really is - before you sign up. I would think that some research should be done as to the host's support, "customer satisfaction". Another important factor would be the host's server setup - and how much "horse-power" their machine has (eg: 4 CPU, pentium 4). You should be able to get some good information by looking up the host's domain on whois.

It is an educated guess of mine that you are NOT of japanese descent. If you were, I really don't think that you would support bombing anybody like you do. I believe that you are whining (you spelled it incorrectly also). You cry because you learn that a majority of people believe that the war in Iraq is bad.... it is just terribly sad that the majority wasn't before we attacked! War is bad. It is not a game that people play to decide whose belief is correct. It determines who is left - not who is right! I don't care how you try to justify war. Certainly, boosting the economy doesn't justify killing. Also, according to the Bible, killing is a sin, eh. On top of that - you don't even mention the future effect of fighting this unjust war. You certainly heard the argument that this war is creating new terrorists (that hate America). I am guessing that you are an idiot - about 22 years old, and you're still a virgin. You should try to focus on peace. Peace makes economies stronger in a real way. War causes the economy to produce useless weapons.

I agree that a world with no religion would be better than one where allowances are given to religion. The greatest tragedy of religion is the clash caused when two strong "beliefs" meet (think about islamic and christian beliefs - and how they have clashed in the middle-east for well over 1000 years). Imagine a world without the wasted time dedicated to religion - we'd be much more advanced if we didn't waste any time praying. The waste also extends to the actions of the billions of misdirected minds over the history of humans, for example: building a temple. These actions do nothing realistically and measurably constructive. Now, I acknowledge the only beneficial part of religious practice that I know - it makes people feel less stress when they imagine that there is a superior force in charge. They feel less overwhelmed. I like reality. I don't mind feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all - it is a friggin' big universe. There is more proof for intelligent life outside our planet than there is proof of god.

If you are looking for signs from god, I am pretty sure that he would use something that is more meaningful than goosebumps. I think that those who "believe" make amazing (and illogical) connections as to what god is saying; think about lightening - that mystery is the source of one of our first "gods". Now, there isn't a patron-god for goosebumps, but maybe there should be like "Cillyberus - the god of goosebumps and shivers". I get goosebumps when I have to crap really bad - does this happen to anybody else? Maybe you just needed to crap really bad during the sermon.

For a second, I thought that JasperIk was trying to make things worse - when he starts off with "I hate 'your mom' too...". I was thinking, I can't believe that somebody has the nerve to reply to ... oh! oops.That "your mom" expression is juvenile.I wouldn't ever go as far as killing somebody for disrespecting me - you may want to be careful posting things like "I swear, I'll shoot him" - especially if you ever wind up shooting him. Who is the real loser when things degrade to comments like this?Just hang in there - and continue to be strong. He's probably just sore that you kicked him out of the computer room.

I hear what you are saying, but I have to say that there are proceedings started by John Conyers. There are more organizations pursuing George Bush's impeachement than there are major league baseball teams. The process of impeachement is not exactly as you say, but there is lots of red tape. There was a massive push in Germany for their Federal Prosecutor to investigate Rumsfeld and company for the suspected War Crimes in Abu Ghraib and other places. The real question is -- has Bush done anything criminal? Followed by -- shouldn't we impeach criminal presidents (not just infidelity)?

While I completely understand why somebody wouldn't want to participate in something like this, I have to ask that you refrain from saying things like "It ain't going to work" until after the date has passed. The classic defense of Bush has been just this -- "you could never impeach him, the Republican Senate and House would never approve." To this I say, don't count your chickens until they vote! That's the point exactly! If even a low percentage of sites have this "Impeach." message, you hopefully will bump into the mesasge a few times during the day's browsing. It is not intended to frustrate you (as it shouldn't take more than a few microseconds for a 1kb webpage "Impeach" to load -- and the main index will be still reachable - temporarily at a different name), but it should be considered similar to a protest. If the policy makers in America see this action as disruptive, or spawns too many complaints - they WILL HAVE TO do something about it because the elections are coming up. All political momentum based on support of the Iraq war has already been lost. It is certainly not good for a country when the people repeatedly have to mass together in protest. If protest strength wanes at this point - I will have to move to Canada or somewhere else that really has democratic system.

The point isn't for Bush to see a few web pages that say Impeach - and he'll suddenly feel sorry for all of his lies - and step down from power. The point is to make a statement. In this case, I am joining with THOUSANDS of real websites that will be making this loud statement - across the world. The signifigance of this event can not be just overlooked. Having said that, this really isn't supposed to result in anything but further discussion on the topic of impeachment. If you seriously feel that there is no reason to impeach - you have not been paying attention over the past 6 years.

I don't know if anybody is planning on participating in the world-wide Impeachment Day internet black-out, but we are at BetterWindowsSoftware. So, if we are going to do it - so can you.

Hey Ladies and Gents! I wanted to sort of just make an announcement here - and get some feedback as well. After much fixing / design / coding / testing and refixing, the latest features have now been uploaded to the web site. There's been some serious changes made. We've listened to all of the feedback that came from earlier posts here; we modified some of our graphics - made some things faster - fixed a few bugs and now it is time to get some constructive criticism of the newer features. I am looking forward to some good critiques and some questions. I have edited this post - and inserted some new content. We're still looking for feedback about usage. OS Filtering working!! The code has been added to allow you to filter search results for your operating system... Currently, you can only select one operating system from the list at a time. To avoid confusion, the filter is not part of the initial search form as of yet, but it will soon be added to the advanced searching form that is currently in development. The search filters can be seen at the top of any page of search results in our web, but you can start with our new listings and go from there. Operating system filters that are currently supported (other than Windows - doh!): PalmOS Java BeOS OS/2 OS/2 Warp Netware Linux Unix Mac 68k Mac OS 9 Mac OS X All Mac MSDOS Windows 3 Windows 95, 98, ME Windows CE Windows NT 3.0 or 4.0 Windows 2000 All Windows Latest Changes A complete database optimization has been completed; more than 50 queries have been made a couple milliseconds faster. File Size Filters Also, file size filters have been added. You can specify maximum or minimum file sizes (or both). Undecided? - check out Random Programs We added a new feature for those insomniacs who don't know what they want to download. It is a random program page and it can display a random program at any category level. For example, globally random program would be http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. Here's a few fun random links that are in a category: Random GameRandom Audio and MultimediaRandom Video ToolsRandom Browser ToolsRandom DesktopRandom System UtilitiesRandom Puzzle & Word Game Custom Lists of software added You have to create a login first. This is a login in the members area, not to be confused with the forums login which is separate. This is an interesting concept, but I have to explain how it works. If you have students in your class, or employees at your company, or blog members at your blog - you can create lists from our database of software. For example, if your blog members are involved in a certain hobby, you can probably make a list of a couple useful programs that they may want - and name the page, etc. - and voila! We generate that web page for you that you can provide the URL for your students to use in order to get all of the programs that they might need in one place. Here's an example list: My Company Recommended Author Feature capability added It may be impossible for you to review or critique anything here - since you have to be one of the authors of the software we list. This is where a software author can manage his / her software. Aside from being able to feature their software here, they can also configure some other bits of their web. The commerce is done via PayPal (wasn't that tough to code against their Instant Payment Notification). You can read about what an author can do here. Software Forums added We whamjacked some of the forum code so that the index page doesn't display empty subforums. There are a few other whamjacks in there. We extended the BBCode so that users can create instant linkst to a program that appears on our site by knowing the program's PAD ID#. The BBCode is simply [padid=8552]Crawler Games - dance George W!![/padid] - which creates the output: Crawler Games - dance George W!!. Discussions are opened to the public. These are mostly-empty forums right now; hopefully, we can have Questions & Answers full of meaningful posts. Once there are some meaningful posts in the forums - we plan to incoporate them into the software section of the website (eg: list any posts about program#1232 for the software listing page for program #1232). Other enhancements to our forums include: email Digests so that you can watch whichever topics (fully configurable), RSS Feeds for each subforum which really makes it easy to plug into any reader. Developers can make posts in our forums to earn credits toward getting software featured. One of the areas of interest for developers would be the Press Releases forums in each software category. Here's a link to our: Software Forums