Okay, folks. We’re back here in WordPress again. Hope everybody is as happy as I am about that. I’ll continue playing with the design, and try to get it less generic. I’d be interested in hearing any comments or suggestions, should anybody care to share.

I’m so, so, so sorry to post MySpace crap on the big people’s web. Really. You have my humblest apologies. But this kinda tripped me the hell out, so bear with me.

K. I could give a shit about these things, but damn. This seemed weirdly accurate to me. Probably an indication of my worsening narcissism and self-delusion.

J: makes people laugh
O: Has one of the best personalities ever
D: Is a freak in bed
Y: loved by every one

J: makes people laugh
O: Has one of the best personalities ever
E: Freakin Beautiful eyes

J: makes people laugh
O: Has one of the best personalities ever
S: good in bed
E: Freakin Beautiful eyes
P: Popular with all types of people
H: Easy to fall in love with

T: great kisser
R: good bf/gf Husband/Wife
I : Loves to laugh
M: makes dating fun
B: Loves people, Really easy to fall in love with
L: BEST SMILE
E: Freakin Beautiful eyes

M: makes dating fun
A: gorgeous
N: Can kick ur Ass
N: Can kick ur Ass
I : Loves to laugh
N: Can kick ur Ass
G: Never let people tell you what to do

D: Is a freak in bed
O: Has one of the best personalities ever
D: Is a freak in bed
D: Is a freak in bed

Analysis:

1) I swear I did not manipulate this. I cut and pasted as I saw it posted. Wouldn’t have bothered, except I did a bunch of it in my head and wanted to do the whole thing. So I’ve put up every name I’ve ever used so all the combinations are available.

2) I looked at it first as Joseph T. Manning, which is what I formally go by, but decided to do the whole thing.

3) These are things I hear frequently, and often in about this concentration.

4) I would appear to have been destined to have rage issues. Note: “N: Can kick ur Ass” comes up three times.

5) It’s a little odd that “D: Is a freak in bed” comes up three (or four) times, while “S: good in bed” only comes up once. I’m going to make myself feel better by deciding that S counts way more because it’s so close to the beginning. Weirdest thing is that When I was a virgin nearly the entire time I was known as “Jody Dodd”. That’s a whole lotta perv in that name there. Probably scarred me for life.

Strange to me how close this comes to the way I really see myself. I know that probably makes me sound like a jackass, but WGAF? I know a lot of this stuff is conditional, and I know a lot of people have seen me in ways deeply and broadly varied from the way I see myself. If anybody cares to, I’d love to get some feedback. how do you think this fits?

A: gorgeous
B: Loves people, Really easy to fall in love with
D: Is a freak in bed
E: Freakin Beautiful eyes
F: People wild and crazy adore you
G: Never let people tell you what to do
H: Easy to fall in love with
I : Loves to laugh
J: makes people laugh
K: Really silly
L: BEST SMILE
M: makes dating fun
N: Can kick ur Ass
O: Has one of the best personalities ever
P: Popular with all types of people
Q: A hypocrite
R: good bf/gf Husband/Wife
S: good in bed
T: great kisser
U: gets blamed for everything
V: Not judgmental
W: Very broad minded
X: Never let people tell you what to do
Y: loved by every one
Z: Lives life for fun

Okay, so maybe they’re not that witty, but that’s what I got. Anyway, they’re back. I’ll keep on tweeking my themes and stuff, and I am going to try to write a plugin that will manage “The List” for me. “The List” is intended to be a repository for all of the books/movies/games, and other stuff that people recommend to me. I never seem to get to that stuff, but I think that’s largely because I never keep it anywhere useful. This is intended to keep it handy for me, while passing the benefits on to you, my loyal readers. If I manage to write the plug-in, there will obviously be much joy and celebration, and I’ll put it out there for the WP community. Everybody cross some fingers or something.

Oh yeah, I hope nobody minds that I’ll be linking the recommendations to my Amazon Associate page. Feel free to use it or not, but keep in mind that I get something on the order of 1/10th of a pittance for any purchase you make from one of my links.

In reading the Ars Technica interview about the manifesto, I was very impressed to come across the words “…our users’ choice is not for sale.” I commend this stance in the strongest possible terms, and the Mozilla Corporation’s willingness to take that hit for us, the users is exactly what makes me want to support you all.

To that end, I would happily use a pimpware version of a Mozilla product given a few simple guidelines.

You can pimp my download as much as you want with bookmarks, start pages, and anything else you see fit. I’ll even sit through an unskippable intro so long as:

1) It is completely my choice. The download icon must make clear that I am choosing to download the pimpware version, and to view a certain amount of marketing material as a form of support for the Mozilla projects. The pimped and unpimped versions must be presented equivalently. No hiding the clean version in a corner or on another page.

2) No adware/spyware. This sort of content must not install additional applications(I’m undecided about plugins at this time.) and must not collect or distribute a user’s information.

3) It is completely removable, preferably in an automated fashion, but manual removal of unwanted material is acceptable.

4) Any forced content is only forced after an install or upgrade and doesn’t last more than one minute.

5) Any content added at time of upgrade should be added in a consolidated fashion, making it easy for the user to identify, and remove if desired.

Given these conditions, I’ll happily make the choice to support Mozilla by enduring a certain amount of marketing.

This article discussing the Mozilla Manifesto is definitely worth a read. The Mozilla Manifesto is important, because it hopes to become a driving philosphy for the internet, and as such, it may develop the power to unite the internet culture in a way helpful to resisting the kinds of corporate and governmental controls that really could threaten the internet as we know it. We like to think of the internet as a great big free wilderness, but it’s really not. Rather than a great big distributed net, think of the Internet as a series of interlocking trees. (Think of a family tree, if this helps.)

This map shows the main trunks or backbones of the Internet. I’m using it for illustrative purposes only, and I don’t care how current it is. Each of the lines on this map represents one of the tree trunks, and from each of these trunks spreads thousands of branches until the whole think looks like what you’ll see if you do a Google search for “internet map”. As we’ve seen in the special deals cut by Yahoo and Google in their dealings with China, censorship is alive and well. And as we’ve seen in the US, there are corporations which would gladly wrap a stranglehold around our own infrastructure and force us to pay for every gasp of information.

So add your input to the development of the Mozilla Manifesto and help spread the ideals that make the internet what it is. Also, go sign the petition to Save the Internet!