Of course, the site is pretty simple at this stage, with not much for graphics, but I kinda prefer it that way. Its simple design should make it easier to navigate, and the low graphics content will make it load faster. (The speed of loading being very important to those of us with older computers and unenhanced phone lines for our connections… It’s so frustrating trying to look at graphics heavy sites like Sega—it takes far longer for the pages to load than it takes to read the pages!)

In other news, the other day, I saw Terminator 3. Wow. Awesome movie. The special effects were exactly what we’ve come to expect from big-budget action movies these days—in other words, absolutely incredible. There was also tons of action, a nice smattering of humor, and even a story as good as the stories of the first two.

I was especially pleased that they managed to keep 3’s story consistent with the earlier chapters—no mean feat given the second one’s ending. Actually, this move resolves an inconsistency between the first two movies regarding the rules of time travel… (If you pay enough attention to that sort of thing to have noticed the inconsistency in the first place, you should have no problem noticing its resolution—it’s rather obvious.)

In fact, my only complaint would have to be that they only played the "Terminator Theme" at the end of the movie—it should have been used throughout the movie, as it was in the first two. Ah, well. The music they did use was pretty good, so it all works out. I’ll just have to go back and listen to the soundtrack to the first movie a few times to get my "Terminator Theme" fix…

Well, that’s all I have to say for the moment, so… "Stay frosty!"

Just renovated the site. Let me know if you find any broken links, ‘k?

Got a chain letter today. Afraid I went a little hard on the person that sent it to me. It was obvious that it was a chain letter to me, but she didn’t realize until I pointed it out (and then she felt really stupid, which made me feel mighty guilty). That’s one frustrating thing about being smart—one must always try to remember not to blame others for not being as smart as you. Especially as even smart people can do dumb things from time to time…

To my knowledge, there are 3 basic kinds of chain letters. The most obvious, are the ones that claim forwarding it will bring you good luck and not forwarding it will bring you bad luck. Right. If you believe that, you probably also believe the stars control our destiny, or that the Harry Potter books promote witchcraft. I may not know if there’s a God, but I do know there’s no such thing as magic, and that "luck" (as nice as good luck is) is just a matter of coincidence.

The second kind of chain mail, and the sneakiest, is the kind that make you think you’re doing a good deed by forwarding the letter. "For every letter sent we’ll donate… [pick an amount of money]." Think about it. How is the organization going to know whether you forwarded the letter, or even that you got it in the first place? Another old one is, "[So-and-so] wanted to receive [a whole bunch of] letters before [he/she] died of [something nasty]." That one has been going around for a LONG time, and as far as I know, it’s never been true.

The third, and least annoying type, is just people passing on things they find neat. It only becomes a problem when one person thinks something is neat, but the person they send it to doesn’t find it so neat.

…In other news, I got the Evanescence CD "Fallen," the other day. Wow. I think that’s the first tape or CD I’ve ever gotten that I loved EVERY song on…

Just moved the "other opinions" links to the main "Reviews" page. In addition to being less work for me, it also should make it more obvious that one is linking over to another site…

BTW, is anybody checking out the message board and guest book? So far only Shadowalker has signed the guest book, and she and I are the only ones to have used the message board. I know at least a few other people have visited the site…

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