[crickets chirping]

Yeah. Well, you see...um...

When the folks were down visiting I dug out a CD-ROM for them so they could install a perfectly legal copy of MS Office on their new computer. While searching for said CD-ROM I also came across my long lost CivIII and CivIII Play The World CDs*.

Sorry about that.

If you don't understand the connection between finding these CDs and the quietness of this blog ask Ilyka. She'll fill you in.

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Anybody out there care to design a site? My friend Amy from work is about to start a weblog. She knows basic html but little CSS and no MT and could definitely use some help from the magnificent talent that runs around here.

Rob is my go-to guy because of his mad design skillz but I've got him tied up pretty well already with a redesign for Zero Intelligence.*

She's looking for a simple, attractive design. Here's the skinny on the site focus (from the post linked above):

Her site will serve as a resource collection for abused kids and parents who need help. The blog posts will be news items and editorial/Op-ed pieces related to the same topic. Overall, very similar to Zero Intelligence so take a look over there to see what she's aiming for.

So who's volunteering?

* Then again, Amy wouldn't mind waiting a little bit if necessary. So Rob, if you want to queue her up feel free to jump on this fantastic offer too! No, wait. It's not a fantastic offer. It's more work. Let me rephrase that:

So Rob, if you want to prove beyond a doubt how masochistic you are, feel free to jump right on this and queue her up!

Yeah, that's a bit more realistic. ;-)

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The tombstone contest is complete. There were four entries and four finishers so everybody wins! Putting them in 'best' order was hard enough with just four. There's just something about grave markers that makes me smile. Must be my rampant morbidity.

Anywho, on to the results:

First place, with a prize of 5 points, goes to Jen. The beautifully morbid self reference put me in mind of the classic stones at Tombstone. She really stole the show with this one:

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Second place, with a 3 point prize goes to Frick. Frick went rebel with this one, profaning the ease of the tombstone generator to photoshop a message for the cockroaches of the internet:

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Third place, for 2 points, is VW with a line from my favorite Monty Python skit:

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Fourth place, for an additional point, is Frick again. This one came in last because it has far too great a chance of actually happening in the real world:

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Congrats, y'all! The point board will be updated around lunchtime.

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Somehow I pooched a recent post and lost my liveblogging of the power outage at work. Uncharacteristically I don't have a notepad file for it because it was all short updates.

My misfortune is your good fortune!

Here's what you need to do:

In Internet Explorer go to File in the menu bar and select "Work Offline". Other browsers will be similar.

Open the problem child post.

If you see a full and beautiful post with time marks on the individual entries you are looking at my lost baby. Copy the text and send it to me.

Those of you with newsreaders may also have the full post in your readers.

First person who retrieves the post gets 5 points!

This will only work if you happen to be one of the 30 or so people who saw the full post before I mangled it. Hopefully it still exists in one of your caches.

Update: dafyd wins! Yay!

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