So, somehow, over half of my blog's layout dissapeared. I'm not sure when this happened, but I noticed it today and immediately set out on fixing it. *sigh* So many things went missing....

Codes were mixed up (Like my BlogShare's code, so now I have to go try to reclaim it..), and various other things. I'm ready to pull my bloody hair out. I have no idea how this could have happened...

*sigh* Oh well, all I can do is keep working on it over time to make it better and better and hope I fixed everything.

Hopefully I'll have some Meme's up today....no garuntees, though. I should really be studying, but....we all know my feelings on studying.

So anyways...

I'm going to go work on some stuff, hopefully all is fixed and well.
~Manda

posted by Manda @ 5:22 PM+

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There are things that irriate me...

And then there are things that downright horrify me.

A 17 year old girl in Indiana was tricked into entering a "Crisis Pregnancy Center" which shared it's parkinglot with a Planned Parenthood clinic. The socalled "Crisis Pregnancy Center" was owned by an Anti-Abortion group who took the girls personal information, pretended to make her an appointment which she would go to at their "other office", and then turned this poor girls life into a nightmare.

When she went to the real Planned Parenthood clinic, which they "CPC" claimed was their "other office", they, obviously, had no record of any appointment, and the police were also at the center, because the "CPC" had told them that the girl was being forced to have an abortion!

These people harassed this girl by coming to her home, calling her father's work, encouraging student's at her school to discourage her from having an abortion, and so on and so forth, until this poor girl was afraid to leave her house.

That's a vilation of privacy and of this girls rights as an American Citizen. This poor girl was already in a world of trauma, because I'm sorry, there are very few people who can go through an abortion without a care in the world, let alone being a teenager facing such a choice, and these people abused her mentally and emotionally ontop of what she was going through. I'm sorry, but that's NOT a loving, kind approach. Peaceful protests, fine. It's your right to speak your mind....but...that kind of thing should be illegal. False advertising, HULLO!

I can only imagine what that poor girl must have went through, as I've been in a somewhat similar situation, though for different reasons...but.....

My heart goes out to her, and I hope that any of you reading this will join me in doing everything we can to help ensure that things like this are prevented in the future. Please visit http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fakeclinics to find out what you can do to help.

(Please note, I found out about this through a PP Action Alert Email, so I don't have a newspaper source, but I'm sure you can find the story on their website).

Hopefully this will help in some small way.

*sigh* This...is one of the reasons I go balistic about the world around me...it hurts so badly to know that this kind of thing is allowed. =(

~Manda

posted by Manda @ 3:14 AM+

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+Thursday, April 27, 2006+

One more day, that's it.

Great news, people's! (^-^) One more day of college before school is out for the summer! (^_^) Monday, May 1st, is my only day left of school: my last day of Finals! Yaye for only attending school 2 days a week (and NOT being penalized for it!) and for only having one more day! Once it's done and over with, I'll have the time to really sit down and bust out the things I want to do. Now, why couldn't I do that with school in session? It's fairly simple.....

Monday's & Wednesdays were spent doing school shit. Sundays & Tuesdays were spent studying. Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays were spent studying or stressing about school, and trying to cram other things in.

Inevitably: I spent more time stressing about school than I spent in class >.<

SO! I will have approximately 3 and 1/2 Months of Freedom!!! =D

Now, let's just all pray I passed Chemistry or I'm really going to have the fact that I sold my book back for only 30 bucks =P

There is quite a bit I want to do, from playing DDR every day to drawing, to reading more Manga, watching more Anime.....getting the RO server up and running...there's plenty to do, so I definately won't be bored. Woot.

Anyways, I'm playing DDR with the boys so I'm going to head out.

Toodlies.

posted by Manda @ 4:54 PM+

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+Saturday, April 15, 2006+

Poor bloggy!!

My poor bloggy...it's so lonely! I've been neglecting it =( Poor dear *huggles it* I'll take care of you more, I promise, poor baby...

posted by Manda @ 4:17 PM+

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+Saturday, April 08, 2006+

*sigh*

So, I've been slacking on the whole blogging thing. Bad me =( Stupid school has to make me so busy. *sigh* I'm going to start making more time for my bloggy, though. I really don't like leaving it so barren. Meh.

posted by Manda @ 1:33 AM+

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+Thursday, April 06, 2006+

Shit.

Alright, anybody who knows me knows that I'm a Google Loyalist. Now, let me explain....

When I first started out on the computer, I was a Hotmail loyalist....which inadvertantly made me a MSN Loyalist. That didn't last. I ended up enjoying Yahoo quite a bit more, though I kind of boycotted Yahoo because I felt it was too comercialized and "everybody used it". (As a matter of fact, for 4 years, I would not use Google because someone had told me it was owned by Yahoo).

I, of course, had a Yahoo email account (not sure why, to be honest). But, then Adam came into my life and I started actually bothering to use YIM! (I'd already had it on my comp, I just didn't use it).

Mind you my IM program of choice had *always* been AIM. I had MSN because everyone else did and I wanted to talk to my friends. Same with Yahoo.

So anyways....once Adam came into my world, I'd started using Google more and more, and really falling in love with them. I'd long since gotten rid of my Hotmail account to get more space with a Yahoo account, but that turned out to be too limited as well, and then came GMail....

I wanted an invite desperately...and I'd heard rumours that Google had bought Blogger and were giving Blogger users Gmail invites...that's when I started using Blogger again, and I'm damned glad I did. No, I never got a Gmail invite from it, but I freaking love the customization available through Blogger and it is, IMO, the best Blogging service out there.

I was permanently in love with Google.

I have the Google Pack. I go to Google Labs on a daily basis to look for new toys. I use Google Groups. I just found out about Google Cloud and I'm playing with it.

I mean, if it's Googleish, damnit, I must have it!!!

(I know HTML, as my blog layout shows...and yet I still signed up to try out Google Pages, because it was Google!)

I have a fanatical obsession with running things in "sets". The more Google toys I have, the better I feel. It's a wierd obsession, lol...

So...what's the problem?

Everyone's been talking about Flickr. I've heard so much good about it, it's not even funny. Now, I happily use Photobucket. It's functional, it works well, etc.

But...but Flickr has cool toys to put on your webpage....and...and all the Blogger's are doing it...and...

To be honest, I can't tell you why I finally signed up a Flickr account. I just felt I *needed* to do so. So, I did. And frankly, I'm really impressed. As photo storage and sharing, I think they're definately a head above the rest. Now, for my pixel art storage & hosting, Photobucket, hands down, is my choice.

But with Flickr....I accidentally found something. A site that has a shit load of toys for Flickr users...

One of which is a Yahoo Widget.

It looked so cool....I wrestled for several days: Do I betray Google and get this newfangled program by Yahoo? Or...do I stand my ground and stay Google-True.

Inevitably, I betrayed Google. I got the Widget program. I thought I'd try it, not like it, and delete it.

But after 20 minutes, I'm already going "omfg omfg TOYSSSSSS!"

>.< It's not nearly as fantastic as my newfound Firefox extension experience....but then again, I haven't downloaded many Widget's yet.

*shudders* Who knows what will happen. I know I won't give up my Gmail account. It's simple, sweet, and has an assload of space. I know I won't give up Google Talk because it's low maintenence, uses very little space, and is what Adam and I generally use to talk to eachother without anyone hearing us when we're in my mom's place.

But what about Picasa? It's photo organizing qualities are amazing....and I can blog directly from it...

But what about my Flickr photo's? Wouldn't Picasa make that service obsolete?

But, but Flickr has cool toys! And I really, really like things that work in sets.....

Google Toy Set...

Yahoo Toy Set....

Which to choose? Use both? Pick and choose?

*sigh* The dilemma's of being a net geek.

*whimpers*

Forgive me, Google.

posted by Manda @ 5:20 PM+

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