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links for 2007-01-18

  • PC: Star Wars: Empire at War made a nice attempt at an RTS based on the classic “good vs evil” universe of Star Wars. Now, the expansion pack Forces of Corruption offers a twist by adding a third side to the mix: you can be a shady underworld type. Set ar
  • Here is my dad and my daughter Olivia on the beach in California. We took a trip to visit Disneyland. This was November of 2005. This shot was taken by my wife. There is a matching shot of Olivia’s older sister and dad again, also with their feet in the s
  • Here is my dad and my daughter Reese on the beach in California. We took a trip to visit Disneyland. This was November of 2005. This shot was taken by my wife. There is a matching shot of Reese’s little sister and dad again, also with their feet in the su
  • Here is my dad on his birthday at Disneyland in November of 2005. I blogged about his 2006 birthday and used this photo here – arconati.net/2006/11/happy-birthday-james-e-arconati.html
  • Here is the full photo of my dad on his birthday at Disneyland in November of 2005. I blogged about his 2006 birthday and used this photo here – arconati.net/2006/11/happy-birthday-james-e-arconati.html We were at Goofy’s Kitchen. Pluto was one of the mas
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    Pluto Cooks Dinner for Dad's Birthday


    Pluto Cooks Dinner for Dad’s Birthday
    Originally uploaded by ArcoJedi.

    Here is the full photo of my dad on his birthday at Disneyland in November of 2005. I blogged about his 2006 birthday and used this photo here –
    Happy Birthday James E. Arconati We were at Goofy’s Kitchen. Pluto was one of the master chefs and gave my dad the special treatment.
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    Poppi & Reese


    Poppi & Reese
    Originally uploaded by ArcoJedi.

    Here is my dad and my daughter Reese on the beach in California. We took a trip to visit Disneyland. This was November of 2005. This shot was taken by my wife. There is a matching shot of Reese’s little sister and dad again, also with their feet in the surf. What is amazing about these pictures is how much they remind me of an older picture of my dad and I on the shore of Creve Coeur lake here in St. Louis. I’ll post those later.
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    Poppi & Olivia


    Poppi & Olivia
    Originally uploaded by ArcoJedi.

    Here is my dad and my daughter Olivia on the beach in California. We took a trip to visit Disney Land. This was November of 2005. This shot was taken by my wife. There is a matching shot of Olivia’s older sister and dad again, also with their feet in the surf. What is amazing about these pictures is how much they remind me of an older picture of my dad and I on the shore of Creve Coeur lake here in St. Louis. I’ll post those later.
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    links for 2007-01-17

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  • Star Wars: The Phantom Medallists – 2006 Mini Movie Winner
  • A mini star wars film showing how Han and Luke *really* fought over Leia.
  • This is the original introduction from the DOS version of the LucasArts game TIE FIGHTER, as in the four-floppy disk version, before X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. Back in the day, this was cool (and to date is a great dog fighting game).
  • I’ve mentioned American Idol before. Honestly, I don’t feel like I can summon enthusiasm for it this year. But I say that every year. My wife likes the show and I’ll most likely be watching it with her. Something about the show seems wrong to me. It’s
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    links for 2007-01-15

  • Better late than never here are my personal favourites of 2006. Any of the Top 20 are worthy of being number one, and may well have been if I’d made my choices on a different day, and in a different mood. 2006 was a fine year for music, but then most ye
  • A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. XKCD updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I’m just this guy, you know? I’m a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. I live in Virginia, where I until recently worked on robots at the NASA Langle
  • Bunny Suicides
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    links for 2007-01-13

  • I’ve just had all of my blogs upgraded to the latest version of blogger. It took a few minutes to complete, but was mostly painless. One immediate change I noted was that the dashboard lists all unmoderated comments and has a decent interface for viewing
  • Surprise! I updated my template. The colors are quite random (literally) and there is a lot of work and cleanup to do. Please let me know what you think of it. I’m a little miffed as most of the cleanup work that is necessary is not my fault, but a perfec
  • Love. Hate. Spontaneous Combustion. Updated Unpredictably by Joe England. Zebra Girl thanks you.
  • Original science-fiction and fantasy artwork for illustration and concept design in comics video games, and the digital entertainment genre.
  • The Polymer City Chronicles
  • Welcome aboard the USS VGCats.com, this is a website! Now that you’re here you’ll find escape is impossible. Unless you know.. you just go somewhere else. *Cough* Well enough of me rambling. On to the site.. and more of me rambling. Basically VG Cats,
  • Tony Esteves’s Cigarro & Cerveja ::: the Comic Strip
    (tags: comics funny art)
  • A Machinima Series based on Halo
  • Equal parts comics and commentary, Penny Arcade features Tycho and Gabe, the alter egos of creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Read about the antics and thoughts of the Penny Arcade crew, updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  • Index-o-fear
    (tags: comics)
  • Ambrosia Software Web Board (Powered by Invision Power Board)
  • Display the title of a link in an easy-to-read box. Quick response time and very easy to implement!
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    links for 2007-01-12

  • Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clo
  • Welcome to your one-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites. You can learn here how to ensure that your site is easily crawled and indexed and access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues, study stati
  • But whether your blog is business or personal, you should ensure that you are optimizing your blog for both your readers (after all, you want to keep those readers coming back) and the search engines. Unfortunately, optimization is an important step that
  • Windows Live Spaces – ArcoJedi’s My MSN Space
  • In Evolution of a Home Page Andy King threw down the gauntlet, challenging readers to duplicate WebRef’s tabled (and fabled) home page in CSS. Kwon Ekstrom came up with a solution, that worked in a number of browsers. After investigating his solution, I f
  • Web entrepreneurs can now avoid typical setup fees by moving from eBay to MonsterCommerce for ecommerce shopping cart software. MonsterCommerce also offers more options and greater flexibility for online businesses. (PRWEB) September 8, 2006 — Online b
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    links for 2007-01-11

  • Harrison Ford turned down a $40 million pay day to make a new spin-off ‘Star Wars’ movie. Hollywood legend Ford, 64, snubbed director George Lucas’ big bucks offer in favour of playing heroic archaeologist Indiana Jones again.
  • The Information Source for the Republic
  • This tool will easily allow you to create RSS buttons or “chicklets” for your blog. Adding links to your blog visitors’ favorite RSS reader can increase the number of subscribers to your blog substantially.
  • Great Then, Great Now! – All your favorite franchises are back in the games that made them famous: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Metroid, Dr. Mario and Castlevania join the top-selling Classic NES Series. Only for Game Boy Advance.
  • Citing deadlines and the desire to explore other creative outlets, FoxTrot creator Bill Amend has announced that the December 30 cartoon will be the last daily FoxTrot strip. The wildly popular strip will begin a Sunday-only publication schedule on Decemb
  • Avatar – The Last Airbender – Water, Earth, Fire, Air – First Season Summary
  • I’ve often been asked about my process for tweaking photos. I thought I’d use one of my favorite photos and show how I took it from initial capture to final public display. I had forgotten how far I had taken this image from its initial capture
  • I am once again in the situation where I am hiring several web developers for my current employer, and I think it is time to give out some information as to what I found that people are actually expecting from a good web developer. The following is rather
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