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Day: 16 June 2003

Poll: Which Sci-Fi Character Are You?

Which Sci-Fi Character Are You?According to the Which Sci-Fi Character Are You? poll, I am “Gandalf – A wandering spirit caring for a multitude of just concerns, you are an instrumental power in many of the causes around you. And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord.“.

Confession time: I’ve never read a single Tolkien book or seen any of the LOTR series (I have, however, played “The Hobbit” computer game and been subjected to Leonard Nimroy’s funny “Bilbo Baggins” music video).

(Poll via Neil’s World)

Blog: Squash, Squish That Blog

SquashYou may have noticed a very slight change in the look of Richy’s Random Ramblings today: that’s because I’ve been doing some “behind the scenes tinkering” to get the page to load a bit faster (all the graphics, CSS and Javascript now come down to a total of 40Kb: down from nearly 48Kb).

How did I do the file size reduction? Well, apart from removing the calendar (as Neil noticed, it does add a hefty lump to the HTML mark up and doesn’t really add anything to the page), I’ve also dumped Overlib (which I was using before) and decided to go using the “W3C” recommended “acronym tag”. I hadn’t really thought about using it before as I was worried about “how will people know that they can mouse-over to get details” – but then I came across this entry and it reminded me of the magic of CSS… So I’m using that instead and may even add a few more acronym explanations as I go on (once I stop typing acronymn instead of acronym). That alone allowed me to dump a large portion of my Javascript file!

Why the reduction? Hmm – I just felt pity for “narrowband” (modem) users, that’s all. It’s nowt to do with disc space (I’ve got 20Gb) or bandwidth (I’ve currently got 40Gb/month allocation and I’m seriously considering going for a 700Gb/month option as it’s cheaper(!)), but just fancied a little bit of “play code editing” instead of the serious code editing stuff.

Guess That Movie: LXI: Fled

Guess That Movie 61Congratulations new contestant Niall for correctly guessing that Guess That Movie 60 was from the film Aliens – yep, sorry Antgrad, it’s from the sequel…

Ok – now on to round 61 (that’s not my age Jay btw!), it’s a screenshot of a screenshot of a movie I’ve never heard of before, but has got a “quite famous and popular at the moment” Actor in one of the lead roles. I’ll even through in a “Wheel of Fortune” style clue: The name of the movie is also a word and it has a single vowel within its title (yes, there are consonants in the title as well).

The rules: Just leave a comment with your name/alias, email address (for the prize givings) and the name of the movie you think this screen shot is taken from. If you guess that movie correctly, I’ll award you some points. Points start at 100 per image and decline over time (after the first 12 hours it goes down by 10 points, then down a further 10 points every 24hours after posting) – oh and wrong guesses have a 5 point penalty. But what good are points? Well, get 500 points and you can claim a £5 Amazon gift voucher/certificate for the Amazon store of your choice (£5 will be converted into the appropriate currency at the exchange rates displayed on xe.net at the time of claim) – so you can get free books, movies and music just by playing a simple FREE guessing game!
A: Fled. Correctly guessed by Kymberlie R. McGuire