I've enabled Anonymous comments again.  I upgraded the program that was working my comments.  It now has a code verification part at the end that requires you to enter a code before the comment will post based on an image beside it.  This should stop bots for spamming my comments.  

Also, if you haven't registered you no longer have to post comments as "Guest."  Everyone can enter the name they want to when they post, in fact a name is required to post a comment, so registration really isn't required anymore.   

It seems a bot crawled our little website here that other day and was spamming the comments with links for things like "male enlargement" and gambling websites.  So I've had to disable Guest comments to combat the problem.  If you want to post a comment, just register and you'll be able to do so. 

I really wish I was making this up. 

School bans tag, other chase games

ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (AP) -- Tag, you're out!

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.

While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Spokane, Washington, also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, South Carolina, school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.

"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.

Please, save our children from such dangerous games like "tag."  They might end up in the hospital or worse, become social deviants! 

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The server I frequent is running this new map that is really great.  I decided to record a demo tonight so I could post a video online (I'm fiddling around with video editing lately).  It's over 20 mintues long and I need to go back and fix the sound loosing sync with the picture but here it is.  

I'm not the greatest at this game, but I was doing pretty well this round.

A forum post at Penny-Arcade has me revisiting the Tribes series again.  Here are my thoughts.

This is pretty funny.

I always thought Erin was incredibly beautiful.  But she's even prettier without her glasses.  She's got some new fancy Chanel glasses that are really funky and cool.  But without her glasses she's a real stunner! 

Erin's eye surgery went well.  Her recovery time was a little long however.  Since her eyes were so bad to begin with, things remained to be blurry for a while.  Two weeks later and her eyes are doing pretty well.  Before she had a -8 prescription for both eyes, now she's at +0.5 for one eye, and -0.5 for the other.  I don't have any idea what that means but people who wear glasses might.  

Her eyes should continue to heal, and in three months they'll take a look at them again.  If she doesn't have 20/20 vision then they'll do a touch-up job so that she won't need glasses at all anymore.  Erin's been getting her glasses just because her eyes are a bit off.  She doesn't have any trouble reading or seeing anything, it's just that because her eyes aren't quiet there she'll get headaches.  So she's got some glasses for reading in the mean time, but she certainly doesn't need to wear them all the time.  

I took a picture with her glasses in front of the lens to give people some idea of what her eyes were like.  Roll your mouse over the image to see what things look like for her now. Before you do, try and guess what it is you're looking at.

This guy is so funny.  I can't wait to see his Borat movie when it hits theatres in November.  Here are some interviews he's done.

I was just able to figure out how to trick IE into displaying all my tables correctly.  Everything should look nearly the same in IE as it does using Firefox.  Although there are still one or two things I'm just going to bother trying to fix that aren't the same in both browsers. 

I also went through the content database and tried to fix every occurance of a character, such as apostrophe,  displaying as a string of text garbage.  I think I got them all and now that I'm using a nice WYSIWYG editor to write these posts I shouldn't have any new ones appearing anymore.  

The formatting of links was also changed.  I tried a sweeping change of all my content to take out the green and underlined links that I'd grown so fond of using before.  Now they'll just be bold until you mouse over them and they'll turn orange.