There is a spell checking program for bloggers that is free to download. It is called ieSpell for Microsoft Internet Explorer. You are sol if you use AOL, Mozilla (My current browser), Netscape, or Opera.

I have seen this program save people's lives. It puts a new utility under the Tools menu option that spell checks text boxes.

Also along these lines, I have been compiling a list of free utilities for people who use the Internet for online learning and classes. I work at the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning (OTEL), and I have been updating this Internet Tools page as well as downloading all these programs to a CD for distribution to online students and faculty. Check out the Internet Tools page and download any of the free software that you find useful. Highly recommended free and useful software!

Also, are you sick of Microsoft Office? Think you can't live without it because everybody in the free world uses programs like Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint? Maybe you can't afford the $300 dollar price tag the Office is selling at. There is an open source free alternative! That's right! Open Office.org "is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites’. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office. " Meaning, you can open and create spreadsheets and Word documents without having Microsoft's bloatware (software that is a memory and storage hog) on your PC.

I put this on my machine at work rather than dismantling my computer, getting a user licence (which the school has to pay for), and taking it down to Network Services to have MSFT Office installed. Screw the middle man, screw Microsoft, and screw needless bureaucracy! I am free!

The interface does take some adjusting to, I must say.

Farewell!

Maybe dating is medieval. That would explain shows like Blind Date, Dismissed, Who wants to marry a Millionaire?, The Bachelor, etc.

Coincidentally, the first definition of bachelor according to Merriam-Webster is: a young knight who follows the banner of another. date: 14 century.

Now I am offended. I am too chivalrous.

chiv·al·rous: - adjective, 14th century
marked by gracious courtesy and high-minded consideration especially to women

Oh. No, I guess I don't show gracious courtesy to anyone, especially women. I ignore girls. I saw some cuties having a cigarette out back of the building I work in as I was leaving, and I couldn't even say "Hi." I did make eye contact. That is an improvement from the old Matt.

"high-minded consideration especially to women?" My attitudes are not so much 14th century as they are 21st. Although we do have a medieval club at school that looks fun to join. I saw a picture of the club posing all nobly with staves. I would bring a broadsword to those meetings. That would be chivalrous.

Joe--- I think you are the only chivalrous beaver left. Thanks guys but I don't want to marry any of you anyway.

I have a peom.

Rain falls
in my coffee cup
the circle radiates

This is my current favorite most-visited site.

Counter-Propaganda offers hours of alternative radio programs with ideas that you will rarely hear in the corporate media.

Here is a nice palindrome
Droll lunatic, Illinois. I’ve let television illicit a null lord.

One of the ideas floating around is that this sniper is another CIA MK-ULTRA operation. His handler, who was in the white van, sent the tarot cards and notes to the police. When the police read as requested the coded sentence "We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose," Muhammed conveniantly went to sleep in a truck stop, as programmed. This guy is a perfectly crafted patsy, with built-in pretexts of ties to the militia, Islam (he only converted a year ago? Come-on! That is like Lee harvey Oswald passing out Pro-cuban pamphlets in the middle of New Orleans. Creating the cover story.), and a n al-Qaeda training camp.

It is not reactionary once you understand how long these operations have been going on. And frankly, you are not supposed to know. Who here has ever even heard of
Operation Northwoods? "In Operation Northwoods the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for hijacking jet airliners, attacking US military bases, blowing up US ships and wounding civilians in Miami, Florida and Washington, DC using paramilitary sniper teams. Page eight of the formerly Top Secret Pentagon plan stated that “casualty lists in US Newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.”" All part of their plan, mann.

Don't worry about it if reality isn't your thing.

And don't believe everything you read!

I'm a little lost on this one Matt. You're corrolating the arrest of the Jamacian boy and the Musliim man to the Homeland Security Act? This only 15 or so hours after their arrest? I didn't check out the links provided yet. If you could explain briefly the correlation between their arrest and the Homeland Security Act, then I will go on to read the links provided. At this time though It just seams ultra-reactionary.

Finally! I can get that microchip implant I've always wanted!

This sniper case has too many coincidences surrounding it to be what it appears. One step closer to the passing of the Fatherland, er, Homeland Security Bill.

Wake up Beavers! The New World Order is here!

It is important to be aware of the global agenda. But do not let fear overwhelm you.

Propaganda Matrix
TRANCE Formation of America
David Icke

Do not fear. The ninjas have the power to stop the globalists from achieving their goals of the creation of a World Government; a world currency and bank; a world army; the control of public opinion culminating in a microchipped population connected to a central computer; the destruction of any alternatives to their System; and to make huge amounts of money in the process.

Joe---
That is probably absolutely the most funniest thing i've heard all day. What a thought! Thanks for your thoughts of chivalry. 8-)

I have a poor opinion of marriage.

I drove to Bloomington after class at 9:30. I saw Mike's truck, but alas, no Mike. I checked various bars, including Fat Jack's, and ended up watching a ska/reggae/dancehall band called the Wankers.
Actually, that is what they should have been named. They thought they were pretty special.
I drove back home around 1:30.

Springthrill Illinois will be throwing a Peace Rally - Saturday, Oct. 26th, noon, at the State Capital.

All beavers are encouraged to come to show your support, opposition, or neutrality regarding the war of aggression against Iraq.

very funny michael mann. Kevin. thanks for the advice... i see a difference in our situations. you were actually engaged to this girl. I only went on one date with this guy. I have been blatantly mean. I think that it might be starting to work. I didn't get a phone call all day today until 4. (NO i didn't answer it.-- i haven't answered any of them). But seriously guys.. thanks for all of your immediate assistance and advice.. it's great to know i have good friends out there in the world.

Why don't you go ask Alice?

I'm sorry, Monica. I didn't mean to make you feel shitty.

Do I really even love you? Or do I just love your...
BRAIN.

N.E.R.D
Brain, track 2 off their album, In Search Of.....

Do you want the beavers to kick the crap outta this guy? I remember watching Matt Woo's little league games, and wanting to jump into the action and beat the crap out of the pitcher for throwing a little bit too close inside to my brother. That's the last time I've ever wanted to jump some guy, but I'd gladly rattle this guy's skull in front of the "family favoritite's section" if that's what it takes. If I'm not there maybe Chandi can TCB. Holy Shit, you think you got problems, my apartment just caught on fire. Blogg at ya later, I gotta head for the fire escape.

I'm a lesbian... oh shit, wrong blog.

It's all a matter of time the way I see it.
I don't like to give advice because I think it's all bullshit in the end. I've never been a pycho obsessed male and I don't know how this guy will react after you tell him to fuck off five or six times. Dr. Phll might actually be better at this then me, but, I do think your'e in the type of situation where you're simply going to simply have to suffer for a while until this head-fuck get the point across.

If I could give advice, I would say: try not to let this guy ruin everything else in your life going on. If he comes in to your work and says "hi" and asks how you're doing, tell him your'e a lesbian. It's worked for me.

Joe, this has just happened today...... my supervisor has been informed. Mike, thanks for the advice, I truly appreciate it. and as for mr. Komanecky's comment----------> NO! I am not being nice. I am not sending "mixed messages"! Why do you think I would do this. I am NOT ENJOYING THE ATTENTION! It sucks, it makes me feel uncomfortable and just plain icky. that "WOW" was meant to be a negative one. I can't believe you would think that of me. I don't wish anyone ill will, but that is just plain crazy. That is not my "payoff". I would love nothing more than for this to go away. I thought by coming here (to the blog) that I could get some advice from guys who were my friends. Matt, please don't think I get pleasure from some poor lonely guy being psycho over me. I HATE it. I didn't do anything to make it get that far either. Please send me only helpful advice and not advice that leaves me feeling shitty.

Right in the shins baby.

Monica, be blunt. Be rude. You are not helping him or yourself by being nice. I know it may hurt or feel awkward to say no, but if it is how you feel, don't hide it. This is what guys call "mixed messages", and that is what keeps us coming into your work begging for another chance.

But don't kid us or yourself, you are getting something out of this. As Dr. Phil would say, "We don't do things unlesswe get some kind of payoff." Whether it is drugs or manipulating other people.
So I got to ask you, What is your payoff?

I'll tell you. You enjoy the attention. You said yourself, "WOW!! that's never happened to me before." And I know if feels great. I remember when this old gay man asked me out at the Reader's World, I was shocked! And flattered.

how psycho? Well let's see....... he calls me up at the video store to ask me out (he's a customer). I agree to a date (because I feel bad about saying no) After said date, I say I'm not interested and leave him crying. He's already "told everyone in his life about me" he "loves me" and he will "take care of me emotionally and financially forever" because he "has the resources to do so" 6 (ignored) phone calls later he comes to my blasted (that's for you mike) job and begs for a second chance. I must say, I must have looked really good that day or something because that's never happened to me before. HELP

If I was a guy . . . and I was psycho . .. I dunno - have you tried kicking him in the shins?

What do guys hate? Male-haters.

Act like everything he says is the stupidest thing you ever heard. And then act like the only reason he says those things is because he is a stupid male.

okay Blogger friends, I need your help. I need to know how to get a psycho guy off my back. HELP!!

"Now and then admirers of my good works write to me, and try to convert me into believing things that I say. He would have to be an eloquent admirer, who could persuade me into thinking that our present expression is not a least a little fanciful; but just the same I have labored to support it. I labor like workers in a beehive, to support a lot of vagabond notions."(p.641)

"If there has never been, finally, a natural explanation of anything, everything is, naturally enough, the supernatural."(p.655)

"In the oneness of allness, I am, in some degree or aspect, guilty of, or infected with, or suffering from, everything that I attack."(p.828)

"To this day it has not been decided whether I am a humorist or a scientist."

Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort

Viva la irony!