This is one interesting bullshit website.

http://www.rythospital.com/

My year had a lot of ups and downs. I think I can contribute all of this to my job at Stream-Flo. Well technically I got this job in 2005 (Dec.12) but I really started working at it in 2006 (Jan 3). This job signaled the beginning of my adult life and the end of my carefree university student days.

Because of this job I got my first car, subsquently I found out the price of insurance for under 25 year old drivers. Still this car gave me freedom I could never imagine. I could leave and go as I pleased, spirturally this car was my faithful warhorse.

This in a way gave me more confidence. I was no longer a young foolish university student, I was now a young foolish engineer. The only key difference I could see was I had money and a car.

I suppose money, a car and confidence eventually makes you do things you would never think you would do. I think you all know what I'm talking about. I took a chance with her even though I knew she was out of my leauge. This was pretty uncharacteristic of me, I didn't like the feeling of uncertainty, but as some people will tell you the pain of rejection is much less then pain of wondering what could of been. So I took a chance and I'm happy for the memeories that I got and that can never be taken away. I still think of her sometimes but she's starting to fade. I know you'll have other loves in life but she will always be my first.

And so the year kept moving on and I started to get the trappings of a young adult: buisness cards, corporate name tag, underling respect. I was still confused at it all. Had I've become this young adult overnight? Were all my carefree days over?

Well at the end of this year many more things have happened that I haven't mentioned and I still am confused at what the rest of my life will hold. I suppose we never know what lies ahead I'm just glad I have good friends and family to go with me on my journey.

Man, I've seen the first Fantastic Four movie and it was pretty bad, but I'm still more into watching this movie than the new Spiderman...

FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF SILVER SURFER TRAILER

SPOILER ALERT pretty obvious that after you watch this they'll be renaming the next group the Terrific Three

i'm alive.

the smell dissipated, but the gas company doesn't know what it was... apparently people smelled it over by the sobeys... we called 911, and the fire trucks (like 7 of them) hung our on our street for over an hour... and then they fanned out to see if they could find the source of the smell... no dice apparently...

I guess I'll start things off, as it was my idea.

One of the great things this year has seen for me is the amazing amount I've learned about web programming. Even what I just did over the past few days would have been impossible for me a year ago. Between this site, little projects with Beck, the websites we've built for Clever Name, and the work I did for Streetprint, I like my knowledge base has grown to dwarf what I thought I knew even just last year.

At the same time, I've found out a lot about my own ability to manage time, and to motivate myself to getting stuff done. (For example, forcing myself to meet a deadline by making public that I'm working on something... brilliant.)

A lot has happened over the last year, and developing as a developer, as it were, probably isn't the biggest thing, but it's definitely one of the most dramatic changes I can point to over the course of a year.

Ok, folks, my project, as it were, is ready to go. I've copied over the files, and, hopefully, I haven't broken anything.

So the first part of it is best explained by earlier-in-the-afternoon Paras, who was a lot more coherent. So just go here. If you want to write one, there's a little checkbox in the post form that you tick off to indicate your intentions.

The second part is a comment system. Right now, it's not on all posts, just the "best-of" ones. But, assuming it passes this initial bug-checking phase, I'll make it so that you can choose to make your posts commentable. I don't really know how it'll affect conversation, but it's a tool that may provide an new dynamic. It is the most complicated part of this upgrade, and, as such, may run into the most bugs. I had some inexplicable 'crashing-IE' problems, so, please, let me know if this happens to you.

As you may find out, you can't comment without logging in. I don't really have a single strong reason for it, just that it seems like a good way to keep it clean. As I say in my log-in-to-comment error message, I'm open to being convinced to not require the login.

So that's all I've got cooking now. Most major changes to the board in the next few months will be me cleaning up code and making it easier to add features and fix bugs without pulling out much hair.

As always, yell at me about bugs.

Agreed, being "immersed" in natural gas sounds very bad.

Posting about the smell of natural gas and then no longer posting is unnerving...

so, um, benders, smell anything funny outside?

we're immersed in natural gas over here...