Found this in a sort of roundabout fashion via Fury.com whilst reading up on AJAX.
- I am currently single – Yes
- I am currently suffering from a broken heart – Not that I’m aware of
- I am embarrassed to be seen with my mother or father – Not particularly, so long as they don’t say/do anything embarrassing
- I am good at styling other people’s hair – Can’t say I’ve ever tried, although looking at my own hair I doubt I would do much better with anyone else’s
- I am left handed – Yes, evil little me 🙂
- I am married – Not unless I missed something
- I am obsessed with my LJ – Don’t really use it, and am not obsessed enough with this blog to post something more than once every couple of days on average
- I am online 24/7, even as an away message – I used to be, but now logout instead of going away because it annoys me when people are on all the time (although I’m always on IRC)
- I am procrastinating by filling out this list – Indeed
- I am resentful that I have to grow up – No, don’t see why I would be, in fact I was resentful about not being able to grow up faster 🙂
- I am very shy around the opposite/same sex – Not particularly, although I am utterly useless at chatting people up
- I am, or was, pigeon-toed – ???
- I bite my nails – No
- I can be paranoid at times – Just a little bit 😉
- I carry a weapon with me everywhere I go – No
- I collect picture frames – No
- I consider myself to be a “nerd” – No, but I’m sure some people consider me to be one
- I currently have a crush on someone – How does this question manage to make it onto pretty much every meme? Anyway, I’m sure you know the answer if you read my blog, and if you don’t then you probably don’t care. Either way it’s all academic now.
- I currently regret something that I have done – I tend to regret not having done things rather than the things I’ve actually got round to doing
- I curse frequently – Not really
- I do not believe people are inherently good or evil – I believe some people are inherently evil, or at least perform sufficiently evil acts to the point where they can be considered to be inherently evil
- I don’t hate anyone – Probably not, I seem to get along with most people for some reason
- I enjoy country music – Sometimes
- I enjoy jazz music – Haven’t really listened to enough to form an opinion
- I enjoy smoothies – They look nice but I haven’t really tried enough to say whether I like them or not
- I enjoy talking on the phone – Depends who to, but generally yes I do
- I have a car – Can’t afford one (or rather I can’t afford the ludicrously high insurance rates)
- I have a cell phone – Yes
- I have a hard time paying attention at school – Yes, but that was because I was usually bored to tears
- I have a hidden talent – Not that I know of, but then if it’s hidden… 🙂
- I have a hobby – Yes
- I have a lot to learn – Undoubtably
- I have a pet – No
- I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal – I don’t think I have any secrets, pretty much everything is known to at least two people which generally means it doesn’t classify as a secret anymore
- I have a tendency to fall for the “wrong” girl/guy – I don’t know, depends what you mean by “wrong” really, but I’m not someone who falls for people very often anyway
- I have all my grandparents, none of them have died – Yes
- I have at least one brother and/or sister – Two sisters
- I have avoided work to play with my livejournal – No
- I have been in a real relationship – Depends how you define “real”, but probably not
- I have been in a threesome – Not that I’m aware of…
- I have been rejected by someone – Yes (hasn’t everyone?)
- I have been the “psycho ex” in a past relationship – Don’t know, you’d have to ask the other person
- I have been to an anime convention – No, not an anime fan
- I have been to another country – Yes
- I have been to Europe – France counts as Europe I believe? 🙂
- I have been to Las Vegas – No
- I have been told that I am very smart – Smart as in well-dressed: Yes, fairly often for some reason (apparently I don’t dress like a student because most of my t-shirts have collars and I’m usually wearing shoes as opposed to trainers), doesn’t help that I usually overdress for events. Smart as in intelligent: Some people do, don’t know why though because I’m not exactly a genuis.
- I have been told that I have an unusual sense of humour – Not really
- I have broken a bone – No, fairly sturdy in that respect
- I have Caller I.D. on my phone – Not on my house phone, obviously if you ring my mobile your name will probably appear
- I have changed a nappy – Indeed, and bottle-fed, pushed to sleep in a pram, told bedtime stories… (oh the joys of having two younger sisters)
- I have changed a lot over the past year – Yes, although I don’t know why
- I have cheated on a significant other – Never have, never would
- I have counted down the days until the summer – Yes, there is one more left until I’m free from the nightmare of exams!
- I have dated a close friend’s ex – I don’t think so
- I have dated someone 10 years (or more) older or younger than me – No
- I have done something illegal – Of course not! (
rm -rf /home/paul/downloads/music/) 😉 - I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color – I’ve never changed my hair colour so I imagine not
- I have gone scuba diving – Not full scuba diving, although one of my friends did drag me along to it once and managed to get me as far as snorkels/flippers
- I have had major surgery – No
- I have had my hair cut within the last week – Yes, today in fact
- I have had sex with someone I was not in a relationship with – Not that I recall
- I have had the cops called on me – I hope not
- I have kissed someone I knew I shouldn’t – No
- I have kissed someone of the same sex – Only platonically
- I have made a move on a friend’s significant other in the past – Wouldn’t dream of it
- I have mood swings – Nah, I’m grumpy 24/7 😉
- I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life – I have some ideas, don’t know what will happen to me beyond university though
- I have passed out drunk at least once in the past 6 months – No
- I have rejected someone before – I don’t think so
- I have seen “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy All on the same day – No, tried it once but got bored half way through the first one
- I have seen the television show “The O.C.” – Never heard of it
- I have swam in the ocean – In UK waters? You must be joking!
- I have tried sushi – No, although I’ve eaten fish that I’m sure wasn’t cooked and regretted it the next morning
- I have tried a drug that is illegal – I’ve drank alcohol whilst underage but otherwise no
- I have watched “Sex and the City” – A couple of episodes
- I have watched the television show “Spongebob Squarepants” – I think I was in the room when my sisters were watching it, looked and sounded awful
- I know how to shoot a gun – Depends what type of gun really
- I like being the centre of attention – I don’t strive for it, but I don’t mind it either
- I like eating Ramen noodles – Never heard of them
- I like my handwriting – Not really, it’s deterioated since I started typing most things
- I like Shakespeare – The stories are good, the wording is a bit old fashioned though
- I like the taste of blood – Can’t say I’ve ever drank enough to comment
- I like to cook – Yes, but I rarely get the time
- I like to sing – Yes, but I try to spare you all from my vocal “talents”
- I like to vacuum – I don’t exactly enjoy it, but I will do it if necessary because I hate things being dirty
- I love learning foreign languages – Not sure really, I despised Spanish and French at high school but that’s probaby because I was forced to learn them. I’d certainly like to learn Latin at some point, or perhaps pick up my French again.
- I love Michael Jackson – His music is good, don’t really like him as a person though
- I love my friends – I care for them, certainly
- I love olives – Not really tried them
- I love rain – Yes, so long as I’m not caught in it with a heavy bag and no umberella
- I love sleeping – No, it always seems to get in the way of me working 🙂
- I love to play computer games – I used to, but not any more, although that might be because there are very few decent games around nowadays
- I love to shop – Sure, especially for DVDs and books
- I miss someone right now – Quite a few people
- I own 100 CDs or more – Definitely
- I own a home – No, renting at the moment
- I own and use a library card – Own two, don’t use them much any more though because they either don’t have the books in that I want or I don’t have time to spend ages reading
- I play a musical instrument – No
- I practice a religion that is not considered “mainstream” – No
- I read books for pleasure – Yes
- I shave my legs – No (nor do I wax them before anyone asks :P)
- I sleep a lot during the day – No
- I strongly dislike math – No, although I dislike being forced to do too much of it
- I think Britney Spears is pretty – Not as much as I used to
- I think long strings of html code look cool – No, they should be broken down into smaller, more readable chunks 🙂
- I think prostitution should be legalised – No
- I think that Pizza Hut makes the best pizza – No
- I think the world would be a better place if people just smiled more often – It might be a better place, but I don’t think it would make a huge difference
- I was born in a country other than the USA – Yes
- I watch more TV this year than last year – No
- I watch MTV on a daily basis – No
- I watch soap operas on a regular basis – No
- I wear glasses or contact lenses – No
- I will try anything once – Erm. depends what it is but I’ll give most things a go
- I work at a job that I enjoy – Yes, freelancing is great!
- I would classify myself as “ghetto” – No
- I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free – No, I see no point in changing who I am
- I like orange kool aid – Never tried it
- I can name all 7 of the dwarfs from ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ – Grumpy, Sneezy, Doc, Dopey, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful
- I like being at school – Not particularly
- I always love wearing sweaters – Rarely wear them
- I love water polo – Never played it
- I am currently wearing socks – Yes
- I am being nostalgic right now – A bit
- I hate summative season – ?
- I am tired – Yes, but more in the sense of exhaustion than sleepyness
- I love to paint – Not particularly
And now, to the pub!
Eh? When did England cease to be a part of Europe? Am I missing something… ?
It’s an American-biased quiz (hence the question on ever having left the USA), but they probably don’t know where England is on the world map anyway. 🙂
You seriously need the facility to be able to split blog posts up
Split them up into what? You mean like that incredibly annoying lj-cut feature?
If you only want a summary of the blog posts, the Atom feed supports that.
No, like the incredibly useful LJ-cut feature. And similar on all the major blogging tools except blogger.
I don’t want a summary, but being able to see if someone has commented, or to be able to easily find an old post without having to keep one’s finger on the page down button would be handy…
Just trying to make your blog a bit more user friendly 🙂
“find an old post without having to keep one’s finger on the page down”
Whoa… hold on there. If you’re doing that there has to be something wrong with you. Two solutions:
Now, that requires that you have some vague idea of a word that was in the entry. But that shouldn’t be a problem.
Of course, Drupal (www.drupal.org) has a really great search included.
I’ve no idea how LJ-cuts work, so adding support for them would be a bit difficult (I can see the effect, but I don’t know how they actually get generated/parsed).
Site search is on my todo list, and I’ll probably have some way of listing the last 20 entries just with titles/comment counts or something as well. I’m more likely to implement those than some weird system used by LiveJournal anyway.
Just as well I checked to see how long it was before I read too much :-). Maybe read up on your autobiography when I have a few hours free time.
Basically, anything inside the tags gets put on the individual entry page only, topped by some form of a name attribute.
Of course, although this LJ way of doing it is more flexible as you can have multiple cuts, MT for example has a Body Entry box and an Extended Entry box, allowing you to place either, wherever you like.
I know what the effect is, as I mentioned already. What I don’t know is how they’re implemented or how to go about integrating such a feature. Besides, I doubt I’d ever actually use them—even the extended entry things on blogs annoy me most of the time.
Anyway, site search is on my list of things to get done this weekend.
It’s not exactly a complex thing to implement – I could do it, so you definately could!
Paul, seriously, try installing Drupal in your CompSoc webspace. See how quickly you can get a basic blog setup, with “cuts”, a good search, multiple RSS feeds, comment RSS feeds, accounts for people that want to receive notification of new comments (me!), etc. The thing you’d spend the most time sorting is the importing of your existing entries—but there is a module that supports importing CSV entries, so that won’t be hard.
By the looks of it your permalinks are also exactly the same as mine (bar – instead of _) so they’re no problem either.
Just give it a go 🙂
Drupal is overkill for my blog, I don’t need the vast majority of the features it offers and the ones that I do like I’ve either already implemented or know how to.
Besides, half of the point of writing my blog from scratch is to learn more PHP and SQL, if I just took Drupal and installed it I’d miss out on all that.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawns
Boriiiing, boriiiing computer talk – this’ll amuse you!
Daleks take over New Scotland Yard!
Go on – comment – I dare you 😛
Unfortunately that image is so obviously Photoshopped. 🙂
I wouldn’t mind getting inside a Dalek costume and going exterminating a few protestors though, starting with that Geldof idiot. 😉
I can’t think of anything amusing to say for that Indymedia article though.