Anyway, I feel like I'm saying goodbye when I really just moved. Sheesh. Anyway visit http://www.ukmelia.com/lifeonline from now on to read new stuff.

Speaking of blogs, this one is approaching its one-year anniversary! I'm shocked, really. I've never managed to keep any sort of journal for very long because I have a short attention span and I get bored easily. But I think having this online has helped me keep up with it, as well as knowing there are actually people who read it from time to time. Go figure. Anyway, it's been a lot of fun and I look forward to more. I have to say though that I will probably make a move from Blogger to Greymatter for the journaling software, simply because Blogger can be so tempermental when it comes to publishing. I don't know how many times I've written volumes, only to lose it all when I hit the Post & Publish button. Highly annoying that is. So I've learned to highlight and copy everything before clicking P&P, just in case.

In regards to Jesica, the hispanic girl who had the wrong organs transplanted:
1. Some deserving AMERICAN family will not receive those transplants or any other organs.
2. They entered the country ILLEGALLY.

Just get out of my country.

I understand why you paid a smuggler to get you and your ailing daughter medical care, but you have now proven how selfish and ungrateful you are by refusing to give back what 2 AMERICAN kids could have received.To give these organs back would be the least that you could do. Next time, just take your daughter to the "Pancho Villa Medical Center" in Mexico City.

This one is in response to a member, who is hispanic, and who does post argument-proving comments and could arguably be just as bigoted as the caucasion counterparts, but this kind of response, I think, is just pathetic:

Since when do your people vote? You have to be a citizen to vote. Your illegals can't help your cause, except maybe the 56 runts you wrote about. That was 56 wasn't it? Your females spit those suckers out like gerbils or something? Maybe you meant 5 or 6. I shouldn't be surprised, your typing skills couldn't be any better than your spelling skills, now could it? You and your standard six years of education. No wonder you are such idiots. That's why your homeland is a toilet, that is why your people will never make anything of themselves, that's why you will lose your cause to take the U.S.

Maybe we'll put you and yours in red jackets and have you march in a straight line. We'll wear our blue jackets again, and pick you off like ducks on water. We did it before, just ask the British.

That's just a sample of it. it gets much worse, believe me. I may be (according to their favourite labels) a 'bleeding heart, PC Libbie' or whatever but it just pisses me off that no real discussion can ever happen there on real issues without the thread turning into a useless slagging match. If they aren't attacking a member's race, they are attacking the member's looks/personality (without knowing who they really are). It's just sad.

"drinking nude" via Google. (Everyone should do it!)
"slew popups porn" via Google. (Yeah! Slew porn popups!!!)
"why do i have to reboot every two days" again, Google. (Um because you're computer is screwed?)
"walmart rant crowded" via Yahoo (Someone must have been looking for other wallyworld haters :)
"nude sunbathing Bournemouth" via MSN. (Well who wouldn't sunbathe nude in Bournemouth?)
"peter jackson's home address" via Google. (If I knew that one do you think I'd be sitting here writing a blog?)

Hmmm. I've just been told I'm a game addiction freak on TCZ and I'm not allowed to help test a new one because I'd never leave the place. *phhhhbts* to them. Geez, you win TCZ Bingo 9 times and they think you're an addict. :D hehehe. I see how they are.

I bought my daughter's birthday present yesterday. Her birthday's not until July and I have no idea how I'm going to keep it a secret that long but I'll just have to manage. I figured that since the store was having such a good sale on mountain bikes, and I have some extra cash right now, I'd just get her one and hide it at the grandparent's until her big 1-2. She really needs a new bike anyway. Her old one is a kids bike that has girly streamers on the handlebars and her poor knees whack against them all the time. She's going to be an 'official pre-teen' in July, and has to look the part :) *sigh* They grow so fast.

What else have I been up to... nothing much really, just putting in some time on the Picture Show. I decided that as much as I loved using Greymatter for it, it just wasn't feasible if the site was going to grow and allow multiple users to post stuff. It's a great blog tool, but it's not so great at organizing sections. So I installed Postnuke and now have my own portal site that turned out quite well :) And I just want to say a huge gigantic THANK YOU to the people behind this wonderful software and for keeping it free. So to the peeps at Postnuke and Phpbb (Excellent forum software), thanks very much :)

In other news, I heard the Placebo public forums were back. Whoopdeedoo. A lot of my friends are glad to have it back and for them, I'm happy and hope they have as great a time as I did (up to a point) there. Personally, I've moved on to bigger and better things so to those of you lurking about here hoping to see me "whining" about being banned from the forums - it ain't gonna happen. Get over it already and get on with your lives ;)

Anyway, so I've had to find other things to do. However, nasty weather and zero money equals not a whole lot of things to choose from. Plus I'm still moody and when I'm like that I'm likely to just watch movies until I fall asleep which is basically what I've done. The kidlet went out to play in the snow though - she seems to enjoy trying to make an igloo :) It's not going very well though. Right now it looks more like a miniature of Helms Deep. When she's not in the snow, she's on the phone with her friends. I swear she's turning into a teenager far sooner than she's supposed to. She's only 11, but she's on the phone all the time, she sleeps in until noon on weekends, she takes hours in the bath... It's too soon I tell you! She does still watch Rugrats though, so I won't freak out just yet :)

Not a whole lot going on beyond that. I think I have a case of the winter blahs and pretty much everything irritates the hell out of me. I'm moody and grumpy most of the time, bordering on really sad if I let myself stop to think about things for too long. So I keep myself distracted with movies, web stuff, forums, reading etc etc. Anything to keep my brain occupied on mundane things.

I'm fascinated looking at web stats. There is someone who comes here from St. Andrews Uni in the UK quite often and I'm curious as to who it is and how they found the place. Prince Willliam goes there you know. Hehehe.

So yeah I've been messing with hacks, fixing pages, rearranging my bedroom, posting in forums, doing research, sifting through jumbled notes from department directors who don't understand the words 'electronic format'. Busy busy. I did go and see that Two Towers one last time before it leaves the theatre. We watched the extended version of Fellowship, then went straight to the cinema which was kind of cool. I'm going to do that again when Return of the King comes out. Yes, I am sad. I don't care, I'm happy.

My next project is to tackle Access. Rick just mailed me a couple of manuals for it that should help me out. I wanted to learn it so I could find an easier way to maintain my movie collection. I'm not a very technical person so I've been doing it the hard way and just using tables for it, but when I buy a new movieit's a big pain in the ass to add it alphabetically. Wish me luck - learning from books is difficult for me. I wish I had Rick's ability to absorb technical manuals but I don't.

I bought a domain today, wheeeeee. I'm going to transfer the film project I've been working on to it now that I can expand it. It's going to be 'thepictureshow.org' :) So my email will be melia@thepictureshow.org. Hehehe, I love it. While I waited for the domain to filter out into the Net, I redid my daughter's site. It was very little girly before, now it's more of a pre-teen look. The kid likes it loads so I'm pleased. Sweetiepete.com if you're curious. And please sign her guestbook - it makes her happy :)

Suzanne: "Umm... Didn't YOU say that you were shy in real life?"

Cruella: "Yes, but that's different Suzanne!!! I'm sorry but there's no way that woman could be SHY!!!"

*waves to Creepella* Nice to know you're still skulking about and reporting back to your cronies ;)

Anyway, been working some more on Down in Front. I linked my entire movie collection to the Internet Movie Database, took ages but it's done now. I'm really pleased with the way that site's turning out. No doubt my little fans will be infesting that site aswell but what can you do? You'd think women at least a decade older than me would be a little more mature but I guess not. Sad comment on society today really. These women have never met me, indeed one of them I think I only talked to once. They hate by association I guess. I haven't given any of them a single thought in months, until my referrer stats gave away their hidey-hole for spewing abuse.

One of them even says: "I donīt understand that woman. If she doesnīt want any troublemakers on her board, she should just make the board private". So, in other words, if I want to have a place where my friends and I can insult people behind their backs, I should set my board private. *rolleyes* Nevermind that I left everything open to all because my board is *not* strictly for displaced Silver Rocket members but open to anyone willing to come for general discussion. I removed threads that got a bit out of hand regarding the closure of SR because I didn't want a tense atmosphere.

Apparently I didn't delete them fast enough though and I began having a flood of idiots coming there to stir up old arguments and fights. So I removed them aswell. Then I find the crap posted by Cruella and her ilk and it just boggles my mind that these people are *still* carrying on about everything. And being so childish about it to boot. Grow up Cruella/Suzanne et. al. You're old enough (by far) to know better.

Found out tonight that I'm being slagged off by that same old contingent of people from the Placebo forums. I can't believe that after all this time they still enjoy being so insulting towards someone they've never even met (and some of them I've never even spoken to online! It's insane!). But that's the risk you take when you interact with people behind a monitor rather than face to face. I think it empowers certain types of people to behave in ways they'd never dream of irl because they know we'll never meet in person. Me, I can't do that. Who I am online is pretty much who I am irl. I was even told that by my friend I talk to, but haven't ever met. I was talking about how I'm pretty shy irl (who on the net isn't, really?) and he told me that it comes across online. Sort ofshocked me, that did. All this time I felt sort of bold. But I do know that it's not in my nature to go around insulting people I don't even know and I suppose that's why it boggles my mind when it happens to me.