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They couldn’t be more accurate! :)

“You scored as Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones is an archaeologist/adventurer with an unquenchable love for danger and excitement. He travels the globe in search of historical relics. He loves travel, excitement, and a good archaeological discovery. He always brings along his trusty whip and fedora. He’s tough, cool, and dedicated. He relies on both brains and brawn to get him out of trouble and into it.”

Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
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I’m light on original content today…

I keep on telling people how much fun it is to have a weblog and offer my assistance whenever they need it for setting up or anything else. So here are some good posts for beginner and more experienced bloggers. I have quite a bit to take from the advice dispensed here; things that I was aware of for a while but was too lazy to implement such as a picture of myself with an “about” page and some custom style/graphics. I’ll get to it.

“The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging” - I pretty much agree with everything written here (except I wouldn’t go comparing JK Rowlings to Shakespeare.)

If all you post say, “hey look what I found over there (link), I think it’s great and you should look at it…”, then you will eventually lose all your reader because you have nothing original to offer.

“7 Mistakes for your First Week Blogging” - Good advice here for beginners and experienced bloggers. I am just now — after nearly a year of blogging — getting over obsessing over my stats.

“Been blogging 6 months” - Great advice from a pure genius.

While we’re on the topic of lists, here’s a good one:
“The Top 100 Things I’d Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord”

Enjoy.

These are my favorite pen-and-pencil puzzles…

Conceptis puzzles:
I’ve been solving these for a few years now. Been addicted, went through withdrawal and now I got it under control; I only solve one puzzle a week.
There are a few kinds of puzzles that conceptis offers, all of them are culturally unbiased and simple to pick up. My favorite is pic-a-pix because it requires the most thought. Although these puzzles get tedious at times they are very interesting because at the very end an image appears from the blank page. It may take several hours to complete a big one of these.
Conceptis also offers a weekly puzzle to solve and review for a shot at a t-shirt. You can also learn how to solve each type of puzzle online.
Give it a try, but remember, they are highly addictive and great for killing time on flights!

Sudoku:
I’ve just recently started solving those (thanks to Nir Dahan) and they get challenging at times. Culturally unbiased and simple to understand, but may take an hour or two to complete.
They too have a monthly challenge.

I’m a little dry on witty things to write about so I’ll give you the week’s linkage highlights.

StoreWars - For all you StarWars geeks (relax, I used to be one too; but then I grew up,) you might find this funny and it is really well done.

not pr0n - An online game of wits (or, “The hardest riddle available on the internet.”) Try it, you might get addicted (or even spooked, like N.D. :)) I am on level 13 and -2; yes, you can play it backwards too! I’ll let you figure out how. If you need help, just ask; N.D. is ahead of me and far more addicted, so he might chime in.

Ninja’s RealUltimatePower - This one cracked me up! I was crying. Always remember the following or I’ll get “really super pissed”:

1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people

BugMeNot - This clever site will give you a username and password to all those webpages that require free registrations (like the notorious New-York Times.) Also available is a firefox extension that will do it automatically with one click. Great stuff.