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No, I'm not looking for a way to off myself or planning a killing spree..
Disturbed is releasing a new album, Asylum, in August and this is their new single:

Ok, so the previous blog post was pretty.. boring. We were at least two to agree on that. But.. Some things just have to be written and that was one of those. Not that I had to make it public, but.. meh.

It's been a while since I threw in a "Word of the day" - probably shouldn't even call it that, when it's more like "Word of the 'whenever-I-sporadically-feel-like-it'" - so I thought it was about time I gave you another one.

This time, the word is Oxymoron. I'm not going to explain what an oxymoron is, the link to Wikipedia and this one to Wiktionary can do that for you, but I will give some examples:

silent scream
pretty ugly
upside down
cold hotdog
a little pregnant
honest liar
freezer burn

Yepp, I'm a sucker for abbreviations.. If I was to spell the title out properly, in case you're stuck in a pre-"extensive emoticon use" era, it would say "Internet Explorer is failing, Firefox For The Win" .. but it would actually mean something more in the lines of:

"Explorer SUCKS and keeps messing with all the changes I do to my blog,

just to make things more complicated than necessary.

Mozilla Firefox is a lot smarter and a hell of a lot more user friendly,

so I'm going back to using it and it alone."

My point - exactly..

In other words: This blog will most likely look a little strange if you're browsing with Internet Explorer. And other browsers as well, for that matter. Maybe not so much right now, but it'll probably "get worse" in the future.. I'm not even going to bother checking the compatibility from now on.

I did however test my blog in different browsers @ BrowserShots, a free open-source online service that "makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers .. on different Operating Systems". It might take a while, if you want to test your site thoroughly, but it's quite interesting. Some of the results look really funny.. and it made my stats go sky high, compared to any other day - I think I need to do this more often..

Anyhoo, here are some of the results (browser/OS) for this blog, as far as I could tell from the screenshots:
WIN - Chrome 5.0.375.99/Win XP ; SeaMonkey 1.1.16/FreeBSD 7.1 ; Navigator 9.0.0.6/Win XP ; Safari 3.2.3/Mac OS X10.5 (Leopard) ; Opera 10.0/Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) ; Opera 8.54/Win XP
OK - Camino 2.0.3/Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
FAIL - MSIE (Explorer) 6.0 and 7.0/Win XP ; Avant 11.7/Win XP ; Iceape 3.6.3/Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) ; Netscape 8.1.3/Win XP ; Firefox 3.6/Win XP (which is weird, 'cause it worked just fine for me)

 

The screenshot I got for MSIE 8.0/Win XP wasn't good enough to show me anything of value

- but I don't need it to tell you, it looks like bleh! Same goes for IE8.0/Win 7..

And, while on the subject of compatibility, I might as well point out that the blog is not optimized for a specific screen resolution. I alter between a 10.1" (resolution 1024 x 600) netbook and a 17" (resolution 1680x1050) laptop when I blog, but I wouldn't say it's optimized for either of them - definitely not the smaller one - so I'll just go with: the bigger the better! When it comes to screens, size does matter..

Yes, pun is intended..

Every time, which isn't very often, I hear the word scoliosis, it always has me thinking of Achmed the Dead Terrorist - which, in turn, has me LMFAO.

"Well, I went the doctor. ... The idiot goes 'Eyy, let's take an X-ray.' I said 'You idiot! How about a fricking Polaroid?!"
"Help! I'm twisted and I can't get up!"

However, scoliosis in itself isn't really that much of a laughing matter - it's a medical condition in which a person's spine is curved from side to side. [..though you can't blame Jeff Dunham for using it in his Achmed-sketches; after all, Achmed is a skeleton..] 
And hence, it is also part of what makes this guy amazing:

Brain Gaynor - So You Think You Can Dance, Season 7 audition

Interestingly, when the show aired on TV in my country, the song playing during the dance was an instrumental song. And it wasn't even the instrumental version of Fireflies, which is obviously -watching this video- the song he is really dancing to.. Why the change?

Here are some more YouTube videos featuring Brian:
So You Think You Can Dance, Season 3 audition awesomeness
So You Think You Can Dance, Season 3 Finale wonderfully entertaining
Remote Kontrol, SYTYCD Season 7 guest appearance amazeastound-alert

..who's afraid of a big twitter twat?

I've just added my twitter feed to the blog, so I can quit nagging you about visiting my twitter page.. Nah, just kidding - I did it for the fun of it and because I tweet a lot more than I blog. This way, if you've come here and I've been evil enough not to blog in a while, you can still see what I'm up to without having to leave this page.

 

This whole "Follow Me"-thing always has me singing the Uncle Cracker song, a song I don't particularly like. Hence, here's another song with that very title, by Swedish band Pain featuring Anette Olzon (of Finnish band Nightwish):