Welcome to Astroblahhh.Com.
Last major update: May 11, 2008, at 5:06 PM. I added a new Self-Help section to this site, which contains some links and a not altogether serious (but unfortunately not very humorous) article. Other details here.
May 7th, 2008: Added a new Ideas section to this site, containing one new article, Ideas for Internet Login Security.
Apr. 9th, 2008: Released the MagnaMural: Texture Display & Organizer I wrote in Second Life into the public domain.
Apr. 4th, 2008: Released the Astrosorting Music Organization Database (AMODB), written in PHP/MySQL/JavaScript.
June 17th, 2007: Fixed the link to the documentary America: Freedom to Fascism on the Activism page, and added some comments on it.
June 9th, 2007: Added My comments to BusinessWeek.com in May-June 2007 on The Debate Room topic "Stop Fleecing Poor Americans".
This site features a slowly growing assortment of miscellaneous things on a variety of topics.
Yes, I am still shameless enough to not stop asking random people on the internet (such as you, the person reading this website) to donate to me. I also am going to permit paid advertisements on this site.
Sure, I'm sacrificing my anonymity - since anyone can find out my real name via PayPal. But, that's just too darn bad.
Donations in any amount are welcome, no matter how small, just as long as it's higher than the fees PayPal skims off of any payment to me, 30 cents plus 1.9% to 2.9%.
An actually better method to donate to me is Second Life, as long as their economy doesn't crash, but the exchange rate generally seems to remain pretty stable at $265 per $1 USD. (Which is actually a pity, because the USD itself is going down in value due to inflation, and since the L$ has been remaining at basically the same exchange rate with the USD, that means the L$ is going down in value about as much as the USD.)
Still, anything from tiny micro-donations, up to whatever amount you like, may be sent to me via Second Life. In fact, I absolutely love microdonations. More details are available on the donation page.
I still have various things, originally from my old websites, that I eventually should put up here. However, I finally took those sites down, because the free web hosts I was using had Google AdSense on them, and, for various reasons, I now think Google AdSense sucks. I also have become rather disenchanted with Google itself. Eventually I'll probably put up a web page containing a detailed explanation of the reasons why.
I think Google is becoming too much like a monopoly. I also think Google now doesn't even have the best results - and apparently they ban (perhaps a better word for it is "censor") and penalize sites for what I consider stupid reasons, such as if your site has outgoing links to a site arbitrarily condemned/censored as a "bad neighborhood"; or if some random person you can't possibly control decides to duplicate your content and have it on their own site.
So, for now, temporarily, Yahoo is my preferred search engine, until I find one that definitely doesn't ban any site, but has good results. To my happiness, it turns out that the order of the search results in Yahoo makes far more sense to me than the order in Google. And, Yahoo is easier to type - 5 letters instead of 6... :-)
Other decent alternative search engines seem to be Live.com and Ask.com - both easier to type than Google.com.
Eventually I'll get around to adding the stuff I used to have on my old sites (or most of it, anyhow).