Double Digits! thank you

I noticed on a lot of the blogs I follow they have recently done a "Thanks for following me and supporting me" post because they have hit 100 or 200 followers. They always follow it up by saying something like "If I could thank you all individually I would."

Well I would like to celebrate hitting the double digits (yay 12 followers!) by first saying "Thanks for following me and supporting me" and following that up with "If I could thank you all individually I would." Oh wait a second... I CAN AND I WILL!

A big thanks to these people:

sildude -  Artwork Blog of awesome - He gets first place because he agreed to paint a whale rowing a paddle boat on the ocean. You should follow him.

chasityxo - The Beautiful Life - A blog about being a parent but also sometimes including funny stuff and daily games. 

Cynthia - Life Hack it - A pretty cool and growing collection of life hacks and other cool info.

Katie Collins - Sexlexia - Only just started and has 2 posts but already looks pretty cool and entertaining... surprising lack of sex though :D

Ray - ray-thefail - Funny videos, pictures, and also some gaming information thrown in there for good measure.

The Loon - Stumble Upon Finds! - The Loon uses Stumble Upon a lot and when he comes across cool stuff posts them in the blog. He actually started following me while I was typing this post and I only noticed when I hit the Preview button.

Thanks to the following people also but you did not link your blog in your profile so I have not been able to follow you back :(

RAILS

Dylan Broadbent

deathmetalzebra

deezsl

mehdi.abourabia

sickmansblog

These things I do... Short Films

Since I can't think about anything better to mention at the moment, lets hear about another one of these things I do...

When I am on my lunch break at work I like to watch short films while I eat. In fact I like to watch short films whenever I find I have a little free time but not enough time to watch a full length feature film. My favourite place to find good short films online is on the video streaming site Vimeo and for the last few months I have been spending my lunch breaks working my way through all the videos on the Vancouver Film School (VFS) channel.

You may be more aware of the work of VFS than you think if you have seen the movie District 9 as director Neill Blokamp is a VFS alumni as well as many of the production staff and effects staff that worked on the movie. In fact, over 40 former VFS students were involved in the making of District 9.

The VFS channel on Vimeo consists of hundreds of works done by VFS students and are of the highest quality. If you are interested in short films, mini documentaries, or even things such as sound design or animation I highly recommend checking out the VFS channel on Vimeo by clicking here.

These things I do...

Welcome to another edition of These Things I Do...

This is something I am sure a lot of other people also do, and in fact I am doing it right now. I waste excessive amounts of time on the internet doing pointless stuff and things, but I think that a lot of the time I take it a bit further than most people. I have created more free websites and forums and blogs and even social networks than I can even remember. This always happens while I am at work and really should be working. It normally goes something like this:

'Oh look, they are offering free sub domains, maybe I will just take a couple of minutes and sign up so I can use it later at some point...'
... I then spend the entire rest of the day setting up a new site or forum that no one will ever visit while my work load gets out of control.

What is in a name?

I have nothing against people who use Apple products, but this did make me lol:

But realy, if you do start to consider some of the names web sites and applications use, it realy makes me wonder what these people where thinking when they come up with these names.
Some of the other wierd names that come to mind are:

Twitter
Ning
9gag

Then there are the website domain names that people just do not think about before buying. Some of my favorites are the following:

expertsexchange.com (Experts Exchange)
therapistfinder.com (Therapist Finder)
powergenitalia.com (Power Generators Italia)
molestationnursery.com (Mole Station Native Nursery)