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I knew Pac Man was old, but I didn't realize I am actually a little bit older. Ouch! That hurts Pac Man.

It's funny after all these years such a simple idea still continues to be popular to this day. Who would have thought. Back then we didn't have all this fancy complex and complicated programming that we have today. I forget exactly how big the programming code is for Pac Man, but not much compared to today's standards. A drop in a bucket really.



Still it was really cool in the day. I know I dropped more than a few quarters in this classic arcade game.

When I was little there was also a Pac Man cartoon that was popular for sometime.

Then of course along came Ms. Pac Man, followed by Jr. Pac Man. Even a Super Pac Man if I remember right.

None of these would probably be very exciting to this generation of gamers, but when it was one of the few games available it was cool and exciting.

Happy 30th Birthday Pac Man!

Let's reduce the worlds stockpile of nuclear weapon's the president says hey. Yippy Skippy! What will this guy come up with next.

Just sign a deal with Russia and we can be one big happy family, or something like that anyway. Exactly what proof does either side have that they are really going to follow through with reducing their nukes? You have my word mister president...we certainly did get rid of them. Yup, me too mister prime minister!

I would have a hard time believing either sides word if that is what it involves. I know I don't believe half of what the government, military, or other tells us citizens. I am more certain they tell us what they want us to know, which is not even close to the truth most of the time. I know, we can't tell you it's a matter of national security. Whatever!

The things I've read in the news lately and the changes that are happening or proposed really make me disappointed and almost sick.

I'll continue watching this topic along with a few others, but I swear if I see one more crazy idea or proposal I am going to un-register to vote! Actually I don't think you can un-register, but I would if I could. We don't seem to have a say in any of these matters anyway so what is the point of voting? I give up!

I recently started messing with Squidoo. It's a rather interesting site and community. They do have some kind of advertising program integrated into the site that I haven't had a chance to explore yet. I have been reading the tips and suggestions from other members, and of course they claim you can make a lot of money. I have heard this one a thousand times before though. I think it will take a bit more exploring and reading to get the hang of it. I will probably mess with it for a bit and see if anything develops. I don't want to spend too much time with it for nothing, but you never know I guess.

If you haven't heard of Squidoo it might me something to check out in your spare time.

Why is that any time a phone number is mentioned or referred to in a movie it is always 555-XXXX? Have you ever wondered about this? Well I do. Apparently here in the U.S. according to Wikipedia there is a specific range reserved for fictional use. I didn't know that. Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me. This 555 (telephone number) post states that 555-0100 through 555-0199 are reserved for basically nothing. Which I guess is why movies use them.



I don't know who would be tempted to call a number based on what they see in a movie, but maybe there are some people out there that would. So the use of 555 phone numbers that do absolutely nothing would make sense. However, after a little google searching I found a page that refers to 555 numbers that were used in movies that fall out of the reserved fictional use range here: (555-List). Exactly how accurate it is who knows.

I have never been tempted to call one of the numbers mentioned in a movie. I just wish one time a movie would use something other than 555-Something.

I recently upgraded to Firefox 3.6. The only thing new that I have noticed is the new Personas feature. Which basically just allows you to put some image near the top of the browser around the address bar / tool bar area. Nothing exciting and some images just don't work that well in terms of being able to see the rest of your menu items and such.

Firefox does claim 3.6 is slightly faster than 3.5.

I mainly use Firefox because of all the free addons available that Internet Explorer and Chrome just can't come close to competing with. After upgrading, there are a few addons that no longer work. Usually the addon maker has to make an update, which usually doens't take too long.

One of the drawbacks to both Firefox 3.5 and more so in 3.6 is the amount of memory it consumes. After starting Firefox 3.6 it consumes 100-150 mb's. Shortly after browsing around other sites it quickly jumps up and continues to build. Earlier today it was up to using 550 mb's of memory. This is just way too much for a simple browser. It could be some of the addons I have installed contribute to this, but still at 550 mb's it's a little more than average.

I really wish Firefox would work on some memory tweaks when they put out a new release, rather than adding something like the Persona image option.