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 Hey all, am debating on changing out the site cms once again. I feel Joomla is just far too much bloat for what I'm using it for.

My choices boil down to the following:

• Drupal - only because theming it is so easy to do.
• Concrete 5 - Theming is easy & control of menus and stuff is easy.
• WordPress - Exceptionally easy to setup & manage, but really simple.

I will more than likely be switching over to Drupal, but I haven't come to a decision yet. It all depends on which one can do the best with what I'm going to throw at them.

I'm basing my choices off of the following criteria:

• Ease of posting content of any type.
• File management useability
• Easy integration with Gallery 2 or another gallery system

That's about it really. Tuesday, we'll be getting all our stuff from the movers & after we finish unpacking & setting up the house; I'll be putting each of the systems through severe testing. Thoughts or suggestions are welcome. Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

 A short post for you all today as we're still moving in to our new house & unpacking. I figured out this bit of Objective-C code and thought I'd share with the rest of you.

This bit of code does exactly what it says in the name. MakeArray, FromString. Pretty simple, you pass it the ID of an object that has a String Value and it returns the Array created from the string you gave it. I've named the variables in the function for ease of use and readability.

Polyhedral Quiz

You are a d4: You are bright, perceptive, and driven. You would be considered a blessing to mankind, if you didn't insist on using your powers for evil. You are devious, deceitful, doubtful, and downright dangerous. Assassins can learn a lot from you. If your fellow party members knew how rotten you were, they'd go over and join the bad guys. Justified or not, you are meticulous in your ways: A poison for every person, and a dagger for every back. Much of your day is spent scheming or plotting. The rest of your time is spent trying to convince others that you're simply misunderstood.

Take the quiz at dicepool.com

  This is a beta freeware & replication of the freeware available from Chaotic Shiny Productions. Images used in it are from the author of the original application made for windows, along with the text used in the results.

At the moment, the dice string must be as shown or in the form of #d#+# for it to work. So #d#+#d# will not work, hence the beta tag.

This whole thing came about because I wanted to learn the actual programming of Objective-C for the Cocoa environment and figured I'd start off small. 200kb of code and 2+weeks into the dev cycle, I realized that even the smallest of apps can me a massive headache if you declare variable incorrectly.

Anyways, the download is here and I'll update this post whenever I finish correcting the Regular Expressions and figure out the drawing portion of the app so it more closely resembles the original application in look and feel.

By the way, system requirements: OS X 10.5

 For Change-log & updates, hit the 'read more' link on the right.

 When you're old and don't move fast anymore.

George Phillips , an elderly man, from Meridian, Mississippi,was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?"
He said "No," but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me.

Then the police dispatcher said "All patrols are busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available.."

George said, "Okay."

He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again.

"Hello,I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed.. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I just shot and killed them both, the dogs are eating them right now." and he hung up.

Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team,a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the Policemen said to George , "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"

George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"

(True Story) I LOVE IT!
Don't mess with old people.