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Happy holidays everyone. With X-Mas only a few days away things are getting exciting.

Great time of year. Spending time with family, eating the best foods your could possibly eat, getting gifts, and more importantly giving gifts. Love to see the reactions from my son when he opens all his gifts from Santa. This year will be the first in the past several that we are not hosting any Christmas party. Normally we have everyone over here for a dinner, but this year, we are going everywhere else. No less than three different places on Christmas day alone!

Normally the wife and I do not spoil our son with too many gifts (the grandparents do enough of that) but this year, for reasons unknown to me, we went a little overboard. Not with toys, but just stuff in general. So I am looking forward to the festivities.

This year, we get to record everything on our new MiniDV camera. I always wanted to have a video camera to record family functions and such, but have only been able to do it with our HP Digital Camera. Takes great still shots, but horribly poor video. That’s changed now, and I cannot wait to film everything.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

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Creative Compulsions just launched version 4 of it’s website. With the launch of the new site, a new beginning has arisen. Creative Compulsions is now accepting new clients and is now offering more web design services to meet the needs of a larger variety of clients.

A small Web Design and Graphic Design company with big ideas! located in Winnipeg Manitoba, and catering to a global audience. My specialty is in developing creative, eye catching designs, that not only look good, they work good. They will help get you the results your looking for. Impact! A brand identity that sticks.

Creative Compulsions can work with everyone from:

• The small business owner looking to expand their business model
• The up and coming musician needing a creative identity to compliment their creative style
• The mainstream high end corporate guru looking to add some creative flair to their projects
• The affiliate promoter looking to break the mold with a new style
• And most important of all, I can work with YOU!*

Creative Compulsions has a wide variety of services to offer, with a large selection of web design services, including:

XSitePro Custom Site Design. - No templates here. Full custom site design built to look creative, professional and most importantly UNIQUE. Send me your idea and I can make it happen. Send me your content, and I will format it for you so it will look great. I will publish the file for you and send you a complete XSE file for you to use.

XSitePro Template Design. - Just need a template so you can add the content on your own? No problem. I can do that for you. Just like the custom design it will be uniquely yours, and built to suit. Complete template sent to you, including original graphic files, ready and waiting for you to add in your content.

Blog Templates. - Need a blog added to your site, that actually blends in? I can build custom WordPress or MovableType templates that will match your existing site. Or build a whole new site using WordPress or MovableType.

Custom Website Design. - Creative Compulsions was built based on custom website design. Designing creative and affordable web sites, that utilize unique graphics and styles with eye catching colour and current programming solutions for your web development needs. I will always offer you the most affordable and exceptional site for your online presence that is designed specifically to your business, the way you want. PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, CGI, PERL, whatever format you need. The site can be a traditional site, Web 2.0 w/Ajax, complete CSS tableless design or whatever mixture you need to get it just right. Let me help you.

E-Commerce. - Do you have an entire line of products you want to sell, and want it automated? You need an E-commerce solution. I can create a custom design E-Commerce site for you based on the popular ZenCart platform. Designed to be easy to main, you will love the way it works for you. AND you will love the way it was designed for you. Get your store noticed.

Maintenance. - Tired of struggling to maintain your sites? Let me do it for you. I can do monthly maintenance of 1 or 100 sites. You tell me what you need done, and I will get it done. Just need a few things done to get your site just right, let me know and I can hook you up. Or if you just need some minor assistance, with formatting or script installation, I can do that to. Monthly rates, hourly rates, per task rates, whatever suits your needs best.

Want to see what I can do?
You can see my large and ever expanding portfolio online right http://www.creativecompulsions.com/web_samples.php

Like what you see? Ready to get creative?
Submit your Request For Quote.
I will respond promptly.

Regards,
Myles O’Reilly

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Creative Compulsions
http://www.creativecompulsions.com

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I said I would not fix it, but I am annoyed by things not working as they should.

As I said before, I changed no settings in the MT4 back end. Everything all of a sudden stopped working. This morning I confirmed this by going through the system activity log. It logs everything being done in this blog. I mean everything. Every comment, trackback, search, post, settings change. Everything. I went through 385 entries, and not one was there any setting changed.

So, now that I know I did not break it by tweaking a setting, I decided to mess with the settings. Can’t get any worse can it?

Nope, I fixed it. I changed it from dynamic archives to static archives (which is what it should have been). Republished and all is normal now. Individual post pages work. Monthly archives work. Comments work. All good.

Now that it is fixed, I do not know if I will switch to WordPress or not. Simply because if I completely redo the blog, I will lose ranking in the SERPs. Plus need to do a lot more work to rebuild. But I still might switch. I want my blog to merge seamlessly with the new site design, so I will need to “investigate” the depth of customization I can do with MT4.x.

Will see in due time.

EDIT: Craptastic system is broken again. Back to the very first problem I had with MT3.x. Comments just don’t work. Choice is made, I will upgrade to WordPress, and suffer and SEO loss that might incur.

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I am so doing this when I get home.

Wicked cool trick.

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How well do you know gadget news online?

The Captain of Internet Randomness The internet is a vast sea of weirdness, and you are just the captain to navigate it. With a parrot on your shoulder and a compass that always points to Google – you sail through the waves of random, useless knowledge, gathering only the choicest tidbits of weirdness to feast upon with your crew of LOLcats and robots. Today’s Harvest of Hotlinks: Q: Which can you use to charge an iPod? Bikini or sunglasses? A: Bikini. No really. Click here. Q: A man’s wife proposed a trade for WHAT? A: His manhood for an iPhone. Click here to read all about it. Q: Someone has made lollypop in the shape of… A: iPods. Mmm-mmm tastes like RAM. Take a lick. Q: Who needs metal and plastic for MP3 players when you can use… A: Wood. It works great if you don’t mind the splinters. See it here. Q: Which member of your family looks cuter as an iPod? A: Baby of course. Dogs look better as cell phones. Q: What fashion statement can control your MP3 player? A: Lederhosen – imbedded are MP3 controls and an affinity for schnitzel. Q: What electronics survives a good baking? A: Laptop – I’ve always loved my PCs crispy on the outside, sweet on the inside. Q: Someone threw what 95 meters? A: Cell phone. They’re apparently tougher to throw than potatoes, though. Q: To make a delicious breakfast all you need is a… A: Xbox. I’d like my eggs with a side of Halo, please. Q: You can now vent all your rage on a… A: MacBook Pro. Motion detectors now give you permission to smack your laptop. Finally! See more fantastic, fun, ridiculous links in Hotlinks and find links for your own electronics by signing up and adding items! Take your own quiz at MyThings.com

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