Dan’s Web Spot

Remember the movie JAWS???

I didn't know this, but apparently it has been recast as "JOWLS" with new actors... They are, in order of appearance, Elijah (Cody), Gage (Squints), and Rahim (Cooper)...

Note this is only for family/actor entertainment purposes only! (Notice to the grown-ups: The brown bottle is actually Root Beer and the rifle is a cap gun... haha)

Hope you enjoy it!
-Dan
(P.S. You may need to open the full post to view the video...)

There are some new features on Dan's Web Spot that I hope you like. I have been testing them and I think they're ready for prime time...

• ShoutBox: This is sort of a live chat/message board that all visitors can see. You can find it in the sidebar to the right. There are many options that can be configured, but right now, to reduce spam, I have enabled the Captcha feature. This basically requires you to answer a simple math equation once during your visit in order to be able to enter comments in the ShoutBox.
• Private Chat Room: This is a basic chat room but has the additional feature of retaining the comments (not sure how many right now). This is technically referred to as a "Chatroll" (from the term "blogroll"). Usage of the chat room requires registration with Dan's Web Spot and you must be logged-in to access the tool. Using this Chatroll, registered users can leave messages for other registered users to view and comment on.

Check them out!

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Hello everyone and Happy New Year for 2009!

May this year be the best ever of your lives, and may you achieve any and all of your resolutions, whatever they may be (hopefully positive)!

Here are some things I pray/wish for:

• to see the economy recover
• to pull out of Iraq completely (and successfully)
• to have the unemployment rate drop to an all-time low, and
• in general to see the good ol' USA recover it's position of being a respected super-power in the world once again...

Not to mention:

• world peace
• the end of diseases such as diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's, and
• the death of racial discrimination (thanks partially to Obama being elected as our next president in 19 days)...

Of course, I could keep adding to this list significantly, as I'm sure any of you could... why don't you sign up and post your own thoughts and well-wishes for 2009? Let's see how many wishes and prayers we can collect together! » More...

I was pretty disappointed when the 'Snowball Fight' video that I had created was found to be corrupted on the Jib Jab web site. That was one of my all-time favorites...

It's no substitute, but 'tis the Season once again and here goes for 2008:

Update 16Dec08: Changed to make post/video load faster using the Hana-Flv-Player plugin for WordPress...

You can still Download an MPEG formatted copy of this for the time-being... » More...

I was minding my own business today and looking at some links on my "Web" page when I realized that Stella, Zack and Rocko's Home Page on AOL Homepages had been taken down.

Back in the late 90's/early 2000's, I had AOL for my Internet access (dial-up). On the free space I got with an AOL user name, I had a created a simple page that had a picture of my 3 cats at the time, along with some comments about them. What I learned today when visiting the link, was that as of October 31, 2008, the AOL Homepages service is no longer in operation.

Determined to find some hidden, cached copy of my old (and mind you, not that valuable at all) stuff, I Googled the URL to no avail. There weren't even any cached copies of the page listed. It seems that Google only maintains cached copies of pages that currently exist. Of course, this does make sense, but didn't help me in the least...

After some more Googling I struck gold! I found a little gem that I think everyone should know about:

The Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" » More...