If you don’t like the way wind turbines look, then don’t look at them. You can go and live in an electricity-less cave somewhere. Do you like the way coal plants look? Didn’t think so…

And besides, couldn’t you just fit cages to the windmills, in a similar manner to household fans, to prevent the birds from running into the blades?

So if you want to save the birds, stop driving your car and get rid of your windows (and buy a Mac).

Lately, I’ve been enjoying watching the A-Team.

Great theme music… :D

I had finished the first season about a week ago, but today I noticed Hulu finally decided to add the second season in! Upon noticing that, I checked The Pretender. There’s a second season of that up now, too. Cool.

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I bet you never saw that.

Before you upload anything you’ve created to a social networking/video/blogging site, make sure you read the ToS. You want to know what you’re agreeing to before you upload your work.

Have you uploaded music you wrote to MySpace? Guess what, they can use it for whatever you want. Because you agreed to it.

If you’re not okay with the possibility of Facebook or MySpace using your pcitures, movies, musi, etc, don’t upload it. While they may not actually make use of it, they can if they want.

I remember The Pretender from when it was still on, but not many details as I was fairly young.

I’ve been going to a monthly teen writing workshop/class/thing at the local library, taught by one of the librarians and a New York Times bestselling author (I’m not going to give any names, or anything). Both of them liked the story (which is still in progress), and thought my writing was advanced for my age (I’m a month away from being 16).  So I’m excited about that (as well as being in the same room as a published author…)

I’d really like to get the story published (I’ve been doing research on magazines that print fantasy short stories), and I’m enjoying the class-thing.  I’ve been trying to get something published for a couple years now.

Again, cool.

“SELECT only what you need. Even though databases fetch data blindingly fast, you should still try to reduce the load on the database by only selecting that data which you need to use. If you need to count the number of rows in a table don’t SELECT * FROM, because all the data in all the rows will be pulled, wasting memory. Likewise, if you only need the post_id and the post_author in your plugin, then just SELECT those specific fields, to minimize database load. Remember: hundreds of other processes may be hitting the database at the same time. The database and server each have only so many resources to spread around amongst all those processes. Learning how to minimize your plugin’s hit against the database will ensure that your plugin isn’t the one that is blamed for abuse of resources.”

Source: WordPress Codex