It's Time to Carve the Pumpkin!

Okay so it's time for Halloween and it's time to carve the virtual pumpkin! It's pretty easy to do, just make sure when you are cutting a shape you end where you started. The one on the right is the one I made and I liked it until I had to shrink it (then the misshapen eye just got too small).

So saddle up the kids and let them each pick out their own virtual pumpkin!

Melissa Has Been Blogging Away (go say hello!)

So a few weeks ago I mentioned we were trying to get a domain name for Melissa. Well we finally settled on YourMelissa.com as the address. Once we got her set up on-line she then immediately titled the site “A Musing Melissa”! Where the hell was that idea when we were picking out a name?!?

So she's been talking about life, her kids, being single and figuring out who she is as her kids become adults and she gets used to handling life on her own. She's been posting and I keep forgetting to send some traffic her way. So go on over to A Musing Melissa and say hello. I'm sure she'd love to get some comments and find some other blogs to read.

I think I've got her all set up to handle gravatars so if you've got one she'll think that's especially cool to see your icons, which then might motivate her to post comments on other sites (I think she's just been lurking so far) she still thinks of this as a “parallel universe”.

300 Million People (that's 300,000,000) in the United States

So this Tuesday the U.S. Population is supposed to hit 300 Million people. I was looking for some kind of cool counter to put on my page (even just a graphic that changes with each page load). Not having any luck, but I know I've seen one before. Here's the current numbers, looks like only 10,500 to go...

FYI, if we round the world's population to Six Billion (6,000,000,000) that means we're only 1/20th of the world's population. That's not very much considering how big we think of ourselves in a global way.

Remember a few years back I talked about your ecological footprint and how much of the world's resources you use. I thought I'd bring it up with the 1/20th number in mind and let you take the ecological footprint survey again.

I found a crappy JavaScript/CSS one but it just looked like it'd eventually become problematic sticking it in the post. Can anyone help me find one? I can find pages with the info (like this) but I wanted to embed it in my page.