I swear to God, movies have gotten lame. We watch a lot of movies, at home, and I have to say that the last 5 out of 10 had the lamest, most stupid endings. I just don't get it. What happened to good movies with good beginnings, good middles, and GOOD ENDS!

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

Oh, thank God I have this place! I have to blog about something that could get read by the person whom it's about. That wouldn't bode well for our friendship. I just have to scream for a second.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Ok, there. That's better.

My best friend, Maureen, whom I blog about often and whom I love like a sister is getting on my very last nerve. I know she is alone right now and that her husband is across the country working a new job, but -GOD- if I have to hear one more time that he's going to make a shit load of money, or that he'll profit 25% of all his $100,000 sales, or how they are going to ski all the time, or do this, that, and the other, I'm going to go off. Does she not get from my "mmm hmmm" that I am sick of hearing about it. I mean, I can only take so much.

I'm happy for them. I am. I love them, and wish them nothing but the best, but there comes a point where talking positively about money becomes braggadocios to those around you.

I get it, Mo. You'll be rich in a few months. I get it. Now, please..for the love of my sanity and patience...STOP!

I am, by no means, a code expert. I don't take care of the code stuff on my blog (http://www.secretagentmama.com/blog). I leave that stuff to Secret Agent Papa (a/k/a Michael). But, I have mastered fixing up my profile on Myspace. That bit right there has helped me figure out how to get stuff going here at the Buzz.

User khenney made it really easy by posting some CSS code for us to use, to customize our profiles. I figured out that I could use a pre-made layout (I go with Myspace oryours.net) by extracting the background portion of the code. I just copy and paste the whole code into my Word Pad, and then I take out the portion that I want to use.

For example, here's khenney's code for the Rocky Mountain theme:
http://www.quartzmtn.com/cre8buzz/profile-themes/rockies/code.txt

This is the portion of the code where I do some cutting and pasting:

body* {
background:#4C8AD3 url(http://www.quartzmtn.com/cre8buzz/profile-themes/rockies/back.jpg) no-repeat fixed center top;
color: #333333 !important;
*}

You have to make sure you replace it just perfectly. If not, it won't work. This is the part you paste in:

body* {
background-color: 4787a1;
background-image:url(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m241/heathercapri/msoy1/rectangles_blue-2.gif);
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: top left;
background-repeat: repeat;
*}

You can get all fancy and start changing up the font colors, but then you have to know the HTML code for that. Google "HTML Color Codes" and you'll find some tutorials. That's how I did it. Just read some tutorials on it, and tried it. Trial and error. Lots of error, mind you.

The code goes first, then you can play around with the layout of your Buzz page.

These are the tags for the sections of your profile:
<cre8Buzz-my-friends />
<cre8Buzz-my-video />
<cre8Buzz-my-audio />
<cre8Buzz-my-blogs />
<cre8Buzz-contact-me />
<cre8Buzz-about-me />
<cre8Buzz-recently-visited-by />
<cre8Buzz-my-photo-gallery />
<cre8Buzz-my-comments />
<cre8Buzz-my-link-gallery />
<cre8Buzz-personal-profile />

You can place them in either the right, left or main portion. In addition to moving these around, you can also include HTML in there. That's where Twitter badges, Music players, and other stuff that you want to use comes in.

This is what my code looks like for my Buzz page (minus the asterisk marks):

<*div id="right_sidebar">

<*cre8Buzz-personal-profile />
<*cre8Buzz-about-me />

<center><div style="width:176px;text-align:center"><embed src="http://twitter.com/flash/twitterbadge.swf" flashvars="color1=3355443&type=user&id=8912892" quality="high" width="176" height="176" name="twitterbadge" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /><br><*a style="font-size: 10px; color: #333333; text-decoration: none" href="http://twitter.com/secretagentmama">follow secretagentmama at http://twitter.com</a></div><br>

<div style="text-align: center; margin-left: auto; visibility:visible; margin-right: auto; width:250px;"><embed style="width:250px; visibility:visible; height:270px;" allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://www.musicplaylist.net/mc/> menu="false" quality="high" width="250" height="270" name="mp3player" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" border="0"/><BR><a href=http://www.musicplaylist.net><img src=http://www.musicplaylist.net/mc/images/create_regular.jpg border=0></a><a href=http://www.musicplaylist.net/standalone/15077832 target=blank><img src=http://www.musicplaylist.net/mc/images/launchregular.jpg border=0></a><*a href=http://www.musicplaylist.net/download/15077832><img src=http://www.musicplaylist.net/mc/images/get_regular.jpg border=0></a> </div></center><br>

<*cre8Buzz-my-friends />

</*div>

<*div id="main">
<*cre8Buzz-my-link-blogs />
<*cre8Buzz-my-link-gallery />
<*cre8Buzz-my-blogs />
<*cre8Buzz-my-comments />

</*div>

<*div id="left_sidebar">
<*cre8Buzz-contact-me />
<*cre8Buzz-my-photo-gallery />
<*cre8Buzz-my-video />
<*cre8Buzz-recently-visited-by />

</*div>

It's daunting when you look at it, but once you start playing around, you start to learn a bit. Code's not that hard, once you know what you are doing. Again, there are tons of great tutorials out there on the net. And, people like me.. I'm willing to help anyone that needs it! Just Buzz Me!

A Must See *Blog Video:
(Windows Media Player Required)

TIMES LIKE THESE
http://www.mmlane.com/video/timeslikethese.wmv
by: Secret Agent Papa

You might have to copy and paste the url into your web browser, but it's worth it! Stay tuned for the surprise at the end! ;)