Link, link, link my site, gently down the... err... Internet. Yeah.

It has come to my attention that some of you might actually wish to link to my homepage. Well I think you're nuts, but I'd love the publicity. It'd be nice to think that someone got to my homepage via some method other than typing "free titties" into Google (Although that still is WAY cool!). Well I have accommodated for such kindly individuals by providing this handy animated link button. Link on.

Hey, folks. If I ever become rich and famous, remind me never to build and/or fly my own light aircraft. It didn't do John Denver much good, and now it's claimed the life of good old Shirl.

49-year-old Shirley "Tune in next week when I make a coffee table out of a couple of egg cartons" Strachan, ex-frontman for 70's supergroup Skyhooks, and generally all-round grouse aussie shearer, was killed yesterday when his Bell 47 helicopter crashed in to Mt Archer on the Sunshine Coast on what was believed to be his first solo flight.

Sad news.

"... the top of my head goes way past where it should."

Thanks to Braden for captioning this photo from USA Today.

I installed the latest incarnation of Netscape's web browser yesterday afternoon, and I've got to be quite honest with you here and tell you that it actually pretty good.

Netscape lost me around the release of version Nutscrape 4. It's bloated size (17MB up form 3.5MB for Netscape 3 Gold) combined with its total ignorance of the HTML standard left a sour taste in my mouth. There was great hope however for the release of Netscape 6. Unfortunately it turned out to be the biggest embarrassment Netscape has ever suffered. Well, I'm here to tell you that the Big N has heard the cry of the people and thus redeemed themselves with this latest update. Here's a quick breakdown:

• File Size: The average download is about 20MB, pretty small compared to IE's latest release.
  
• Combatibility: Web pages seem to be displaying reletively well. No more of this botched up tisplaying of tables and background images. It's new Gekko engine really seems to be doing the trick.
  
• Speed: Compared to Netscape 6.0's startup time, Netscape 6.1 starts up from a cold boot at around 10 seconds. It may seem a while, but once it's loaded, it's every bit as zippy as IE. Impressive seeing as IE is embedded into the very heart of windows.
  
• Features: Its skinable (the default skin is very nice), the AutoComplete is non-intrusive and FAST (quicker than IE's), Netscape Composer is still one of the best free webpage editors around, AIM and Google is nicely integrated into the side-bar, and a whole bunch of other surprises.
  

Hi... You might remember me. MadDog? I'm the guy that runs this here website. Yeah, well sorry for the lack of updates recently. I've recently aquired a new workstation PC for myself here at work. A lovely machine: Dual 1Ghz Pentium 3 CPUs, 60 Gig of ATA100 HD, half a Gig of RAM, 3 Voodoo3s outputting to 3 17-inch monitors... Awww yeah... I'm feelin' the breeze...

However, this has meant that everything has had to be reinstalled from scratch, so that would explain the downtimes to Planet MadDog recently. The main pain in the side to fix was the News updating script. I finally (2 minutes ago) figured out that it was having problems with the fact that I've moved it onto a new drive. I think it's about time I upgraded to a new one. Fixed now though. Phew...

Well, what's new for me? Well most of the wedding plans have been organised. Apparently, all thats left to start on is the flowers and those little booklet thingies you get at the church. The suits have been chosen, and us guys have the fittings on the 20th of October (jot that down in your diarys, guys). The honeymoon has been chosen. At the moment we're looking at a 10-day tour of England, including 3 days in London, then 1 week driving around doing the tea-towel tour of Ireland before spending a week with rellies. We then leave for Bangkok where we'll spend New Years Eve. Then home :(. All we're waiting for before we book it in is confirmation that we can stay with my rellies over in Ireland over the week of Christmas. My cousin, Julie, is getting married at the end of November (I think) so I'll have to see what's happning first before I book anything.

Me, accepting my award from Mr. Don McPherson

Oh yeah, and Saturday was the 2001 McPherson Media Group Annual Awards Night, and <sarcasm> from ALL of the THOUSANDS of other web developers in the company </sarcasm> I picked up the award for "Website of the Year 2001" for my work on the Taco Bill website. I also won the award last year for my work on the Flash intro to the Australian Airbrush Art website. I got a framed certificate and a nice boxed pen with "Website of the Year 2001 - Michael McCorry Taco Bill" written on it.

Still with me? Good...

Hmmm... what else has been occupying my time... Hmmm... Well games-wise, I've been playing Monkey Island 4 on the PC and Grandia 2 on the DC. I've also been toying with M.U.G.E.N. which, for those who don't know, is a kick-ass, free vs-fighting game engine which allows you to download from a selection of hundreds of characters and background stages to form your own super fighter megamix. Mine's looking at having about 156 characters now, with about twice as many backgrounds. I'm currently filling in the gaps with missing characters, while searching for the right music to accompany the many, many stages. I tell ya, it's gonna be kick ass. Mail me for more info if you want it.

It think I'll wrap this up now. My intention is to inform, not bore, so I'll leave you with a little news that my domain name comes up for renewal in January 2002, so I'll be planning a complete revamp of the website in time with that. Also, I've found a good use for my AYBABTU.org domain. What, exactly? You'll have to wait and see.

Yesterday just after lunch I installed a new stats package on Planet MadDog to replace the old ex-snazzy TheCounter.com I used to have. I now have site-wide statistics about nearly every aspect I could want to know, the most interesting of which being the most popular referrers. This shows me how people are getting to my site; which search engines they're using, and the keywords they're typing. Therefore, I'm proud to present a list my favorite search engine keywords used to find Planet MadDog from the last 24 hours.

• naked girls washing cars (Ranked 5th)
  
• sophie monk naked (Ranked 1st - Man, am I proud!)
  
• shit dreams (Ranked 5th)
  
• free titties (Raked 8th)
  
• bikini car wash (Ranked 3rd)
  
• photos of muscly breasts (Ranked 3rd - ?!?)
  
• "squeezed testicles" (Ranked 4th - Double ?!?)
  
• "fran drescher" porno (Ranked 1st)