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Thoth, while i agree with you in most respects, I think there's something to be said for irony - and teenage rebellion. If you were the King of England, what would be the most offensive thing your son could do? Why, donning a Nazi unform as a joke, of course! He's being a normal rebellious teenager - and I don't condone what he did, it certainly is in bad taste and offensive. I just think we need to understand a bit why he did it... he's young, and it's fun to be 'bad'. Don't tell me you never rebelled at his age....

Midn you - if he still retains any amount of normality it will soon be gone after reactions like this. He's a kid.... and we've ALL done some pretty stupid things as kids. Give the guy a break.

I guess the fun's over... no more confusion?

This is a snippet based on something I found on the web a while ago when looking for information about Armenian weddings. I think it's been slightly modified since, and unfortunately I no longer have the source. Neverthless: All I really know is that they're pretty darn yummy when they're nice and ripe.

Sorry dude - as long as there is a Black Box brigade amongst us, there will also be a Karlsson vom Dach Coalition!!! (um, you mind if I keep your avatar for a while?)

That was very *very* funny..... I'm still crying....

MOSJAN JAN, what can I do to help?

AHAHHHAHAHAHAHA This is TOO funny - I just about fell off my chair! :

Thank you my dear. Hey Azat! Anoushik likes your avatar! :D

Don't you like mine, Anoushik jan?

Now I'm adding to the confusion

I've heard Armenia, and Armenians mentioned once in a while in movies. But the MBFGW refences was initially about the guy's father's secretary. Who they thought may have been Armenian but ended up being Guyanese, or something completely unrelated like that. I think the Greeks have plenty of reasons to dislike Turks. By the way that's Andrea Martin you're referring to... a very funny women. She's done standup as well as years on SCTV etc. I think she's great.

They certainly are - or maybe they're leaving us in the dark? About my avatar, thanks I followed your suggestion - now it's a pic of MY dog, as opposed to just any dog. Or, it coule be that we're not one of THEM Google bots make take weeks to pick it up. One thing that helps is the link at the top and within this thread. Google already indexes HF, so by extension, the bots will find your site. You can find a lot of useful information on SEO (search engine optimization) at this site: WebMaster's World.

Errr... can someone tell me what's up with the black boxes? Is there something I'm missing?

So it was actually Sasun's fault!

One more things - in general on the web, use 72 dpi for your images. Screen resolutions can't support much more than that anyway. Visually you won't be able to see the difference between and image that's 72 dpi and the same that's 150 dpi in your web browser. But the ifile size will be much greater in the second. (The resolution will of course make a BIG difference once you're printing... good night...

Um - I may not have been clear. I don't mind having two resolutions/sizes like you do now (a thumb, and a larger pic). I think the images look great as they are! But for those people like Siamanto who say 'image quality above all else' (which incidently is what the crux of my disagreement) perhaps adding a further high-resolution picture would be the appropriate option.

I disagree entirely. Firstly - the site must be simple and easy to use - this includes images that load rapidly. Azat's suggestion of three levels of resolution isn't a bad idea, but means more work for you. You can optimize thumbnails to load pretty fast without sacrificing too much quality. The med-size images can average around 90K. Then you can put high-res images (watermarked, of course) for folks like siamanto. Keep in mind that when you're creating jpgs, there are slight colour shifts and digital artifacts that may appear. My suggestion is to really play with tools like image-ready (it's built into photoshop) to find the right optimization level. Also it's a good idea to look at the images on different monitors once in a while (each display varies - the key is to make sure that yours isn't way off)

Speaking of Web Album generators - I've used JAlbum with great results (IMO). It's easy to use, comes with some built-in skins/templates, which you can modify yourself for pretty much unlimited design freedom. The best part is that it's free! There's a tutorial on the site if you need some basic info - but I found it pretty intuitive...

I LOVE the artwork Rubo jan! Agreed with Sip about the links not being easily visible. And perhaps to center the image on the homepage instead of tiling it - that way people with various screen resolutions will see more or less the same thing. Good luck, and great job!

Hotel Rwanda 9/10 source: IMDB I loved it - a gripping, emotional story-that-no-one-told type of film, based on a true story. I've seeb Cheadle mostly in supporting roles, but he carried this movie. I think he should be up for some awards as a result of his performance. I don't think it's possible to convey to an audience what it would be like to live through the types of horrors that occured in Rwanda, but I think this was as close as you could get.

Just saw this one too! Boghos, I would guess that this is a pic of a Armenian International Airways Airbus A320-214 in Paris - Charles de Gaulle.

Um, I believe he said that it's a 'dubious' notion that homosexuality is a 'choice'. From what I've read on this topic - which admittedly is not a lot - it seems to me that regardless of whatever environmental/social factors may exist, some people are simply more pre-disposed to be gay, in other words, they're born with it. It's not a disease or a condition, nor is it a lifestyle choice (thought arguably, there are some that may make that decision).

Err... I don't think you'd want to be calling it 'extensive' Start reading somewhere around Here.