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I hope you have all had a wonderful Halloween. I know a lot of families do not celebrate this holiday, but I think Halloween is fantastic. If you want to read my reasons why, I posted about that one year ago. This year I just want to say Happy Halloween and tell you about our family’s last two days.

I have been very busy the last couple of days.  Yesterday, my parents came over to our house to celebrate my Dad’s birthday and wish their Grandkids a Happy Halloween. Then we all went to Read the rest of this entry »

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I ♥ symbols because they are a cute and fun way to personalize text. I used to enjoy putting them in comments and forum messages. Then, somewhere along the line I quit doing this. Maybe I decided it was more practical to say what I wanted without cutesying everything up?

Lately, I have been going to lots of forums and comment forms and I never see people using these symbols. This symbol deficiency makes me want to go symbol CrAZy and start putting the fun back in functional!

I realize that the only reason many people do not use symbols when they write is because they don’t know how. If that is the case, prepare to smile because I am going to tell you!

The first thing to realize is that the method of adding symbols is different if you are doing it in a program, than it is if you are doing it in a comment. In a program such as Word or Photoshop you can create tons of symbols using wingding or dingbat fonts. If you do not have the fonts installed or just want a quick way to make a heart you can use the alt key along with the numeric keypad to the right of your keyboard.

The regular number keys will not work to create symbols; only the right-side keypad. The great thing about creating symbols with the alt-key and  numeric keypad is that you can create these symbols on practically any comment form, message board, or guestbook!

Smiley face ☺ is Alt, 1

Heart ♥ is Alt, 3

Diamond &diamonds;  is Alt, 4

Club ♣ is Alt, 5

Spade ♠ is Alt, 6

Bullet • is Alt, 7

Music Notes ♫ is Alt, 1, 4

Sun ☼ is Alt, 1, 5

If you want to create symbols for a website using html, you must use special characters (or an image, but that is another topic). Go to this acronet page or this bigbaer page for huge character entity guides. They always begin with an ampersand and end with a semicolon. Ì hope this post made ¢

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MGMT is a psychedelic / electronic pop duo from Brooklin NY. Their first album Oracular Spectacular, was named the best album of 2008 by NME magazine. They have supported bands such as Radiohead and Beck during their 2008 tours and have also performed to much acclaim at festivals such as Bonnaroo and SXSW. They also made a notable appearance on  Yo Gabba Gabba during the episode titled Art.

I chose MGMT as my New Music Monday pick, based on the video below. It is a perfect Halloween video featuring a frightened child and the band in costume. The lyrics are insightful and the song would be great no matter what time of year. I look forward to the album Congratulations, which is expected to be released in early 2010. Until then, we have Kids..enjoy!

There are lots of great movies currently in theaters and many more that will be released for the holidays. Where the Wild Things Are has already been released to theaters.  On November 6th, Disney’s A Christmas Carol is coming to your local cinema. And of course The Twilight Saga: New Moon will be in theaters everywhere on November 20th!

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