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HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 150 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

How Many Of Me.com is a site I found through a friend's LiveJournal (it was a friends-only post) that tells you how many people in the US share your name, based on census data. Surprisingly, my name isn't all that popular, with only 150 people there sharing my name - I'd have expected it to be much higher. 'Turner' is the 44th most popular surname but 'Neil' isn't so much, coming well down in 524th place. This strikes me as slightly odd, since 'Neil' has its origins in Scots Gaelic and many Americans have Scottish heritage, but there you go.

It also tells you what proportion of a particular gender have that name. All of the Neils in the US are male, but apparently 0.25% of Davids are actually female - bearing in mind that there's 3.5 million Davids, that's a lot of girls called David.

I did this two years ago but thought I'd do it again. It's a quiz that tells you BBFC film rating (BBFC is the British Board of Film Classification). Here's mine:

Rated 12A
Suitable for 12 years or older, but under 18s must be with an adult. This is virtually identical to the 12 certificate, in that we'll have some adult-themed storylines, but no real meat or detail. No scary bits, but some language and maybe a bit of skin.

Examples: Die Another Day, Lord Of The Rings

That's up from a bog-standard 12 last time, so I've become marginally more mature in 2 years. What's yours?

Channel 4's Gay-O-Meter is something that I'm sure I've done before but have seemingly never blogged about, however Dave blogged it a couple of days ago and so I thought I'd do it again. Here's my result:

Neil is 30% gay!
Loosen up my straight mate! These days women like a man with some softer edges to grab onto.

Which means I'm mostly straight, as I suspected. Still, it's 10% more than Dave, and only 10% less than someone who was actually gay. I haven't yet got Hari to take this as she's sitting an exam at the moment.

Nothing like a good meme to fill up some space - this one via whoisthehero who is someone I know at the university and whose LiveJournal I managed to find accidently.

Update: I've added a couple of extra questions as suggested in the comments.

Another silly poll to fill up some space:

You Are 28 Years Old

You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

What Age Do You Act?

Yay for maturity...

Via the Guardian Technology Blog is the Web 2.0 Validator, which tells you how Web 2.0-compliant your site is. Things like mentioning Flickr and using Python score your bonus points, as does using the Google Maps API and Ajax.

Out of the 24 tests there at the moment, this site scores 7. Not great, and it incorrectly assumes I use Python when I actually don't, but then I'm not big on the whole Web 2.0 thing. So how Web 2.0-compliant is your site?

Found via djst:

You scored as atheism.
You are... an atheist, though you probably already knew this. Also, you probably have several people praying daily for your soul. Instead of simply being "nonreligious," atheists strongly believe in the lack of existence of a higher being, or God.

Which religion is the right one for you?

As for the breakdown of religions, I rank 71% for atheism, and - interestingly - 67% for satanism, followed by paganism at 58%. Of the major religions I rank highest for Buddhism at 54%, with Christianity at 25% and Hinduism in last place at 4%. Intriguingly, Sikhism is not on the list. Nor is Flying Spaghetti Monstrism.

In other news:

• If you're wondering who 'Sacahariel' is in the comments, she's my darling girlfriend. Sacahariel (or 'Hari' for short) isn't her real name, though it's a nice name nonetheless. A nice name for a wonderful girl... ;)
• Erm, yeah, sorry. Anyway, as I said today, I've spent most of the day doing coursework, or procrastinating with the intention of doing coursework. Suppose it serves me right for leaving it until the last minute.

Bizarrely it was almost exactly a year since I took a very similar quiz. Since the Beeb are now showing Family Guy (and American Dad) on Saturday nights, they have a mini-site with information about the show. They also have a Which Family Guy character are you? quiz, so here's my result:

Let's face it, a day spent slobbing out in front of the gogglebox is a day well spent in your book. You're Peter.

Which is interesting because I was Cleveland last time. The choices seemed pretty limited though. So, which character are you?

From today, the majority of foreigners who want to gain British nationality will now have to sit a 45-minute citizenship test, based on a book published by the government called Life in the UK, which serves as a primer about the country's customs and history. The Beeb have a test with some sample questions of the sort that would appear in the citizenship test.

Out of the 14, I managed to guess a mere 7 correctly, despite being born here and having an ancestry which is (AFAIK) entirely British. And of those 7 one was only correct because I read this article this morning (the question about which two numbers can be used for the emergency services).

Ultimately you're more likely to get full marks if you have actually read the guide, as the questions in this particular quiz tend to pick on specific aspects which really don't have a whole lot to do with British life in general. And it's fair to say that the majority of the people taking the test will have read the guide. But still, I can imagine quite a few people who have been born and bred in this country not doing so well.

There are some further questions available from the Guardian here.

I took the Commonly Confused Words Test, having seen Meredith and Tom take it. Here are my results:

Advanced

You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 66% Expert!

You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

Not bad for someone who only got a 'B' in GCSE English :) .

On his sidebar, Les mentions his position on the Political Compass which offers a two-dimensional representation of political views. This is instead of the more typically 1-dimensional representation of 'left-wing', 'centre-right', 'far-right', etc. The two dimensions produce two scores - one for the more traditional economic left-wing/right-wing reading and one for a social libertarian/authoritarian reading.

According to this superb use of license fee payer's money, my 'secret Christmas name' is Frosty Brandy butter-Pie. Lovely.

Oh, wait... it's not really a secret anymore now is it? Oh well. Anyhow, blame Les.

Another pointless poll found via Ryan:

I'm A 1990s Geek

Cool, confident, and very powerful, you're the sexiest geek ever! Buckle in, your decade is one hell of a ride.

find your geek decade at spacefem.com

That has to be about the only time I've been called sexy.

Oh, and congratulations to Arvind for posting the 3000th comment on this blog.

It's been a while since I did a poll, so here's one from Ryan:

Which Family Guy character are you?

I really like Family Guy - it's one of the few things I like about Fox (the others being Futurama and The Simpsons). Stewie is probably my favourite character.

Which File Extension are You?

Interesting. Found via Breaking Windows. Here's the full list of results.

If I was a dog, I'd be 142 years old!
Find out your age in dog years

The script was the fruit of a few minutes work in PHP. Have a play and feel free to post your results far and wide.

Ryan took a couple of political loyalty quizzes, and so I've done the same:

The John Kerry Loyalty Quiz

Your score is 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. You are a pure, unabashed, die-hard John Kerry supporter. Nothing would give you greater pleasure than seeing Kerry run Bush and Cheney out of the White House, except maybe seeing them dragged away in handcuffs.

The George W Bush Loyalty Quiz

Your score is 1 on a scale of 1 to 10. You hate Bush with a writhing passion. You think he is an idiot, a liar, and a warmonger who has been a miserable failure as president. Nothing would give you greater pleasure than seeing him run out of the White House, except maybe seeing him dragged away in handcuffs.

Not quite as extreme as Ryan but it's clear that I think that Kerry is a much better choice for America and its people than a second Bush term. My opinion of Kerry isn't all that high - I tend to think of him in the same way as Tony Blair: not great, but a whole lot better than the opposition.

Via Chris is the Hacker Handle Generator - type in your name and it gives you your 'hacker name'. Apparently, I'm "Memory Monkey". What's yours?

What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

That, incidentally, was the same result as Les got. I'm assuming that's a good thing.

My Mormon name is DaNeil Burnell!
What's yours?

Interesting. I thought it was spelt 'Daniel'. Which actually makes more grammatical sense since you're supposed to put 'i' before 'e' (except after 'c' ). For some reason, my first name doesn't follow the rules of English grammar. Go me.

But then, neither does 'weird'. Which is, well, weird.

[Via Please Don't Eat Me]

Shockingly, it's been over 6 weeks (!) since I last posted a poll here.

Which Annoying B-list Celebrity Are You?
Brought to you by Rum and Monkey.

When you're not offending the Welsh or stupid Americans on the dumbed-down transatlantic version of your hate-filled, lowest common denominator gameshow, you're being mean to people and pulling the legs off injured animals. We've seen you.

Frankly, all this anger would be best directed towards evil corporations, which you did for a while at the helm of the BBC's Watchdog programme - the only show infinitely better with you on it. As it is, you've suddenly become a multi-million-dollar institution, spawning clones in hundreds of countries, presumably all winking in that terrifying "I look cuddly now, but I can hurt you. Oh yes, I can hurt you bad" way.

Maybe you're ultra-famous, but you'll always be a B-list celebrity in our eyes. At least you're not writing for the Daily Mail any more.

The immense irony of this was that I found it via Daisy, who is, of course, Welsh. Ah well.

I did this just over a year ago, but thought it was about time I did it again.

A year's experience seems have paid off. Found again at Koldark's Komputer World.

It was Test The Nation again tonight, so I took the test to find out my IQ.

It's 118 - a bit less than the 120 that I was hoping for, but more than two years ago (strangely I didn't take it last year). So two years of university education have only pushed it up slightly.

On the other hand, I am rather tired and a bit hungover, so my inability to remember things and work stuff out quickly may have given me a slightly lower score.

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!

How grammatically sound are you?
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Cheese Test: What type of cheese are you?

Via Gretchen. I'd have preferred Wensleydale but it's not an option.

Via evhead who did considerably better than I did. What can I say, I was 5 when the 80s finished! (I got 18.75 points, by the way)

Scoble dug up the useful voter guide which helps you choose a presidential candidate to vote for by shooting people you don't like (requires Flash). Here's my result:

You are a left-wing communist. You have little love for God or country. You list Michael Moore as an intellectual and often threaten to move to Canada. You may want to vote for Ralph Nader, but your socialist friends will tell you to vote for John Kerry.

Yay for communism :). In a strange coincidence, Frank announced he is moving to Canada this morning. Have a good one, Frank.

Inspired by Ben:

You're The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe!
by C.S. Lewis
You were just looking for some decent clothes when everything changed quite dramatically. For the better or for the worse, it is still hard to tell. Now it seems like winter will never end and you feel cursed. Soon there will be an epic struggle between two forces in your life and you are very concerned about a betrayal that could turn the balance. If this makes it sound like you're re-enacting Christian theological events, that may or may not be coincidence. When in doubt, put your trust in zoo animals.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Interesting. Though Ben got Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the late great Douglas Adams, which is probably my favourite book.

Found on BlogDex:

You are Woodstock!

Which Peanuts Character are You?
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It' been 10 days (!) since I last posted a poll, so here goes:

Conformity - You are the Tomato

All-around and average, but not upset about it, you take life day by day and try to live with as little stress as possible. Some people like you for what you are, but there are a few who would rather see you sliced and diced.. but we all have enemies, right?

Probably about right.

Inspired by Daisy, here's a map showing the counties in Great Britian that I've visited:

I've visited the counties in yellow. Which counties have you visited? made by marnanel map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright 2001.

So I'm quite well-travelled, although I haven't reached the more isolated bits as yet. But hey, I'm only 19.

So, here is another one of those 'Are you a geek?' quizzes.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

Normally I get higher scores on these, so that was an interesting result. Maybe I'm losing touch with my inner geek...

Via Firda comes Your Personal UK Movie Rating which rates your opinions using the BBFC classifications (Uc, U, PG, 12, 15 and 18). I'm rated '12', which means:

Suitable for 12 years or older. Starting to get interesting now, with more adult-themed storylines, but we're still talking in mild doses. You may find more colourful language, some human flesh, and maybe even some violence. Nothing creepy though. Examples: Batman, Naked Gun 33 1/3

Describes me pretty well, I think.

What Snack Food are You? (With Cool Pics!!)
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Probably correct apart from the bit about my lack of IQ. Mmmm. Donuts.

What's Yours?

Trust me to have a name consisting only of the letters worth 1 point. Remind me to change my name to Zyq or something. Via WannabeGirl and Chasing Daisy

What Type of Lunatic are You? (With Cool Pics!!)
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Yep, another daft Quizilla poll by way of Ben, although his answer is somewhat more interesting. Trust me to come out with the most boring one.

60 %

There's a 60 % chance that I'll win a Bloggie
What's Your Chance to Win a Bloggie�?

This is Firda's new quiz. So, my odds aren't too great, but let's see. You did all nominate me, right? ;)

Occasionally a good Quizilla poll comes around, and this is one of those. Interesting and funny at the same time.

Which Typical Anti-Hero Are You?
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It gets worse. I do actually have some of those personality traits. Apart from the sucking blood bit, of course. Credits goes to Please don't eat me who'll be 'pleased' to know I didn't (heh-heh).

Oh go on then, we'll have a poll. This one is inspired by Jay Allen, and is a poll to suggest which US presidential candidate most matches your opinions. My results:

1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)
2. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (79%)
3. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (77%)
4. Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR - Democrat (73%)
5. Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH - Democrat (72%)
6. Socialist Candidate (70%)
7. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL - Democrat (69%)
8. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (64%)
9. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (61%)
10. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO - Democrat (54%)
11. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (50%)
12. Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT - Democrat (41%)
13. Libertarian Candidate (38%)
14. Bush, President George W. - Republican (9%)
15. Phillips, Howard - Constitution (5%)

They're pretty similar to Jay's, except Dean is a little more compatible with me and Bush is even less compatible. And I agree with Jay on Howard Phillips, whoever he is...

Like Richy, I got 10 out of 13 in the Etiquette test, which tests how much you know about the rules of etiquette. The answers I got wrong were not knowing that you should wear your name-tag on your right shoulder (I usually go for the left breast), picking a fork off the floor and being over-enthusiastic with business cards.

At least that makes me reasonably well-trained :).

It's been nearly a year since I took it, but I'm still OS/2 Warp. I swear that test is rigged.

You are Gonzo the Great. You love everyone, and still you get shot out of a cannon on a regular basis. Oh, and you are completely insane and have a strange fascination for chickens.

ALSO KNOWN AS:

The Great Gonzo, Gonzo the Great, Just Plain Weird

SPECIES:

Whatever

HOBBIES:

Tapdancing blindfolded on tapioca while balancing a
piano on his nose, backwards, five times fast.

FAVORITE MOVIE:

"From Here to Eternity...with no brakes."

FAVORITE TV SHOW:

"Touched By An Anvil"

QUOTE:

"No parachute? Wow! This is so cool!"

What Muppet are you?
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And by getting that result I've potentially confused a lot of people.

What Kind of Drunk Are You?

Okay, I'm not really that bad. I haven't chundered in a while. Still, a great poll to take while eating your lunch...

(Oh, and apologies for two polls in the same day)

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

Whoever he is. Credit goes to the fembat.

Nothing like a wee poll to fill up space. Found via BlogDex.

you are lavender #E6E6FA

Your dominant hue is blue, making you a good friend who people love and trust. You're good in social situations and want to fit in. Just be careful not to compromise who you are to make them happy. Your saturation level is very low - you have better things to do than jump headfirst into every little project. You make sure your actions are going to really accomplish something before you start because you hate wasting energy making everyone else think you're working. Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything.

the spacefem.com html color quiz

Naturally, I'm not a web-safe colour.

I originally got this one off Ryan yesterday, but I have a policy not to inflict more than one poll on you each day, so I carried this one over. It's interesting though.

You're Most Like The Season Spring ...

Fresh faced, with a young outlook on life - you smile at the world and expect it to smile back at you. You're mostly a bubbly, fun - innocent person. Described as cute possibly. However, you're a little naive about things and tend to be a little too trustworthy. As the first season, it Makes you the youngest - and so most immature - but people are inclined to look out for and protect you.

Well done... You're the most fun of the seasons :)


Which Season Are You ??
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If it interests you, yes, I do reformat the HTML each time I copy and paste a Quizilla poll to make sure it is standards-compliant and validates. I do kinda wish I didn't have to do that every time though.

You are Colin Powell! You're the odd duck of the Bush White House - the reasonable diplomat. Every administration's got one!

Which member of the Bush Administration are you?
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Of course, why I'd be in the Republican party in the first place is debatable. Found via BlogDex.

You're goin' down! FOR HACKING INTO COMPUTERS!

What Would You Go to Jail For? (Many outcomes)
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Via Dextersgurl.

This is largely inspired by a post from Asa - I'm posting it here because it's a bit longer and may interest you. Basically it's a list of programs that I regularly use, and whether I use them across more than one platform. Although I primarily use Windows, I am trying to get into Linux more.

Applications that I use across platforms:

• Browser: Firebird
• Email: Thunderbird
• Office: OpenOffice
• IRC: Xchat

Applications I only use in Windows:

• IM: Trillian Pro 2.0 or Miranda (would use Gaim but I've never got it to work correctly and it seems unstable)
• FTP: SmartFTP
• Media Player: dBpowerAMP for background music, otherwise Windows Media Player or Winamp
• Editor: Metapad
• File sharer: Shareaza
• RSS aggregator: FeedDemon

Applications I only use in Linux:

• IM: Gaim (works better in Linux than Windows in my experience)
• FTP: Firebird at the moment :-o
• Media player: XMMS
• Editor: Emacs or Kedit
• File Sharer: none yet
• RSS Aggregator: none yet

I'm trying to move towards using more cross-platform programs, as certainly programs like Mozilla that I use regularly in Windows have helped make the transition to Linux a lot more smooth.

Cruelly lifted from BoingBoing.net is 'vanity tinyURLing'. In the address bar, type 'tinyurl.com/xxxx', where xxxx is (up to) the first four characters of your name - having a short name or nickname may be useful here. Mine, therefore, is tinyurl.com/neil , which is an article on WashingtonPost.com about Russians resisting resettlement. Interesting.

So, what's your tinyurl.com redirect?

Amazingly, I haven't posted a quiz in nearly 3 weeks. I shall repent forthwith.

You are water. You're not really organic; you're neither acidic nor basic, yet you're an acid and a base at the same time. You're strong willed and opinionated, but relaxed and ready to flow. So while you often seem worthless, without you, everything would just not work. People should definitely drink more of you every day.

Which Biological Molecule Are You?
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A bit heavier than most but interesting.

Not bad, but could do better

You are mid-way between slack and active, which we suppose means you're just a bit better than average. A kind of B+, could-do-better grade of activist. But no-one likes being middle-of-the-road, do they? Unless we're talking standing in the middle of the road, shouting and waving placards! Like the sort of bring-down-top-up-fees activist you're on the verge of becoming...

Diagnosis: you're not so much political agitator as someone who's agitated by politicans. But you could get a serious kick out of helping destroy the government's plans to plunge tomorrow's children (your children!) into huge amounts of debt.

Take the quiz. I'm still very much intent on going to the demonstration tomorrow, if only because we have a banner saying "Blair - I piss in your general direction" and "Charles Clarke - the traitor of Norwich (NCFC rule)" on it. You can't accuse us of being unoriginal with our protest slogans, can you?

Which Dr. Seuss character are you?
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I never took Dr Seuss' advice. I hopped on Pop. [Courtesy of Les]

It's been a while since I did a silly and pointless Quizilla poll. Blame Richard for this one.

You are Form 0, Phoenix: The Eternal.

"And The Phoenix's cycle had reached zenith, so he consumed himself in fire. He emerged from his own ashes, to be forever immortal."

Some examples of the Phoenix Form are Quetzalcoatl (Aztec), Shiva (Indian), and Ra-Atum (Egyptian). The Phoenix is associated with the concept of life, the number 0, and the element of fire. His sign is the eclipsed sun.

As a member of Form 0, you are a determined individual. You tend to keep your sense of optomism [sic], even through tough times and have a positive outlook on most situations. You have a way of looking at going through life as a journey that you can constantly learn from. Phoenixes are the best friends to have because they cheer people up easily.

Which Mythological Form Are You?
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Oh great, now some corporation is going to say my name is trademarked and then a long bitchslapping session goes on before I become a Firebird. At which point I will be bombarded with emails from a database working group...

Yesterday, LG Windows Daily featured NameStatistics.com which tells you how popular your name is. While it's a little US-centric, here are my results:

Neil is the #234 most common male name.
0.066% of men in the US are named Neil.
Around 80850 US men are named Neil!
source namestatistics.com

Turner is the #44 most common last name.
0.152% of last names in the US are Turner.
Around 380000 US last names are Turner!
source namestatistics.com

I knew that 'Turner' was very common, but I'm surprised that 'Neil' is so rare. While I know that it isn't common in mainland Europe (since it's Gaelic in origin, and not Germanic or Latin), I'd have thought an English-speaking country like the US would have more people with my name. Interesting.

While I've yet to work out quite how it calculates its rankings, apparently, this site is 35% evil. Still, it's also 65% good at the same time.

How evil is your site?

Snagged from Jason is The Longetivity Game which gives you a rough idea of how long you can expect to live (assuming you aren't involved in a car crash or something). Apparently I'll make it to a quite impressive 88, although had I been of the fairer sex I'd live 7 years longer, apparently.

It told Jason he'd only make it to 67, which either means Jason has a harder life than me or I really haven't lived yet.

Hopefully in 2072 I'll be able to look back at this and see if it's correct. That's assuming the internet, and indeed this website is still around then.

Another item from Scary Duck is the Should you be on Pikey Island? test. My results were as follows:

You have a whiff of dog blanket about you and your shoes need to be resoled. You enjoy garden centres and eating out at country pubs. Your quite well known at the local KwikFit and think nothing of sticking a Bart Simpson doll yo your reat seat window. You have often enjoyed a curry or kebab after a night down the pub and have used a doorway as a public toilet. It is likely that you have been arrested for a minor offence and count George Best as an idol. You are likely to have been educated to A level standard.

No, not quite right...

Not done a poll in a while...

Lovely.

Courtesy of Stupidium Evilide Bastardin. If you want to 'mix' with me, have a go...

A BBC poll asks Do you know your manners? I got 6/10.

If I get short on cash, WWYS will buy my soul for £38179. Apparently only 9% of people have a purer soul than me.

It also means my soul is more pure than the soul of the Quanta. Hehe :).

I might consider it actually. It's a hell of a lot more cash than the government is loaning me at the moment, and hey, who needs a soul anyway?

I am getting annoyed by the really poor quality of some of the quizzes on Quizilla, which seem to be written by prepubescent girls who can't type properly and haven't a clue about grammar. Yes, I know they're only 13 or thereabouts, but at that age I could type, and my grammar wasn't that bad, and the same applies for several 13-year-olds that I know. I think Gnome Girl had a similar rant.

But anyway, occasionally there's an interesting poll and this is one of them, courtesy of Ryan:

Life's not fair! It's never been fair, but while adults might just accept that, I know something's gotta change. And it's gonna change, just as soon as I become an adult and get some power of my own.

How Old is Your Inner Child?
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Hehe, that makes me 6 years older than Ryan :).

Oh yeah, the other thing about Quizilla that I don't like is the HTML it produces - half the time I spend posting results is stripping out the <font> tags, adding width and height attributes to the image, replacing the border attribute with style...

At least they don't commit what I would regard as the ultimate sin and put target="_blank" in their links. I hate having links open in new windows when I don't ask them to, but it appears that some people on my blogroll don't yet realise this (hint, hint). No wonder the W3C removed it from the XHTML specification.

I took this yesterday but decided to save you the burden of two polls in one day.

You are an angel.
What legend are you?. Take the Legendary Being Quiz by Paradox

Taken from Please Don't Eat Me which is back after a long hiatus.

According to the Alien Abduction Test There is a 36% chance that I've been abducted by Aliens!

Interesting. Requires flash, a bit of patience and good eyesight because the words are quite difficult to read.

You're a CASUAL AIM-ER! Congrats, you're normal...or you're pretending to be.

What kind of AIM-er are you?
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Yes, I know I posted a poll yesterday, but I found this last night and thought it was interesting. And hey, at least I waited a bit before posting it :).

You are a Go-Go Girl! Yay you!

What kind of Sixties Person are you?
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Hmmm... Interesting. May need to take that one again.

(Perhaps saying that purple is my favourite colour was not such a wise idea. Even though it is.)

Link courtesy of Meredith's mum :)

Lord of the Rings!

What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!)
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Yay! One of my favourite films :). Credit goes to Richy.

what warning label are you?

Plaigirised from Rycam.net who plaigirised it from The Grey Ghost.

Also found via RyCam.net is BuyMusicSucks.com. Which, as most of the blogs have been saying this week, including myself, is a very true statement.

Nothing like a good poll to fill up some space :).

What rating is your journal?
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Not wholly surprising. I do tend to avoid posting when I'm in a very bad mood so that I don't offend any of my friends or family (both on or off the net). As for swearing, I don't tend to swear excessively in real life anyway, and usually when writing blog entries I can think of alternative words to use. At least when blogging, you can take time to think about what you are writing without looking stupid, and there's a delete key if I have second thoughts about things.

Poll idea courtesy of Random Abstract.

Blue Eyes

What Color Eyes Should You Have?
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Ugh. That is sooooo stereotypical. (And yes, I really do have blue eyes)

Threat rating: High. The Bush administration is concerned that it may not get a second term. Therefore, we are going to change the rules so that each Democrat vote only counts as 0.2 votes because Democrat is a shorter word than Republican.

What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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Darn it! I wanted to be morally deficient! :)

Inspiration comes from Firda:

Neil Turner is as bright as a button and as sharp as a blade. If there's ever anything you need to know, Neil Turner is the person to ask. Chances are he will know the answer already. If not he will go and ask someone else and he will keep asking until he gets an answer. Neil Turner simply cannot stand the idea of a question that has no answer, so if he cannot get a satisfactory explanation he will invent one. A good one. He is after all as bright as a button. There are though, some questions in life which are best left unanswered. The rest of us know to leave them alone. Neil cannot resist the urge to explore them. He is drawn to such questions, like, well, like a button to a button hole! Neil answers these questions cleverly because, after all as sharp as a blade, but then you know what they say about people who are too sharp...

Neil can be very cutting sometimes. He doesn't mean to be. He just can't help it. Neil can't stop himself from daring to say what other people hardly dare to think. This is why Neil often gets himself into trouble but it is also why Neil is such an interesting person to know. Life with Neil Turner is never dull. There's always an adventure, a challenge or a deal to be done. Neil loves to do deals. The word 'no' is not in his vocabulary. When he hears it Neil is immediately tempted to reply "Is that 'no' as in 'maybe', 'no' as in 'I need to be persuaded,' or 'no as in 'not quite yet?' Luckily Neil gets clean away with this kind of attitude. Neil Turner, at least when it comes to the unanswerable question, is living proof of the old adage "Who dares...wins".

Interesting... kinda.

Here's another boring and unscientific poll, unlike the ones Jake keeps taking. Inspired by a certain Mr Dummett.

What type of wild creature are you?
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Yay! Penguins are my favourite animals :). And that's not because of Linux.

[Added] For some reason, the server this poll was hosted on does not allow remote linking, as several of you have noticed. A bit stupid considering it lets you copy and paste code which links to an image...

[More Added] It's now fixed :) .

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

I guess that makes me slightly evil, then? >:-)

Cruely plaigirised from Jason DeFillippo's Journal.

Yes, another seemingly pointless poll, brought to you by way of Please don't eat me.

United Kingdom (Britain)
One of the longest-standing nations in history, it has survived several centuries and kept its traditions alive.

Positives:
A Long History Full of Tradition.
Well-Renouned.
Strong and Respected.

Negatives:
Viewed as Pompous and Aristocratic.
Bitterness of Others About Past Transgressions. (Don't mention the war.)
Bad Teeth. (I resent that comment! I've had 4 years of dental realignment, don't you know?)

Which Country of the World are You?
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So I'm a true limey. Wahey! :)

If you're interested, the fire alarm only went off twice last night.

Presumably a play on Tae-Kwan-Do. For all you Movable Typists out there, find out how good you are at the black arts of Movable Type. Here's me:

So it's not great, but then I don't know any Perl or PHP. I did install it myself, though :). Found by the way of Kadyellebee.

Taken from Jason who got it via Doc. I got 15.58185% - plain old geek. It's a bit more thorough than some of the other geek tests out there.

By the way, this entry would have come to you an hour earlier but the fire alarm went off for a third time. And this time the fire brigade were called, which, assuming security don't find out who did it, probably means that everyone will have to contribute to the callout charge. To the tune of £4500, or around £30 each.

Yep, another one, this time by way of Utterly Boring:

45% e-Bore

You're displaying early symptoms of e-bore Syndrome, though it's not too late. Just watch what you're wearing...

Are you an e-Bore?

By a strange coincidence, York was originally called Eboracum by the Romans, and one of the pubs near-ish to where I live is called 'The Ebor'.

This entry, by the way, is number 600 - just in time for my birthday tomorrow ;). I've also just topped 5 000 sentences, and I'm close to 90 000 words in total. I suppose if you actually cared you'd probably just read the figures on the front page, but I'll tell you anyway.

Blame this one on Richy's Random Ramblings:

Arial - You're pretty normal. That's certainly not a bad thing, as a lot of people like you.

What Font Are You? (Standard Fonts)
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I apologise for my 'polly' nature lately - I'll try and think up something original soon but at the moment my brain only works in Java and UML. Darn revision.

Inspired by Please don't eat me:

You are Neo, the chosen one, the slayer of agents everywhere. A former nerd, you have evolved into quite a stubborn hero. Although Trinity is not that hot, at least you're one of the few that can get some in the real world. You can stop bullets and you're immmortal; so what the hell are you going to do in Matrix: Reloaded?! "Yeah. Wow, that sounds like a really good deal. But I think I got a better one. How about I give you the finger... and you give me my phone call."

What Character From The Matrix Are You?
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I guess that's good, right?

I am 34% Evil Genius I want to be evil. I do evil things. But given the opportunity, and a darn good reason I may turn to the good side. Besides I am probably a miserable evil genius.

Take the Evil Genius Test at fuali.com

I took the other tests on Fuali.com back in November, but this one wasn't around at the time. As you can probably tell, I've been reading my old entries again :).

A fellow ODP editor pointed me towards the Domain Purity Test, which runs 50 URLs from your domain through Google to see if its SafeSearch feature blocks them. Apparently, this site is 96% pure - only 2 URLs on this site were blocked. Quite why they were blocked I don't know, but it's nice to know the majority are clean.

Note: to use this tool, you'll need to get your own Google API key if you don't have one already. It's free and only takes a few minutes to get, and once you've got it you can do some cool things in Movable Type with it.

Am I a Snob or Not?:

48% Snob

You haven't quite cut that snob mustard, Neil. Being 48% snob doesn't make you properly stuck up but nor does it condemn you to burn in middle-class hell. Unless you want to hang in snob limbo forever, brush up on those P's and Q's, buy yourself some fruit knives and start lying about your education quick.

I was expecting it to be lower than that - Richy only got 39%. Must be because I'm British.

Originally from asisaid.com, which is another site based on Ciaran's Jounal script.

Not very, it seems:

In the clear

You can stand up straight and walk tall, no one's after you, unless they're trying to nick something from you! It's good to behave 100% correctly and to the letter of the law, though it's hardly life on the edge�

Based on your answers, we have calculated the maximum penalty for your crimes:

Years in prison: 0 Potential fine: £0

Idea plaigirised from Richy's Random Ramblings. There's a special mention for my home city (York) in there - I might as well mention dumblaws.com while I'm at it.

Might as well join the 15 other people who've taken this...

Running away? You yellow . . .

What Monty Python Character are you?
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Ni.

Brought to you courtesy of Richy's Random Ramblings:

You have an entrancing kiss~ the kind that leaves
your partner bedazzled and maybe even feeling
he/she is dreaming. Quite effective; the kiss
that never lessens and always blows your
partner away like the first time.

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Nice.

If you're a self catering student, then you'll be able to relate to this quiz from the Guardian. It's from their new student section - the Guardian sponsors various student events and has a graduate jobs section on Saturdays, and registered students (like moi) can buy their paper at a vastly discounted rate.

Anyway, I got: A dodgy diet to say the least, but you know what you like, and its usually someone else's cooking. Okay, so I don't eat that well at university, but hey, I'm not seriously ill or overweight, so bite me.

Neil is a Fire-Eating Magic Monkey with a Battle Rating of 8.8. Unleash your own Food-Eating Battle Monkey.

And like Gretchen, I too have no idea what it means.

It's very old, and I've almost certainly done it before, but my boredom led me to doing Firda's Are you a Blogaholic? quiz.

I got 68 out of 100, which translates to:

You are a dedicated weblogger. You post frequently because you enjoy weblogging a lot, yet you still manage to have a social life. You're the best kind of weblogger. Way to go!

Which is nice. I think I'd best be off to bed now.

Which OS are You?

Riiiiight. Ooooookay then.

You've seen the Blogger Code, the Geek Code, and all of the other codes, but how about the ODP code? Yep, we have one now, and here's mine:

<ODP ver="1.0" code=" E++ F++++ D+++ X* N++ G Q++ Lo A+ H+ W- O+ B T+++ I---">

I'll let you decide what it means until someone writes a decoder. And yes, I imagine it is XML-compatible.

Oh yeah, and I've updated my Blogger Code too, since I've been blogging for more than a year now.

Yes, it's an old quiz, but I this category was getting empty...

Take the ICQuiz!

Seeing as a certain Mr Beebware has gone through all of the polls on Fuali.com, I might as well do the same...

I am:

• 45% Internet Addict (probably about right)
• 30% Emo (I'm with beebware... what is emo? Isn't he that annoying one out of Sesame Street?)
• 10% Punk Rock (not my kind of music, really)
• 29% Goth (now that's scary. I do live with a few vaguely goth people though)
• 22% Metal Head (I was hoping that'd be lower...)
• 19% Ska (I thought that might be higher, since a few of my friends listen to ska quite a bit. Ah well...)
• 29% Tortured Artist (not in the least bit artistic but it's nice to know...)
• 12% Grunge (yeah, I'd agree with that)
• 47% Raver (woohoo!)

And I did also start a Polls category on here too, in case you were wondering.

I am 29% Geek

You probably work in computers, or a history deptartment at a college. You never really fit in with the "normal" crowd. But you have friends, and this is a good thing.

Take the Geek Test at fuali.com

Only 29%? That's good to know.

According to the 80's Purity Test, I am 64.3% pure when it comes to that decade. Which, worringly, is less pure than Meredith, who is 3 years older than me.

Hmm... I *so* have to download "Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer...

Like a pigeon you seem to have an inbuilt navigational computer. No one way system catches you out. You know all the service stations the length and breadth of the kingdom. You are a lorry driver.

(taken from Do you know your way in a car?)

They got the lorry driver bit wrong though. I can't drive and have never been in a lorry.

Found this via Gretchen's Head.

You must be pretty peeved right now then, eh?

What pisses you off?
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Well, that and people stealing your mobile phone...

Okay, so I've nicked this from Kim who stole it from Glenda who in turn borrowed it from Inez. But it's my blog and my hangover, so I'll do what I like.

From http://www.kabalarians.com/male/neil.htm

The first name of Neil creates a dual nature for, on the one hand, you desire change and varied experiences in order to avoid monotony, and yet you are attuned to system, order, and attention to detail. You can be very analytical, exacting, and patient in your undertakings until your interest is exhausted, at which time you switch to something else even though it means leaving your undertakings unfinished. This name makes you inquisitive and scientific in your approach to life, requiring everything to be proved to satisfy your skepticism. You can be a stickler for detail, and very fussy and particular. As spontaneous verbal expression can be difficult for you, you often feel awkward and embarrassed in situations requiring tact and diplomacy. This name creates strong physical desires, such as an appetite for heavy, starchy foods and meat. Tension affecting the solar plexus and digestive organs could lead to ulcers, growths, or constipation.

A pretty good analysis of my personality, actually. And the constipation bit holds true too.

Thanks to oneeye for digging that out.

... Is my Blog HOT or NOT?

Because HotOrNot won't let you change your blog's URL, the old account has been deactivated and I've signed up again with this. Please vote for me! :)

"My Bloginality is INFP!"

I found that poll via Revolving Duck, the weblog of a female paleontology student, who links to me via BlogRolling :).

Is it GODZILLA?
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Since everyone else has been doing it...

Is my Blog HOT or NOT?

I am 25% evil.
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