ok, im trying to create a splash page for my graphics website, and here is the problem im running into.

i was able to extend the blue on each side to fit whatever resolution people are running, and that wasnt a problem, but how in the hell do i do the same for the top and bottom of the image in the middle, i dont want the image to scale, i want to slice the top and bottom and stretch that to the resolution so i dont stretch the image. does anyone who knows html have any ideas? my only other option is to change the image so the blue goes all the way around but i dont want to do that.

the image is below, click for full screen

A gamer's fourth Xbox 360 red-ringed, and a veritable who's-who of consoles turned out to pay their respects and show their anguish that so many are dying so young, and so senselessly.

* - Not Mine.

After a LONG, awful 16 hours of driving, I'm home.  I dropped my mother off at her house and drove another hour and a half in an almost white out blizzard.  What a way to end a trip.  Everyone but me and the kid felt crappy on the way home.  My mother worst of all.  The only thing I had wrong with me was a little bit of a headache and my neck was so stiff that I had a hard time turning it left or right.  Nevertheless, I left New York at about 7am CST and arrived home at 12:30am.  I may be getting older, but I can still do it!  lol 

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm feeling pretty damn good this morning.  A slight bit of a stiff neck yet, but nothing compared to last night.  I guess I should call my work peoples and see if I have anything to do.........even though I am enjoying a slow morning and looking at the snow outside. 

MJ

P.S.  - If you feel this crap that I had coming on, drink a bottle of gatorade and a bottle of water.  I think it's the only thing that really kept me from having the full blown effects like everyone else did.

I woke up to over 4 inches of snow to be shoveled.

Did it, couldn't get back to sleep.

Did my morning ritual, including vitamins and medicine, which upset my stomach. Yeah. That much. *flush*

At least I'm not really sick, right guys? ('course, I was sick early in November with the same thing)

"I hate Mondays" - Garfield

Well, what a week this has been, the wife was off ALL WEEK, I had some time to digest all the reported changes that my organization will be undergoing....and we managed to survive yet another family holiday. We made a run through the normal difficulties of Gears 1 and 2....AWESOME! and caught up on about 5 weeks of DVR that we have been neglecting. I'm still really depressed about being back at work.....again.....

but on a lighter note, we happened to run across something very very funny over the weekend....so, I present to you our submission to Failblog. Any votes to get this up on the main page would be appreciated.

http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=2719021

now if you'll excuse me, it sounds like someone is stuck in my office's elevator....again....

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I woke up this morning with a huge headache and feeling like I had been running all night instead of sleeping.  Why?  This stupid dream i had, i suppose.  All night long I was running from giants, goblins, all sorts of monsters, and falling into all kinds of traps.  I managed to escape, but when I came back, everyone else was being chased and whatever, so they screamed at me "how do you stop this?".  I screamed back "turn it off!"  Wow, to be inside a video game is just not as much fun as playing it!  Whew.

It's back to work today after 4 days off.  Blah!  I did get some serious cyber-shopping done, tho.  Oh, I didn't buy that much, but I did replace my router, which should come tomorrow.  And i bought Fallout.  I think that will wait and be put under the Christmas tree.  Yeh, I always end up buying my own Chrismas presents, which means, sometimes I get nothing at all.  That's fine.  It's my life.  Oh, yeh, and I bought a 46" LCD HDTV.  w00t!  The one I have the xbox hooked up to is a 32", sad but true.  What else?  Ah, some stuff for the gkids.   And, I started thinking more about my next road trip.  Still don't know where I'm going, but I need to goooooo.  My daughter told me the other day that she has the Wanderlust, like me.  Oh, yeh, she is sooooo my kid.  If I didn't intend to misbehave, I would take her with me.  Oh well.

Over the next month I won't be posting or on here as much as before with me driving an hour to work and back.  So yes this means I will be actually working from 8 am to 5 pm with a 30 minute break.  Will I enjoy this manual labor?  No I wont and can't wait for my vacation time to start.  Plans have to be made, but then again it is only going to be good when finding a job and getting selected for it as well. 

I have tried Sonic Unleashed and yes it might not be for everyone, but then again I go out to try the games that are different.  Also watch out for articles for the 2Old2Play Art Auctions that might start today.  Help Rebuild the site and just take a look.  All the artist have put time into this and have come back with some really good stuff.  So have a wonderful day and talk to you all later. 

   Okay. Its been a few days since XBox360 owners sat down and struggled with their new avatars. We've had time to look at them and maybe even time to play with them. So I figure now is the time to ask if they have improved life on the XBox for you or not. Also, there were a host of other changes that came along with them. Do the new scrolling pages work for ya? Anybody out there missing the old dashboard yet?

  As for me, I'm gonna withold all comments until I've heard from others. Don't want to slant the answers with my own biased opinions, now, do I?

For whatever it's worth the ending for GoW2 was terrible. No Boss battle! WTF!!? I remember taking forever to kill General Raam and others talking about. Hell Olivia even mentioned it on G4 saying Kevin beat the guy on insane (Most talked about doing it in Co-Op only).

Cliff and his mouthpieces went on and on about how tough Skortch is and we see the guy twice. Two freekin' times!

Maybe it's me.

Since thanksgiving dinner I have had 6 turkey sandwiches, 6. now dont get me wrong, I love them, I look forward to them more than the dinner itself. But tonight I find myself wanting something else, anything else. Problem is I haven't taking anything out, with all the leftovers we have, we have needed to. So what do I do for dinner? What I really want is a big ol meatball grinder, with lots of cheese and maybe some extra crispy fries. Oh god....... my mouth is watering. Guess I'm ordering out, cuz it would take me an hour minimum to make my own.

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