In case you were wondering, here is 24 Ways to lace your shoes... be creative.

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photo from nathan

So, last night, I went to see WAR OF THE WORLDS. I am sure most of you have heard that it is good. The ending is pretty abrupt... almost as if they were getting tired of filming it, so they decided to drop the ending in there really quick. The acting was amazing, the special effects were amazing... the sound was not. Well, at least in the theater I went to... The surround sound would cut out about every 10 minutes and then come back on about 5 minutes after that. It was so annoying.

Anyways, thumbs up for WAR OF THE WORLDS, thumbs down for Tom Cruise and his scientology...


I am coming home to the boro tomorrow morning. I should make it to church to give a quick "hello" to everyone. So, until then...

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photo from ellie

Burgels are a great idea brought to you by nathan and ellie... burgels are the next big thing in NYC...

photo from nathan

So, I thought this was so cool that I hung it on the wall at work...

I have had so many problems with my hosting company in the last 48 hours. Please excuse the fact that PhuseBox has been down or slow for much of today.

I am working with my hosting company to get this problem solved, not just fixed temporarly. Bare with me!

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photo from ellie

So, I received teeth transplants yesterday. What do you think?

photo from nathan

So this is the first photo that I uploaded with the moblogging script that I wrote.

So, today officially marks exactly one month since I started programming PhuseBox.

I'd say, things are looking pretty nice for only being here on the web for one month. PhuseBox currently has 370 total users (most from Mufreesboro, TN, my hometown)...

I am now averaging 10,079 page views per day (very nice).

To celebrate my one month, I think my hosting company decided to give me slow service and poor customer support.

So, sorry if the site was a bit slow this afternoon or you received error messages. I have talked to my web hosting company and everything should be settled now. If thing like that happen in the future, bare with me and I will get it fixed ASAP.

Keep spreading PhuseBox to everyone you know. I am continuing to work on some new features and work out some bugs in the system. I am hoping to get enough users that I can switch to a dedicated server (faster, more space, bandwidth, etc.)...

Continue to let me know of any problems that you run into and I will try my best to fix it or offer an explanation.

Thanks again for making PhuseBox what it is!

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photo from nathan

So Tag wanted to join in the hip-hopping fun today in the office... it was great.

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YEAH... so hip-hop dancing is something I will never do again! I HAD A BLAST! However, I just could not keep up with the class. Though, it was funny to see eveyone else try too.

That is it. No photos or video (sorry). But it was a lot of fun. Oh, and by the way, we did warm-ups at the beginning... some of the stuff I had not done since 7th grade gym class. A 6 ft. 4 inch giant cannot touch his toes! Anyways... fun night... got to hang out with the same people from the Boro (they go back home tomorrow)... and people from New Hope New York.

It was priceless. I now will retire... from my hip-hop dance career and to bed. I have a video shoot early in the morning.

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Well, I think I have been persuaded to do something I thought I would never do. In a few hours, I will be in a hip-hop class, poppin' n' lockin'.

This is something that a bunch of people from the office have been planning since last week. I said no from the start (if you have ever seen me even attempt to move in any way, you know why)... 6 ft. 4 inches of awkward movement with Ichabod Crane arms... yeah.

Well, today, they finally convinced me to go with them. The whole office is pretty much doing it (I guess it was the peer pressure). So, I am going to go waste $14.50 on an hour hip-hop lesson, but it will be fun. That is the only reason that I am doing it (and to see everyone else make fools of themself too)...

So, me, Nathan Moore, in a hip-hop class... what is this world coming to? I feel the embarrassment approaching quickly... and if you happen to pass by on 74th street, please do not look through the window...

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photo from nathan

Tonight was really awesome. Dinner at RED with some people from Murfreesboro was a lot of fun. We then walked down to Ground Zero.

A large group was there (obviously from some church in town for the Billy Graham Crusade). Quietly, one of the girls from this group started to sing. At first, you could only recognize that she was singing. Her voice was too quiet to recognize anything else.

Slowly, a few more from her group joined in. Eventually, there were about 15 or so people singing worship songs at the top of their lungs at the fence at Ground Zero. It was AMAZING and very encouraging.

As people walked by, they could not help but glance over to the group with several hands raised toward God.

This went on for quite some time as the girl that started it all would pick up another song when one ended.

We left before they stopped singing, but as we walked back to the apartment, I could still hear them singing a block away tunes from Amazing Grace and Shout to the Lord.

The group that I was with tonight then came back to our apartment and went to the roof where we hung out for quite some time. It was a lot of fun hanging out with some of my regulars now but also some new people that I never knew from Murfreesboro.

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I have been spending most of today working on the PhuseBox site. I am experimenting with some new features, so don't adjust your computer monitor if my site has some color to it.

I am trying to decide if I can offer users the ability to change the colors of the site AND still keep it looking clean. My goal behind this site was to make a site with sophisticated blogging and nice features. I think that too many colors (and other stuff) may take away from the purpose of the site.

I am also working on a new feature that will make photo uploading extremely easy from anywhere.

I have also added/updated several other things that most of you will never notice.

Keep messaging me with problems/bugs or suggestions for the site. PhuseBox has been around for ALMOST one month. Thanks to everyone that has made it a hit!

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Well, I have been extremely busy the last few days. I have basically been working on a series of videos that will be shown at PAINT THE TOWN at the end of July...

Today, I ate lunch at a place called Joshua Tree... it was excellent. One of the best meals that I have had since I have been here... and it was very affordable as well. Speaking of which, I need to stop eating out... my funds are near gone.

Anyways, I am coming to the Boro for the 4th of July... (July 3-6)... Maybe I will get to see some of you soon!

This weekend, I will be working on some of the major bugs with PhuseBox (especially some of the group problems)... More features are being added as well. PhuseBox is about to get a lot better.

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Today (June 22) is a very very cool person's birthday. In 1973, Carson Daly was born.

errr... just kidding, well, it really is Carson Daly's birthday, but it is also someone else's birthday. So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RACHAEL! I miss you!

And I would like everyone who reads this blog to message her today and tell her a quick happy birthday even if you do not know her. Message Rachael by clicking here!.

So there ya go! Happy Birthday, Rach. I hope you enjoy it (and enjoyed the pre-birthday celebrations of about 3 weeks ago)...

And I must also say happy birthday to Chas as well.

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photo from nathan

By the way, this is my building, THE EXCHANGE. I guess you would call me lucky.

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I officially started my "job" today at New Hope New York. My first assignment is planning/producing a series of videos that will be presented during the rallies at Paint the Town at the end of July.

I have to set up several interviews. I think I am going to go shoot some footage from around the city tomorrow.

I love the city. I love living here and riding the subway uptown to work in the morning. I love being able to walk down the block and being able to eat anything from chineese to authentic italian food. The city just seems like a perfect fit for me.

I am currently sitting in my apartment watching FRIENDS on TBS... which is much different when you are actually IN the city. (so is SEINFELD)...

There is a BORDER'S right around the corner... i think i will go hang out there for a while.

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FROM XANGA'S UPDATE PAGE:

"We know, we know - comments have been down for too long!!

Rather than wait to hear back from our vendors on how to easily recover the comments, we're just going to re-enable commenting.

We'll be restoring comments from a backup over the next 12 hours. It will take time for your comments to re-appear on your site! Please bear with us - it will take some time, but we figure that this way... at least we can all use the site in the meantime.

We're working around the clock to get the comments back onto site ASAP. We're very sorry for this, and will keep you posted on updates as soon as we have them!

UPDATE 12:45 pm, EST: It's taking longer than we had hoped to re-activate comments. Our first plan didn't work, but we have some alternative paths we're taking now. As soon as we have a sense of timeframe, we'll post an update"

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laughable. that's all. more features to PhuseBox coming soon (and you can leave comments, unlike xanga's current position)...
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So today, I found my absolute favorite store in New York City. Ever since I have arrived, I have wanted to find a really good art supply store. So today, finally, (right after eating vietnamese food), I found a place called Utrecht on 4th Ave.

Wow. Heaven in NYC. It was the largest art supply store that I had ever been in! I bought a few canvases and some paint... and they are priced really well too. Carrying large canvases on the subway proved to be a more difficult task than I thought, but it is all well.

I also helped put together a loft bed from IKEA tonight for Ellie. Yeah, I don't like IKEA anymore. After three hours of frustration, we finally got it together. I think IKEA's goal is to frustrate people with their vague instructions and pieces that barely do not fit.

Anyways, that is what I have done today... Not to mention that we definitely beat the BCI group at Scene It three times in a row (do not mess with the Scene It All-Stars)! I stayed pretty busy the entire day and just now got home (after over an hour trying to get home)...

Quick note: I am making note of all the bugs that you are telling me about the site. I will try to get to all of them in the new PhuseBox that I am still preparing. Keep letting me know of any new problems you come across! Thanks!

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I have been trying to check/leave comments on some Xanga sites, but ever since last night, when you click on comments, it says the feature has been disabled for maintenance.

Is anyone else just tired of Xanga and how they are doing "maintenance" ALL THE TIME?!

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photo from nathan

Today, I went to the taping on the Conan O'Brian show in Rockafeller Center. It was an awesome experience!

I went with Adam and two of his friends. They are in NYC for the weekend. Anyways, the four of us went and waited in the waiting line for almost 1.5 hours (and we even had tickets but we wanted good seats)...

So the show consisted of Ethan Hawk, Carson Kressley (from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), and The Redwalls. It was pretty good except Carson had some really off-color humor. It may be cut out of the show, but it may not.

Anyways, so, if you can handle the off-color humor, you should watch it tonight. Even though I am not on camera any (I was on a side wall), I was there. I would not really reccomend you to watch it, but if you do, I was there.

And, they did a bit where it shows the audience quite a bit, but it was pre-recorded with a different audience on a different day, so don't look for me.

Anyways! Lots of fun. Now I have to do laundry.

Sidenote: for people that I am supposed to e-mail, I have no way to SEND OUTGOING email from my apartment. My Fed-Ex packages got here and they are fine. Thanks for doing that!

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ok. So for the past 24 hours, I have been competing against two other minitry teams in a 24-hour video scavenger hunt in New York City. That's right, all of New York City... Manhatten, Brooklyn, Queens, New Jersey, etc...

We were dropped off Wednesday afternoon at the airport with nothing but one cell phone per group, our metro (subway) cards, and a CD-ROM... Long story short... we had to find a place to read the CD and then print the clues to the hunt.

We were not allowed to contact the other teams, go back to any apartments, bring our own money, etc. They left us with $80.00 in team money.

So, long story short, it is now THURSDAY EVENING and I JUST got back from the 24-hour "Amazing Race" video hunt.

I HAVE NOW BEEN UP FOR 35 HOURS STRAIGHT! - and you should try that sometime.

However, I did learn my way around New York City... and had several interesting encounters including: walking through Harlem at about midnight, begging for food/money, finding our way all the way back to Manhatten from the airport, have 500 people sign a fake petition, going to Times Square at 4AM (and surprisingly, it is pretty empty)... those sorts of things!

It was a ton of fun and my team won! So that added to all this madness. I am seriously tired and feel that I will sleep till Saturday.

This was my welcome to me from New Hope New York.

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I have been working on several new features for PhuseBox today. Unlike when I have made changes to the site in the past, I am going to keep these changes on a testing site first, and release it when everything is stable and I am happy with it... this could be a few days or even a few weeks.

I can tell you that I have some really awesome additions in the works... I am also getting around to fixing all the bugs.

Keep giving me feedback on how you like/dislike the site!

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Today, I started to program some new features into PhuseBox that will be available soon. I am reworking some of the control pannel options and things like that. When I launch the new version of the site, I will be taking into consideration your input. Please, continue to give me your feedback by remarking on the previous post about USER REQUESTS.

Thanks again!
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Well, it has been just over two weeks since I started programming PhuseBox. I cannot believe that we have almost 200 users in the first two weeks. Keep spreading the word and I will do my best to make this the best blogging community on the internet.

So, after two weeks of existance, I am asking you, the users, what features that you would like to see added to PhuseBox in the future?

What is your take on music?
What is your take on cutom layouts?
Is the interface easy?
etc... just ramble in the remarks about what you like or dislike or what you want to see...

I have exciting ideas ahead including a new way to get photos onto your PhuseBox site... that is coming soon.

Thanks in advance for the remarks!