sunday

I have 10 invitations. If you want one, leave me your email address.

It’s everything we’ve always wanted in a decent web browser, but already got in Firefox years ago. Thanks Microsoft!

In the end, it’s just the absurdity of the inane argument.

Dear Register chracks,

What the hell has happened to you cretinous journalists? You’re recent wad of crap about 419 and 420 really is thick short of pigshit. First you put them in the wrong order, 19 comes before twenty, but obviously you never were able to count were you? And all this other shite about bashing wikipedia, now the communist wikipedia seems to be you’re soul source of information. What kind of technology grabbagagge site needs to reference wikipedia to explain what a botnet is. I think you must read wikipedia whilst simultaneously playing with yourself and cutting yourself, that is the only of explaining you’re hate for something you secretly love. You’re scroundrelous circle of tinfoilhatfetishists and wikilovedenial is offensive.

Yours (Up),

WisC

I don’t know why I found this so funny after trackbacking to the first article that ignited the flame (it pretty much made my day). The Flame of the Week in itself is pretty entertaining, but to get the full effect, you’ll have to start with the number 420.

Oh, and if you’re interested, here’s a little tutorial on how to write a proper flame.

Related articles:

• Stop the bots
• 420: the new number of the beast
• 419ers one digit short of a conspiracy theory

Slashdot:

A small startup VCEL (Virtual Communication Expression & Lifestyle) has unveiled a new social networking service for cell phones. All you need to do to keep in contact with your friends 24/7 is to create a profile with their website, download a Java application for your cell phone (more than 20 models are supported already), and send an invitation to your buddies. (I initially thought this was for use with an independent online social network, but it is *exactly* to be used with myspace.com.)

How it works: you can exchange comments, pictures, plan on activities together, etc. You’d have the same control over your profile either from phone or from web browser. They have a nice Java applet for your page, so you can leave your buddies a voice message right from your computer and so on.

I haven’t been blogging as of late because as I mentioned before, I have real work to do now. So to make up for the lack of interesting posts, hopefully this will satisfy you (in more ways than one) for the weekend.

I came across this article like I do every morning when I get to work (RSS) and I couldn’t help but think, is this girl for real? Not because she was so open and unabashed to share her masturbation experiences, but because she actually tried the Jack Hammer Johnson. If you click on any link in this post, please please please click on this one and check out the Story Images.

But I have to agree with the author, Regina Lynn, the JHJ is simply too ridiculous. From the diagrams included in the story, the pogo-stick-for-adults seems too cumbersome for an orgasm. But I’ve never tried it so maybe it really is worth all the trouble and pulled muscles (do you own one?).

Well, I’m certainly not going into any detail about my sex life. Nor will I be reporting any adventures of sex-toy inventions. “Focker out.”

The French have verified that Apple underclocked the MacBook Pro’s graphics chip (ATI Radeon Mobility X1600) while running Windows XP. According to one online report, the GPU’s core runs 35% slower than the clock speed recommended by ATI. The memory clock is 41% below par.

Believe it or not, but I’m actually working at work. (Sounds redundant.) I think they finally figured out there was a bunch of us who didn’t do anything here and now they’re giving us projects (problems) for us to fix. But for some reason, my day goes by slower when I’m not surfing the internet.

What a freaking idiot. Who would actually want to make a 7-hour commute to-and-from work? Although, I can’t help but wonder what kind of car he drives.

For the longest time, I’ve been trying to figure out how to number your comments in Blogger. Most other publishing sites provide this feature, and I wanted to incorporate this as well (alas, stone-age Blogger). Well I haven’t exactly figured out how to make the number link to the permalink, but close enough.

The CSS involves using ordered lists. I found the snippet of CSS from W3C standards for CSS2.

OL { counter-reset: item }
LI { display: block }
LI:before { content: counter(item) ". "; counter-increment: item }

The only modifications I made were adding a class for the comment section, in case I decided to use ordered lists elsewhere, and the number scheme.

You’ll then want to enclose the comments with your <ol> and <li> tags. Here’s my code:

<h4>Comments:</h4>
  <div id="comments-block">
    <ol class="comment-number">
    <BlogItemComments>
    <li class="comment-number"><span class="comment-poster"><$BlogCommentAuthor$></span>  |  <span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="#c<$BlogCommentNumber$>" title="comment permalink"><$BlogCommentDateTime$></a></span>
      <p class="comment-body"><$BlogCommentBody$> <$BlogCommentDeleteIcon$></p>
    </li>
    </BlogItemComments>
    </ol>

And that’s pretty much it.

I know I’m beating a dead horse, but my boyfriend pointed out this article to me in the New York Times, and after reading it, I just had to respond.

I never really knew what bothered my about myspace (and yes, I am bothered by it, sort of like that bad gut feeling) until I read John August’s comment in the article, which he says, “Visit any random profile on MySpace, and you are instantly beamed back to the Bad Old Days of Web design, with flashing graphics, unreadable text and — worse — random songs that start playing unbidden.” (You should also check out the comments of other myspace haters on his blog.) Visiting myspace is a flashback to surfing the internet circa 1993. I know I’m not some stellar web designer (not yet at least), but it’s hard for me to stomach a poorly designed site. (If anyone is interested in a well designed site, check out Veerle’s Blog.)

Myspace isn’t even used for social networking. Most people just want exposure and keep in touch with long lost high school friends (but mostly the former). It’s not only hard to see with the large flashing heart obscuring the badly-colored text, the profiles are poorly written (if there are any coherent sentences). It’s like Xanga on an acid trip.

And it’s not that the site is “unprofessional,” there’s just no method of filtering the new comers. Myspace is the community college of social networks; anyone in the community can enter like crack heads, prostitutes, drug dealers, you get the idea. There’s just no restriction upon entering. And what is up with the “Cool New People” features? Whatever reason are they justified as “cool”? The site, in lacking filtration, allows anyone in myspace, and therefore you get your motley crew of douchbags who message who about the latest party in town or creeps who want to be on your friend’s list because you look cute. It’s deceiving because no one really posts their real information anyways.

I’m probably sounding a lot like a snob with this whole secret-password-please to enter a club. But everyone who went to real college knows that community colleges aren’t really … well, esteemed, and I guess that’s how I view myspace.

But I’m also the kind of person who’ll go against the flow for the sake of rebellion (fuck jumping the bandwagon!). Maybe if Tom cleaned up the site a bit and got rid of the moronic profiles I’ll be his friend.