Sunday 27th of February 2005
Protect your banana
It never really ocurred to me to carry around a banana on my backpack when I’m going around and about, but I guess it has to some people.
Are you fed up with bringing bananas to work or school only to find them bruised and squashed? Our unique, patented device allows for the safe transport and storage of individual bananas letting you enjoy perfect bananas anytime, anywhere.
The above quote is from Banana Guard, the amazingly, patentened.. banana guard. I kind of like the Banana Bunker better thought. I think I may get one to display just for the controversial factor if it. :p
Tuesday 22nd of February 2005
This time, the walls are shaking!
I made fun of it in the past. I admit it. And I’m about to eat my words. I like punctiations. Really. I do. Ehem.
Hide yourself under the long skirts of ugly old women! (no offense, they’re just a very strategic place to hide; no one in their right mind will look for something there) Wikipedia is down! D: -a tripped circuit breaker caused the Wikimedia servers to stop chattering and mayhem has ensued. I found out when I wanted to look up again which city has the largest metropolitan area in the world (Mexico DF is either second or first, if my memory is not failing) and I was handed an error message telling me to check back in a few minutes. A few minutes later, they probably diverted their DNS to another server and they informed the people of the power failure.
It’s getting worse now though, every single thing that sparks my interest, I vainly go: “uuh, let me look that up in Wikipedia!” only to seconds later come to my senses and remember what’s going on. “Curses!” I say.
Honestly, not having it has made me notice how much I need it. They have an off-site backup of the fundraising page, so go donate some dough. I order you.
Friday 18th of February 2005
Educational videos
A while ago I saw walking with cavemen, an educational series by the British Broadcasting Corporation. This spurred me into finding more of them, and they do have quite a bit to choose from. I recently finished Hyperspace (with your friendly host Sam Neill!) and today I decided to look for more.
HaXXXor was brought to my attention, combining hacking with pr0n is an incredible idea, I just wish i had thought of it first. :p
If you’re tired of other videos making empty promises they have no intention to deliver on, we are your solution. Armed with real girls showing all of their hardware. The 2 Percent Crew proudly presents HaXXXor!
They also have a second volume, complete with a pirate girl talking about piracy methods and p2p applications. Pardon me, but would ya mind if fired me cannon through your porthole? Arrr!
Then I searched some more and found Linux virgin:
This amusing series chronicles Karla Grundick, an eager linux groupie schoolgirl, as she is taught how to build a computer by Mistress Koyo, the cyberpunk linux expert. Also starring Roy, the voyeur, and Dog Big, the masturbating Rottweiller.
These lovely and humanitarian girls already have their first episode out. Excuse me while I start this torrent.. for purely educational porpuses, of course.
Wednesday 16th of February 2005
Kyoto protocol: today
I’m watching euronews on the tube box and I was remembered that the Kyoto protocol comes in force today, as of roughtly 5 hours. Interestingly, of the 141 countries that have ratified the treaty and will have to lower their green gas emissions, the United States of America, the country with the largests emissions of planet Earth, is not one. In Bush’s words:
The world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. This is a challenge that requires a 100 percent effort; ours, and the rest of the world’s. America’s unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
Even more interestingly, China emits 2,893 million metric tons of CO2 per year (2.3 tons per capita) compared to 5,410 million from the USA (20.1 tons per capita), and 3,171 million from the EU (8.5 tons per capita). And while they are exempted initially, they will have to start meeting the goals entering the next decade. The USA now has the economic up-hand againts contries that did ratify the treaty and now have to find other ways to get electricity other than a cheap but very dirty coal plant.
And not to bash on the USA alone, Australia did not ratify the treaty either. Hum.
Tuesday 15th of February 2005
Uh, upgrades
Today WordPress 1.5 was released, and in a grand moronic display, I ran and deleted all my files and uploaded the new ones without reading the documentation. I figured it would have been the same as other upgrades, but nope. They introduced this theme system, so after figuring out what happened, I procceded to converting my current design into a theme so that I could use it. I think I’m finally done.
Make sure to hit refresh on your browser, so that you cache the new css; otherwise stuff might look wierd.
Other changes, I moved login widget to the right of the top bar, and it will now notice when you are logged in (and tell you so). Also, if you are registered and logged in, when you post a comment it will pull your info from your profile, so you’ll only be presented with the comment text area. I also started using mod_rewrite to get the php links to look a bit more permanent.
I added an implementation of the time_since() function, so instead of the specific date and time when the comment was made, it will now display how long ago since the time of the actual post was that comment in question posted. Might not be as user-frieldly as I thought. Basically the same codebase also gives us the time of the day that is now found after each post (x at night, x in the morning).
I’m considering making it so that you must be logged in (and hence, registered) to post a comment. Comment spam is becoming a real pain in the ass. I also might extend this user stuff a bit more. Later.
Sunday 13th of February 2005
It can be toggled now too!
Continuing my previous endeavors with the almighty sidebar, I played around into the unknown lands of JavaScript (to me, at least) and managed to get the sidebar panels to show/hide upon clicking on the header of each of the panels. If you like, you can see the pertinent JavaScript here.
I tried using images that would toggle with it, a minus and plus widget, but I didn’t like how it looked in the end, so out they went. It seems to degrade alright too, panels just display expanded when you turn off JavaScript.
It is persistant! -if you do happen to have cookies enabled, it will save one with the position of the panels, so next time you come read some more of my blasphemy, the panels will be just like you left them last time you were around.
And.. that’s all it does for now. Maybe next upgrade I can get it to make butter toasts.
Wednesday 9th of February 2005
Felling a je ne sais quoi
Nah, I think I know what it is, it’s only a month and four days away. And how can you not be exited about going to a place where they sell USB powered nail polishers? It brings me such furor, I think i need one of these to calm down.
Anyway, thinking about it today brought to my mind some questions. First, the plane. You see, I absolutely love being in a plane, but i hate getting on it. I start thinking about all the possible ways it might blow up in the middle of the flight, how an engine could be shittly bolted on and just keep on going forward, leaving us on a celestial free fall, or how the flight attendant could happen to be some obnoxious ugly woman. Apart from the ugly attendants, it’s always been fine though.
I seem to have a sort of racism againts boeing planes, I just seem to like the Airbus better. Boeing gives me this aura of “doing more with more” instead of doing “more with less”; sort of like the Voodoo5 6000 vs. Geforce 256 back in the day. The Geforce being the Airbus. :p -And while my predilection problems are attenuated (it is an Airbus), sadly, I’m too early for it to be a A380. That thing is big.
Then I thought, can you actually tell if a person is Japanese, or Korean, or Chinese, et cetera; or is it all a big blur? -I don’t think I’d have a problem, guessing Japanese will probably give me a good right againts wrong ratio :p -but still, the question stands. I decided to test my perception skills and while I only got 4 wrong.. I think I rolled too many 19s and 20s. Damn i need to play some vampire, d&d; something, my die of doom is dusty, lonely and sad.
I’m having an obscure connotations day. And, damn, I’m hungry.