October 2008
57 posts
[tech] Disemvoweling →
“In March the Vatican updated the traditional seven deadly sins with seven new...”
– http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1852747_1854195_1854179,00.html
“a network that will allow sensor-enabled physical objects — appliances in your...”
– http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1852747_1854195_1854158,00.html
If the world could vote. →
Seems people in my country (venezuela) are a bunch of idiots.
How did YOU discover tumblr?
onemoretimewithfeeling:
bunkercomplex:
mascarah: I’m interested to know…how did you find tumblr? who/what introduced you to it? And lastly, when is your tumblr anniversary?
supersonicelectronic: I believe David Chois how I discovered tumblr. And I discovered his site through Amir Blumenfeld’s blog. I also became an avid reader of Jakob Lodwick’s tumblr at some point. My tumblr...
PHP Coding Standards →
Cool stuff for my geeky-organized-control-freaked mind.
On group dynamics
randomgadabouts:
Lives - Facebook in a Crowd - NYTimes.com
Word of advice: when holding parties for people you sorta know, you have to make sure you are also inviting people they know.
That party he was trying to have was never going to happen. Those 700 facebook contacts probably don’t all know each other. Its simple group dynamics. Very few people are willing to take the risk and go...
onemoretimewithfeeling:
evanwalsh:
“Space...
“OMG. My socks are seriously clashing with my shoes. Good thing I’m only at...”
– http://twitter.com/Quarkomatic
This kinda made my day. :)
WatchWill Ferrell & Tina Fey: Bush Endorsement
"I can't imagine a President being named Obama" →
From digg.
Watchonemoretimewithfeeling:
sds:
radarchive:
soxiam:
Baby on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Oh wow. It started off cute and descended into disturbing.
Wha…? I’m speechless.
OMG this is priceless. Can’t stop laughing
[tech] javascript events take two clicks to go...
I’m having an issue with jQuery that I can’t quite figure out. As usual, my tech woes have to do with javascript. But I’m not even sure how to describe this issue, so I’ll explain what I’m doing.
There are 5 sections of content. Each section has a heading image (with pressed/not pressed states) and a div with text in it that is by default hidden. The behaviour is...
Giant Spider Eating a Bird caught on Camera →
Photographs of a giant spider eating a bird in an Australian garden have stunned wildlife experts. The pictures show the spider with its long black legs wrapped around the body of a dead bird…
GMail gets auto-replies →
You can now save a reply you’re writing as a “canned response” and then quickly select one of these responses when you’re replying to a future e-mail.
13 MB of Data Usage
I’m so pissed. I don’t use my blackberry data capabilities. Here’s why: I have a 1.5 MB plan that I pay $15 for. If I so much as rollover the browser icon I’m sure I’ll use half my plan in the process. What I didn’t know was that the gmail app for blackberry runs in the background, effectively using 13 MB of data without my permission. That is 11.5...
Banksy: Let Them Eat Crack [PICS] →
Urban art legend Banksy – at least we think it’s him – offers up his take on the recent finance fiasco. Trust him to say it how it is. Banksy goes to great lengths to ensure he is never caught on…
Hacked Logic
Me: http://pleasefixtheiphone.com/
Co-worker: he he this is good
Co-worker: some of this stuff i can do with my jailbroken phone
Co-worker: "entire screen clickable when I take a picture" - Snapture does that
Co-worker: "Unwanted standard iPhone application icons can't be hidden. I'm never going to check stocks." - Poof does that
Me: "I want my Ferrari to have the back like a pickup truck" - Yes, that could be done by "hacking" away at the car but then it wouldn't be a proper Ferrari. It would be a "hacked" up piece of shit. The quality would suffer and it would generally look like ass. Same thing for iPhone.
Co-worker: my phone looks amazing... and it's still an iphone (which has a vista skin!)
Me: I rest my case.
“Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for dinner. A republic...”
– Digg commenter.
Wohoo blog.yasmary.com
Is up and running. :D
Changed to a custom domain for my tumblr. Not working quite yet. The check domain feature is functioning, but when going to either http://blog.yasmary.com/ or http://yasmary.tumblr.com/, I get a “We couldn’t find the page you were looking for.” message. Note that I changed the IP “A” record like a week ago.
"Its the way things work", an example of... →
Jon Stewart on McCain's 'new' speech →
on discussing old issues
Me: haha i'm mentally unstable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive-compulsive_personality_disorder
Todd: "Adopting a miserly spending style toward both self and others; money is viewed as something to be hoarded for future catastrophes"
Todd: hehe
Todd: Sounds like someone
Me: haha
Me: "Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost"
Todd: I have the opposite: BTFA Disorder
Me: whats that
Todd: "Being too fucking awesome"
[tech] Web Dev Documentation & Useful Links
I compiled a list of documentation links and tools I use everyday when I work. This is a mixed list, some design tools, some programming stuff. I’m kind of a hybrid. I’m a PHP Programmer, but I like my stuff to look good. So…
Documentation I access regularly PHP Documentation Smarty doc prototype api PostgreSQL doc Prototype Validation Adodb Documentation script.aculo.us...
WatchWow. That looks damn awesome.
Different Types of Chess [PIC] →
“The new Blue Mountain website sucks.”
– Me.
Site: http://www.bluemountain.ca
YouTube adds “Read Comment Aloud” feature from... →
“Heroes. WTF.”
– Just caught up to the first episode of this season.
In Afghanistan with the ISAF (pics) →
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is the mission established by the UN Security Council in 2001 to secure parts of Afghanistan to allow the establishment of Hamid Karzai’s new…
The world will end in 2012?! →
The reason why the world will end in 2012. :]
McCain's platform
marco:
…from tonight’s debate:
Enact a “spending freeze” on the government. But it must buy every bad mortgage. And keep all current tax cuts. And cut taxes further. So we’re going to stop spending money by spending more money and making less money.
Invest heavily in alternative energy sources, which include “hybrid” and “battery”, apparently without spending any money since we’ll be in a...
Olbermann--It's Palin doing the pallin' around w.... →
Olbermann in sarcastic form, taking on Palin’s stupidity for talkin’ trash on Obama…
PHPBench.com was constructed as a way to open... →
US Military threatens to kill pet of deployed US... →
A US Solder, held in Iraq over 15 months longer than her original commitment to the Army, saved a puppy some months ago. The puppy was scheduled to be shipped out of the war zone to the soldier’s…
[tech] Exporting emails from Thunderbird to...
… its a nightmare.
I tried this aaprently famous and proved option, but it didn’t work for me.
Had to download Eudora, import some non-extension thunderbird files into it. Open Outlook Express, import from Eudora through some work around way (selecting import from Netscape using the pref.js file from Thunderbird). Then import from Outlook Express into Outlook 2003.
Here are the...