A Day in Paradise

This was meant to be an April fools day joke, but I’m to tired to think of something sufficiently funny… so I’ll get right to the punch line. Instead of dealing with mysql and mysqli, xmlrpc and xmlrpci we create a PHP fork called… drumroll please…

OK, enough with the groans… have a good evening and let’s hope someone else comes up with something funnier.

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Wordpress Website’s Search Engine Spam

What bothers me the most about this is the hypocritical stand that the wordpress team took when they hardcoded the rel=nofollow into wordpress. With one hand they block links which most of the time are properly used, and with the other they spam search engines.

Well… they’ve been added to my F*cking spammers category and been banned from google (going from 8/10 to 0/10), so I think that’s enough punishment for one site… let’s kiss, make up and get along with our lives.

I’m very happy that google has smacked this down and hope that they punish all sites that do this with equally severe punishments.

One Small Step For Hand [The Present Tense - BME/News]

Amal’s site is here, which includes a FAQ where he answers the “Mark of the Beast” question. The question that needs to be asked is not “Is this the mark of the beast” which the obvious answer is No, but rather, “Could this be used as the mark of the beast” to which the answer would be “It would hurt like hell to have one implanted in your forehead, but sure”.

I never really understood why everyone associates number 666 with the mark of the beast.

– Revelation 13:16 – And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.
– Revelation 13:17 – And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
– Revelation 13:18 – Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)

Amal says “I don’t see how each unique code could be calculated in some way to 666″, explain to me where in the above verses does it say that is nessesary. Verse 18 refers to the “number of the beast”, not the number of the mark. It sounds to me like it’s only his number that needs to add up to 666.

TechWeb | News | iPods Attract Sticky Fingers | Mar. 30, 2005

From coast to coast, from Canada to Mexico, police blotters are filled with reports of stolen iPods. New York subways have been particularly hard hit, but college dorms from Pennsylvania to California and high schools virtually everywhere are reporting widespread theft of the iPods. Most of the victims are teenagers.

Victims complain that their loss isn’t confined to just the physical iPod, but also to the loss of their downloaded music, often representing thousands of songs.

Reminds me of that bumper sticker “Don’t Steal this Car. It’s already Stolen!”.

NewsForge | Building an Internet radio recorder with VLC Player

One of those things I need to do some day… maybe once I get this friggin bandwidth cap lifted!

Seth Nickell – Design Fu : xshots

You gotta watch the movies… pretty neat effect, the only purpose I can see is to convince your boss you need a new graphics card for your “work”…

I guess there are worse things you can do with your time than coding eyecandy… /me wonders how much time will be lost from now on by people watching the pretty windows.

amaztype

This has got to be one of the most original uses of Amazon web services I’ve seen!

Very clever, very artistic.

I was a member of the “Flash is Evil” crowd for a _long_ time. However it seems that either Flash has matured to a state where it is more useful than an animated gif replacement, or people are at last finding original usages for it and creating truely amazing peices of work.

As seen on UtterlyBoring.com

Poynter Online – The Next Big Thing in Online Type

And they are totally georgous! Well, at least the Serif fonts… I’ve never been very big on san serif fonts. Arial generally gives me everything I need in that department, but Corbel is nice.

Constantia is by far the best. The lower-case ‘f’ is a bit unusual. I also like the italic variation of Candara, quite nice!

Biography for Dolph Lundgren

Interesting tidbit from the “can’t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover” department. It turns out that Dolph Lundgren (actually Hans Lundgren, but that doesn’t sound nearly as scary as Dolph) has a Masters degree in “Blowing Sh*t Up!”… actually from his biography: “Dolph Lundgren attended the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He received a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1982, and the next year was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT.”

Talk about a career change! Other Dolph trivia: He Speaks 5 languages: Swedish, English, German, French and Japanese. Has an IQ of 160. Officially announced his retirement from acting to spend more time with his family.

The last one is probably crap… my guess is that he is preparing for his nomination to run as Vice-president along side Arnie! Maybe he could reveal that his real name was Bert Lundgren, that would make a great team!

Tip to UB

50 people see… – a photoset on Flickr

Thanks to enygma this very cool photoset from Flickr was brought to my attention. Flicker which, as predicted (I really did think I blogged about it), just got bought by none other than lunatech’s new corperate overlords…

I’m betting the first thing that goes from Flickr are the google ads

phil ringnalda dot com: Just how much power does Google need?

Saw this on ub this morning.

According to this theory, Google’s The Dalles server farm could not only get huge amounts of power from the The Dalles Dam, but also use the water flowing through the dam to cool their servers.

Not a bad idea. I wonder if they will also add a human controlled mechanism to flood the server rooms if google gains selfawareness?

I was banging around in computer store and they had a rack of cheap DVDs. I picked out 2 double Silly Symphony DVD sets, everything done in 1935-1936. Some really good classics on there, I’m not sure if I enjoy them more than the kids.

The title is a line from “The Wise Little Hen”…

Gay Peter Pig’s,
So strong and big,
He’ll help her plant her corn.

now I still need to find out why my bandwidth usage is so friggin high! I mean 100mb/day from JUST Working on a live website, IRC, Skype (no talking), Instant Messenging, RSS, and of course mail…

Seems a bit high doesn’t it? Or maybe not…

I can’t find the rhyme in all my reason
I’ve lost sense of time and all seasons
I feel I’ve been beaten down
By the words of men who have no grounds

What if you did?
What if you lied?
What if I avenge?
What if eye for an eye?