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August 2004

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Of SPAM, IRC and geeky things

Posted by J.A.S.O.N. on 30 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Babble, Internet

This little exchange amused me greatly. It might not amuse you, but, then, it’s my blog, right?

her: Yes, blog comment
her: I *think* it was foreign spam
her: Quote:
her: You female human are not the only one with that problems.All humans live for entartainment.
her: Or dont you play games, watch movies or masturbate.
her: Humans please give up to try the perfection stuff.
her: If it’s not foreign, I really haven’t a clue. Maybe it was a Klingon.
me: I’m sorry, “masturbate”?
me: All male fantasies aside, I’ve not met a woman that actually admits to it
her: That’s what they said.
her: lol
her: URL
her: [URL removed]
her: Name
her: Gimp Tutorials Mum
her: I think it was spam.
her: Just freaky weirdo spam
her: Freaky weirdo spam that will remain unapproved, I might add.
me: yeah. All the gimp tutorials are at http://gimp.org/tutorials/

She talks about freaky SPAM and the best thing I can come up with is where the real location of the GIMP tutorials is…

Geekdom, I have arrived!

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404 Message to die for

Posted by J.A.S.O.N. on 27 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Internet

404 Error message found while surfing:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I websurfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious website of ‘hot chicks galore’,
While I clicked my fav’rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour.
“‘Tis not possible,” I muttered, “give me back my cheap hardcore!” —
Quoth the server, “404″

Commence laughing.

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Most requested IE featuers

Posted by J.A.S.O.N. on 25 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Internet

According to Ithis post at IEblog, the most requested features for IE are:

# Tabbed browsing (far and away the most requested UI feature)
# Richer popup blocking (more than whatâ€™s in XPSP2)
# Better printing (donâ€™t chop off the right inch of the page, etc)
# Richer, easier Favorites
# FavIcon fixed and used in relevant places in the UI
# Inline search (search field in the IE chrome)
# Richer Find dialog and functionality
# Find as you type
# Page Zoom
# Better keyboard support
# Roaming of settings / favorites / history
# Skins / Themes
# Mouse gestures
# Richer Download Manager functionality
# Better ability to delete browsing history / cookies / autocomplete / forms data
# Richer (and better documented) UI extensibility for toolbars, menus, right-click menus, etc.

So, in other words, people are asking for FireFox? Cause, if memory serves me well, FF handles most of that list now (not sure about page zoom).

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Google IM client?

Posted by J.A.S.O.N. on 24 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Internet

Via /.

How Google Could De-Throne AIM :: Apple-X.net :: Condensing Fact From The Vapor Of Nuance.

How many of you would hop onto an IM client/network powered by Google?

I would in a heartbeat.

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Distraught

Posted by J.A.S.O.N. on 23 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: Rants

Crystal’s already posted about it, but I feel the need to add my 2 cents.

For those that either didn’t click on the above link or can’t decipher Crystal’s marathon paragraph, let me inform you:

Yesterday, we witnessed a car pull directly in front of an on-coming motorcyle. As you can imagine, a crash ensued. A bad one. Not more than maybe 10-20 ft in front of us.

Crystal wasn’t looking directly at the vehicles when it happened. I was. I seen the car move, the motorcyle hit the car, the poor lady on it keep going while her bike AND LEG stayed put. All in under a second. Words can’t really describe how it looked. It’s a scene only victims and witnesses can describe. The closest thing I can related to it is if you put a life-sized human doll on a motocycle and crashed it.

That wasn’t even the worst part. I mean, it was enough to put me into enough shock that Crystal got her cell phone out first to call 911, but not the worst. The worst part was her screams. I don’t know if she realized what happened to her leg or not, but she knew she was injured and it had something to do with her leg. I could hear that poor woman screaming over all the cars, through my sound insulated doors and my air conditioner.

Fortunately, there was a nurse a few cars back and plenty of people with materials to help stem the bleeding. Her husband (ironically, a police officer in a neighboring city) showed up fairly shortly after the paramedics to provide the required information to the medics. Medflight arrived shortly there-after to transport her to the hospital.

We later discovered that the woman lived, is recovering in the hospital. No word on if they can or are planning to reattatch her leg.

Now, I want everyone to focus on the fact that her LEG was severed, probably ripped, from just below the knee. That it landed next to her bike, barely 15 ft from where she landed.

Now that everyone’s focused on that, and the surgeries, recovery, thereapy (physical AND mental) and court cases this poor family has to endure. Imagine it for just a minute. Now I want you to know that the person in the other car, you know, the one that didn’t even bother to take 2 seconds to check for on-coming traffic before making a turn into said traffic, yeah, them, wasn’t even harmed. No scratches. No broken bones. Maybe some bruising. Definitly no missing legs.

Does that make you as angry as I am? All the pain this poor woman’s going to go through. Her life will be turned upside-down (twice if her leg can’t be re-attatched). In less than a second this poor woman was handicapped and almost killed all because a driver was in too much of a hurry to bother to check for on-coming traffic. Because she didn’t take 2 seconds. Seems like 2 seconds is a mere pittance in the grand scheme of things, but in a mere fraction of that, because of the other driver’s bad judgement or total lack of judgement, this woman has to suffer.

The first person to say “well, the other driver will suffer mentally” or anything of the ilk gets their IP address banned. A few months in therapy for the other driver is a mere pittance compared to what this woman and her family will endure. the driver may have to life with the knowledge that she hit someone, but the woman has to live with teh fact that she was hit. At the end of the day, the driver will walk home, possibly to her husband and children, and think to herself “at least I wasn’t hurt”. That sound fair?

Accidents happen in this country. There really isn’t a way to avoid them all. However, how many would be avoided if we pulled our heads out of our asses, did the friggen speed limit and, heaven forbid, PAYED ATTENTION TO WHAT THE HELL WE WERE DOING?

Now excuse me. I need some advil.

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