Technical Butterfly

Myspace is cool. Lots of bands and cool people have pages. Famous people are just like regular people and regular people can be famous!

There is even now mydeathspace which is for online obituaries.

But I don’t like myspace. And here is why.

When I use it I see the bugs. I see the bad usability. I look at my messages which apparently has unread messages which I can’t see. The count values on results pages just do not add up with what I am seeing. I tried to talk to an old friend using its mail service, and it stopped sending me new message emails. It shows me all the things I hate about software, and all the area’s where as a programmer I can see it going wrong for me if I were to write something similar.

Now I don’t blame the creator and programmer/s (if there are multiple now). I think its fault was the speed of popularity that didn’t allow for large testability, or know how to cope with demand. Which can make anything fail.

But that didn’t stop any every day punter. Only the cynical programmer types

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21365280%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html?from=public_rss

43% - we will conquer the world! (Or at least kick your ass at online gaming.)

When I am upset I cook.

Yesterday I Mark had:

• Ginger Gow-gees w/ soy, lime, chilli, garlic dipping sauce
• Fresh corn bread
• Lentil roast (like a meat loaf but with lentils)
• Crunchy waldorf salad (made from real waldorf’s*)
• Roast baby-veges (corn, eggplant and carrots)

It was all excellent. I made a huge mess and it took about 5 hours all up. It will also last us DAYS in left overs.

All was made from scratch (okay so I did buy the gow gee wrappers) all recipies followed to the letter (well except for the removal of onion).

* 5c for any correct answer to that obscure reference.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWJJBwKhvp4

I also am a zero - I can wiggle my ears.

There ARE spoons

what you should learn from being a hogwarts student

“Insisting that the school acquire computers and network the buildings is a pointless request as they claim that a quill and parchment is sufficient. *scoffs* n00bs.” 

Long, but funny

http://jacobsangel89.livejournal.com/12164.html

• Luna Lovegood does not have pointed ears, nor is she to be addressed as ‘Galadriel’.
• Lucius Malfoy also does not have pointed ears, nor is he to be addressed as ‘Haldir’.
• Professor Snape definitely does not have pointed ears, and under no circumstances is he to be addressed as ‘Spock’.

I have upgraded my blog to a new template that includes widgets. It reminds me of Spares by Michael Marshall Smith - which is probably why I chose it.

But on to the post..

I am currently in the final stages of planning a wedding and purchasing a house. The one thing that both of these activities have in common is the Internet.

I brought my house by viewing properties online, we chose our solicitors, real estate agent, building inspectors and floor polishing guy purely by surfing the internet. Now their might be better people out there for all of the above tasks, bu they did not have websites.

My wedding is happening in a venue I saw online, I am staying at a place that had an okay website, and I have not decided on a florist yet, as no florists in Port Douglas or the Daintree Village have websites. So I might have to go on advice from the wonderful woman whos property I am booking, and her recommendation for flowers and their merchants.

I find that with everything I do now, that if it does not have a website or enough information on the website I am less tempted to do business with these people. I don’t even use Yellow pages online, or white pages online UNLESS I know exactly who I am after. I use google, because I know the results will warrant me websites as results, where only 1-5% of people in yellow pages have website links. What good does that do me? I can not get the information I require from a small 4 line or less add than I can from a website.

I have found that even those with crappy websites are getting my attention - because I can see what I need to see, I can see methods, philosophies and people.

Its pure snobbery, but its so much easier to do my homework at night and call during the day - than have to call around until I get a top list of people. I am sure I am not the only one like this.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/23/bush-says-he-uses-the-google/

“the bush” is sooo funny when he is trying to speak like he knows what the hell is going on

I am Time Magazine’s person of the year. No really I am. Check it out. 

Well maybe they don’t specifically know me. I am sure they weren’t online late at night in an Australian Chat room on Dalnet under IRC playing trivia with an automated bot those years ago, for a 3 month obsession and net relationship.

And I am sure they never read the ‘zine I co-wrote one issue of. Babygoat.. the 10 people who read it will remember forever.

I’m positive no time magazine editors or writers read any of my 10 journals from 1998 to 2002. They didn’t read Daily rantings, or No Rain, or Gibberishness or whatever I named the in-between incarnations.

I guess I was too hip too soon. I never got into myspace, because well I had a geocities account, and was part of the diarist.net and livejournal bandwagon. They were pre-cursors to myspace, so why join in when it is popular right?

So here is to all the people who were around from the beginning. When the listing at diarist.net was only in the low 1000’s. Here’s to those who started the online tales of their lives. Heres to those who took us on painful journeys where they could not conceive and the trails of adoption. Here are to those who shared their pain, and eventually ripped our hearts out by taking their own lives. Heres to those who did an entry every day and then made us cry when they lost an autistic son wo we had all shared in the frustration and love of those boys. And here are to those who have shared their tale from being a whitty bachelor in kalamazoo to fathering a beautiful daughter, and getting a book deal out of the process.

I raise my non-alcoholic sulphur-free psudo wine to you, and to us, the forerunners of blogging. The ones who wished they had thought of myspace and livejournal first. Cheers.

http://www.thefifthdistrict.com/potter/

watch for the 3rd snape