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Site Updates cont’d + OMFG

Sunday, April 11th, 2010 at 5:46 am

5. To Do – It’s been brought to my attention that this session variable + themes don’t work in IE OR SAFARI. WTF. It’s a freaking php session variable, not even related to the client side (I believe). Why would it work in FF and not the other 2 sh!tty browsers. I, unfortunately, have to fix this as it’s one of the main items of attraction for my page. Sigh…….why do I have to fix my AWESOME code because of some SH!TTY browsers (and as I write this, I realize it’s probably my shitty code and their proper rendering browsers…).

6. Comment – Did some more cross browser testing and things don’t work perfectly on IE or Safari, not like they do on Firefox. It looks decent though so I might not change anything….Google Analytics tells me that my users are mostly FF users on Windows, this might be biased tho as most of these stats are probably me, as I refresh the page constantly while I’m developing.

My question is: who’s using Chrome? I know who’s using Safari on a Mac (that was easy to determine…)

Upon saving the above image and typing the name “browser.gif” more than 4 times, I incorrectly typed it BOWSER.gif each time…MLIM (My Life is Mario).

3. & 7. DONE + OMFG COMMENT – I just spent the last FOUR of the most boring hours ever copying 83 comments from my old blog to my new blog. The most time consuming part was going back to each post and setting the correct time-stamp. Also, I had to use 2 browsers as well as both my monitors to do this efficiently so I didn’t watch anything either. 4 hours…that’s 6 x 1 hour long episodes (and yes, that math is correct, 4hours=240m=6(40m episodes) because a 1 hour long show minus commercials is ~40m).

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tinyURL and bit.ly

Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 2:04 am

ZOMG. I was going to save this post for tomorrow but something came up that made me really want to write this post today. So many posts today! I have no self control >_< So, I had been using tinyURL for years, since at least 2006 apparently since I have tinyURL links on this page: http://www.horderockcafe.com/version_1/bwl.aspx?content=Links

I’d been using it until I started Twitter last month and noticed that everyone was using bit.ly. I thought “meh”, I’ll just use what I’m using now. Of course, my new resolve of “trying new things out” and “embracing change” made me look into bit.ly.
Note: New me is using/doing: Twitter, Blogging, had a Corona with dinner today, Jailbreaking iPhone, TwitPic, bit.ly + other things I’m sure I just can’t remember atm).

Wow, I’m shocked at the data they keep for each bit.ly! I always didn’t like that if you put the same link into tinyURL, you get 2 different tinyURLs. Obviously, they don’t do a database check of the URL and just assign a new one. What a waste of space! bit.ly doesn’t have this issue, the URL is checked in the database of URLs and if the URL has already been bit.ly’d, bit.ly just gives you the original bit.ly URL. When I looked at some of my recent bit.ly’s

www.bit.ly/aBjCyq – Windows 7 Activation Post – bit.ly’d 1924 times
www.bit.ly/Hmuy1 – Heroes of Neworth Beta Account – bit.ly’d 917 times

The top one has been bit.ly’d almost 2000 times. That’s 2000 saved URLs and rows in a database.
Note: tinyURL does the above now, I just checked. 4 years ago, they did not as I remember testing it out before and getting disappointing results

I was looking at the tinyURL combinations and thinking that they would/should probably remove the curse words so things like:
tinyurl.com/fuck
tinyurl.com/shit
don’t work…much like they have to eliminate these types of words & acronyms on license plates.

Well, I actually gave tinyurl.com/fuck a shot and it redirects me to some random page, http://www.gfgfgf.com/

tinyurl.com/shit (and this is what made me LOL and HAVE to post this today), redirected me to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006GSNX
It’s an Amazon page for Ratchet and Clank for the PS2. I LOL’d.

And then I wrote this post. and now I’m ridonculously tired. I will proofread this tomorrow….

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Welcome to Earth Prime

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

POSSIBLE JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON TWO EARTHS SPOILER. Not really part of the plot, more the philosophy behind the premise?

“With the coming of man came the illusion of free will and with that illusion came chaos. With every choice we make we literally create a world. History branches in 2 creating 1 Earth where we made the choice and a second one where we didn’t. That’s the secret to the universe you know. Billions of people making billions of choices creating infinite Earths.” – Owlman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

When I listened to this, all I could think about was the conference tool we’re building.

Will you attend this event? – Yes? No?
Would you like to stay in a Hotel? – Yes? No?
Do you require a smoking room? – Yes? No?

ABSOLUTE CHAOS. AND WE HAVE TO BUILD IT. WE ARE THE ARCHITECTS OF CHAOS. WE ARE GODS. in our own little way.

Sorry, you’re probably disappointed in this post :S
*I* found it interesting but I guess you had to be here, in my head :/

Tags: Justice League
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I am so Visual Studio 2000 and late

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 11:31 pm

I was trying to make an update to a site at work today. It’s currently built on the asp.NET 2.0 framework and created mostly with Visual Studio 2008’s Design view. While spending more time than I should have on such a simple update, I realized that my skill level is simply too low. So low that I can’t figure out the basics of how this site works. I dunno WTF I’m doing. And let’s face it, web is EZ MODE.

I’m so frustrated. I like figuring things out. I’m a good debugger. But I’m so lost here…I haven’t had this feeling in a while. I used to have it studying for exams at UWaterloo…not being able to figure stuff out. It’s not something I’ve felt for a while…and not a feeling I want to reoccur. Argh! So frustrated. Frustrated with myself. I can’t keep blaming WoW for everything but goddammit, what was I thinking for all those years. Life just passed me by.

This weekend is Visual Studio and asp.NET weekend. I’ve read enough manga and fan fiction (sorry Karol, still not caught up on Sky’s). I’ve watched enough movies. I really need to refocus on my web development skill.

This feeling…will not come up again.

Well, it will, but not for the same thing. This I vow! MY PRIDE – YOU WILL BE AVENGED! FOR FREEDOM! FOR JUSTICE! FOR ODIN! FOR ASGARD! FOR THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM!

my posts always end in idiocy.

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