Month: November 2002

Nov 27th 2002, 00:44 GMT

dive into mark –

[Quote] Syndication is not publication: “Now, like heartburn that persists 2 or more times a week even though you’ve treated it and changed your diet, the idea is back again. “Ban RSS! XHTML is all we need! It’s like, uh, semantic and stuff.” Spare me. (1060 words)” [Quote]

I’ve have Dive Into Mark on my blogwatch for a while. He took a little vacation after Halloween, but now he’s back.

This just struck me as funny:

[Quote] A syndication format that requires valid semantic XHTML markup? Spare me. 9 out of 10 bloggers can’t even spell XHTML. [Quote]

Thanks Gossip :)

I tried out the Alanis Lyric Generator posted by Gossip. These 3 songs (using the same input) are the result… Yes, I cheated a little bit… I wanted to stick with the whole MS bashing theme. I’ve never dated Bill Gates, nor would I want to.

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“Why”

Programmers, Computers, Security Flaws
Why God, Why?
Computers, Software Licenses, Microsoft
Why God, Why?

What have I done to deserve this Blue horror?
Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft
Like a Robert Frost character, I’m wordy and alone
Why God, Why?

Bugs, Programmers, Money
Why God, Why?
Microsoft, Money, Security Flaws
Why God, Why?

What have I done to deserve this Blue disaster that is my life?
Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft
Like a Robert Frost character, I’m wordy and alone
Why God, Why?

What have I done to deserve this Blue misery?
Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft
Like a Robert Frost character, I’m wordy and alone
Why God, Why?

Why God, Why?
Why God, Why?
Why God, Why?
Why God, Why?

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“Will to Live”

I feel miserable
Programmers make me ill
I feel miserable
Computers tear at my foundations
I feel miserable
Security Flaws are dragging me down to the depths of misery
I want to die

Is it because of Microsoft that I feel this way?
With the Blue rays of misery pounding on my brain?
Or am I lost in tale of Robert Frost, adrift far from home
I don’t think so, I don’t think so.

Bill Gates Broke My Will to Live
Bill Gates Broke My Will to Live
Bill Gates Broke My Will to Live
I was getting better but then
Bill Gates Broke My Will to Live

I feel miserable
Software Licenses rot the flesh from my bones
I feel miserable
Bugs defeat my purpose
I feel miserable
Money are doing their best to impale my soul
I want to die

Is it because of Microsoft that I feel this way?
With the Blue rays of misery pounding on my brain?
Am I lost in tale of Robert Frost, adrift far from home
I don’t think so, I don’t think so.

Bill Gates Broke My Will to Live
Bill Gates Broke My Will to Live
Oh God, Bill Gates Broke My Will to Live
I was getting better but then
Bill Gates Broke My Will to Live

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“I Think”

I Think Programmers are really a huge problem
I Think Computers are too much on my mind
I Think Security Flaws have got a lot to do with why the world sucks
But what can you do?

Like a Blue rain, beating down on me
Like a Robert Frost line, which won’t let go of my brain
Like Bill Gates’s ass, it is in my head
Blame it on Microsoft
Blame it on Microsoft
Blame it on Microsoft

I Think Software Licenses are gonna drive us all crazy
And Bugs make me feel like a child
I Think Money will eventually be the downfall of civilization
But what can you do? I said what can you do?

Like a Blue rain, beating down on me
Like a Robert Frost line, which won’t let go of my brain
Like Bill Gates’s ass, it is in my head
Blame it on Microsoft
Blame it on Microsoft
Blame it on Microsoft

Like a Blue rain, beating down on me
Like Bill Gates’s smile, cruel and cold
Like Robert Frost’s ass, it is in my head
Blame it on Microsoft
Blame it on Microsoft
Blame it on Microsoft

Fun with PHP/MySQL

I’m probably way more proud of this than I should be, but look what I just made!

True, it’s no g-blog.net – but it is technically my first database driven website that hasn’t relied on pre-written packages.

I mentioned a project I was going to use to get started writing database-driven sites a LONG time back. This isn’t it, but I’m now one step closer to finishing that.

goes back to futzing with his lame joke database…

(Hey Gossip, how about a “Coding/PHP” category? It could replace “Computers/Programming” which is redundant with “Coding”. Yeah, I know I’m the one that asked for “Computers/Programming” originally – but I didn’t see “Coding” for some dumb reason.)

Edited on Nov 22nd 2002, 17:53 by Hooloovoo

Nov 20th 2002, 18:08 GMT

I don’t know if anyone remembers my blog entries about a couple of friends who have a baby with some serious health problems or not…

(I’d look for the entries and link them, but I’m feeling kind of lazy right now.)

Anyway, I got some news via email yesterday, and some more this morning. UCLA medical center called Sunday to say that they had found a doner. After a small ordeal trying to get from SF to LA, (8 hour drive in about 5 since SFO was fogged in, anda flight wouldn’t have gotten them there in time…) the surgery appears to have been successful and the baby is doing well.

E. is not out of the woods yet, but his survival chances have just gone WAY up.

I’m being intentionally vague, as I beleive the parents are planning to set up blogs, and I don’t want to step on any toes.

Anyway – Cire and Lexi, if you read this, (and create accounts,) drop me a line. I’ll go back and change names in my blog entries for consistency if you wish.

(And yes, I’m just guessing at what user names you’d select…)

More Spam Assassin Goodness

Just checked the spam-box for one of my email accounts. Get a load of this “altered” subject line:
SPAM – Is hot and waiting for you [address removed since I don’t need MORE spam]

The message is from “Allison”, so I think it was supposed to read more like:
“Allison is hot and waiting for you [address removed since I don’t need MORE spam]” (and yes, it appears to be pr0n spam)

The new subject line is much better, in my opinion. 🙂

(lets see – SPAM, pr0n, assassin, altered – that should make for some interesting search hits…)

Frustration.

Wouldn’t you think it’s bad when a company upgrades its firewall and the person primarily responsible for updating content on said company’s live web server can no longer gain access to it because traffic on port 22 (used for ssh) is now blocked?

Or how about blocking all port 443 (https) traffic – which ends up breaking the company’s online store, since customers can no longer access the secure transaction server?

That’s just the tip of the iceburg.

Gah.