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Current mood: calm
Category: Web, HTML, Tech

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Currently playing : Warioware: Smooth Moves Release date: 15 January, 2007

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A Good Reason To Let People Tailgate You
Current mood: apathetic

When you drive at higher speeds, I'd say around 40 mph and faster, your tires kick up grains of sand and possibly gravel type stones. To a car following close behind you this acts as a sandblaster. Well, not quite as bad as a sandblaster but kind of like it. Over time the paint on their hood and bumper is gonna get freakin' RUINED. So, ya know, let them tailgate you so you can aid in this process. Serves them right!

1:39 PM - 4 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

Stupid Banner Ads
Current mood: moody

I hate stupid banner ads! You've all seen them.

"That ugly skank married that douche bag?!?!?!?! THEY HAVE 247 KIDS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? ".

"This magic JPG image is smart enough to know your computer is infected with a virus! Click here to find it for FREE but in order to remove it you will have to pay us!"

"Which celebrity is this?! A)Vanilla Ice, B)a tree, C)the internet. Guess right and you'll win a free $500 product that doesn't exist yet!"

"Shoot 20 terrorists and you'll win a piece of string!"

...and so on. Probably the worst ad I've seen so far is one for lowermybills.com. Whoever they hired to create their ads should be fired immediately. You see the crazy tripped out rainbow landscape. When you hover your mouse over the image this charicatured 3d rendered pig goes nuts trying to run after your mouse cursor. Meanwhile, mortgage rates somehow inscribed into the landscape fly by and trail off into the distance. It's absolutely insane. What normal person would be coerced by this ad to have this company finance their house!? "Lets see. I could go with my bank, some other reputable financial institution, OR THIS COMPANY WITH THE LUNATIC TRIPPED OUT 3D PIG!!!!! THE CHOICE IS OBVIOUS!"

10:34 AM - 7 Comments - 4 Kudos - Add Comment

MySpace, why you so busy?
Current mood: grumpy
Category: MySpace

I'm beginning to notice this more and more. I'll be browsing around MySpace and find that I want to read someone's blog or look at their pictures. I'll click the appropriate link and instead of seeing what I expected to see, I am greeted with a "Server Too Busy" message. Why is it so busy? What is it busy doing? Cooking dinner? Driving the kids to soccer practice? Taking the car in for service? Vacuuming the carpet? Mowing the lawn? Washing the dishes? Taking out the trash?

MySpace, do you really think someone with a highspeed internet connection is gonna wait around until you're available?! COME ON! My message to MySpace: know your limits and don't overbook yourself.

Currently listening : Speak For Yourself By Imogen Heap Release date: 01 November, 2005

6:03 AM - 3 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

MySpace, who you tryin' to fool?
Current mood: cynical
Category: MySpace

Let's see, how many other fake things can I find on MySpace. This time I'm talking about the audio visualisation on the MySpace music player. Clearly it is not a visual representation of the frequencies present in the waveform. This is most easily noticed in silent or near silent portions of songs. There's no sound but those little bars are still going wild. MySpace, do you really think someone with a $500 music program is gonna be fooled by that? COME ON!!

I plan on making a song called "The MySpace Music Player Is A LIAR!" and the entire song will be completely silent. I guarantee those little bars will still go crazy all the while thinking, "I'll just pretend I know what's going on. I'm almost positive music is happening right now. I mean, who would post a song that is completely silent?" That will totally expose them!

Man. I better stop. I'll probably be kicked off MySpace if I keep this up.

11:33 AM - 2 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

MySpace, what are you tryin' to pull here?
Current mood: angry
Category: MySpace

Even more light has been shed regarding this "Your Network" topic. Now I'm starting to get a little bit peeved at MySpace. After I wrote my last blog I was just foolin around with MySpace. At some point I just kept refreshing my admin page. Ya know, the page that has the "Your Network" statistic near the upper right. As I refreshed the page over and over I noticed something. My "Your Network" number changed each time... well kind of. Here's what the number was each time:

53,281,224
53,277,514
53,289,051
53,289,059
53,277,514
53,277,514
53,280,948
53,277,514
53,289,059
53,289,059
53,214,533
53,289,051

I could go on but you can already see that there are quite a few repeats. Mere seconds seperated the "calculation" of each of these "statistics". It's hard to believe that number would fluctuate up and down so much within seconds. It's equally hard to believe that it would fluctuate and hit an exact number it had previously been. Total BS! It's very insulting. I question that there are even 53 million MySpace users. Arrrrrg. Just stupid. Absolutely stupid. They simply have a list of large randomly generated numbers and each time you view your admin page they take one of the numbers and spit it onto the page. The end.

10:23 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

WTF is with that "Your Network" statistic?
Current mood: FREAKIN SCARED
Category: FREAKIN SCARED MySpace

First let me say I think MySpace is pretty darn cool. I just had to say that since this is my second blog in a row poking fun at MySpace and I just don't want anyone to think "If you hate MySpace so much then why do you use it?!" Not that anyone would read this anyway, but I digest.

Now with that out of the way... yeah, so WTF is with that "Your Network" statistic? I find it a little rediculous. At the moment I only have 20 MySpace friends. Compare that to the several hundred friends some of the more MySpace-savvy people have. My 21 friends gives me an extended network of 52,820,742 people! What is the point of even telling me that? It's not really my network. It's basically just a lot of other people who happen to also use MySpace. It would make sense if it was around 1,000 or so within a few degrees of seperation of you. Then you could browse or search through the people your friends know and find some people you might also like to be friends with. It's 52 million though!! Where do you start?

There are even people with a few thousand friends. How big is their network? I'm just ball parkin' it here, but it's gotta be a least a trillion people. The world population was 6,499,697,060 the last time I counted and only 15.7% of the world population uses the internet. That comes out to 1,018,057,389 e-people. After a few calculations you'll find that 1,018,057,389 is less than 1,000,000,000,000. That's a BEST CASE scenario people. You can be fairly certain that not all of those billion or so internet users are on MySpace. So where do the rest of those people in the trillion person "Your Network" come from? Even if the entire world population was on MySpace, that would mean MySpace would have to create 993,500,301,940 fake MySpace users. Dang, the Cheat!

So, my whole point is that you should be careful about who you approve as a "friend". After all, there are 993,500,301,940 fake MySpace users out there.

Note: These figures are accurate as of the time I posted this. The world population increases at about 3 pps (people per second). Assuming the percentage of the world that uses the internet remains constant at 15.7% as the world population increases so must the number of internet users. It follows that as the number of internet users increases, the number MySpace users will increase. Geeze, do I have to spell it out for you? OK... as the number of MySpace users increases, MySpace friend networks will naturally get bigger and bigger resulting in exponential "Your Network" growth. MySpace will be forced to respond by creating more and more fake users. So if you're reading this tomorrow the number of fake users may well have reached the 2 trillion milestone. Don't say I didn't warn ya.

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My first blog entry and a comment about MySpace
Current mood: blah

Damn, MySpace. Why you gotta be foolin' on me. That damn "Cool New People" section gets me every time. I go to my MySpace page to edit something and right near the top are 3 "cool new people". I get all excited thinking, "Cool. I have some new friends!" or, "What the? Who are they?!" It's really just MySpace saying, "Look. Here are some people. They're not your friends, but here they are." Probably if I played my cards right some of them could become my friends, but that still doesn't change the fact that MySpace teases me.

11:53 AM - 2 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment