Invader's-rant
Public Service Announcement: DO NOT USE INTERNET EXPLORER!!!! Definition: MySpace [Mai' thpathe] (pronounced with a lithp), N. - 1. A shrine to Terrible teener web programming, the worst M$ driven Web2.sl0 has to offer.

2005-11-24

LIONS Boy!!!

BEER N LIONS you Sumbitch! [waves fist in air] waRARABRBBABABBEBARRABRRBR BUD LITE WRARARRBWBAAEABBABAA STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM WABARARARAAAABABAAA scaaAAAAATTTTT bring me nother beer!!

AWWWW DADD.....

...SHUDDUP BOY and Get me another longneck!!

2005-11-08

Why use an alternative browser at your company(and yes, PLEASE DO!)??

If you need anecdotal evidence why Opera or other alternative browsers should be allowed to be installed and/or installed by blanket policy, I gots that too!

I'm the IT director for rapid appraisal, inc (http://www.rapidapprasial.com), and I had a problem that was easily solved with Mozilla.. but this can be used to push _ANY_ alternative browser..

Two weeks ago a co-worker of mine accidentally clicked a link !off of www.yahoo.com! and, without confirmations or any notice whatsoever, infected our entire terminal server. 6hrs, a company-wide bitch-session, and a pot o' joe later, termsvr was clean and SANS-I.E.!! Any of our sites that require IE were created as shortcuts - "iexplore.exe http://foo/bar.asp".

I have now seen a 20% reduction in memory usage and a 60% reduction in CPU. IE is horribly inefficient. and also, popups are no longer an issue! yay!

oh and no relapses.

The infection pathogen was MySearch bar and it's outlook parasite, one of the harder bugs to get rid of.

all casual surfing and research in terminal services is now done using an alternative browser under penalties of i revoke their access if i catch anyone in IE for anything other than sites I've approved. and i watch histories.

There ya go, tell that to your it guy. If necessary hes more than welcome to email me via my blog.

blogger post bodies redux

GACK WTF?! why the hell arent my post bodies showing up when posted with opera anymore!!!??? SUCK S**t thru a Short Straw!!??!!

and i Refuse to not use opera.

I have found a workaround for the time being.. at the top of blogger sites there is usually a bar that allows you to search and has a button called BlogThis!. using the BlogThis button allows body and subject to post successfully.

Version 8.5
Build 1358
Platform Linux
System i686, 2.6.11.4-20a-default
Qt library 3.3.4
Java Java Runtime Environment installed
Browser identification

Opera/8.5 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)

2005-11-07

blogger post bodies

GACK WTF?! why the hell arent my post bodies showing up when posted with opera anymore!!!??? SUCK S**t thru a Short Straw!!??!!11

2005-11-01

Briddes Roune

http://magnatune.com/artists/briddes_roune

two of the three hold PhDs in scince related fields and the third was headed that way

Robin Snyder: Voice, Harp and arrangements
Ph.D. in statistical physics, June 2001.
Currently ass't professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University and was a postdoc researcher at UC Davis in the evolution and ecology section.

Robin Houston: Harp and Recorder
Ph.D. Veterinary parasitologist at UC Davis.

Kathryn Canan
B.S. in Biology

Yet another example of how the best science related people are almost invariably musicians or artists as well.. further confirming the concept, that at the pinnacle of ars et scientia, the two streams of consciousness merge perfectly.

Even language is a science and music is very mathematical.

Later!