Using your head

In what was arguably the only interesting development that happened in the world of Soccer (hehehe), I just had to know what the hell happened with the French team captain Zidane. Just go on YouTube right now and see what the most viewed videos are.

What can I say, I’m a sucker for sports violence. In any case, it’s about high time things got messy in Soccer… gimme some more of that and maybe I’ll consider calling it football.

Marco Matterazzi called the French star the Italian equivalent of nigger, and then insulted both his mother and his Muslim background by saying he is the “son of a terrorist whore.”

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Programming is like sex

… because:

  • One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
  • Once you get started, you’ll only stop because you’re exhausted.
  • It takes another experienced person to really appreciate what you’re doing.
  • Conversely, there’s some odd people who pride themselves on their lack of experience.
  • You can do it for money or for fun.
  • If you spend more time doing it than watching TV, people think you’re some kind of freak.
  • It’s not really an appropriate topic for dinner conversation.
  • There’s not enough taught about it in public school.
  • It doesn’t make any sense at all if you try to explain it in strictly clinical terms.
  • Some people are just naturally good.
  • But some people will never realize how bad they are, and you’re wasting your time trying to tell them.
  • There are a few weirdos with bizarre practices nobody really is comfortable with.
  • One little thing going wrong can ruin everything.
  • It’s a great way to spend a lunch break.
  • Everyone acts like they’re the first person to come up with a new technique.
  • Everyone who’s done it pokes fun at those who haven’t.
  • Beginners do a lot of clumsy fumbling about.
  • You’ll miss it if it’s been a while.
  • There’s always someone willing to write about the only right way to do things.
  • It doesn’t go so well when you’re drunk, but you’re more likely to do it.
  • Sometimes it’s fun to use expensive toys.
  • Other people just get in the way.

from Digg

Nargalzius v7?

I’ve been fiddling around once again with my source code and have come up with a working alpha of what I think I want v7 to look like. I say alpha because I only just did the blog index page… and even that isn’t complete.

Anyways here’s what it will look like (hopefully)

A bunch of paradigm shifts have taken place – one is, of course, the fact that I’m starting to not care about 800×600 anymore. When surfing on the net, there is so much real-estate on the current websites that looking at my 800×600 friendly site gives me a really ancient feeling.

I don’t know when the new version will be up – I still don’t have a new header/footer for the site (not to mention container graphics to encapsulate the whole thing). Then when I’m done with that, I’m gonna have to redo all the context-sensitive formatting stylesheet for blog postings (like how a quote or code will look like). Then when I’m done with that, I’ll have to start thinking of ways to fit the new, wide layout to the gallery or music page.

Just thinking about them makes me want to give up.

AllofMP3.com

I just created an account on AllofMP3.com. I’m wondering why, after hearing about it ages ago, I only signed up now. Was it because of all the buzz surrounding it nowadays (it has been mentioned several times on the more popular tech podcasts out there)? It also seems strange that I should choose to “sign-up” just after the legality of the site has been put into question.

But after I heard that the hosts of Digg actually use the service… I thought “Hey, who cares if it’s legit or not!” Here are high(ish) profile American hosts who openly admit to using the service (among other things) and not getting arrested for it. I guess it wouldn’t hurt to partake of the benefits of using it as well. And to me, until it’s proven beyond any reasonable doubt that it is indeed an illegal operation (and promptly shut down); and as long as it’s not phishing my credit account info, I’m considering it legal no matter what other people say hahaha.

In all honesty, aside from the whole legality issue, I really believe that AllofMP3 has nailed music distribution for consumers perfectly. I’m definitely going to use it – and I’ll tell you why you should use it too.

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