Well... I decided to take the plunge and buy a domain:
Point your browser to: Pressure To Bear...
I am sure that I will not post there either.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Moving Blog...
This marginally better than unmaintained blog is moving... Point your browser towards Skirting the Periphery...
Then again, I am sure it will have about the same level of posting frequency as this damned blog.
Then again, I am sure it will have about the same level of posting frequency as this damned blog.
Saturday, October 08, 2005
How To Create Content For Your Weblog...
Hey, look... a blog posting about how to add content to your weblog. How fucking original: 10 Ways To Create Content For Your Weblog.
At one point I bookmarked things like this in del.icio.us or spurl to give me some fodder to blog, then I realized that these people are just trying to spur themselves by blogging this redundant, useless tripe. This isn't a how-to or shove in the right direction, it is just a place-holder due to the fact they have nothing to post, and many others don't as well.
If you can't think of something to blog, don't.
Why blog out of obligation or due to thinking this is what you should do? My blog is an exercise in futility... it is read by no one and rightly so, since it has no meaning. I am fine with this. At least I have no delusions of its being or my reasoning to occasionally journal with frenetic intensity the contents of my ill mind.
If you need to spur your blog, just delete it and read other people's thoughts.
Categories: blogapathy, apathy, "how-to", "ideas", sarcastictags, blogging
At one point I bookmarked things like this in del.icio.us or spurl to give me some fodder to blog, then I realized that these people are just trying to spur themselves by blogging this redundant, useless tripe. This isn't a how-to or shove in the right direction, it is just a place-holder due to the fact they have nothing to post, and many others don't as well.
If you can't think of something to blog, don't.
Why blog out of obligation or due to thinking this is what you should do? My blog is an exercise in futility... it is read by no one and rightly so, since it has no meaning. I am fine with this. At least I have no delusions of its being or my reasoning to occasionally journal with frenetic intensity the contents of my ill mind.
If you need to spur your blog, just delete it and read other people's thoughts.
Categories: blogapathy, apathy, "how-to", "ideas", sarcastictags, blogging
No Rain...
California is a dry place. I have lived here for two months and not seen a drop of rain on the ground. I will admit that I have seen the dirty, droplet-shaped marks on my car twice that allude to at least fifty drops of rain falling in the area.
It is hard to imagine that I would miss the rain so damned much. Rain gives life; I love the clean, glistening look of the roads and the shimmering sheen on the foliage's leaves as they increase their respiration following a downpour.
Just a day of rain to cleanse the area of dust and detritus is all I ask. Why must the weather be so damned "nice?"
I hate the lack of rain almost as much as the song regarding no rain...
U-Turn Pandemonium
I have realized in my short time in California that the legality of U-Turns is not a privilege. U-Turns are a necessity due to poor city planning.
It seems as if roads and intersections are created with any thought to where people would have to turn or what would increase the throughput of the roads. Mere abundance is the goal, not people arriving at their destination easily.
Why would city planners create a division in a barrier that would more effectively allow drivers to turn directly to their destination and lessen traffic congestion when you could more easily just use an unchanged, cookie-cutter road template and have the people take their "free" U-Turn? Sure, these people slow the people that are actually turning, but why should they care? It is a law...
It seems as if roads and intersections are created with any thought to where people would have to turn or what would increase the throughput of the roads. Mere abundance is the goal, not people arriving at their destination easily.
Why would city planners create a division in a barrier that would more effectively allow drivers to turn directly to their destination and lessen traffic congestion when you could more easily just use an unchanged, cookie-cutter road template and have the people take their "free" U-Turn? Sure, these people slow the people that are actually turning, but why should they care? It is a law...
Saturday, September 10, 2005
One-Day Weekend...
You have to love a one-day weekend. It allows you to catch-up just enough that you can't do anything for yourself.
Perhaps laundry can be done, or cleaning. It sure is nice to be able to work so much that you have no personal time whatsoever.
In related news, I have been remiss in my attempt to log my thoughts, dreams and wishes in this format. Moving and starting a new job have become all my world.
I have also installed Firefox 1.5 Beta 1, which has completely hosed the vast majority of my extensions. This takes me off of the hook for my lovely extension a day idea (of two months ago). I will more than likely re-dl them and change the version numbers in the install.rdf portion of the xpi, but I don't really want to do so as two of the three that I did manipulate their info were buggy as hell.
I guess I just get to wait for a bit.
Perhaps laundry can be done, or cleaning. It sure is nice to be able to work so much that you have no personal time whatsoever.
In related news, I have been remiss in my attempt to log my thoughts, dreams and wishes in this format. Moving and starting a new job have become all my world.
I have also installed Firefox 1.5 Beta 1, which has completely hosed the vast majority of my extensions. This takes me off of the hook for my lovely extension a day idea (of two months ago). I will more than likely re-dl them and change the version numbers in the install.rdf portion of the xpi, but I don't really want to do so as two of the three that I did manipulate their info were buggy as hell.
I guess I just get to wait for a bit.
Friday, July 29, 2005
Floor Blogging...
I am currently posting to this weblog from the ground... literally on the carpet of my apartment. My computer is one of the last things left after the movers took away my possessions.
Perhaps I will take a picture and post it as soon as I have my USB linker (that I foolishly packed).
BTW... It is tough to type on the floor, but an optical mouse works just as well on carpet as it does on a table.
Perhaps I will take a picture and post it as soon as I have my USB linker (that I foolishly packed).
BTW... It is tough to type on the floor, but an optical mouse works just as well on carpet as it does on a table.
Monday, July 11, 2005
FDA Approved Drug Allows 40+ Hours of Wakefulness With Minimal Side Effects.
Real Tech News - Independent Tech » Modafinil - the Scary Time-Shifting Drug
via Digg.
I am going to make a guess that this drug will soon be the new darling of the black market.
I cannot even imagine the ramifications of this drug's release for all-night cramming sessions. If kids aren't all tweaked after studying all night, having worse retention than the kids that actually read the book, how are students that don't use drugs going to compete?
I can't wait for this to hit the mainstream legal prescription drug-taking population to hear the horror stories of lives destroyed and families ruined. Or perhaps to lives regained after being able to use their newly-found wee hours.
I doubt that the come-down is as rosy as the article suggests. Messing with your body's circadian rhythm has potentially debilitating side-effects. This would more than likely shift your time so that, without the drug, the person would be unable to regain their sleep schedule.
Being the skeptic that I am, I checked-out Google News to find stories on this drug and its authenticity. This Gizmag article is much better than the previously linked article; it has information about military trials and such. An abstract from the British Journal of Psychiatry also sounds fascinating (but I am not going to hunt it down--it is sad to not have access to articles online).
Categories: drugs, sleep, fda, timeshift
via Digg.
I am going to make a guess that this drug will soon be the new darling of the black market.
I cannot even imagine the ramifications of this drug's release for all-night cramming sessions. If kids aren't all tweaked after studying all night, having worse retention than the kids that actually read the book, how are students that don't use drugs going to compete?
I can't wait for this to hit the mainstream legal prescription drug-taking population to hear the horror stories of lives destroyed and families ruined. Or perhaps to lives regained after being able to use their newly-found wee hours.
I doubt that the come-down is as rosy as the article suggests. Messing with your body's circadian rhythm has potentially debilitating side-effects. This would more than likely shift your time so that, without the drug, the person would be unable to regain their sleep schedule.
Being the skeptic that I am, I checked-out Google News to find stories on this drug and its authenticity. This Gizmag article is much better than the previously linked article; it has information about military trials and such. An abstract from the British Journal of Psychiatry also sounds fascinating (but I am not going to hunt it down--it is sad to not have access to articles online).
Categories: drugs, sleep, fda, timeshift
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Mad for Firefox Extensions: InfoLister
I will admit it; I am a Firefox extension addict. I currently have 52 extensions enabled for Firefox, and I would say that I use about 75 percent on a daily basis to search the web.
I see numerous posts on popular websites referring to the "top-ten" extensions or the "best," but mainly these articles are just showing gimmicky features that do not add to the browsing of the interweb. In an attempt to make myself post more often, I am beginning a series focusing on my favorite Firefox extensions and how they enrich the web-browsing experience. This list will be in order of preference, but I will begin with the obvious first choice for the extensophile: InfoLister.
InfoLister is an extension that lists the information about what extensions, themes and plug-ins are currently enabled in Firefox (or Thunderbird or NVU). I was going to highlight significant snippets regarding the extension, but their website has some mal-formed XML. Here is the homepage anyways. Maybe it will be functioning by the time anyone reads this article.
Thanks to the power of Google to turn anything to HTML, I was able to visit the homepage and obtain this awesome info:
The only reason that I even have this extension is so that I can easily show people what extensions I have enabled. You can also upload it to an FTP or do other wonky shit, but I just go into the extension manager, click on options then choose "show information" on the General tab. This opens a window that displays the information about extensions and such. After Highlighting the contents and using CTR-C, the pasted info looks like this:
You can download InfoLister from their website or at the Extensions Mirror (an excellent website for extensions updates and tips).
Categories: firefox, extensions, unhacks, tips&tricks, reviews
I see numerous posts on popular websites referring to the "top-ten" extensions or the "best," but mainly these articles are just showing gimmicky features that do not add to the browsing of the interweb. In an attempt to make myself post more often, I am beginning a series focusing on my favorite Firefox extensions and how they enrich the web-browsing experience. This list will be in order of preference, but I will begin with the obvious first choice for the extensophile: InfoLister.
InfoLister is an extension that lists the information about what extensions, themes and plug-ins are currently enabled in Firefox (or Thunderbird or NVU). I was going to highlight significant snippets regarding the extension, but their website has some mal-formed XML. Here is the homepage anyways. Maybe it will be functioning by the time anyone reads this article.
Thanks to the power of Google to turn anything to HTML, I was able to visit the homepage and obtain this awesome info:
Features:
• High customizability
• HTML, plain text and XML output.
• FTP upload (help page)
• Quick access: toolbar button and “about:info”” in the Location Bar.
The only reason that I even have this extension is so that I can easily show people what extensions I have enabled. You can also upload it to an FTP or do other wonky shit, but I just go into the extension manager, click on options then choose "show information" on the General tab. This opens a window that displays the information about extensions and such. After Highlighting the contents and using CTR-C, the pasted info looks like this:
After going to the Google HTML-ized version of the homepage, I realize that I could have simply put "about:info" in the URL bar. This clearly shows that, although I enjoy the added functionality of extensions en masse, I am still using only a fraction of the potential that these extensions add to Firefox.Last updated: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:00:41 GMTUser Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4Extensions (enabled: 51, disabled: 1)
- Aardvark 1.0
- Adblock 0.5.2.039
- Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3
- All-in-One Gestures 0.15.2
- Allow Right-Click 0.1.1
- BetterSearch 1.8.7
- Bloglines Toolkit 1.5.6
- BlogThis 0.3
- Bookmark Backup 0.3.3
- Bookmarks Menu Button 0.2.3.2005012802
- BugMeNot 0.6.2
- Compact Menu 1.7.2
- Coralize 0.4
- CuteMenus 0.4
- del.icio.us 0.5.5
- Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0
- Download Manager Tweak 0.6.6
- EMbuttons 1.1.3
- Extended Statusbar 1.1
- Firesomething 1.7.0
- Flipper 2.9
- FLST 0.8.3
- Forecastfox 0.8
- Furl Tools 0.6
- Gmail Notifier 0.4.3
- Greasemonkey 0.3.3
- InfoLister 0.8.2
- LastTab 1.1
- Linkification 0.9.20
- LiveLines 0.4.2
- OpenBook 1.2.0
- Platypus 0.5
- Print 0.2.2
- Print Preview 0.4
- Research Buddy 1.02
- Resizeable Textarea 0.1a
- Sage 1.3.5
- ScrapBook 0.15.5
- Scribe 0.21
- Signature 0.3.1
- SmoothWheel 0.43.1.20041107
- SpellBound 0.7.3
- Spurl 0.35
- Stop/Reload 1.1
- Tabbrowser Extensions 1.13.2005030502
- TargetAlert 0.8.8
- Text Link 1.3.2005070402
- text/plain 1.1.5
- Toolbar Enhancements 0.16.2
- URL Link 1.06
- Web Developer 0.9.3 [disabled]
- “About Firefox: Soviet Edition” 2005.0606.1552
Themes (3)
Plugins (13)
- Google VLC multimedia plugin 1.0
- QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- Shockwave Flash
- Shockwave for Director
- RealJukebox NS Plugin
- RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit)
- RealPlayer Version Plugin
- MetaStream 3 Plugin
- Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 4
- Adobe Acrobat
- Microsoft® DRM
- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library
You can download InfoLister from their website or at the Extensions Mirror (an excellent website for extensions updates and tips).
Categories: firefox, extensions, unhacks, tips&tricks, reviews
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