When it comes to the web, I prefer to stay on the server, where it’s safe. I love the stability of the environment I get in server side code, and I detest the client side chaos that goes on in the faggotry of browser wars and their incompatibilities and differences.
If I can, I try to avoid scripting completely. In the current state of browser affairs, I don’t feel like I can rely on Javascript for anything more than decoration and minor UI enhancements. When I do have to work with Javascript (and by that I mean any client side scripting language), I do it in a very conservative, “1.0″ way.
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You’d think that the Logitech G15, the greatest achievement in keyboard technology known to man, would react better to the common task of removing the keys to clean the coke I just snorted all over it (I’m talking about the drink; the G15 handles powder spills just fine). And yet, now the keys are sticking if they’re not pressed exactly in the middle.
It seems that the plastic hooks that keep the keys upright don’t take too well to bending, and now that I pried them out, the bent hooks let the keys play from side to side. So pressing the key slightly from the side will make it tilt and get stuck in its shaft, making it hard to press, and sometimes making it stick.
One of the greatest offenders is the left Ctrl key, which now makes it hell to copy and paste, and the F key, which now makes it hell to tell Logitech to go Fuck themselves for making me consider dropping a hundred bucks every time I want to clean my keyboard.
My problem with internet advertising is that during my entire decade or so of browsing, I haven’t once seen an ad for anything that I’ve ever been even remotely interested in. I don’t see it happening any time in the future either, unless ad targeting systems somehow learn to scan my mind for my deepest desires. A lot of this is because I live in a small, obscure, European country (the local websites of which I do not browse), which makes my relevant ad domain a lot smaller.
But the main issue is that ads are the internet equivalent of cold calls. And cold calls are deplorable because they assume that I’m somehow incapable of finding what I want on my own. If I want a product to perform some specific task, then I will search for it. I don’t want to be constantly reminded that there’s an application that can insert gay ass smilies into my emails. I’m not interested, I don’t need your products, and I don’t want to hear about them, because I am not going to buy them, period. When and if I, for some reason, start needing a gay smilie application, then I’ll Google it. I will then commit seppuku to retain my honor.
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