I Love Babies
I’ll get some cute or funny pictures everyday.
Woot new computer! It installed Dreamweaver MX 2004 in 35 seconds!
Yay Finished Skinning
I finally finished most of the skinning - a WordPress skin based on this layout. I even made little icons for the lists! Well check it out. I’ll clean up the source codes soon and publish it.
Apple Vs. Microsoft joke
Three Microsoft engineers and three Apple employees are traveling by train to a computer conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple employees buy only a single ticket.
“How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asks a Microsoft engineer.
“Watch and you’ll see,” answers the Apple employee.
They all board the train. The Microsoft engineers take their respective seats, but all three Apple employees cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, “Ticket, please.”
The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes the ticket and moves on.
The Microsoft engineers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Microsoft engineers decide to do the same on the return trip and save some money.
When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Apple employees don’t buy any ticket, at all.
“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asks one perplexed Microsoft engineer.
“Watch and you’ll see,” answers an Apple employee.
When they board the train the three Microsoft engineers cram into a restroom and the three Apple employees cram into another one nearby. The train departs.
Shortly afterward, one of the Apple employees leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the Microsoft engineers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please…”
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Not necessarily a MS/Apple joke, but pretty funny nonetheless. If only Apple was this smart in real life and had Microsoft pwnt to the washroom.
Some Investigation Shall Take Place
I’ve discovered something quite shocking. It concerns the privacy of Gmail.
If you use both your Gmail account and your hotmail/yahoo accounts, go to your Spam/Junk/Bulk mail in your accounts. What difference do you notice? I see that the spam messages vary significantly.
For Gmail, I’ve categorized my spam messages into some categories
- Web Design & Promotion: flash, html/php, coding stuff, software promotion on search engines etc.
- Health: pharmacies, pills (legal and appropriete ones)
- Business Management: software, training, etc.
- Banking: ads and “earn more money” things
- Technology: Computers, Game consoles, MP3 players
For hotmail/yahoo, all of the messages are pretty general. There are everything, including all the inappropriete stuff to post on a personal site. More than half of the spam is that.
My primary email is now my gmail one, and use it for my everyday purposes, including web design conversations, paypal/bank/website payment, new gadgets newsletters, and some statistics for certain sites.
Sounds familiar?
It’s just absolutely amazing how the spam messages are directly related to the normal messages I have everyday in my Inbox, the ones I receive and send.
Gmail promised the users’ privacy when viewing/sending email messages. The ads are just there to get some attention for the Google paying ad agencies. But the fact that I’m receiving unsolicited email with the same content as my email messages is kind of queer isn’t it? Or is it?
Now Yahoo/Hotmail doesn’t have this “problem”, or rather a phenomenon. I do the same for my Gmail and Hotmail email addresses - I don’t post them anywhere. For online registrations that require a real email address, I rethink my decision. However, my complaint is not that I’m getting spam anyway. It’s that Gmail seems to know what kind email messages I have, and sends spam emails according to my interest.
Deeper: Is it safe to continue using Gmail?
If this was true that Gmail negotiates with 3rd-party spam agencies to send me annoying messages, what’s the matter? Even though I don’t consider my messages as confidential, I do respect some privacy. But what could Google ever do with my information? Sell them? Woopdido I’m not going to school on Friday.
More important, why is Google related to spam companies? What’s the gain for the G man here? As far as I see it, nothing. I don’t even read my spam messages. I just look at the number of new spam messages just to be amused at how well Gmail catches spam. If no one even reads those messages or even clicks links, there is no profit for those advertisement publishers, which means no profit for Google. Yet I still have the number 200 as the spam counter, and it’s increasing. What is Google really getting?
My nose is bleeding probably because I jabbed one of the legs of my glasses into my mouth, or something. I’ll stop typing.
Ipod Shuffle Cases
Funny how so many vendors decided to make cases for an mp3 player that’s smaller and lighter than a pack of gum.
3:14pm
I was waiting for Dreamweaver to load and noticed this on the bottom right hand corner of my screen.
3:14, Pi, π.
The Life of Pi is such a boring book.
My dad’s birthday is coming up - it’s on March 14th. Sweet date eh? It’s on Monday, so we might do something on the weekend. He’s alergic to chocolate, so no chocolate cake =(
3+1=4
(3/14)^(1/3.14) = (3/14)*3.14
Anyway, I now find The Beat (94.5 FM, Vancouver) really good. Instead of the old remixes of all the crap songs, they now have song with “the beat”. Some are pretty corny, but there is always new stuff.
DDR
I went to play DDR today at lunch. Never had I thought that bouncing around on arrows could be so amusing. But then again, clicking arrows on FFR is kind of neat..
Wasted 3 dollars.
Global Tribe
I have been assigned the honor to work with the great people at Global Tribe. This is a non-profit organization that collects donations, specifically from high-school students, and give the money to Tsunami Reliefs, War-affected Children, or Orphan Chimpanzees. This program is mainly geared as a live online community. The site is currently in its beta stages, which can be viewed here.
If your school is unsure of which organization to direct your donations to, think about Global Tribe. You can form a chapter, which is a small group that can make a significant difference.
Too Many Browsers
Ever since the beginning, when Internet Explorer completely sucks for all eternity, compliment browsers have been made. The recent revival of Mozilla’s Firefox is crushing I.E. to 70%, a point that it’s never been at, even when Netscape was still known to mankind. So these alternatives are supposedly good at everything.
Here is a description of the current big browsers out there. Since most users use Windows, I’ll only list the Win browsers. And this excludes all I.E. rendering engine based browsers (including Maxthon, CrazyBrowser etc). Current browser stats.
- Firefox / Mozilla
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I have nothing against open source, mozilla, or its name. But I don’t like it. It’s still a very young application and needs way more development than it currently gets. Firefox’s main developer just left for Google. Now the browser is left with a bunch of contributors who can’t really do much.
I love the tabs, however, not its stability. It crashes very often (for me at least). It’s interface is, quite, ugly. If there are more than 5 tabs open within a window, the browser crashes. It sounds like that mac video, but it’s true. I am complaining about its incompetency.
- Opera
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This is the one I’m currently using, for all purposes. First of all, I have to say Opera’s usability is absolutely awesome. The basic customization of the working environment is so delicate. You can have your browser work in anyway you want. Second, its speed of loading any page is faster than all other browsers. Some heavy-graphics pages load significantly faster. The current version of Opera is at 7.5 - you can see how this program has evolved. There are so many options that I can play with. Right now, I can close this window (with 4 tabs) and this textarea (with this text inside), and after I re-open Opera, all of the data will still be here. All sessions are saved automatically, even as it crashes. Opera works fine even if there are 30 tabs open.
The only thing that’s not quite right about it is that it has text-ads, for free-version that is. Mine are gone. Without the ads, Opera is like a browser God. This revenue is probably the only thing that’s keeping Opera alive. Opera 8 (beta) is already out. It does, however, have a few mis-interpretations for some standard html/css tags. This also applies for the current Opera browser (7.5). Some, not all, web pages are displayed with a Seinfeld funny tone - awkwardness. Only because there few smart people realizing that Opera is good and use it, the little percentage of users make designers/coders ignore Opera users. I guess I can blame natural-born retards for that.
In general, Opera pwns Firefox, IE, and all other browsers in all ways - up, down and sideways.
Constantine The Movie
It was okay.