Nov 11th, 2007 by Baz L
Here are the results from: Poll - Is The World Tired of Movie Parodies?.
As you can see, I didn’t really get the input I wanted, but regardless, here you go:
Out of my tiny lil’ sample, it seems that we’ve had our fill of movie parodies.
Popularity: 41%
Nov 10th, 2007 by Baz L
What Happens On The Internet Stays On The Internet
I have a few friends who gamble. Personally I don’t really get it, but they love it. Since the advent of the internet, everything is made easier, even gambling. You can now sit home in your underwear and shoot craps.
With so many options out there, how are you supposed to pick who to shell your money out to? Check out the top united states online casinos.
As usual, I’ll start with the design of this site. I must say, they had me fooled at first. The design looks nice and simple. A basic centered layout, CSS tabbed navigation menu, and a nice gradient background. The page layout even started with a centered DIV. Nothing to shout about, but simple and clean right? Or so I thought.
Looking at the code, the main content section consisted of a big ugly table. Even though the data is tabular by design, they could have gotten away with some DIVS, floats, and clears. Oh well. Also the About Us page is a broken link, but that’s a minor issue.
Nov 9th, 2007 by Baz L
By now we’ve all heard about the racist comments that Dog The Bounty Hunter spouted out while on the phone with his son. Yesterday I heard about his apology on the radio. It was rather hilarious actually. He said stuff like he feels connected to the Black community and as such thought he was allowed to use that word; he uses it all the time among his black friends; and (this one is the kicker) he now knows that “he’s not black” and he can’t use the word. I’m serious, that’s what the guy said.
First off, as a black man, you know what side of the fence I’m sitting on with this. With that said. The N word is a bad word. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. However, there is something to be said for context.
I’m not sure where it originated from. It could be a Culture thing, a Black thing, a Hood thing, or a Hip Hop thing, who knows (let’s just call it Hip Hop to be neutral). But the Hip Hop community has a way of taking negative words and flipping them to mean something totally different. Case in point, words like bad, mad, sick, wicked, ill, etc. Flip open Websters and you’ll know that none of these is a good thing. But take a walk down to the hood and you’ll hear them being used to mean something totally different.
Nov 8th, 2007 by Baz L
I’m sure that you’ve noticed. I have, and it drives me crazy everyday. But Dreamhost has been having some major speed issues over the past several days. I frequently check their status page, but everything listed there says that it’s been resolved.
I finally contacted support a few times and I was told they got a server, that’s causing issues. It’s the server that I’m on, go figure. So they are in the process of moving everyone’s account off of that guy and onto any server. Who knows how long that’s supposed to take.
In the meanwhile, I thank you for baring with me during this time. It’s funny that this is all happening during my first month of being on Dreamhost. I remember sitting and longing for that day that my old host’s subscription would expire and that I could move. I remember not being able to wait any longer and moving anyway.
Was all of this in vain? Would I have to go back to 1and1 with my tail between my legs? I think not. I’ve gotten too many good reports about Dreamhost to nix them after just one month. And come it, it’s a shared host; there’s no account for what the next idiot on your server is doing.
Nov 5th, 2007 by Baz L
There is a process that we run on a particular client (our largest) every week. It runs at 7:00 PM on Sunday evening and another process is supposed to pick up and complete on Monday at 1:00 AM.
We recently made some changes to the process and we are using this week as a sort of test run. So I just decided to pop in a have a look see to make sure that everything was running smoothly. Well, it wasn’t.
Phew! It’s a good thing I decided to pop in and look it over. I knew what was wrong and could fix it. Still trying to figure out why, but that could wait till tomorrow. But then something strange happened. Now keep in mind this was at 10:35 PM on Sunday night. While I was Remote Desktoped into my computer at work, I noticed an email pop up. I thought it might have been some residual message that didn’t pop up in Outlook for whatever reason. But no, it was a current email sent out seconds ago.
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