Category: web

12/22/09 11:21 - 18ºF - ID#50639

Santa's Letter in Heaven Town

I was going to write about how adults were writing letters to santa and exhausting volunteer letter answerers but then Jenny McCarthy got all in my face

I cannot believe any news site could sell out this bad. It almost makes me nauseous to see this level of advertisement for one product.

An another note I changed image upload resizing to use imagecopyresampled instead of imagecopyresize for png images and they look a 1000% better. I am embarrassed I didn't notice this before. I wonder how many screen shot uploads were shitty because of that. My second life ones sure were.

Permalink: Santa_s_Letter_in_Heaven_Town.html
Words: 114
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: body

12/22/09 10:18 - 18ºF - ID#50637

Despite the uncooperative body

I am finally starting to get that side muscle I always dreamed of. By
summer I am want to be ripped bit I know the dedication won't last.
Damn what a messy desk.

Permalink: Despite_the_uncooperative_body.html
Words: 37
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

12/22/09 02:05 - 20ºF - ID#50632

I almost don't want to share this

The lexington coop has crab legs again. They are massive and
delicious, as well as, priceworthy.

Permalink: I_almost_don_t_want_to_share_this.html
Words: 20
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

12/22/09 02:03 - 20ºF - ID#50631

Purple sno peas

I got these at wegman's. Not sure if they are natural or gentech but
they are yummy. They are Melissa's brand

Permalink: Purple_sno_peas.html
Words: 34
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: web

12/22/09 01:53 - 20ºF - ID#50630

The State of Stale blogs

Check out these stats from harper's index. 94% of all existing blogs
haven't been updated in four months. I blame Twitter and facebook.

A lot of people who started blogs were just excited to have a web
presense without programming. Now you can do that in so many ways
without having to think much.

ladycroft writes at 03:20:49 12/23/09 - Comment #53948: hahaha, me too!

rory writes at 12:54:13 12/23/09 - Comment #53946: As a male British IT Worker, I'm loving the second from last statistic...

paul writes at 10:31:15 12/22/09 - Comment #53944: I think a major factor contributing to this is the addition of comments on every site. Take the news for example. In order to comment on the news we used to have to write on our blogs now you can just comment on their site. Because of that blogging loses a bit of the power it gave people when it started and I think it therefore, loses a certain intrinsic value it had.

In one way the openness of news sites is awesome for the readers of the news because it assembles miscellaneous comments from all of the net together. However, for the author themselves, I think its not as nice as having everything you wrote about in one spot to look back on and search through.

I also think, people think more carefully about what they write on their blogs, versus what they comment on sites they have very little personal investment in. Just look at youtube comments.

Additionally, can anyone see yourself trolling all over the freakin web, if it even exists in the future to try and piece together all your comments and feedback? Its a very difficult proposition when compared with assembling everything in one place like you have on a blog.

I guess you could develop a system for that. Speaking of which, I promise at some point to have a feature for reading all the comments you wrote like a blog of its own.

metalpeter writes at 08:27:00 12/22/09 - Comment #53937: It would be interesting to see what that stat was over time from years ago. The thing with blogs is that there are so many kinds. You have the paid bloggers on certain cites. Then you have people who write about certain things only like sports or what ever. Then you have the day to day stuff. I think most of those people are the day to day bloggers. For example I go to see a movie as an example. If I want to write a review about it on facebook or other sites I san say in like 2 sentences what I thought about it. In the political stuff that is true to you just give how you feel and them from there if people post comments on your poll that is your form of debate.

I think all the blame can't be put on them though. I think that News being for profit now is a big factor. Because of that news has to be more shocking. But it is also about catch phrases and talking points or things that are quick and not really thought out. I think that has effected how people make points online as well.

tinypliny writes at 04:39:19 12/22/09 - Comment #53916: Huh. That is most random set of statistics I have seen.

Permalink: The_State_of_Stale_blogs.html
Words: 59
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: body

12/21/09 11:42 - 27ºF - ID#50623

Kidney Stones?

Man, I was having a great day at work, I got so much stuff done. Then on the way to the gym, bam, serious throbbing pain in my left kidney. It's weird, and it scary and painful and seems to get worse. It so isolated to that one side/spot and it not in the muscle.

So I look that up and kidney stones sound like that. Now I wonder if the milkshake for breakfast, milkshake before bed every night for six months was a bad idea. It was really helping me gain weight and milk makes my crohns better.

Someone suggested drinking lemon juice and water. I tried that. I hope this just ends easily as I am not in the mood for the hospital this evening or any evening.

I guess could be something else but what else causes kidney pain? It's givig me that impending doom feeling I got the night my appendix decided to die. Luckily, although this can be seriously painful I don't think it is at all life threatening. Who knows, maybe I will just wake up and t will be gone. I hope so because the retarded nurse wrote on my record that I am allergic to opiates after I got itchy during the appendix nightmare.

Oh great, I just found this too
[box] Kidney stones are more common in Crohn's patients with disease of the small intestine than in the general population because of fat malabsorption. Fat binds to calcium, leaving oxalate (a type of salt) free to be absorbed and deposited in the kidney, where it can form into stones. [/box]

That probably also explains my endless ability to b thin no matter how many milkshakes I drink.

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Words: 285
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: niagara

12/18/09 11:15 - 19ºF - ID#50600

It seems so impossible

I found this at

a while back when researching Niagara Falls. It seems incredible we could shut off the American falls. I wonder how huge the other falls look to the right of there?

Permalink: It_seems_so_impossible.html
Words: 42
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: art

12/18/09 03:55 - 26ºF - ID#50595

Fun experiments with CSS

I made these when I was first mixing PHP with CSS positioning back in early 2000. Now I recognize there was no need for the PHP part as it could all easily been done with javascript.