🏷️ web

This is what the associated press had to say about the snow storm that hit the south.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A potent March snowstorm blanketed much of Alabama with up to 4 inches of snow Sunday, covering Civil War statues and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of church services.

How did they manage to bring up the civil war in the first sentence of a totally unrelated article about the south? I know its not written by a southerner or they would have said "War of Northern Aggression."

I love how the people try and sled down the grassy mud hill. That grass is going to be trashed.

Today, youtube came out with a playstation 3 and wii interface that is really well suited for television. I think it is also well suited for the computer as it is really streaminlined and nice.



Sadly, they don't make it available for viewing it on the computer.

But you can make it work on your computer.

The way they check is by checking your playstation 3 user agent. Luckily, you can make your computer pretend to be a platstation.

The playstation user agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00)

There a lot of different ways to fake your user agent. I am going over how to do it with Safari on mac.

First you need to enable the "develop" menu in Safari. To do this open the terminal application in /Applications/utilties/terminal.app. Then type the following into:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Once you do that, restart Safari and you will see a new "Develop" menu between the "Bookmarks" and "Window" menu. I know its weird because the command says IncludeDebugMenu and then you get a Develop menu, but just trust me. Click on Develop and choose, User Agent-> other from the drop down.

In the box that pops up type the Playstation 3 user agent from above.

Then visit the new youtube TV interface:
http://youtube.com/tv

Remember to switch back to the default safari user agent when you are done using the same menu.

First off, I am so damn tired from working out. Between yesterday with James, then buying the weights last night, then working out this morning and then going to the gym tonight - I am seriously tuckered out.

This evening, I was busy stealing Dj Fresh music from bebo after I saw Bad Company was playing at Circa this friday in Toronto

His music is pretty awesome if you like that style, which I do Unfortunately, he is not with them anymore.

I am fascinated with the amount of information people media sites make available to the flash debug log.

It makes downloading the music a snap. Then a little ffmpeg flv to mp3 conversion and I have a new playlist. Way faster then trying to limewire it.

Anyhow, I also found this ultra dramatic buffalo, ny video. Thought someone might enjoy it.



While I was tailing the flash debug log, I noticed that I left debugging of the flash storage for the restore backup button in the journal on, which slows typing down a bit in a big journal. I will fix that for the new site, which I promise is coming out soon.

Here is a screen capture of it, although you can't tell much about new functionality from the screen capture.

I know italians were not always white but i thought generally now they are, then I saw this:

Younger Guy for My Wife - mw4m - 38 (buffalo
Looking for yonger man for our first threesome. You need to be clean, d/d free, discreet, respectful (especially to my wife), under the age of 25, white or italian, neatly trimmed (not shaven), 7" or less, and in decent shape (HWP).

Microsoft is so desperate for people to use their Live Search search engine that they started offering reward points for using it I thought, okay I will give it a try just to see. I mean you get free books, magazines, music, etc.

Then when I got there to sign up I was stopped with this.



Well, fuck you micorosft, I won't use it afterall. Who tries to beg people to use their stuff and then makes it at all restricted or difficult. They really need to learn this lesson. If you want your search engine reward points to draw the most people, make it work from any browser.

So @terry left his facebook signed in and I decided to search for people I knew in Buffalo that I cared to find out about in order to see if it was worth joining. The problem is the people I cared about in any way - I pretty much have contact with and the rest of the people I knew, I don't really care if I know them anymore as I would have kept contact.

That coupled with the fact that the few people I could possibly care about don't seem to be on the internet at all, or are woman with new last names I have no idea about, or are form foreign countries and don't seem to be on facebook.

Then I saw this:



Just as I was about to quit looking, she magically showed up as someone that @terry should be friends with because of their mutual friends with Nameless Bitch and @gaylynnemup. What a small world. I guess it is Buffalo after all but really what are the chances of that, especially considering the two of them are not Buffalonians, @terry is no a Buffalonian and she graduated high school like 3 years before I did. Maybe @terry is a Buffalonian now. I guess he spent more of his adult year here than anywhere else.

Danielle contributed a lot to my growing up, even though we knew each other for such a short time - I would say during that time I changed from being a kid to being a semi-adult and no I do not mean this in a sexual way. It would be so interesting to get to talk to her now

Maybe Nameless Bitch can invite her to our holloween party?

Looks like file uploads work with surebert and flash via chrome . That was the one thing I was worried about the most. Cnan you tell I am on a windows machine. look, this is only one of four pictures I have on it, lol.

Seems like it uses a lot more memory than firefox. From what I can see in the task manager it has four open processes between 20-30MB and only two tabs are open.


You know what it does not have is full page (media and all) zoom. I freakin love that. Oh, and a mac client ;(

According to macrumors.com

Google announced today that they would be releasing a new open source web browser called Google Chrome. The new browser will be available for download as a beta starting tomorrow.

All I can say is fuck - i hate the idea of dealing with yet another new browser. With IE 8 coming along, and the new html 5 safari and firefox - did we really need yet another browser. Its weird because I am usually all about diversity. And I love the idea of standards. If all of the groups adhere to the standards or make thing similar it will be fine. Unfrotunatrly, each of the players involved - microsoft, apple, mozilla, and now google - is not only going to want to support the standards - they are also going to want to differentiate in order to offer new features and seem gain market share. To me it just makes Flex development all that much more appealing. Luckily, it is abased on webkit - like safari so at least there will be something in common. Unfortunately, they are using their own javascript engine. That means that every browser will have a unique javascript engine and that various version of the browsers will have different engines. Should be fun. Really what it means is that all the libraries are going to get bigger. Which sucks but then again broadband is broader and the new engines will be faster.

I wonder if the world will switch to chrome all at once.

First of all, I was trying to make a boring evening go smoothly by traveling around the internet and reading all the blogs I never have time to read anymore. I found this dog snuggly thing on omgblog Could you just see @james dog in one, lol. I almost think they are mean.



We went to Home Depot to buy an electric lawn mower. We used the push mower for years now, but seriously two properlies and lost of lawn - it is no longer really feasible. It takes forever and it does a pretty crap job. It is fine for a small area. Anyhow, the butch saleschick at Home depot refused to sell us an electic lawn mower. They have them, they are more expensive than the gas ones, we defiantely wanted one and she pretty flat out refused to sell it because we really needed a gas one. I think that is pretty bullshit as it worked fine today after we bought it from Value Home Center on Elmwood, lol. I don't care if it doesn't have the HP of the gas guzzler one, I freakin don't want to have to deal with gas, or gas smell. If it breaks in three years, I will just have it fixed or buy a new one.



While there I drooled over the sinks they had. I wish my kicthen counter looked like this one. I want a new kitchen so bad:


and this outdoor room. How decadent is an outdoor fireplace. I think the one in the photo is photoshopped.


While buying a bunch of grill paraphenalia I found the chickcan. This is so frat.



Then we went to wegmans where I started lambstravaganza. I love the new grill, it makes everything awesome.

Seriously, the full zoom is amazing. It zooms everything text and media. This means that finally, you can design for normal vision and vision impaired people can zoom for till they can see what they need to. These are th kind of changes that browsers should have implemented from the get go. It beats having all those custo reize text button on every site and lets every aspect of the page zoom. Heck I even zoom sometimes now when I want to concentrate on an area of the page.

On a mac you hold down command and + or command and -. NOt sure the ocmbo on a PC but you should definately try it with Firefox 3

Zoomed estrip on Safari - fucked up only text zooms


Zoomed estrip on Firefox 3 - everything zooms


It even remembers the zoom level when you return to the site you set it for.