Paul's Journal

12/22/2009 23:21 #50639

Santa's Letter in Heaven Town
Category: web

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.

zobar - 12/23/09 09:12
I've seen the same type of advertising on Reuters, of all places, for Acela, of all things. How on earth does Amtrak have that much money?

- Z

jim - 12/23/09 07:38
Hooray!

I tended to manually resize screenshts to 400px before but now I can just mail them in.

12/22/2009 22:18 #50637

Despite the uncooperative body
Category: 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.

libertad - 12/24/09 12:22
It's nice to see when the work pays off. I went to the Y today in FL and they have a pool. Swimming seems to be the best cardio ever. I wish they had a pool at Allentown. I want to look into how much it would cost to go once in a while at the Jewish CC.

12/22/2009 14:05 #50632

I almost don't want to share this
Category: food

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

paul - 12/22/09 22:20
They are $5-~$8 per pack. I is definitely enough food for one to two people. (e:matthew) and I usually split a pack. You could be full of crab eating one yourself and they only take a few minutes to steam. I would suggest having heavy duty scissors or crab smashers in order to open them, they are seriously thick.

drew - 12/22/09 21:41
what's the price?

tinypliny - 12/22/09 16:38
Were you planning on buying the whole freezer?!

12/22/2009 14:03 #50631

Purple sno peas
Category: food

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

tinypliny - 12/22/09 16:38
Ah, I have never seen these before.

12/22/2009 13:53 #50630

The State of Stale blogs
Category: web

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 - 12/23/09 03:20
hahaha, me too!

rory - 12/23/09 00:54
As a male British IT Worker, I'm loving the second from last statistic...

paul - 12/22/09 22:31
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 - 12/22/09 20:27
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 - 12/22/09 16:39
Huh. That is most random set of statistics I have seen.