Too Cool for Internet Explorer
Ok, this is an amazing sight. A guy has taken the dusty rear of cars and turned it into the equivalent of scratch art, by removing the dirt and making “paintings”. Its a must see.
http://mostinterestingblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/picture-on-dust.html
This has got to be the geekiest idea I’ve ever heard of, but it worked! A guy gave a USB key to his kid and security used it to call him, calm his son down by knowing his first name, and giving him his favorite treat.
http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2007/03/22/dcot-helps-find-lost-child/
I’m not sure why I titled it Better Pigeon, but I did. This bird was captured on the pier in Pismo Beach.
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WARNING: If you don’t design web pages, you will have no appreciation for this post.
Ok, even a couple friends that do web stuff got mixed up by what I meant in a couple rants.
It is not illegal to put CSS in the About Me: section of Myspace in that you aren’t allowed to. What I meant is that it is completely illegal according to W3C standards for web pages. Okay, that’s about as confusing as the first time around. Lets try again. Myspace allows you to do things that you shouldn’t be able to do.
<html>
<head>
<title>webpage title</title>
<style type=”text/css”>a.comments { color: #0000ff; }</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>About Me: I rock!</p>
</body>
</html>
Ok, see where the style tag is? According to web standards, you can only place it in the head section. It is illegal to put it in the body where the About Me: section is. That is what people do on Myspace, however, and what Myspace allows/encourages. They should just add a CSS field to the profile that people can copy and paste their code into instead of allowing such a bad practice to continue. Its not like they don’t know its happening. Probably 99% of all accounts have CSS injected into the About Me:. Ok, I’m done now.
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I went paintballing with Crash!(Oakhurst SDA Youth Group) Sunday in Mariposa. I’m not quite sure who got it started, but several area youth groups meet up every 3rd Sunday of the month to play. The location changes each time and someone generously donates quite a few markers, masks, and tanks. The youth groups I can remember were there were New Beginnings and New Life. I believe there were 4 or 5, however. I refereed and took pictures during the first three games; then, played the last two. I was very impressed with everyone’s attitudes and sportsmanship. I didn’t hear any complaints about cheating or players getting mad. Click the picture below to jump to this month’s paintball gallery (66 pictures).
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Friday, I was over in Monterey riding along with Jim as he looked over some possible clients’ churches. I took some pictures of them so we had a reference for later, but this one had a little difficulty. My shutter locked open for 10 seconds!!! I was doing everything to get it to close; I was scared it had broken on me. At any rate, it closed and I went back to what I was doing. When I imported the pictures this morning I saw this one and was baffled, but finally remembered. This is completely unaltered.
Happy Sabbath to all my friends out there.
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I started to write this post during the weekend, but I was just too tired to manage it. The reason being that we ran into major trouble getting the system up this last weekend. The culprit is shown below.
Here’s the rest of the story if you are so inclined to bore yourself. We loaded all the gear up on Wednesday in hopes of getting it all functioning on Thursday. When we got there, they weren’t completely ready for us, so we actually couldn’t start setting up till after 2. When we finally started, the motor wouldn’t work. Come to find out the panel we tied into was higher voltage than normal. The motor said it could handle it, but we didn’t know we needed to open it up and make some adjustments first. Well, we blew the transformer (pictured above hanging out) and had to find another way to run it. By 2:30 we finally had both arrays of speakers hanging and by 3 we had the full system running. We got home around 4 and bed a while later. I had to be up by 8 and Jim was up earlier because he had to go to a funeral. So, I did the rest of the setup. Basically, we were tired all weekend long since we had to start out on less than 4 hours of sleep. Our job came off mostly without a hitch, so that was good. When I finally got some good sleep Sunday, I slept for 11 hours! I think I woke up once and went right back out. Now that you are thoroughly bored, I will end this and go to sleep. I’m off to MBA to check out the sound system in the morning.
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I shouldn’t be up still, but I am. I’ll blame it on a friend of mine and then proceed to stay up later to upload a picture and write this post. Make sense? Yeah, I think posting this late at night shows a weird side of me. At any rate, I’ve had this picture sitting around for a while. Since I had edited it previously, it was ready to go and I needed something fast, here it is.
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I’m finally getting around to some of the pictures from the Soquel Women’s Retreat. This is a picture of my partner in crime, Leslie.
This was actually taken with her camera and my lens. We did whatever we could to get the best results during those retreats. Good times. I miss working with that core crew. The people I worked with most over the three weekends were Debbie, Janet, Jim, and Leslie. I’ll probably get pictures of all of them on here at one point or another. I know I’ve got some great ones.
You should check out Leslie’s artwork at lesliebatty.com. Its amazing. Also, notice the size of each painting, they are large and some are ginormous.
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The first is a rant about MySpace and it will lead into the next one. I’m getting sick of MySpace for several reasons. Changing your own page’s design sucks! There is no reason that you should have to edit your site design by adding illegal(yes, you aren’t supposed to do it according to web standards) CSS tags into the “About Me:” section. That is kludgy and just wrong. It also doesn’t extend beyond your profile page. While on that line of thought, this is a major site that could really take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies and it still hasn’t 2 years after that movement became strong!
Having to log in for everything just irks me. Ok, I kinda get this one, but it still bugs me. I realize that for underage privacy stuff, they have to do it. But I’m sick of private profiles of people that I might know. I hit their page and its like, “do I recognize them in this pic or not?” I’m sorry people, privacy on the ‘net does not exist. Period. If you have something to say that you don’t want your mom to read, just don’t say it. It probably really ain’t worth it.
That leads to my second rant. Somehow I missed being friends with a certain crowd of people. The ones that interact with the web instead of just using it. Let me clarify. People that use the web just pass through. Emails and IMs just crossing it. Searching or reading, but rarely contributing. I only have 3 friends that I know of that blog regularly(trina and jackit, you guys rock!). My mom posts images to flikr regularly. Is my generation so luddite that they can’t even keep up with my mom!!! She’s still stuck in 5th and 6th grades!(Ok, so that’s a joke. She’s the teacher.) Stop just passing through the web making sure not to bump it. Feel it! Touch it! Move it! Shout and cause ripples! And just to clarify, MySpace doesn’t count. Hiding behind a “login required” wall does not count. That means you still haven’t interacted with the web, just a few friends that are allowed to see what you posted.
Just so that you know, I’m not suggesting this for minors. Well, maybe I am. But that’s only because I’d like to see the parents take an active role in showing their children how to use the web in a safe manner. If its public, then they can monitor what their kids are doing without any perception of invaded “privacy”. The internet is not the protected daycare. It’s a public park where they need taught the most basic of rules, “Don’t talk to strangers.”
I think that does it. Myspace needs redesigned, more friends of mine should create on the internet and kids should too.
