Benign Thoughts

Google’s really starting to piss me off. I mean, do a search for Benign Thoughts right now on google. Note the fact that I’m not even in the results. Sure, it lists all my old sites, but what about this one? All that’s listed is my About Me page, which I can’t even find in the results anymore. Get with the times, Google! I switched from f2o a LONG time ago, and you STILL have my Benign Thoughts f2o account as number 2. What’s with that?

By the way, MSN’s search thing is spidering now, and my site’s number 1 (with the correct page) for “Benign Thoughts”. Isn’t that neat. However, you should know I despise Microsoft, so I’d never use MSN. Yeah, I’m kinda like that. Even if they come out with something the slightest bit good, I won’t use it just because I don’t wanna support those corporate assholes.

So, on a lighter note, who got that crappy chain IM a few days ago. It went like this:

Dear AIM users,
Because of our overloading of our servers, we are being forced to extract our non-active AIM users. Because this is a free service, AOL has exceeded the budget for the AIM service. We are asking that you send this exact message to 20 other AIM users to ensure us that you’re an active AIM user. Our system tracking devise will pick up this message to keep you on our active list. You have 72 hours to complete this task or your service will be cancelled immediately. Starting January 1st, 2005, we will be charging a small fee for registering of a screen name for AIM. Thank you for your time and for using AOL or AIM.
Sincerely,
Mark Jenkins
AOL Owner and Founder

So, does anybody know who started it? I mean, a lot of people obviously fell for it because I got it about 50 times in the past 4 days. Who could be that stupid? AIM is AOL’s pride and joy! They would never make it paid, otherwise everyone would just switch to MSN (EEK!), Yahoo (eh..), or Jabber (Hoorah!). Besides, they spelled “Device” wrong. I frankly wouldn’t give a shit if they did it though. I mean, if it means more Jabber users, I’m all for it. Open Source rocks. End of story.

Uh, I’m done. Maybe I’ll post more later, or tomorrow, or something. I don’t know yet. C’ya!

Ok, I’m really sorry for the delay in blog posts but now I’m finally back. Yes, back as in I’ll be trying to make a full blog post, with an image in each one, every day. I don’t really have an excuse for not blogging. The only one I have is the fact that this host is so freaking slow, but that’ll be changing soon so hoorah! Anyway, lets start!

I feel like I need to reintroduce myself since I haven’t blogged in like, forever. Anyway, I have some non-interesting stuff to write about tonight (I’m actually writing this Tuesday night at 11:00, but it will be published on Wednesday). This includes some UP updates, some school crap, and maybe a little more.

UnrealPages is a major success! We recently upped the plan size to 100megs//5gigs. I think that’s pretty reasonable, don’t you? Well, I’d use UP as my host if we had GD2, which we don’t. I kinda need GD2 for the title images, you know? Speaking of the title images, I’m not sure if I told you guys yet, but I’m using a plugin now. Don’t worry, it’s based on something based on the original script I used, which I based off of a script I found. Whoa, that’s confusing.

This sucks! I got a “C” in Social Studies this quarter, so because of that I might get my computer taken away all freaking quarter. Isn’t that crazy? I’ll still probably blog from school or something, but over a “C”, I mean, come ON! I have the class at 7:13 in the morning and I’m used to waking up at 2:00 in the afternoon! Of course I’m not going to do my best if I’m still sleeping. I mean, I’m find in all my other classes. Well, that’s a lie. I’m probably doing pretty badly in English right now. Yes, English. Here I am, Blogging, taking a class in Creative Writing, and I’m doing badly in English. I owe that to the Poetry unit. Yeah, I can’t write a poem for my life. Wait, that’s also a lie. I can write poems, but only if they’re allowed to be on what I want to write about. I don’t like being told what to write. You should know that by now. However, there are some things, such as love, that I WANT to write a poem about, but they always come out cheesy so I just stop writing it. Yes, I’m afraid to write a poem about my feelings. Crazy eh? That’s what a poem is anyway: a way of expressing feelings that normally can’t be put into words. God, I hate poetry.

Mmmm… Stage Band! In case you didn’t know, I have stage band for 2 hours every tuesday night. However, I have a little something to bitch about right now: Stage Band (which I’m in) is opening for the Concert Band (which I’m also in). This means that I’ll probably have to play for quite a long time. Yeah, I mean, since when do you open for yourself? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

Ok, I’m done! mm… that was a nice entry. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep this up.

Guess what? I got accepted on NeoPages, so now all I have to do is wait for my information to come. Once it comes, I’ll probably be heading over there… well.. as long as they have GD2. In case you didn’t know, I’ve been looking for a new host, and now I’m thrilled that I finally found one.

I’ll post a real entry tomorrow. Sorry.

See? I told you I’d blog today! I’m no liar! However, it’ll be really short. You see, we’re having people over today, and they’re supposed to come at 7. It’s 6:52 right now as I’m writing this, so I don’t have much time. I have a few things to post about though, so yeah. Let’s start!

Mmm… enlightenment. Yeah, I’m giving Enlightenment another try. I really like the way it looks. It’s just so sexy! Oh, for those of you who don’t know what E is, it’s a Window Manager for linux. It’s kinda like Fluxbox, but there’s no bars at all. When a window is iconified, a miniature version of it goes into a little icon box. I have my box set to be 100% transparent, so all you can see is the little mini-windows. It has sort of a nice effect too. The window flips around a bunch of times before it goes in. It’s nice for minimalist eye-candy freaks like myself. Now, if only I could get a mac.

Ok, crap. I can’t finish. I’ll probably post again tomorrow, and then I’ll try to get back into my schedule of posting every day. Sorry.

Uh, I can explain! Actually, no. I can’t. I’ve had so much homework it isn’t even funny, so I couldn’t blog. I promise I’ll blog tomorrow and try to get back into a habit. Maybe I’ll blog today, who knows?

Anyway, I have one thing to say: If you’re still back in the stone age and are using internet explorer, download firefox 1.0 NOW!!!! I order you to do it! thank you.

bye for now.

Ok, first of all, I’d like to say that BUSH WON!!!! YAY!!!!!! Second of all, I’d like to say that Kerry was a real man for conceding the election to Bush like he did. He saw that it really was no use to recount over and over, and I admire him for that. The day before election day, I was thinking “You know, Kerry’s probably going to win seeing as most americans are gullible idiots,” but I guess I was wrong. Most americans aren’t gullible idiots, only a bit less than half of them are. I don’t see why anybody would vote for kerry anyway. I mean, what was his platform, “I’m not bush”? I’m not Bush either, but people aren’t voting for me. By the way, I still say he had botox injected into his face

New ACONAN releases! I wanted to post this a while ago, but there were two new Detective Conan fansubs that came out on October 29th. You can find them, along with all the other releases, at the ACONAN tracker. I don’t encourage piracy and I have nothing to do with these guys, but I don’t think that these episodes are protected by US copyright law since they’re from japan. If I am mistaken, please let me know by emailing me at louisc *at* gmail.com.

Ok, 2 hours passed and I completely lost my train of thought… Oh yeah, I wanted to talk about my latest project. Bobby and I haven’t decided if and when we’re going to do this, but we’ve been thinking of making a blogging community like livejournal and xanga based on livejournal and wordpress. Unlike most wordpress hosts, this will be a fully fledged community. I don’t expect it to be done for this summer, but maybe towards the beginning of next september we can be in a public beta stage. It’ll probably be free with a paid version that allows you to remove the links back or something. We’re not even sure that we’re going to do this, but hey, it could happen.

Ok, that’s it. I was going to post a bit more, but I guess I’ll leave that for another time. I have too much homework to do. Would you believe that I have to write 4 current event summaries? They can be from blogs though, so I’m good. G’night, all.

btw: XHTML 1.1 BABY!