Benign Thoughts

Damn, that site’s full of bitches (no offense to the few nice people there). I mean, look at my ratings, for instance. Number 1184 (why is it up so high?) is the one I’m mainly going to be talking about. It was posted on May 4th.

1.) Your journal font is too SMALL, (maybe when you grow up it will get bigger with age?) Haha!-Doubt it!

2.) You bash other diariests and are in violation of being pulled from the rankings if enough people complain about your sorry ways and cheating by downing everyone elses sites, I complained about you and so did someone else maybe others will complain about you too.

(It would be good to see you go) and talking about others but not allowing them to reply to your comments in your journal is just plain LAME! (It shows how young you are and are really afraid of people defending themselves to you.)

Believe me, I got even with you in MY journal and anyone that sees it will know it’s YOU I’m calling a stupid kid that doesn’t play fair.

I’m pretty sure this is by that hellcat chick. If it’s not, fine.

As for the first point, alright. I changed the font because someone mature complained a couple of weeks ago saying that it was hard to read. If anyone still has problems, let me know via comment, email, or the email form.

Now, for the second point, I’m not going to even bother with the “young”/baby thing, especially since you go on and start yapping about “OOh, look! You’re disobaying the rules! I’m telling”. You’re the one who should be considered “young”. I do more things than you can imagine, hellcat. I maintain a free hosting site, I give support at that same hosting site, I moderate the forums at buddy4u, I’m an IRCop at XMGNetworks’ IRC server, I’m an Opera Ambassatran, and I’m also working with Bobby (if he’s still up for it) on getting a shoutcast server up for an online radio. Don’t call me young, when you’re the most immature person I’ve ever come across.

Then, she goes on to say that I cheat, and bashing other diaries is against the rules. The actual rule is the following:

03) Please do not vandalize/profanitize/destroy other people by commenting on the topsite with rude remarks that are not helpful or constructive.

In that case, you’re the one disobeying the rules, missy. I simply posted about how I thought your site looked bad because of the tiled background which makes the font, which shouldn’t be white in the first place, hard to read. It wasn’t even ON your site, it was on mine, as a post. That rule’s point is to prevent hateful remarks that vandalize the site they’re posted on. This is my own blog, so I can do whatever I want here. I didn’t post one comment on your blog, so even if I said you were a stupid bitch, I wouldn’t be going against any rules whatsoever. Besides, even if I hadn’t joined that topsite list, I’d still say the same things about your blog if I ever came across it.

Anyway, I’m done with that list. It causes too many problems. I’m already higher than her on the list anyway, “without cheating”. Oh yeah, one last thing: I’m still getting spam from you. Thanks a lot. If it wasn’t for Opera Mail’s spam filter, I’d be in big trouble.

Another post might come later, after my orchestra concert.

As most of you know, Opera 8 is out. It’ll run on just about every operating system, and it’s my browser of choice, which many of you are probably surprised to hear since I’m an Open Source fanatic. Even though I’m an official Opera Ambassador and everything, I really don’t care whether or not someone uses Firefox or Opera, since both are better than IE. What I am sick of, is Firefox getting credit for extensions and features that Opera had before anything else. People say you should switch to Firefox because it has tabbed browsing. Opera had it before anybody else. Well, actually Netcaptor had it first, but Netcaptor is IE based, so I don’t count it as a real browser. Second came Opera. People say you should switch to Firefox because of extensions. Well, guess what? Extensions make Firefox load slower, and all they do is add functionality that Opera already has, except for the Ad-block extension, which there is a Opera counterpart for, and the Webdev toolbar, which there is also a counterpart for.

The last thing I’m sick of, is people saying Opera is bad because of the ads, and people saying that Opera has too much bloat and too many features, like the Washington Post review does. Too many features. For a browser like Opera, which has always been tiny (much smaller than Firefox), this is a bit strange. You can never have too many features. He says that Opera is too complex, but then doesn’t go into detail to say why. In truth, it’s not. The mail, chat, and rss clients are all hidden until you have mail, chat, or rss feeds/accounts set up, using the rather simple “Mail & Chat accounts” dialog. For RSS feeds, you just click on the RSS icon in the address bar, you choose which feed, and it’ll ask you if you want to subscribe to it. Simple.

The review goes on to address Opera’s useful features. It doesn’t seem like the reviewer, Rob Pegoraro, likes Opera’s MDI. He appears to think that it’s too complicated or something, because he gives the function to cascade or tile webpages a rather bad review. He says the it “crudely shrink[s] or overlap[s] open pages to display all of them at once,” and it ” add[s] nothing to the standard tabbed view”. That’s not true. I use that function all the time to compare pages, for instance. With other browsers, all the buttons move with the windows, but in this one, you can move around and resize pages within the same window, moving only the address bar with it. He also says that when windows pop up, they are imprisoned by the browser. I say, so what? If you want, you can just drag the tab to your taskbar and the page will leave the browser.

So basically, this was a horrible review, and the reviewer is obviously biased. Don’t pay any attention to it, but also read what people who use the browser think of it. A good place for this is to check out Get The Facts. It has user opinions on Firefox and Opera, so you can read the ones for Firefox, and the ones for Opera, and see which one you like better based on what was written. Have fun!

Alright, now it’s time to write this thing. Last night I got my Internet taken away for “hitting” my little sister. First of all, I didn’t even touch her, second of all, this is what happened: I was in the car, putting my earphones on, when Joanna, my little sister, threatened to pull one out. I took them off and told her if she touched my earphones, I’d hit her. Then she said, “If you hit me, I’ll tell Mom and Dad and you’ll lose your Internet”. So then, I hit her car seat. I barely touched her, maybe I touched her jacket a little, but other than that, I didn’t touch her at all. Then she started yelling for Mom and Dad, saying I hit her. Obviously they believed her, and not me, even when I told them what happened. What a bitch.

I got a new modem a few days ago! Well, the old cable modem broke somehow. I have no clue how, but it couldn’t maintain a connection to Optimum Online, so everything was slower than dial up or didn’t work at all. As a result, we had to go to the Customer Support Center or whatever they call it and trade in the modem. It was no big deal, but I was left with no Internet all day… Wednesday? Was it Wednesday? Whatever.

Monday, there was a gas leak in my backyard about 2 feet away from the house, and 1 foot from the meter, so we called the gas company to check it out. If my dad hadn’t smelled it, since it was at more than 30%, it could have exploded. It only takes 5-15% in order to explode if there’s a spark according to the gas guy. They didn’t even detect it at first, since it was underground. The gas guy had to poke a hole in the ground and stick his sniffer thing down there to find it. Then, he called for reinforcements and they came in about an hour. They dug up where the leak was and put a new joint thing there, and now it’s fixed. Hoorah.

I’ll add more later, probably, but right now my right ring finger hurts, so yeah. I’ll continue later.

Yeah, I have a lot to write about, but not until tomorrow. Expect an entry tomorrow, probably before 16:00 EDT.

So anyway, I’m browsing my favorite blogs, and decide to visit that hellcat site. Then I remembered something, I got a few emails from her bitching at me a few days ago, so I go to the date on her diary when she left her comment on my blog, and lo and behold, I’m mentioned. She apparently sent my email address to a crapload of spammers. She also said I had a small dick. Well, that’s mature. What is she, in middle school? I never said anything about her site except that the background made it hard to read various parts.

You don’t get into the top ten by dogging people ass wad, you get there by doing it in other ways. He/she was whining about the font being too big and various other derogatory obscenities.. Well, his is too damned small. You almost need a microscope to find the damned print. Probably need the same microscope to find his dick too. Grrr. Go away little boy in drag.

Very, very mature, expecially for a housewife. Somebody’s PMSing I guess, and I’m not going to sink down to her level. Luckily, Opera has an awesome spam filter, so I’m good as far as all the porn emails I’m getting. Also, if my font is too small, make your default font bigger, it’s all in percentages, so you’re in control. By the way, the actual blog layout is messed up in Opera and Firefox. I’m not sure about IE, since I don’t have it (Linux).

Remember that hellcat site a while ago? Heh, well, she came to my site and left a comment on the last post in the Badly Designed Sites series. First I’d like to say to you, hellcat, that I’m honored that the owner of an absolutely horrible looking site decided to come to my site and start calling my “diary” bad. First of all, it’s not even a “diary”. It’s called a “blog”. Learn the word. It’s spelled B-L-O-G and is pronounced exactly like it’s spelled. You can also call it a “weblog”, but it’s just “blog” for short. Second of all, I said I couldn’t read it because of the background. Nothing else. Then you start attacking my site because it’s not high enough on some stupid topsite list? Well, first of all, I don’t care about the topsite list. Second of all I was in the 2 or 3 spot for about a month or so, when I first put the link up.

So, I read the comments on the topsite list today, and I come across this one:

402 - 2004-08-19 15:39:58
rofl. yknow one of the rules on topsites is NO BASHING ALLOWED. meaning be a fucking adult and dont go over to your competitors site just to diss them with insults that arent even true. my layout is messed up? dont even get me started on yours. your layout shows no organization at all and on account of your font changing sizes when i change IE’s text size shows that you have absolutely no css skills whatsoever. before you try to flame someones site, take a good look at your own. and i wouldnt be surprised if you did cheat.

Whoa. Just… Just whoa. Did she (?) just call me a cheater? When did I bash a site on the topsite list? Never, until this post here, bashing her comment, which still isn’t bashing the site. It’s called critisism. If you can’t take it, you’re a wimp. If it’s false, stand up for yourself, don’t bash the other person. My font changes sizes when you change the browser’s text size for a reason. If someone can’t read small fonts, usually they have their browser’s font size up. If you don’t make it so the page’s font size also changes, they can’t read it. Second of all, don’t use IE. Use Opera or Firefox (I use Opera). Oh, and by the way, is that kind of language allowed on the topsite list’s stats? I don’t think so….

And now, a NEW bad site! Alright, you’re gonna love this: http://www.bullnet.co.uk/ Go on, go there. The blue sidebars hurt my eyes, how could anyone navigate it?

Heh, the olden days. This site was made by ME, two, maybe three years ago: http://lcnet.ionichost.com/. Yep, that was my site. First notice the popunder if you’re on Internet Exploder. Second, look how I RECOMMEND Internet Exploder… Sad, truly sad. There’s also no content. WHEN WILL I STOP??? Oh, alright. Look! A blog! Click the link.

Wait a second… I’ve seen those entries before! yep, this actually is pretty recent. Well, the blog is, not the main site. Go to my July 2003 archives on this blog. Yep, there they are. Same entries. Yes, that was a primitive version of what you see now. And yeah, that’s a premade template. I didn’t know how to work Blogger back then, so yeah. Deal with it. Oh, and don’t even bother with the forum. The forum never got off the ground.

ANND! That’s it! Have a nice day.