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.

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).

Alright, I have an interesting blog post for all of you today, so listen up, yo. A while ago, Matt posted a link to Om Malik’s entry on something he calls IAD. So anyway, I found this interesting, and I figure, hey, let’s write about it… but not quite.

What is a disorder? Well, according to answers.com, it’s “An ailment that affects the function of mind or body.”

Now what the hell is that? How do they know how things are supposed to be anyway? Define, order. We really don’t know, we just assume it’s whatever most people do. A lot of people, for instance, have ADD or ADHD, including me. A lot of those same people are on medication to make them “normal”.

You know what I think? I think it’s human nature to get distracted by things. I mean, so many people get distracted, it’s hard to say what “normal” is. In my opinion, I don’t think we’d go anywhere without the distractions. For instance, if people didn’t get bored with things, everyone would just do the same thing at the same time. Everybody’s different, so some people get bored with some things quicker than other things. It’s no disorder. The word “disorder” just makes people feel worse about themselves and make them think that there’s something wrong with them.

Now, of course, this could be bad. For instance, someone might not be able to get done with a piece of work they have due the next day because they keep getting distracted. I think this isn’t something that you would need drugs for, they should just deal with it themselves, and if they screw up, fine. That’s their problem, next time they’ll learn from their mistakes and finish whatever they have to do.

However, it can be good, too. I have a theory that development goes faster when people have a short attention span. Let’s say that this company makes this new program. Let’s call this product, x Wooo! Everyone loves it! A while later, it’s x what? A new feature’s released a couple of weeks later, or one is announced. People get all excited about this wonderful new feature, which in 2 months nobody will care about.

If you’re not interested in it, it’s not worth doing. If you have a job, and you get sidetracked a lot, chances are you need a new job. Face it, it’s boring. Find something where you won’t get distracted with. You know what? Find something that has something to do when you get sidetracked, because then what would you do when you get sidetracked?

Anyway, I got off topic! That’s not a surprise. My main point was that you can’t really define “disorder”, so you shouldn’t call things disorders. There is no way something is supposed to be. There is no normal. There’s just different people who like to do different things. When they don’t like to do something, they’ll get sidetracked. Woo hoo!

Oh, and just for the record:

These damn spammers are really starting to piss me off. Today I had my Jazz concert (more about this later) for a few hours, and when I got back home, I checked to see how many spam comments were left here (I emptyed the digest right before I left) and I found about 20 or so comments. I’ll say it again to emphisize the fact: 20 COMMENTS IN 3 HOURS!!!!!! Now, do you wanna know how many got through? None. Thanks to the Spam Karma WordPress plugin, absolutely no spam comments got through, but the thing I want to know is why the hell these guys are leaving so many comments. I know it’s to raise their google rating, but if it doesn’t work, why bother? Somebody ought to make it illegal to leave spam comments, pingbacks, or trackbacks on blogs… or anywhere for that matter. It’s just plain annoying.

Now, I said something about a jazz concert, didn’t I? Well, you guys know I’m in my school’s Stage Band. It’s sort of like the Jazz Band but a little less good. I mean, we weren’t really bad or anything, but we weren’t the best. For one thing, Timmy left the Trombone 1 music for Brothers & Sisters in the band room because he didn’t want to play it (I was gonna play it, but he said he wanted to play it and then chickened out). He could have just brought it in with him and given it to me, because the song didn’t sound quite right without that part. I also screwed up several times on A Child Is Born, like playing ‘E flat’s instead of ‘E’s (bad habit) and such, but it came out pretty good. The main Jazz Band was awesome… just amazingly awesome. I don’t know what to say about them.

Yeah, IE7’s coming out soon, but I don’t see it as a very big threat. In my opinion, it’ll just turn out to be IE6 with the number “7″ instead of “6″, tabbed browsing, and a bunch more fake HTML tags that’ll screw up even more sites. Because of the new features, and knowing how horrible MS is with security, I expect there to be even more security holes, and consequentially more stupid updates for IE users to download and install. Another funny thing is that they say that they are “listening to customers” when what they’re really doing is looking at Firefox, thinking “oh god, this is gonna kick our little asses” and hastily trying to throw together a new version of IE. There’s an “Expert Zone” chat coming up about IE on March 10th at 13:00 EST which I really want to check out, but I can’t because I have school. I figure it could be fun, I’d get to see what those MS dummys are really like, and later make fun of them over here.

Well, that’s about it. Goodnight everybody. I have no school all next week, so that should be fun, maybe I’ll work on something useful :-). Oh yeah, and by the way, check this out: Online Poker

Alright, I’m sure you noticed the new category. Yes, every once in a while I find a site and think, damn, that really sucks. Well, this is the first post of my “Badly Designed Sites” series. So let’s start!

You remember TooNekked, right? Well, now she’s using her xanga for her ‘layout and skin plugs’, and I admit that she’s an awesome artist. I can’t do vector, so I admire her for that. Anyhow, remember a long time ago when I said that her layout was screwed up in firefox and she jumped all over me? Well, she made a new one a while ago, I guess december or sometime, and it’s still messed up in firefox. Take a look at it yourself. I’m sure it’s beautiful in IE, but in Firefox, frankly, it sucks.

Now, she’s got a rant blog thing. Ahh, that’s much better. See? It’s not that hard to make a layout using real html and css, is it? Now, I’m not posting this to make fun of the layout. I’m posting this to yell at her (and her friends) for picking on people who ’stole’ her images. In my opinion, it’s not a big deal, and she’s overreacting and being way to immature over things. I would have calmly left a comment on the offending blog/xanga/whatever or emailed/IMed the offender and told him or her to remove the images or give me credit. See? Be nice, don’t act like you have an insect up your ass all the time.

And now, another horrible, horrible site. Alright, this one’s called.. uh… does it have a name? I’ll just call it Hellcat. Anyway, just look at it. Need I say more? Well, unless you’re blind and you use a screenreader, you can’t read the damn thing. I mean, you could, but it’s really hard. Who came up with the beautiful idea of tiling a regular picture, no, a painting, not watermarked, and calling it a background. Oh yeah, and the font is gigantic.

Alright, that’s all. Thank you for putting up with me