Seasons in the Sun Part 2

The reason why the last post got a little closer than usual to me was probably that I can directly relate to that in my personal life. A member of our family missed a few cancer checkups and now it is too late and she'll die this week as the doctors said so far.

Any ideas how to deal with this? Call her to say goodbye? That does sound strange to me. We haven't had much contact in the last 2 months because I was too busy with work to drive over to the hospital and always missed to do the most simple thing, phoning over. I tried though not but she had lots of therapy going on. Well at least they seemed to try everything to get that damn Leukemia out of her.

Now that it is nearly too late we're trying to call the family together from all over Europe and can't even locate some of them which truly sucks.

Work is also lagging, so if my client gets pissy again I'll have to raise a finger and tell them to shove it, I got other shit to do now.

Seasons in the Sun

That's what you get when you dig too deep in the rabbit hole.

Don't listen to this when you're already down for it is the most devastating podcast I ever listened to. If that one doesn't leave you in tears, you're already dead.

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Thank You Apple!

No really I mean it.

Despite my lack of time this week I had to update! And really they got it right. I'm just amazed how slick the integration is. As a pro user I'd wish for some deeper features, but one step at a time. This is podcasting v1.0

Not much to say here, go try it. If you have a podcast and don't have a show ID (visual) yet, drop a line here and I'll do you one.

Rock on, Go wild!

more workbits

If you're curious about the site I was ranting in …Concerning Workbits click the link in the title.

As the site is now nearing its completion I managed to sneak in a few nice features like cute little conference calendars for workshop sessions that I had to hide from Internet Explorer on Windows later on.

My take on the IE people is, that they're pretty much asking for it. If you want to open a file that has been created in 2005 using an open standard format with an application that only supports its own variation of a very old format of a predecessor of this standard, you can consider yourself lucky if you get any information at all. Now project that on the web.

I mean, if the maker of that application were blowing money up my keister I'd probably be more interested in making a custom version of the site that works in THEIR software so that THEY can view it and THEIR heathen minions can work with it too.

But let's face it: The average user of the web uses Internet Explorer for 2 reasons, it comes with the OS and it has the work Internet in it. Most people are simply afraid to install a new software on their systems which is understandable if you have ever worked on a Windows machine and I know what I'm talking about, I was a windows user for long years and had to get through these ordeals or what they call it often enough. It's gotten little better, still far away from the simplicity of dragging an icon to a folder and starting to use the app.

So when you read the reports about the Firefox browser it is getting clear that mostly students of IT schools and technically interested people use this browser. Maybe that's a reason too why all the major adult entertainment companies are now hiring web developers that know web standards by heart. No really the smart people, the people in the know are all using Firefox or Opera now, to be able to see all the web has to offer and to browse more securely being less troubled by spyware. So is it safe to say then that only the people brimming with stupidity are using Internet Explorer these days? Mostly yes, but also those who have moron bosses that force it onto their workers.

Conclusion: If you don't care about the privacy of your personal information and only want to be able to access content created till early 1999, Internet Explorer is the perfect application for you. If you do care about what happens on your system, use a browser that is built on open standards and follows common sense instead of monetary interest. There's more to the web than Internet Explorer can show you.

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Short Media Temple Outage Today

Had another unscheduled off time just a few minutes ago and couldn't receive or send e-mails for 30 minutes, not sure if I lost anything yet.

With the current situation, the only good thing I can say about my hosting company Media Temple would be, hmm that they take care of things that crap up. Guess it is because they fix their totally fucked up update that left php coders out in the rain since a simple php app for generating an e-mail from a form used to take 5 seconds to pop up in my inbox. Now that I changed the e-mail address in that script BECAUSE the mail processing slowed down so damn low (hey 2 hours is just not acceptable) their service guy chose to be a smart-ass and gave me this crap: See, so you DID change something in your script. Oh boy was I 5 seconds away of shouting in his face.

Next thing he's like: All out customers are extremely happy with the update and you're the only on that complained. YEEES Sure thing they don't bitch, if they can't e-mail you. C'mon that's horeshit MT and you know it!

Whoa! What a disgusting little bugger!

Where can I get one?

I haven't seen anything close to that that gave me the creeps. Actually I happen to like spiders that are larger than my flat-spread hand. Somehow the small ones give me the creeps, I mean you would notice a bird spider hiding in my head or pants, but a small spider in my pants? They don't call them Nut Huggers for nothing! Eww

Make sure to check out the video link at the bottom of the linked site. What a little bastard.

Hosting, Privacy Optional?

Today I had the major crap up that you can imagine with my hosting company MediaTemple. You wouldn't believe this shit. The account settings for ALL my e-mail aliases were different. So I lost ALL e-mails within a timeframe that I have yet to figure out. Lost gone, can you say /dev/null?

Really I don't trust them anymore since they messed with my data again. Then you wait ages till some support queen decides that you will be served. I can't even call them to get an answer, you get a phony... we call you answer. Which in Europe is a polite way to tell someone to stick it.

Micro Piracy, Yes I've been ripped off!

What have we here? Some person liked my fur desktops so much that he wanted them on his mobile phone, but instead of just asking if he could use them for anything other than the license states (which you automatically agree to by downloading the files) he figured that he could just ripp them off.

And if you look at them in my goodies section you can probably tell that they take some time to make. So should I take this person to court for license violation and copyright theft?

I don't think so. He showed some minor respect and added my name to it, but now it looks like I did it. Damn it, I'd never publish anything that's remotely close to the JPEG shown on his site. So his good intentions actually damages my reputation if people associate this with my person.

Conclusion: If you rip-off other people's art on the web be clear about it, since you will be found out and then only get into trouble.