January 31st, 2006
Now Wulfgar’s and Rabid Sanity’s posts are worth discussing!
For too long the right and left wing in the blogosphere has reduced the other side with straw men and caricatures. You know, right wingers are nazis and left wingers are traitors. Enough already! I became a registered independant back in 2002 because I couldn’t take this partisan bullshit.
I’ve also seen time and time again someone critical of the Bush administration get instantly shut up when asked the question: “Well, you complain a lot… but what is YOUR solution to the problem?”
So here you have an intelligent discussion by intelligent people that clearly respect each other’s views… and unlike many right/left sites, they actually want to HEAR what the other side has to say.
KUDOS TO THE BOTH OF YOU!
The old adage “You’re either part of the solution, or you’re part of the problem” immediately comes to mind.
Me? I’m part of the “I’m tired of all the bullshit” brigade. 
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January 27th, 2006
How odd, considering I don’t have an ebay account as far as I know of. Yet, I get this email once a week!
Your account is locked from eBayYou have been locked from eBay because our records indicate your account was involved in activities that violate our policies.
If you feel you have been locked in error or want to appeal this decision by providing additional information, please contact us. *
An email regarding this was sent to you in your e-mail.
To confirm your unlock on file at eBay, just click the button below:
**
This will confirm to eBay that your account is working.
Sure it will!!!! LMAO!!!!
* Link to contact “ebay” goes to http://www.singin-now.go.ro/come-to-become-an-power-seller in-respect-reconoscare-rewared.html
** Button image originates from http://www.geocities.com/syllvesttre/Questions/
And the link goes to http://sign.in.now.home.ro/eBayISAPIsigninebay.html
oooookay……
If at this point you don’t know what a phishing scam is, you’re hopeless.
And honestly, anyone who clicks on those links in their email *DESERVES* what happens to them. 
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January 24th, 2006
I feel I need to share that with you.
If charsets were athletes, UTF-8 would be in the special olympics and have a special handicap sticker on it’s car!!! GAWD!!!! ARRRRGH!!!!
Currently I’m doing a MySQL database which features musicians with lots of wild schwas and tildes and accents. My host (for reasons that elude me) now has it so the data converts to UTF-8. So artists like Mel Tormé and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen turn into illegible words with question marks.
This is why I still use ISO-8859-1 for my charset, I mean how will Mötley Crüe survive the internet with such a restrictive and retarded charset like UTF-8??? I have since had to drop my “®” from WHUZZUP!® because most feeds crash from it.
So if you need these funky characters you can use this chart.
Whoever you are that came up with UTF-8… I hate you too.
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January 22nd, 2006
I just stumbled on this trying to find out what the hell happened to Reverend Mykeru…
Kinja Card for WHUZZUP - It’s… it’s…
Well, I don’t know what it is, but it’s pretty cool! And it ties in to Technorati, Way Back Machine, Alexa and all sorts of goodies. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 16th, 2006
“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
-Malcolm X
“Be that change you want to see in the world.”
-Ghandi
Usually on this day, I can look all over the web and someone, somewhere is reshaping Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into a supporter of their cause. You name it. He’s for/against the Iraq War, he’s suddenly a vegan and a card-carrying member of PETA, he’d join the fight for gay marriage.
Frankly, I doubt the last one. As a man of the cloth, I’d imagine his view of homosexuality would be very much the same as any religious figure… I *DO* see the parallels, and this is a matter of Civil Rights and equality… and even in his own words “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” ring true in this case.
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