Jiminy Krikit: September 2006

well apparently there's no internet at home for a little bit, so I'm pretty much just gonna be on at school (that's okay - myspace is wearing thin anyways)...

but if you actually message me for some reason, keep in mind you won't get a response until I can get somewhere & respond...

9.16.2006

what's my blog worth?...

this is hilarious - I entered in the url for my art blog & got this...

My blog is worth $1,693.62.
How much is your blog worth?

even funnier, I then entered the url for this one...

My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?

9.14.2006

html-raped...

did I just use that as the title? ha ha ha ha... well anyways...

so, I recently discovered that my art blog (along with this one) wasn't showing up correctly on Internet Explorer... thanx for tellin' me kids (!)...

I hadn't noticed because I use Firefox, & it always showed up the way it was supposed to... I know not everyone has caught on to the whole Firefox thing yet, but yeah...

so then, after noticing the problem a few more times, I checked the blogger help section with any keywords I could think of at the time - but to no avail... so I sent them a message asking why my sidebar was under the blog & what I could do to correct the problem...
I got a message back with a link to the correct help article, & promptly went about fixing my art blog... & it worked...

but low & behold this morning... the one you are currently reading (or not reading, depending on the annoyance factor of the way it looks) was not only incorrect in Internet Explorer, but also in Firefox, as well (!)...
of course I then went into the mode of trying to fix the damn thing, same as the art blog, but nothin' doin'... I adjusted the images that were too big for their fields (per the help articles instructions), but as of this writing, it still looks like the blog is standing on the sidebar's head - friggin' great...

maybe I pissed-off Blogger with my insolent questioning... on the other hand, it could just be a coincidental hiccup caused by all this updated & blogger beta stuff that's goin' on...
(pssst... if you can help, this would be a good time to comment)

9.13.2006

vent, vent...

what the crap is up with all these simple things taking so much effort or ending up lacking...

*if this part (or parts) doesn't make sense to you, it's probably not supposed to:

books I haven't seen yet... eating... a green pig... a talk that's beneficial to one party only... never trust virgotic females that play the victim &/or devil's advocate (it's damn-near the only way they know)... one long thumbnail... I don't wanna wear a tux!... an empty but unused 'puter lab... pain is better than numb - period... an underhanded attempt at imposing one's opinion (& a suspect filter)... oh, where is my hairbrush... leave the socks alone!... & finally - yes, double-standards happen & no, it is never okay...

bad situations not withstanding - between crappy motivations & other selfishness in general, it's a wonder anything happens at all...

9.10.2006

sometimes, it sucks to love music...

in case the recent news about the music industry going after free guitar tablature web-sites wasn't disturbing enough, I found out today that DJ/mash-up artist World Famous Audio Hacker was arrested on September 3rd, after dj-ing that previous night into the morning...

what the hell? I swear, those riaa/music-suit-guys are really trying to take everyone down with 'em... I seriously see them as dying, decrepit creatures sensing that the end is near - more & more musicians are becoming aware that they do have options (poke around at Downhill Battle) - and newer, forward-thinking companies (Magnatune, anyone?) are seeing/innovating new avenues as well...

I would encourage everyone to go check out WFAH's web-site & spread this around as much as you can...

9.08.2006

& in the news...

well, I've started working on an essay, using this music-industry article at the new york times website as source material (more on that at another time), but when I went back to see the article again, it had been moved to some archive where you had to buy it to access it (good thing I had it saved & printed already)...

what kind of crappy news-site is that? no wonder I never go there... I understand that they have an old-school mentality as far as the way they deal in content (a common enough problem, no question), but has anyone else noticed that most news sites out there don't have this problem/issue? granted, not every news site leaves articles up forever, but I don't recall ever being blocked in lieu of payment...

if this seems like old news to you, then it's probably because I have pretty much avoided the mainstream newspaper web-sites, biasely (& apparently correctly, in this instance) assuming they would struggle & try to make the technology conform to what they do, as opposed to being open to a new medium, with the inherent new quirks...

9.05.2006

Bunch...

this weekend I had a fun time, hanging out with my friend David (who was up from SD County for a visit), & co. ...
simple stuff - pancakes, a quesadilla, kicking each other's asses at video games... just chill time, mostly...
oh, & I still probably don't like the new fairgrounds...

Jiminy Krikit

9.21.2006

I need photography-gloves...

9.20.2006

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9.18.2006

the internet is for...