How the Internet kills time
20 November 2007, 3:13 pm. 24 Comments. Filed under Internet, Web-related.
This is a breakdown of how I currently waste my life on the web.
Profile sites
- Facebook: I log on at least once a day. The Facebook applications are such life-wasters, but I still love them.
- Bebo: to be honest, it's boring. But I log on whenever I get an email notification for a new comment, etc.
Forums
- Snark: we all love Snark. How can you not love Snark? It's one place where people actually understand what you're talking about. (Because everyone pretty much speaks the language of gibberish.)
- Happy Mapling: lots of idiots, lots of bums, lots of fun.
Bookmarking sites
- del.icio.us: now when I search for things, I tend to look in del.icio.us first, Google second. Because the sites bookmarked by more people tend to be better, I guess.
- Digg: not so much actually, but there can be interesting articles around.
Art communities
- deviantART: always new additions, always amazing hence I always visit. I'm not quite happy that it's usually just the popular and "well-respected" artists that clog the front-page. It's harder to find other new but great artists.
- Skyefairy: for an art community much closer to the web circle I'm in (or was in). It covers up for the downside I pointed out for deviantART.
For most of the above, my username is wildx22. Actually, that's my username for almost anything.
That doesn't seem like a long list, but I sure as hell spend hours on them each day; plus the MSN, reading other sites I subscribed to and of course, recently admiring Rikkye's new layout... I have no life because the Internet sucked it away from me.
So how does the Internet kill your time? (That's laying the blame on the Internet, not me. 
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Oh ho! "Professionals"
5 November 2007, 11:56 am. 13 Comments. Filed under Design, Rants, Web-related.
Navigation-wise, what is a menu? More specifically, is this a menu? As far as I can see, it provides a selection of available options. If you disable CSS, it's organised into a list of options. But oh no, for design elitists who favour solid, stubborn, Web 2.0-style designs and can't see anything else through their little eyes, menus must be organised in the same way as all the other "clean and simple" designs out there. By some commentators on this article I dugg, it's not a menu. Please enlighten me then, what's the new definition of a "menu"?
Is HTML/CSS coding then?
You have designers, front-enders and programmers. A designer shouldn't HTML, a front-ender shouldn't write code and a programmer shouldn't design. The reverse is also true, a programmer shouldn't need to worry about front-ending, a front-ender shouldn't be designing and a designer shouldn't write code.
Some people can combine 2 or 3, but that's rarely a good combination, or only a good combination in their mind and the minds of equally retarded peers. In conclusion, professionals specialize themselves and don't do things below (or above) their paycheck.
Ah, I see. No, that was sarcasm. I don't see. I don't see at all why programmers do not need to worry about how users at the front-end are going to use their software. Are you coding shit for your own back-end use? Would you be more happy hiring a programmer, a front-ender and a designer for a project, or would you like to hire someone who can do all of that just as well if not better than three specialists?
I'm sad. Because while an economist is a professional and a lawyer is a professional, I'm wanting to be an commercial (economics) lawyer. That's just wow, "only a good combination in [my] mind and the minds of equally retarded peers." I'm not really sad, cause I think I just quoted a retard.
Continuing on from the same person...
That said, the article in this Digg-post is neither advanced nor "coding" - it's HTML and CSS.. the basics, really, of anyone professional enough to bother working with professional people. The MVC-idea if you will, Model, View, Control. But most people here aren't professionals I suppose, so.. sorry for sounding "elitist" (not intended that way), but if you consider this example "advanced coding".. well.. you're not that experienced.
I agree with part of that. To me, it's not "advanced coding" either even though it may well be for some. But totally denying that HTML and CSS are "coding"... Well, what are they then? They're just... HTML and... CSS. Right.
And for all that time, I've been referring to HTML and CSS as coding! Well, since I'm neither a professional in design nor coding, I don't need to change my terms for an egghead of a "professional".
Best Kept Secret Award
30 September 2007, 12:57 pm. 20 Comments. Filed under Internet, Web-related.
So I got this award from Chien Yee (Thanks!) and it's time to pass it on:
This is hard. But here's to those whom I don't think has received this award yet and is a "secret". (Do you know how hard this is? Obviously if I've discovered the blog it's not an undiscovered blog.) So in no particular order:
- Leila and Seth of Valamity
- Hev of Amarantine
- Hydora of Contemplative
- Imdolien of Eternity
- Zala of Beautiful Tears
Well they're not exactly secrets. My blog isn't a secret. But I don't know any secret blogs. So the ones I like but I didn't award are the ones I think are too well-known to be deemed as "secret". The award originated from Bobbarama.Com. Check it out for instructions on awarding.
On another happy note, I just discovered my production capacity without the Internet. Due to our stupid Internet bandwidth restrictions, I have this 800mb weekly limit on my computer. That means, no mass Facebook-ing, Bebo-ing, deviantART-ing, forum-ing and restricted blog-surfing. All this contributed to first-time-in-centuries no assignment-rushing on the night before deadline for me; three assignments done in one week including a research essay. I didn't know I could be so great... *self-admirance*
Update: Bah. I just busted the 800mb limit. Like I care. 
