Insanity Part 2.0

I just finished a phone interview with Apple! I feel like it went really well, and I really hope they feel the same too, because I think it would be incredibly awesome to work for them. More details as I find out more…

(17:20:32) MyWhatASaucyLad: Man something is wrong with me
(17:20:38) MyWhatASaucyLad: I really like this Kelly Clarkson song
(17:20:39) MyWhatASaucyLad: What the fuck

The new Decemberists album came out last week! As far as I can tell Amazon has the best price on it, and they’ve even got a 4 song sampler from the album here.

UPDATE: Free Listening Party from Real.com! You can listen to the CD in its entirety from RealMusic here or this page (scroll down a bit under Rock) if the first link doesn’t work. You’re going to need RealPlayer 10 to listen to it (available for the big 3 platforms). I’m pretty surprised that they encoded it at RA10 256kbps, because that’s really good quality (I think RA10 high bitrates == AAC).

MP3Players4Free Signup Link

As some of you may know, I have lost my Rio Karma. I’m now doing one of these free mp3 player dealies to try and get a replacement without too much effort. Here’s what’s involved:

• Sign up for an account using the above link. NOTE: DO NOT SIGN UP FOR MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS. This provider is VERY stringent about multiple accounts, checking for, among other things, IP addresses when signing up. This means signing up from a shared computer is not a good idea
• Complete one offer yourself. A really easy one is eFax, and a fairly useful one is Blockbuster Mail (netflix type service)
• Once you get authorized, get 5 friends to sign up, and have them repeat the above

For the record, this is different from the freeipods promotions and I believe slightly lesser known, so it shouldn’t be nearly as hard to find people who haven’t signed up for this exact promotion before (yes, it basically is a pyramid scheme, but one that actually works). The best reason to sign up for this promotion is that it offers you $275 PayPal’d. Meaning, they give you cash instead of an iPod, so it’s quite a bit more useful.

I wish I didn’t have to whore myself out this way, but hey, I’m a poor college student with a need for a replacement Rio Karma (yes I loved it that much)

As a thank you, here’s a picture of a kitten:

Blake Ross on Netscape 8

Excellent post by Blake Ross on how much Netscape 8 sucks. Although I’m glad to see a new Netscape release based on Firefox, I wish it didn’t suck so much. The tab preferences UI is absolutely atrocious (there’s seriously about 20 different options you can change), as is the default UI too. The standard window is incredibly cluttered, as it has so many buttons and things all over the place (as well as a cluttered ‘multi-bar’ that just functions as advertising for Netscape.com and its marketing partners) that it’s far far too busy and crowded.

Blake’s second post on the problems of Netscape8 deal mostly with the really bad idea of incorporating the Windows IE engine into Netscape. Although it would be helpful for users that have problems sometimes (eg with finicky banks), I would look at it as more of a fallback option instead of something that should be a prominent fixture of the program. Instead, Netscape chooses to make IE the engine for a number of ‘pre-approved’ sites chosen by AOL (or a different partner) because of their safe-ness. This is utterly ridiculous. Firefox wouldn’t be making a difference on the internet if it was simply another IE-implementation. It is on these ‘safe’ sites that Firefox has absolutely no problem displaying correctly, and where there is simply no need for the ability to display with IE.

I would imagine the line of thinking was that “Firefox is safer, so let’s use IE on the safe sites and Firefox for anything else that could pose a danger!” Instead, this just leads to a messy program, with pointless options that a user won’t understand, like “Display like Netscape” (“I thought I was already using Netscape!”) or “security zones” (users didn’t understand zones when they were using IE, why would they understand it with Netscape?)

I hate having a shit-ton of work.

(02:47:24) polkadotchickens: i jsut did the most college studentish thing i’ve ever done
(02:47:30) polkadotchickens: i ahd a temporary face tattoo from the game
(02:47:33) polkadotchickens: and peeled most of it off
(02:47:41) User15937: hehe
(02:47:42) polkadotchickens: you’re sposed to use rubbing alcohol to get the residue off
(02:47:48) polkadotchickens: but i have none
(02:47:52) polkadotchickens: so i used tequila
(02:47:53) polkadotchickens: haha
(02:48:10) User15937: hahahaha