I have no idea why I find this so interesting...
but
here are pictures of mariah's airbrushed abs.
One more reason I wouldn't mind being rich. Wanna do a zillion sit-ups?
Nah, just call in the airbrush guy to give me muscles.
I had a few minutes to kill for a really random reason tonight so I dropped by a local bowling alley in search of some games. Two quarters, dig-dug, and a street-fighter clone killed an hour or so...
A couple of new games were really fun. One you act like a cop with a gun... and the machine actually detects as your body moves side to side and up and down. If you bend down, you actually can hide behind things. Move to the side and you can hide behind doors. Once you get over the odd feeling of jumping around, it's really fun.
The problem with these new games are they are all time-based. I didn't get killed once; however, my time ran out and the machine wanted more money. What a joke.
Anyway, street fighter is really my game anyway.
I just happened upon this funny little advertising trick.
Webpage: http://www.chitterlings.com/cookbook.html
The webmaster is using javascript to make his viewers believe they must order by “today!” However, the javascript will change the date every day for eternity.
Order Now.
Bonuses Are Only Guaranteed If Your Order Is Dated Today: Sunday, July 17, 2005
Silly.
Why do webmasters disable the context menu?
Surfing around today I found www.webtechgeek.com and decided to subscribe to the RSS feed there. Considering I was using IE at the time, I was going to right click the RSS feed, copy the location, and paste it into my RSS reader.
Boom, warning box:
You do not have permission to right-click.
Dumb. Why is it so important that one not right-click on the page? What is so valuable? Plus, it is so easily defeated:
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Right Click on the page and continue to hold the button down
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Hit Enter to close the dialog box
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Let off the right mouse button
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Hit Enter to close the dialog box again
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Poof... the context menu appears.
Anyway, he lost a reader to his feed for being so silly...
I'll have burgers and dogs on the grill... and a bunch of friends sharing adult beverages with me.
I hope everybody is enjoying the long weekend.
Happy 4th of July!
Do you guys submit your personal GWB RSS feed to submission sites... or is the main GWB feed submitted everywhere already anyway?
Please comment.
After reading Jeff's recent cell phone buying pain, I decided to post my latest cell phone experience.
Recently my company decided to purchase us a couple of different types of smart phones. We buy different hardware for us to test, experiment, program, and hack all the time. I've never even really used my palm so I wasn't too excited that a smart phone was a must-have for me... until my cell phone got washed in my pants pocket this weekend. Suddenly, I am very interested in getting a new phone any way possible!
With the company card in hand, I went down to my local cingular store. They had a Treo and a blackberry on display and powered. I told the salesman my deal and asked to play with the phones for a bit. I tried to pull up some web sites on the blackberry... egads, it was slow.
Even worse, I couldn't get a connection on the Treo. I called the guy over, he played with it a bit, and said, “Oh, we don't have a card for this one.” Idiot!
No cingular for me I figured. Well, heck, that was my best experience of the day!
All of the other vendors that I visited would be happy to sell me a smart phone... however, none of them actually had a powered, live version to test. Who in the heck is going to buy a $200-$400 phone without testing it?
Remember that I am an easy sell... I'm trying to buy this on the company's dime.
Luckily, I took my little old sony ericsson 610 apart and let it dry out. Although it is very flaky after it's waterlogged experience, it's works fairly well for now.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
I love and hate the MSN Desktop Search Tool. The search stuff is great; however, the ability to use this as a quazi-command-line or run box is what really wets my whistle.
As much as I like it, the fact that it doesn't run completely like the run command is painful!
I was recently whining about this in the hive and gave this example:
For example, this will open a command box(dos-prompt)
=cmd
However, this will not open the display properties...
="rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,,0"
Here is my suggestion...
Anything after the equal sign should be parsed exactly like the RUN textbox would parse it. Basically, this would move the run box to the desktop.. which would bring the command-line back to the desktop. As most experienced users can type something faster than they can use the mouse to navigate to it... this would make the desktop more efficent for the advanced user.
Please...
Since grade school, I have not liked Apple computer systems. Over the last few years, I have been forced into conditions where I had to learn Apple systems... and I still wasn't impressed. OSX is better, but nothing that would make me want to switch platforms.
Why then am I so anxious to try to install OSX on some of the intel boxes in my test network?
I do not typically go torrent hunting... but for some reason, I would just love to see OSX running one of my previous microsoft boxes. Would I use it? Probably not... it's not like a lot of other software is going to be ported over. It's just a cool little challenge. If it would run in virtual PC, even better!
Considering almost all of my programming skills and experience rest on Microsoft systems, why does this interest me so?
My faith is being questioned indeed.