This is post 100 and…

Can’t believe we’re finally at the 100th post. I also can’t believe I started this blog on November 29, 2008. Has anything really changed all that much? Yes. I’ve finally started “liking” GNOME (I like the Dust theme). A tweaked GNOME on CentOS (my new distro of choice), and I’m good to go. Plus, I can’t believe my rant back in January got 28 comments.

Boring. Boring. Boring.

Months back I commented that the Internet, or at least the portion of the Internet I frequent, seems to have died. What’s happened since then? If anything it’s gotten worse, not better. My IRC channel has gotten even more dead, Slashdot has started to suck more, and Usenet? It’s all file downloads these days. The blog? Dead too. A few months ago it had insight, and some witty-ness. These days? “Oh, do I have to post another blog entry?”, and I fill it with random crap.

Time to Throw in the Towel?

Fellow blogger Andrew Turnbull is contemplating if he should stop updating his blog. So have I. I fell that the quality of the content has gone from decent to mediocre to plain ole’ garbage. I also used to post blog entries almost everyday, but these days I don’t. The front page (as of now) contains posts from June 1st to April 3rd, while the 2nd page contains posts from April 2nd to March 3rd. In other words, I’ve been slacking off on content and quality.

Should I throw in the towel and be done or should I attempt to reinvent my blog?

STOP Error rendered in over 60 browsers!

I found this site called browsershots.org and submitted this site. The results can be seen here. Cool, eh?

Almost 2900 Blog Views…

I recently took a look at my blog’s stats page, and what I saw excitied me:

2,849 blog views since I started the blog on November 29th, 2008. Not too bad I believe.

I’ve got it… A Podcast!

Since I’ve gotten my headset, I’ve been doing headsetty things. Prank calling people on Skype. Recording stupid things in Audacity/Sound Recorder and then remixing it. I thought, why not do something productive. Or, productive a thing I could make. I decided on a Podcast.

Oh, and Don, what ever happened to your podcast?

New headset means new technolgoies embraced

I finally got a headset today. I know to most other people have had one for at least the last few years, and I felt I didn’t need one. But times change. I need to be able to win at online games. Talk to others online. But, one possibility I had was to allow users to download “spoken” versions of these articles, such as what Slashdot does. But unlike Slashdot, I’d speak ‘em myself.

Oh, and you can Skype me: I’m “stoperror” on Skype.

Stop Error Rendered on Old Browsers

After I said that IE5 was from a rendering point, superior to Netscape 4, I felt I had to back up my claim. So here I am! Stop Error rendered on FF3, IE6,IE5,IE4, IE3, Netscape 4, and Netscape 3.

Firefox 3. The “refrence” renderer.

Internet Explorer 6. Nothing to comment on here. Looks decent.

Internet Explorer 5. Ahh… looks almost as good as IE6. Since I’m using Multiple IE on XP, it doesn’t have that “native” look.

Internet Explorer 4. Here, we’re starting to see some major rendering flaws.

Internet Explorer 3.  This is the Win16 (Windows 3.1) version. Text only! Woo!

Netscape 4.  I really want to say that this is better than IE 5 or IE 4, or even IE 3, but it just isn’t. Plus, this is NS 4.8, from 2002.

Netscape 3. Didn’t even render it. JavaScript errors. How so very 1990’s.

So, after this, I can say that IE 5 was rendering wise, superior. Sorry, but that’s just how it was. Plus, performance wise, IE 5 was faster.

Controversy & Conflicts

What makes a good blog? One that documents the exploits of one geek’s day to day life? One that states the opinions of such geek? Or one that makes people use their brains? One that’s controversial? Yes, one that’s controversial. When you look at it, you get attention with controversy. Would you get attention if you just said “I don’t like Macintosh computers because they’re took expensive for my budget, not too configurable, and a lack of native software.”, or if you said “I don’t like Mac’s because Steve Jobs sucks balls”. Why, the latter of course! At times I do get too contriversial. Other times, I’m just too bland. People DON’T want to hear about me ranting about stuff they could care less about.

And yes, Mr. Shen, the “I don’t like Macintosh computers because they’re took expensive for my budget, not too configurable, and a lack of native software.”, is the true reason I dislike the Apple Macintosh.

1000 Views.. Well almost.

I just looked and saw that I had 999 views of my blog (not counting me of course) since November 29th. I really don’t know how blogs go, but is this good for a blog that isn’t even 2 months old yet? 87 comments and 40 posts. Is the blog successful? I hope to think so, but I’d like your insight on this. How do I make this a better blog? Here’s the oh so optional (yet ever so lovely) screenshot:

999 Views