Archive for September, 2005

Anti-Spam measures

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

Just installed Spam Karma 2 which makes a good impression when it comes to functionality.. on the other hand, usability is another topic (As I mentioned some days ago, I might be just stupid as well. A third possibility wold be that I wasn’t paying much attention for I played EQ2 on the other box.. but I guess that counts as being stupid, too). I just deleted all comments.. somehow I thought I’d have to re-aprove the already moderated comments by selecting them within the SK2-plugin and click ‘moderate’. Guess I thought wrong. A nice clean cut..

Lesson learned (jah, sure.): think before clicking, read before guessing, make a fscking backup of the fscking database before screwing around with your blogsoft. What’s ‘backup’ supposed to mean anyway?

Updated to 1.5.2

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

Just updated to WP 1.5.2. Smooth and easy.

Now I have to get some feasible anti-spam mechanism.. this is getting really annoying. Just in case some texan-poker-dumbfsck or his assfaced associates from similar fscking companies missed it, I say it again: Fuck you!. Yeah, I know, bots..

There’s other things I want to do, too. Removing the monthly archives from the front-page, adding some about/contact page and maybe look for another design template or get behind it and customize the default one to some extend. If I can get my lazy ass up..

Kill the Hipsters: a lesson in intolerance and compensation..

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

I just read an old strip of NN2S, titled ‘Kill the Hipsters, I’ which, by the way, might indicate that it’s only the first in a series of happy hipster bashing. Anyhow, Mitch also adds a short rant which I can absolutely agree with (FYI, hipster bashing also happens quite regularly at QC).

Instead of adding to this, let me keep my energy for a quite similar topic: metrosexuals. They appeared out of nowhere, one at a time, walking through the city or sitting vis-a-vie in a cafe. Well, somewhat amusing, those Beckham-worshippers, but there’ve been stranger people around. The thing is, for the last few months, they appear like mushrooms after rain. Literally everywhere. When entering school again last week, I felt an urge to do something, anything. Laugh, cry, run away or just hit one of them as hard as I can. This isn’t funny anymore. I mean, they look like fscking clones. Those stupid hairdos – dyed, wannabe mohawk or with little patterns shaved in. And even though: it all looks the same. Their overpriced Dolce&Gabbana shirts looking fucked up on purpose and displaying some stupid message. Same for the jeans. They are that cut that I wouldn’t make it into one of those in the morning without tearing the whole thing apart. OK, I’d worn torn jeans for years, but that is about 10 years back and I didn’t to this on purpose. They just got worn out or torn by skating (actually, by bailing out) and the like. Speaking about the jeans, take your time and a close look at those ridiculous patches.. or maybe I just don’t get it. Last but not least, the jeans have to go into the socks, which leaves them well prepared for any flood to come. So, this whole outfit at least serves one purpose. (I also do this, but that’s when riding my bike to prevent my jeans hanging in the chain. I fix this as soon as I get off the bike. Also, I have rarely seen one of those I-didn’t-get-the-point-of-individualism-but-following-the-stream-will-surely-work-guys on a bike).

I’ll stop here. I have to. There’re about dozens of details I left out, but in the end, those ppl just don’t deserve it. Not a single word. They’d be forgotten in silence and the welfare would have tons of clothes every self-respecting bum would refuse to wear.

But as it is, I had to write this. Higher calling – or just the fact that I realized that I’m stupid. Compensation, plain and simple. I’m having serious problems getting in sync with maths although I’m considering the topics we’re covering pretty easy – from an impartial point of view – but sitting in front of some of those exercises is really fueling the doubt in me. But, confidence, jepp. That’s it. Speaking about compensation: What is a guy trying to compensate who styles himself like described above? Honestly? I don’t want to know. There are some things better left in the dark.

Free math lessons are welcome none the less..

www.americasarmy.ca (mind the .ca!)

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

A friend just told me to visit americasarmy.ca. No way I told him, known any boycotted! He wrote back that I should take a closer look at the URL, especially the top-level-domain.. and et voilĂ ! That’s way better. Seems like there’s some things you still can rely on..

Nearly a month..

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

since my last post. That’s three weeks of vacation and four days of jet-lag supported laziness. Actually I probably wouldn’t even write this now if it wasn’t for a downtime of the EQ2 server I’m playing on. If this has anything to do with DoF starting today? Well, actually I’m pretty sure it has. I just wonder why such a cut-in can’t work smoother, it’s not like SOE has announced it just yesterday. The upside is that I spend too much time playing EQ2 as it is, so this forced vacation from Norrath might be a good idea.

Yes, I’m sure it is, sort of. Especially considered that today was my 2nd day in school. Nothing much to say except for the teachers aren’t getting tired telling us about how tough this year is going to be and how we can’t just take it easy but hang in there for it’s lots of stuff and about self-responsibility and blablubb. As if I’m 14. It sometimes gets creepy, literally. Ok, I might be one lazy fellow, but that they don’t know. At least not yet.

Damn, Innovation (that afore mentioned EQ2 server) is still down. I really should create a backup character on an alternative server. Oh, wait. Reason says I shouldn’t. Damn it ! Just checked that and this wouldn’t help anyway for it seems that all servers are down.

I probably could also write something about my trip to CA, or tons of other stuff, but I said it before and I say it again, L.A.Z.Y. Must be the jet-lag.. *cough*