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May 30, 2007 at 3:10 pm · Filed under the internet
You know how some websites make you enter in a “security code” when you sign up? The code is usually some image file of numbers and letters and deters pattern-recognition software by slightly jumbling up the lines that form the letters/numbers. I guess the purpose is to prevent bots from hitting the site and spam registering.
The problem is that half the time, I can’t even make out what the letters and numbers are supposed to be. The lines are too squiggly that I can’t tell if something is supposed to be a “b” or a “6″, for example. So I enter in what I think the code is, and I’m told that my registration failed because I did not input the security code correctly. Grrr
I’ve had the worst luck with blogspot blogs that require logging in for commenting; those codes are the by far the toughest to decipher.
April 17, 2007 at 12:55 am · Filed under the internet, tv/movies
I rarely ever mindlessly watch TV, but figured tonight was as good of a night to start as any. I’m mostly emailing and reading blogs on my computer, but a movie trailer commercial caught my eye. I was even more shocked when at the end of it, instead of a website, it listed a myspace site.
Remember when movie trailers didn’t even have websites attached to them? When did that start? I want to say mid to late 90s; I always wondered when they would run out of domain names because the movie websites kept getting longer and longer. So now maybe they did run out of domain names and decided to go with myspace instead.
I don’t like this trend, mostly because I don’t like myspace.
March 2, 2007 at 12:33 pm · Filed under the internet
Have you heard about this webpage? I only just did last night hanging out with some geeky electrical engineers. We were at a popular bar, yet we were talking about the resistors and web scripts and the Million Dollar Homepage. The basic premise is that a 21-year-old kid got a webpage, divided it up into a million pixels and started selling pixels for $1 a piece. Well, the pixels sold out, and he made a million dollars.
Another example someone gave last night of people making ridiculous money off the internet was that of someone who got the domain name “netflicks.com” (as opposed to netflix.com for the actual video rental service). NetFlix has a referral program where you get money for each person you refer to netflix.com, and all the guy did was to set up a link on netflicks.com pointing to the real page. He made thousands before NetFlix finally shut him down.
My inner gut reaction is that this is so cheap. It all seems rather sneakish and backhanded. Right? Right? Then I thought, hey, those are pretty clever ideas. If someone came up with that idea, they ought to be able to make money off of it. How is it any different from someone making money off of a patent? I wish I had an idea.
February 23, 2007 at 11:14 am · Filed under the internet
Every once in a while, there’s a link highlighted in red in the upper right corner of the gmail window that reads “New Features!”. I saw it this morning and clicked to see just what was new about gmail. I was taken to a page telling me that we can now get mail from other accounts on gmail.
This is rather baffling, because I’ve been checking other accounts mail on gmail since more than a year ago. So just what exactly is new? I’m confused.
January 19, 2007 at 1:25 pm · Filed under the internet, daily grind
I’ve been very distracted for the past couple of days, finding it very difficult to focus. I just sit in front my computer in my office and pray for random interesting things that I can find to occupy my time on the internet. This included reading multiple blogs, finding new and interesting blogs to read, and refreshing the ones I’ve already read in case there are new entries.
For whatever reason, I was leaving a comment that required me to write “millenium falcon” (don’t ask). It didn’t look correctly spelled, however I looked at it, so I went to dictionary.com to confirm. Turns out that dictionary.com will now not only give you the english definition of a word, but it will also give you the same word in multiple languages. Kinda cool.
Check it out: millenium at dictionary.com
November 9, 2006 at 12:34 pm · Filed under the internet
Sometime before I left for China, I got some weird messages from people on MySpace looking for relationships. Thinking that the “single” status I still proclaimed on Myspace may be inviting some of this, I completely changed my general bio to really ridiculous stuff. I think my relationship status was divorced; I said I was bi, and I also put that I had only a high school education and that I had kids.
Completely ridiculous and obviously made up, right?
Well, when I got back from China, I had several more MySpace messages waiting for me, from girls. Who are bi. Wow, I’m dumbfounded.
September 25, 2006 at 11:07 pm · Filed under the internet
I’ve noticed more and more that people communicate with the message feature in facebook/friendster/myspace instead of email. Whatever happened to email? I personally think it’s more accessible. I don’t want to have to log in to some third-party service to see a message from someone. Am I already getting old and behind the times? I feel like I’m entrenched in my emails and unwilling to accept new technology.
Though honestly, how are facebook messages better than email? I may not see messages people send me via facebook/friendster/myspace for days, whereas email is delivered straight to my inbox. Instant gratification. Maybe the problem is that I just don’t sign into those things often enough. In that sense, I guess I am getting old that I don’t see the appeal of myspace to log in every five minutes and read my messages.
August 31, 2006 at 9:38 pm · Filed under the internet
When I first started a blog, I wanted everybody to read it. I put a link in my profile on AIM, hoping my friends would click on it and discover my blog. I would randomly drop the fact that I have a blog in conversation hoping that those I was talking to would go check out my blog. Now I wish I hadn’t done all that. I also wish I had not ported my entire blog over to my own domain. I mean, come on, google “shan wu”, and the first search result that pops up is this blog. No semblance of any anonymity at all.
As the readership of this blog grows, I no longer have a good idea who reads this. I know some friends who do, but they’re not the ones who worry me. Nor am I even that worried about my parents finding this; there’s nothing in here I wouldn’t tell them anyways.
I am afraid of the acquaintances who may be border-line stalkers (not that there is anything wrong with being a stalker, because I am probably one of the worst stalkers out there). I am afraid of my students, my residents, my colleagues, random people I meet, people I am dating, friends of the past. I am afraid of the people whom I want to write about.
As a result, I no longer write anything controversial. This blog has become pretty bland, a peanut gallery where I comment on everyday mundane things that happen to pique my interest for no apparent reason. Whereas the things that I want to write about the most, the juicy stories, the people around me, the strange happenings, my personal thoughts … those are all the things I can’t write about.
The bottom line is that this blog has no anonymity. So I am thinking of starting a new one … one that I can actually treat as a diary. One where my identity is completely obscured.
April 17, 2006 at 11:42 pm · Filed under the internet, dating/relationships
| Kindness
Kindness is most important in a boyfriend/girlfriend. You want someone who will go through everything with you - the best moments and the worst, and all of those other moments in between. You love to be able to say anything to your partner, and have them say anything to you. You are able to be extremely close with your partner for that reason.
Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com |
*sigh* sad that I did this quiz, I know. But the results surprised me; this is actually pretty accurate. Kindness is what matters most to me. Followed by humility in a close second.
March 13, 2006 at 10:14 pm · Filed under the internet
neonfuschi: i can’t fig out if he’s cute
neonfuschi: i dunno if he’s cute
neonfuschi: well, he’s not repulsive
wahooswu: HAHAHAHA
neonfuschi: i’m gonna relook at pics on friendster … help me decide
***neonfuschi sends link***
wahooswu: okay, my vote is no
wahooswu: like he could grow on you if he had an awesome personality
wahooswu: but by pure looks, he’s … eh … like you said … not repulsive
neonfuschi: thank you!
neonfuschi: we seriously have same taste in asian men
Big Yuffie: doing anything this saturday?
wahooswu: i’m having a dinner party
Big Yuffie: wanna do lunch?
wahooswu: wow, yes! let’s do lunch!
Big Yuffie: come on wahoo, how can I go up to boston without lunch with you
Big Yuffie: I’m coming up just to have lunch with you shan
wahooswu: you always say that, but i SO KNOW that’s SO not true
Big Yuffie: and hear you talk about safe sex
Big Yuffie: that’s the real pull
P super Bald: so i broke down and got an ipod
wahooswu: ooooo, which kind?
P super Bald: i got a nano
P super Bald: but i was a nerd and put linux on it
jason rathesun: too bad you couldn’t get a bionic leg though
jason rathesun: super fast swu
jason rathesun: that would just be … and this joke is so bad it hurts me …
jason rathesun: Swuper
wahooswu: you’re turning into dr. smith
jason rathesun: never EVER say that again
jason rathesun: unless of course you prefer horrible excruciating death
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