Oh for fuck’s sake… I was going through my normal round of RSS reading this morning and noticed that a number of them suddenly started shoving ads in my face. One is from a family of blogs, so they’ve added a “brought to you by” cross promotion tag line on every article and someone else put what looks like Google ads in their articles…
Come’n bloggers… web ads did nothing but piss people off, so why clutter up an RSS feed with’m? I can sincerely promise you that nothing in any of these ads will get me to click through them. In fact, if I see a product in an RSS ad that looks interesting, I’ll go type the URL in myself so that you won’t get a click-through kick back. Just out of spite. Yes… I really do mean it.
I’m ads free – except for my book (which would make a great case study on how people don’t buy through ads!) – and I’m staying that way.
Just a warning that this site might go quiet for a while, what with my moving and all… I can’t even begin to think what impact work will have on this week, as well. I’ll be lurking around, but no promises…
Think about all of that time you won’t be wasting coming here! *smirk*
The releases just keep on coming this week, with this round coming from the web (and for free). MSN Messenger 7.0 has been released – so has MSN Spaces – both of which have been pretty stable through out their beta cycles. What’s new with MSN-IM? Continue reading And the Hits Keep Coming→
Shocking that a retail establishment can spark a Rant, right? Hah, yeah, sure. This past weekend I popped into Best Buy to pick up a second Xbox controller and some banana plugs for some audio speaker wire. The game controller was on sale for $25, which is a good price, and since I have “official” speaker jack outlets in my new place, I needed the plugs. I was pretty much left to myself while shopping – which is good! – but the check out process was rather …irksome, to say the least. Continue reading Best Buy Pissed Me Off→
CNET Asia: Sanrio’s annoyingly cute kitty has enveloped the Xbox in its feline embrace […]and painted the console a girly pink.
If Sanrio ever gets out of the products business to form a government lobby, we’re all fucked. No one can stand up to their marketing force. No one. Within two weeks, we’d all be worshipping mouth-less big-headed cats… with bows in our hair.
Over the past week I’ve spent hours trying to re-create my current blog layout using CSS, instead of the nested HTML tables that I currently use. In theory, it would make for a cleaner layout, especially if I wanted to make any changes, but I would have to change every posted page first. On top of that, the simple truth is that I can’t figure out how to get a fixed-sized, two column layout: a fixed right column width and an “expand to fit” left column. The closest I came to it was using percentages, but those look extremely ugly on smaller resolutions/screens, and that’s made me reject the entire project. I simply refuse to change all of my markup text and lose some existing functionality, in the process of it all.
Totally disappointed by this, you know – I mean, it just sucks.
