Tag Archives: Gripes

A bit of a funk, really.

If anyone actually reads this regularly, they might have noticed the utter lack of posting for the second half of August. It’s not normal, at least since last year, for me to do that. I decided today to sit down and just blog before work, since it might help. Right now, I’m depressed about a [...]

Why is there so much death?

Yesterday, while hanging out with some of my dorm mates who enjoy WWE Wrestling, I heard that Chris Benoit, his wife, and his child were found dead, but with no details. Being that I had my laptop on me at the time, they all asked me if I can try to get them some more [...]

Confessions of an ex-music pirate.

I remember when I first got an internet connection at home. I paid for it almost in its entirety, from the phone line, to the dial-up package, and the computer itself. The family only helped me out in getting a monitor for that computer, and that was fairly cheap. I discovered sites like Riffage.com, which [...]

ugh, zombie.

Day Seven: Dear World. I am sleepy, bored to death with the training (because I’m not learning from it as much as I’m learning from actually seeing the work done, and being given a chance to try it), and just want a soft bed to lay on for a day. My energy is depleted severely, [...]

Trying out Zookoda.

A couple of days ago, I decided that I needed a way to offer a subscription to my blog’s content for the non-RSS, non-LiveJournal crowd. I had heard mention of an email marketing tool called Zookoda, which is a free tool that hails from the Great Down Under (that being, Australia). It’s an interesting tool [...]

Five Minute Gripe: Ashley Drive, Tampa, Florida.

Photo: Ashley Drive at Cass Street, as seen from the North-West corner, Tampa, FL. Map: Provided by Google Maps This intersection is the absolute bane of those of us who commute on foot here in Tampa, FL. Ashley St. (left) is a two way street, with southbound traffic coming freshly off the Interstate only a [...]

Three Minute Gripe: Coding.

I’m giving myself three minutes to vent on things. This session, it’s about code. We’re in the AJAX and XHTML age. Please spend a little more time on going through your code, to make sure it can pass through a validator. Missing one or two things, but generally getting the rest right is to be [...]

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