Been a full week since I have posted.
I was a little off this week. I started to notice a certain technical bent in my posts of late, and I’ve been trying to find something else to post about, just to break things up.
Sure, I could have posted a rant too, but why be so negative? I was looking for funny. No dice. And trust me, it was not for my lack of trying.
You would think I would have something good to post right? I mean, it rained. In SoCal. I know I know, that’s just crazy talk you say. But for reals, it rained. I’m sure the news channels were on full on storm watch too, but I haven’t turned to TV on all weekend, so I wouldn’t know. Also decided to not do too much driving to avoid the idiots that totally freak out because a little bit of water gets on the ground.
I have a very busy month coming up. Car Wash Convention in 2 weeks (yes, I’m taking my camera this time) followed by a trip out to Mom and Dad’s for some way overdue maintenance. Then, back to Vegas again for SEMA. Yes, Paul (and you too Josh ), with my camera. Yes, there will be booth babe shots. Don’t worry, I’ll totally hook you guys up. Heck, I’ll even look for a bit of beefcake for the ladies.
Throw in some Street Tuner Challenge stuff, maybe a magazine shoot and a live show at WRR on October 4th (tip: get you a free account at TalkShoe) and finally the Portable Media Expo next week.
So, yea, I’ll be pretty busy. But don’t worry, know that I have internet with my not-an-iPhone phone, I’ll be able to post goodness from just about all of these events, including photos. So keep an eye out!
…or things that don’t really bother me
- I don’t have an iPhone Looking like I will be the last on the block. Now that all of you have one, I think that’s good enough. I’ll be the ‘cool’ kid that has something different. Suckers!
- The 2M peeps in California that are defaulting on the home loans You know, if your household income is less than $100K a year, you can’t afford a $450K home. Also, you are an idiot for not seeing that 1.4% teaser rate would go up to over 6% in 12 months. Suckers!
- The banks that are eating about 2M home loans You know, if you weren’t so desparate to hand money out to people that make less than $100K a year to buy a half million dollar house, you wouldn’t have to lay off so many people. I thought that’s what credit checks are for? Suckers!
- NBC not on iTunes I think I’ve already commented about this. The only show there worth watching (to me) is Heros, and I can get that via bit torrent. Suckers!
So, it’s been an interesting weekend here at el casa. The Verizon FIOS people, for some reason, can’t take my money, so I’m without internets, kinda. I got a call from one of the lads teachers on Friday. You can imagine why. Bonus I got in a huge fight with my crazy sister yesterday. But, at least I went to the gym this morning, made fun of the idiots with cell phones (in my mind) and yelled at people getting on the freeway at 45MPH. Oh yea, so you know, that was me honking at you because you were doing 30 in a 45. Sucker!
At 4:30 this morning another shaker happened that woke me up. This time, 3.7. That means it’s enough you hear it rumble and the house shakes a bit, but nothing falls. It’s about the same as a herd of 7 year old boys running through the house.
So it woke me up. Then I was too paranoid to go back to sleep so I started investigating things.
With my desktop littered with Google Earth kml files, I can show you the above map of all of the earthquakes that have happened about 13 miles from my house in the last 12 days. There is one missing, that 4.2 that rocked us at the beginning of the month. For reference, the yellow pushpin is my house (in southwest Riverside County, CA) and the red stars are the earthquake epicenters (roughly halfway between Lake Elsinore and Corona, California).
I thought it was interesting how there is so much activity in that one spot. I’m sure the super smart cal tech guys have noticed that as well and are paying extra super close attention to it.
It’s really a shame I think.
Last week the Stevemeister rolled out some hot new Apple gadgets. Namely, a completely refreshed line of iPods, including the iPhone without the phone part, the iPod Touch.
It’s too bad nobody is talking about them.
First up on the list of ‘things people hate about the new iPods” is the $200 price drop to the iPhone. 66 days after it’s initial release. Call it what you want, apologize for Apple all you want, say prices drop all you want, but that’s ridiculous. 90 days, ok. Well, maybe. But to cut prices that much in such a short period of time, to me, was a real let down. I guarantee I will wait 90 days before buying any hardware from them in the future, quite possibly longer. This makes me sad too because I really was looking forward to shopping for a new iMac and iPod touch. Oh well, ‘08 for me!
Number 2 on the list is the amount of storage in the iPod Touch. Like the iPhone, it’s 100% solid state. That means no moving parts. No moving parts means longer battery life and the ability to play video for more than 15 minutes. It does, also, mean, less storage capacity. That’s the way it goes gang if you want something that sleek and sexy. Would you still want the iPT if it were the same size (height, width and thickness) as the 160GB iPod? I seriously doubt it. Actually, it would have to be thicker than that to support the battery that would be required to run OSX, the touch screen and the hard drive.
There were some great products released last week. Too bad it was done in such a poor manner that nobody noticed.
Been refreshing the skills a bit. You know, looking at bad pages, trying to figure out how to make ‘em not quite so bad.
It’s amazing that today, in the year 2007, in the 21st century, in the age of browsers that, for the most part, completely understand CSS, that there are still websites using tables for layout.
Listen up you that think you are layout artists or call yourselves designers. Because you have a copy of Dreamweaver DOES NOT mean you can make webpages, k? Save that stuff for the company intranet or your family photos.
Knuckle down, click over to Amazon or where ever, get a copy of HTML for Dummies and whatever you can find that has the terms ‘CSS’ and ‘bible’ in them and start reading/practicing.
Yes, use notepad. Move to homesite or smultron or whatever later. For now, you need to learn the basics. Another good place would be to tear apart a layout of a blog. Almost all CSS there anymore. The whole table-within-a-table-within-a-table is so 1997. Let it go. Nested tables are nasty and tables should only be used for tabular data. Of course, I use CSS for that too, but that’s how I roll.
And stop with the Dreamweaver already. You are making too much work for me when I have to go back to fix your busted pages.
« Newer Articles — Older Articles »
