4/14/2005

Awful Websites Vol. 1

Filed under: General, Geek — site admin @ 7:59 am

We’ve all seen them. Some gimp decides to grab a copy of notepad and start “crafting” up a personal webpage, intent on publishing his/her ignorance worldwide. Some of these folks do it to present personal facts, some do it to create a soapbox upon which to preach to the world, some do it just to try to learn HTML, and some just do it because they want to look “cool”. There are so many examples of these vomitous digital tomes of nonsense that it’s hard to pick one as a prime example of what a website should NOT look like, but I’ve got one here that truly takes a prize for The Worst Website in Cyberspace.

In order to take an award for The Worst Website in Cyberspace, it must meet some rather stringent criteria. It must:

- contain little to no entertainment value.
- contain a large amount of grammatical errors, including spelling and misused forms of words (to, two, too come to mind)
- contain a ridiculous amount of pointless text sizing and colors which would offend Helen Keller
- contain little to no actual scripting, but simply a “body” tag with endless variations of fonts and colors
- contain emphasis on conjunctions like “but, or, and”, etc
- contain excessive use of 8 color sprite graphics and 2 pane animated gifs harvested from other hideous sites
- contain self-serving content which interests nobody but the “author” of said travesty

Extra points are given for gratuitous asskissing, making “pointless points”, and lack of cohesive information flow.

Well folks, I indeed have what I consider to be not only the prime candidate which meets the above with flying colors, but a clear winner that none of you can top. Visit (link removed to protect the guilty :) ), but be forewarned, this is one gawd-awful site capable of further blinding the blind, and WILL make you retarded for reading it. I believe you’ll find that this site is indeed The Worst Website in Cyberspace.

11/26/2004

Wired on a Friday Morning

Filed under: General, Geek — site admin @ 12:57 pm

Well, here I am at work, because the f’ing TAPE LIBRARY keeps “pausing” and f’ing up my backups. I’m supposed to be at home helping set up our Christmas tree and all that good holiday fun stuff. But no. “Drive paused”. DAMNIT technology sucks when it doesn’t work correctly. HP Tape Tools, you better come up with a clean diagnosis on this Ultrium tape drive/loader!!

10/31/2004

Open Source Kicks ASS!!

Filed under: Geek — site admin @ 12:37 am

Open source software just kicks ass. I am LOVIN’ WordPress, Apache, phpBB2, perl, php, etc, etc, etc…
It just doesn’t get any cooler. I paid for ApacheConf, but it’s well worth the $55! Great product for sure.

Been workin’ my ass off on this site too. I have a LOT to learn about blogging…feels like I’ve been livin’ in a cave…lots of new shit to figure out and learn on the fly, but I love a good challenge. I’ve spent quite a bit of time f’n around with different blogging software, and WordPress seems to be the best of all breeds, though being a geek REALLY helps with this stuff. Not quite as “simplified” as other blogging soft like bblog and serendipity. I liked the others too, but the support WordPress has received from the community, and the look/feel are just too cool. I love this shit!

 

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