There are times when my cat, Charcoal, displays amazing intelligence, like when she takes care not to step on my hair while walking around my pillow after I lay down to go to sleep. Then she goes off and do something utterly stupid, like roll around on a huge ant hill.
Stupid bloody cat.
This year’s Democratic National Convention won’t remember strippers, or 3 Purple Hearts, or bottles of ketchup, but rather balloons. In fact, falling *bleep* balloons! Or the lack thereof.
Drudge Report has the full transcript of Kerry’s speech tonight, in case you didn’t hear it.
You may remember on March 3rd, I posted that I bought these $110 earphones from Shure, the E2c model. Nearly 4 months later, I posted that the casing on the right earphone had broken. Last week, I mailed it off to them with the 2-year warranty to have it repaired. Well today I got the package back from them, and they had given me a whole new set of E2c earphones in a brand new package (new art on the package too.) Needless to say, I have missed these earphones terribly, and I’m really excited to have them back. These earphones, while expensive, are truly superior in sound quality. Here’s hoping it lasts longer though.
To celebrate, the first artist I’m listening to are Zero 7, a wonderful band with some supremely good music that is refreshing and beautiful.
Reading this article about the way the RIAA are conducting their witchunt these days just makes the hair on my neck bristle. This is so wrong on so many levels, it’s sickening, especially since the RIAA are getting away with their Nazi-like tactics.
“Alan and Andy Berry, owners of Berry’s Music stores, saw their nine-month legal nightmare end June 22 in a plea bargain. What was initially 13 felony counts of copyright infringement, leveled by the Recording Industry Association of America, was finally reduced to a single misdemeanor (and a hefty fine). But the real punishment was meted out months ago: Alan Berry lost his livelihood, lost the business he loved and nurtured for 13 years, may yet lose his house. And the crime for which he’s paid this price? Selling DJ mix-CDs.”
I’ve drank nothing but Pepsi for over 5 years, and this year I have made a vow to quit this addiction and reclaim control over my body. I’ve tried to quit numerous times, but ended up breaking down and buying Pepsi. I’d stay off of it for a week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, and one time 2 months. What draws me back is that I could never find an equal alternative that wasn’t bad for me, or expensive.
I’m currently on my first week of quitting Pepsi. After doing this so often, I’d discovered that I exhibit random odd behavior. For example, last night I woke up outside next to a fire hydrant, which I was promptly peeing on. Occasionally I’ll yell out random obscenities out of the blue for no reason. Today I cried during a Geico commercial. A couple of days ago I found myself eating crumpled up paper with salt and pepper sprinkled on them.
Anyways, anyone got a Pepsi and live 5 minutes away?
Sometimes you read a headline that makes you choke on your drink and squirt it out your nose. Here’s one from CNN.com:
The full story can be found here.
Since I started reading about web standards, from Molly’s countless works, to Jeffrey Zeldman’s ‘Designing With Web Standards’ book, to near limitless guides and tutorials on the internet, I’ve noticed a few things that has changed not only my perspective online, but in the real world.
For one thing, web standards has taught me that it is important to keep everyone in mind. Web standards teaches us to follow a set guideline to achieve the best results. If you adhere to those guidelines, you please the majority of the people that view your website. It has taught me to care about what I do with my designs, and to pay attention to details that are usually overlooked. It has taught me to view a webpage, not as a designer, but as a visitor visiting for the first time with wide eyes. This alone has taught me that certain choices I make are not so wise, such as a preference to a certain color, or preference for a certain browser, and so on.
Web standards has taught me values of pleasing the demographics that you interact with. This has helped me in real life, as I’ve noticed things when visiting businesses and stores that I didn’t before. Usage of signs, for example. One store I visited, had a sign that was very hard to read, using fancy fonts that noone is familiar with, in a section of the store that didn’t see many customers (Mexican food isle). When I mentioned it to the manager, he fixed it and used a legible font, moved the sign near the front and in plain view as you walk in, and 2 weeks later thanked me as business for the particular product that he was selling has grown substantially.
Web standards has also taught me that there is a large community of people out there that feels the same way I do. That, to me, is what standards should be all about; beneficial to everyone.
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