I took a dive into my site logs files via Awstats and found some interesting tidbits.

I never liked IE; in fact I refer to it as “IEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”.  Historically, it has been riddled with bugs, security vunerabilities, non-standard rendering and a general ‘f-you, we know better’ attitude to web developers/designers everywhere.  I’ve gotten to be such a curmudgeon about it that I generally refuse to use a site that requires IE to function.  Sadly, it is used by a majority, but shrinking, percentage of web surfers.  I wanted to see if the folks reading my blog were ‘smarter than the average bear’.

Turns out, they are, in fact, smarter.  IE is used by 17.2% of my ‘readers’ while Mozilla(+Netscape) users represent 14.7%.  That is much closer than users as whole which is more like 75/25.  But the surprising fact was that 53.8% were ‘unknown’.  Hmm…  Deeping a bit deeper and I found a bevy of RSS readers and a few spiders.   So it seems that a majority of you are using RSS readers to follow along at home rather than visiting the site directly.

Interesting. Continue reading There’s gold in dem dare logs! →

I finally got around to moving the site to a ‘real server’ and a bit more friendly domain name. Welcome to StreamingMeeMee.com! And before you ask, yes, streamofconsciousness.com was taken. Besides, that’s way too long and hard to spell.

I’ve done a fair bit of testing but please let me know if you find any broken bits along the way.

Contrary to the common usage of the term, I consider WalMart the Evil Empire. They destroy locally owned business, strong-arm local governments into granting the zoning variances needed for their behemoth stores and feeds the Chinese slave.. err.. employment market.

I just wanna punch that little smug, smiling, yellow bastard. Pardon my French but what the freck is the difference between $1.99 and $1.86 for a bottle of shampoo? As if 13 cents were a life altering change in my life. “Gee honey, I just saved 13 cents on shampoo! Let’s go to Disney World!”

When I first read that “the W store” had started up a MySpace-like site to appeal to teens and tweens I fell off my chair laughing. After I saw the site, I had to grab for my O₂ bottle (you do have an oxygen bottle by your desk, don.t you?). This is the lamest thing I have seen since that thing Whoopi did with online currency.

What teen/tween is going to be duped by the scripted pseudo-hip on this site? Remember folks this is the same company that sells guns and ammo alongside sanitized versions of CDs and DVDs. They are sanitized because the violence and ‘harsh language’ are “harmful to our youth”.

I guess the guns are just a huge bear hug of support and happiness.

I’m in serious like with my EZPass. Massachusettshas a similar program named “FastLane” but the devices were free from EZPass and the FastLane program wanted $20. Guess which one I got? 😉

One of my favorite immature things to do is to wave at all the people waiting in the toll booth lane as I zip through the aptly named “FastLane”. One of the greatest benefits of this device is that works in so many places; the Mass. Turnpike, NY Throughway, several bridges and tunnels in the NY metro area, right down to the parking garages at the Newark airport.

Sweet.

For those of you who are not familiar, EZPass is a small (deck of cards) device that is attached to the inside of you car’s windshield. When you pass through specially configured toll booth lanes an antenna mounted above the lane activates the device and reads a unique identifier. This id is then used to verify that you have an account in good standing, record your passage, and then indicate the status of your account via a traffic light like device in your lane. It then debts your account for the toll.

On a recent trip to New York state I noticed a difference in the indicator lights. In my home state of Massachusetts the green light is labeled ‘Thank you’. However, in the home of the ‘New York Minute’ the same green light is labeled simply ‘Go’. Just how much of a hurry do you have to be in for the time it takes to read ‘Go’ vs. ‘Thank You’ matters?

Maybe NY really does have the cold, soulless, ‘You talkin to me?’ mentality after all. Or maybe it’s just easier to read ‘Go’ because the letters are bigger when overlayed on a signal light. 😉

I planned on being the ‘careful and quiet’ type all along.  I didn’t join my first start-up until I was 39.  I’m now on my third and this one is the one.  No, really… it is!

Wired 14.07: What Kind of Genius Are You?

It should come as no surprise to any regular readers of my blog that I feel that copyright laws have been controverted into a blunt instrument used by the media companies to beat customers into submission.  However, in this case, the shining beacon of reason has burst forth.

In his opinion Judge Richard P. Matsch stated that the practice of commercially santizing movies was an ‘illegitmate business’ that caused ‘irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies.”.

Most Hollywood blockbusters not withstanding, movies are an art form and should be viewed as realized by the creative people that created it.  Can you imagine Michelangelo’s David with the middle 1/3 removed?  I thought not.

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