Tip of the day: Get a Logitech RX1000 laser mouse—or something equivalent, but I really like mine—, fire up the bundled SetPoint software and assign the tiny One Touch Search button—or whatever you like to call button #4—to Maximize. It may sound trivial, but it saves me a hell of a lot of moving to windows’ Maximize button, plus you can toggle between regular and maximized state without moving the mouse. Let’s face it, it’s a lot more useful than crazy-ass zoom or search functions, and if the button is there anyway, you might as well use it. Personally, this is where I draw the line. Four mouse buttons is all my puny brain can cope with.
I wonder how many people read flandersnews.be. Rest assured, the Dutch version is bad enough, but when they start talking about the VW “Beatle”, well, let’s just say there are better news sources.
While we’re on the subject, personally, I think the fact that a couple thousand people got laid off is no reason to be protesting for days or weeks on end. Companies are allowed to do severe restructuring and they can sure as hell favor the local economy, even if that means sacrificing a more productive branch. You’d sure as hell take the same course of action. The soon to be former employees have as little reason to be all over the media as people who are the victim of more isolated layoffs. I’m not saying losing your job isn’t a big deal, but from what I hear, the jobs weren’t that great to begin with, and most of them shouldn’t have too much trouble finding a new job. Plus, they’ll be given a nice bonus on their way out. So what makes them think they have a right to behave like savages and slam windows, burn flags and go on loud marches? For fuck’s sake.
Update: Apparently, they fixed the spelling in the article. Sadly, the URL still shows obvious traces of incompetence.
Seriously, I wish I had a sugardaddy to buy me a Wii. No, I’m kidding. I wouldn’t have sex with an elderly gentleman just to get a game console. Now, maybe if he were to throw in a nice big 1080p-capable TV … And a goat. You gotta have a goat.
So I’m on the bus and I see this old woman making an attempt at sitting down next to a total bimbo, and as soon as the bimbo notices what she’s up to, she goes “Bitch please, I ain’t sittin’ next to you!”, grabs her purse and goes sit elsewhere. Okay, so she didn’t actually say “bitch please,” but the rest of that anecdote is absolutely true.
To be fair, I wouldn’t have wanted to sit next to her either. For some reason, a freaking lot of people had some serious B.O. today. Or it may have just been the time of day. Apparently, you don’t get many twinkies at H&M on a Tuesday afternoon—just plenty of straight lowlife soccer types. And they’re supposed to be all sweaty, right? Hell, if they’d been attractive at all, the sweat totally would have been an asset, and I so would have hit that. Unfortunately, this was not the case.
I have upgraded my blog to Blogger Beta, and I must say, I’m slightly disappointed. Other than merging my Blogger account with my Google account, which is admittedly useful, I’m only seeing minor UI changes, plus the addition of S/FTP—which, let’s be honest, was long overdue—and a feature which may appeal to some: tags—though Blogger calls them “labels.” Personally, seeing as how I don’t even add titles to my posts, I have no intention of using labels. I’m sure the new features will be useful for some people, but, personally, I think that these days, it’s easier to just set up a blog using WordPress—not that I’m a fan of that. So why do I stick with Blogger? Convenience, really. I can’t be bothered to migrate, and if it ain’t broke …
Update: Publishing this post failed. That’s karma at work right there. Also, the publishing interface still doesn’t use XMLHttpRequest, which is really tedious. Honestly, how is this a beta? It’s barely an update to begin with.
Update 2: Apparently, publishing was taking ages since it felt the need to republish everything and create a page for each individual post, even though I have that feature turned off, since I let my site handle it. God damn it, Blogger.
We’ve got the day off tomorrow, which gives me time for … random tidbits!
I didn’t expect miracles, but I am somewhat disappointed with what I’ve been reading about the Zune’s software. Even though I’m still convinced proper funding and marketing can turn any average MP3 player into a direct competitor for the iPod, there are boundaries.
As you may already know, the Wii’s attempt to bring sheer fun back to console games has tickled my interest and I will be considering buying one. The DVD announcement is likely to make me hold off for a year though, especially since my TV set isn’t exactly Wii-compatible anyway, so I’ll have to upgrade that first.
My notebook broke. That is to say, I think the hard drive’s connector has come loose, so when I move it, it sometimes hangs and loses track of the hard drive altogether. It’s getting picked up for repairs tomorrow. I’ll live.
Losing 30% of your score on a lab report just because you did too much work isn’t really fair in my book. Hypothetically speaking, obviously.
Gratiz.be got nominated for Site van het Jaar again. We’re giving away an iPod shuffle and a couple of DVDs to entice people to vote, but personally, I have to admit I don’t think we stand a chance, and I can’t say I really care either.
Right, well, that turned out to be less interesting than I thought.
Out now: Feedy 0.1.5 with basic microsummary support. Because I can. Incidentally, the next Chirpy! release will also have microsummaries.