13 June 01
I added a cookie feature to my webpage that keeps track of whether you last looked at the internal or external links, so you don’t have to keep clicking “external” to get through to those links. And as far as fixing the iFrame thing for Netscape 4.x users, I decided I’m not going to do it. The Netscape browser is much like a torro two minutes before the end of a bullfight. AOL purchased it and killed it. AOL also purchased Nullsoft, creators of Winamp and Gnutella (2 of the most pervasive mp3-promoting programs anywhere). During all that, of course, they joined with Time-Warner, controller of most of the rights to popular music in America. Why do they throw money down the toilet and shoot themselves in the foot? I don’t know. Maybe they’ll shoot themselves in the kneecaps with a bazooka next.
I read Jordan’s little rant on inconsistent posters, and the fact that I’m the most inconsistent poster of four webpages. I don’t think I care, but it got me to write this, so who’s to really say?
Every day I go through my list of links, check for something new, then close the browser window. It doesn’t matter whether anybody has posted to the pages, it just matters that I checked. I guess this is evidence that it’s an addiction and not something I genuinely care about. Going through the motions seems to be more important than whether I get a buzz from the activity. Sure I like reading what people have to say, but I need my fix man! [Insert maniacal laughter and me showing the inside of my left elbow and banging it with my right hand.]
In computer gaming news, I have become the “great screwball patience man”. I covered the map in Age of Empires II with walls. I covered the sky in Starcraft with several hundred flying Terran Command Centers and Barracks, all following each other in a Massively Multi-Directed Disgusting Waste Of Time [tm]. And in Black and White, I let my semi-retarded cow Flava-Ade loose on the first map for days, where he covered several contiguous acres of land in what seems like a discoloration from outer-space, but is actually several tens of thousands of smaller objects — objects that, when pointed at by the mouse cursor and identified through use of the F1 button, are concisely described with the four letter palindrome, “Poop.”