Internet explorer sucks

Haven’t written a blog post in a long while, actually I think its been nearly a year. While I compose a few post I thought I would post something that was sent to me which summed up a wasted Wednesday for me.

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A letter to Microsoft customer support after fighting with the error mentioned above simply for appending a class name with jQuery. The only thing I could do was rant, because I couldn’t do anything else. This all just flowed right off of my fingers to the keyboard with virtually no effort at all. I hate MS. I really do. And they don’t care. Enjoy, sorry if parts are too offensive. It made me laugh after I read it back..

Hi,

I’m a web developer, and I want to thank you for wasting my time. The only thing I can do right now is rant, because you make my job miserable. Fuck you, and your stupid non-working piece of worthless shit fuck browser called internet explorer. Do you even realize how big of a piece of shit it is? Ballmer do you realize that you are a fat bald sweaty piece of monkey shit? Really, I don’t mean to take a stab at you personally, but seriously, I hope you feel great about the way people feel about your company’s products every day. There are countless websites on why people should not use IE, why web developers, who are doing really cutting edge and amazing things for really grand user experiences on the web, really fucking hate IE and Microsoft’s lazy ass approach to fixing bugs. Invalid argument, Invalid argument, invalid fucking argument after another, and no decent debugging tools out there, I hate you.

Colours, words and shapes how hard can it be…?

I don’t normally watch TV during the week however I made an exception a few days ago when I returned home from work and turned on the TV briefly and the One shop on the TV license revenue stealing black hole which is the BBC. The episode was about the Stroop test and asking people if they could take part at home (user interaction 2.0), at first I didn’t know what this was so instead of switching off I thought I would watch on and see where this went.

Its just a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice…

Haven’t written a post in a while so I thought I would write a quick one to update you on what’s been going on in the last month or so since I last made a post and maybe post up a few images from my new camera.

snow man fun...

The last week of Jan and first week of February in London to me has always been and probably always will be the coldest time of the year and also the time of the year with the most freakish/random/WTF weather you will ever see – This year did not disappoint, we had the heaviest snow storm that has been seen in London in over a decade and to be predicted my little city that prides themselves on being prepared for all manner of man made disasters was about as prepared as a someone bringing a knife to a gun fight – London seems to be incapable of preparing for what nature might throw at it, at what seems to be the most predictable times of the year – so London grinded to a halt as no trains/tubes/buses where working meaning no one could get anywhere actually that’s a lie one pal of mine made it to work as he lives next to the only underground station that was working (he was really annoyed with this).

One of those days-weeks-month-Years…

Have you ever had one of those days, weeks, months or even years where you think there is no light at the end of the tunnel and maybe just maybe it has been turned off due to budget cuts in the current economical ‘recession’ climate.

I received a email from a good pal, well lets not even call him a good pal as he is more like a motivational speaker that knows when to chime in and help me get my second wind, this person is usually there 9/10 time when I need him giving the advice that needs to be told or what I really need to hear at that time.

So what did he say this time to me to write about him – well he sent over an email containing the following lines:

When minds and judgements are clouded there’s nothing you can do……. How can you help someone who doesn’t want to be helped??….. How can you find someone who doesn’t want to be found?

Friends with benefits or just stupid cheaters…

Casual relationship is a term used to describe the physical and emotional relationship between two people who may have a sexual relationship or a near-sexual relationship without necessarily demanding or expecting a more formal relationship as a goal. It is more than just casual sex and different from a one-night stand. Related terms are “pals with privileges”, “friends with benefits”, “friends with privileges” and “sex buddies. There are significant gender and cultural differences in acceptance of and breadth of casual relationships, as well as in regrets about action/inaction in those relationships.

How can you find someone who doesn’t want to be found?

A comedian (comedienne if female), or comic, is a performer who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy. A comedian who stands alone and addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comic. A comedian can be distinguished from a clown because clowns most often use slapstick, wear costumes and makeup, and engage in buffoonery, whereas comedians most often focus on a more verbal style of humour, telling jokes

“A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny,” which draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive…

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

A lie (also called prevarication) is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others, often with the further intention to maintain a secret or reputation, protect someone’s feelings or to avoid a punishment. Lying is typically used to refer to deceptions in oral or written communication. A white lie would cause no discord if it were uncovered and offers some benefit to the liar, the hearer, or both. White lies are often used to avoid offense, such as telling someone that you think that their new outfit looks good when you actually think that it is a horrible excuse for an outfit. In this case the lie is told to avoid the harmful implications and realistic implications of the truth.

The most commonly cited milestone in human development, is known as Machiavellian intelligence, is at the age of about four and a half years, when children begin to be able to lie convincingly. Before this, they seem simply unable to comprehend that anyone doesn’t see the same view of events that they do — and seem to assume that there is only one point of view: their own.

Friends with benefits or just stupid cheaters…

Casual relationship is a term used to describe the physical and emotional relationship between two people who may have a sexual relationship or a near-sexual relationship without necessarily demanding or expecting a more formal relationship as a goal. It is more than just casual sex and different from a one-night stand. Related terms are “pals with privileges”, “friends with benefits”, “friends with privileges” and “sex buddies. There are significant gender and cultural differences in acceptance of and breadth of casual relationships, as well as in regrets about action/inaction in those relationships.

The morning after the day before…

So I read something a little while ago that said it is always darkest before the dawn, but I also read some of the art of war which said all war is based on deception. Well I am starting to believe this is true – however even thou it is darkest before the dawn you still know it will bright when the sun comes up. All you have to do is keep your head when everyone else around you is loosing there’s.

So I have been AWOL for a few days to try and clear things up and decide on what I want to do with the next stage of my life – where have i been; that you don’t need to worry about – just that i am back. And I have also had some time to reflect on the last few posts I have written – they seem very negative and one sided so I am sorry if anyone takes them personal they are just how I feel or felt at the time. While I have been gone it seems that a lot has happened in the news. Will post properly this weekend.

Oh I read this really cool blog this week – if you know me you will know I like to use the work crack head a lot however this blog tries to let people know there is nothing wrong with a crackhouse if you make it a crackhome.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33874

Anyway I am off – need to go for a run so I am ready for the day…

Friends, enemies or just friendemies…

What is the definition of a friend, enemy and a friendemies? The lines are so blurred at the moment that it’s hard to tell where one stops and the other begins.

I try to be extremely selective on who I allow to be my friend. I am a believer that the people you surround yourself with are direct reflections of who you are. However occasionally you there are wolves in sheep’s clothing that slip through the fence. However as long as you are aware of them you can not get bitten.

Well it seems like the lines are becoming more and more blurred with a lot of people falling into that grey area. Some people claim to be your friend and to care about you but they mess with you and treat you like your feelings and thoughts don’t matter just to make themselves feel better. I have had it with certain people lately.