This is because I love Ben Folds, especially because he is a bit nerdy. Such Great Heights, with common everyday household percussion. Via kottke.org.
I’m so tired I think I’ll go have dirty monkey sex
What in God’s name is whoever doing searching for wan porn?
Save paper
If the web was as big (as in popular) in the early nineties as it is now, I wouldn’t have had to write all my physics, chemistry, and economics notes on A4 paper with colourful pens and illustrations, — I would’ve been friggin’ addicted to NoteMesh. Via Lifehacker.
This surpasses even an Instalanche
Whoa. 529 diggs. People commenting about this whole WordPress shopping mod (someone said I was rambly — aye, I am, I do this stream of consciousness thing, I can’t help it! But I didn’t think it was that disorganised) on the digg site. Someone else says it’s an ugly hack. My stats are through the friggin’ roof (by my standards)!
I thought when it was posted on Weblog Tools Collection, oh nice, he thought it was okay enough to post and my stats were quite good. I was busy all day today (I don’t think I’ve been hopping on and off buses quite this much in one day before), and when I got home and got online, I decided to have a look at my stats and was totally dumbfounded.
(And a little mortified. Or in my local parlance, so pai seh.)
I certainly did not expect this amount of attention or exposure… I thought this was a very niche thing, for the few people who didn’t like OSCommerce or Joomla or ZenCart and didn’t have the money to buy a super shopping cart package of scripts. For example, the person I did this WP mod for had started with OSCommerce, but her admin didn’t want her uploading the Contributions she’d need in order to get the site set up the way she wanted — so I worked out this solution for her (her site’s not ready yet, as she’s still working on the product descriptions and images, so I’m not going to mention it here).
I thought maybe a few people might find it useful, especially if they like WordPress, but I did not imagine THIS MANY PEOPLE liking and disliking my concept, or at least spending the time discussing its pluses and minuses.
At the moment my WP Shopping project is popular on del.icio.us for web design, blog, and shopping. This is the most knocking-me-over-with-a-feather 15 seconds of Internet fame that’s left me scratching my head, because I honestly thought it wasn’t really that big a deal. But it’s nice that people give a damn.
To those visiting my bloog for the first time, please do understand: I am not a web designer in the normal sense of the word. I don’t have any drawing / traditionally artistic skills, but I do know HTML and CSS and taught myself all this stuff and still refuse to use a WYSIWYG editor. And I sure as hell am not a programmer or computer techie person. I use computers because I like what the web offers. I really like WordPress. If I can modify WordPress to do things for people’s sites and thus cost them a little less money, I’ll do it. And I enjoy the challenge. So thanks for all the links and visits, I really appreciate that people take the time to comment!
Tutorial for turning your WP into an online shop
Hah, I didn’t even post it on my own WordPress installation! I wasn’t going to post it here (mainly because I forgot), but since I’ve been dugg (how exciting) after I submitted the link to Weblog Tools Collection (after I sent him an e-mail and, once again, FORGOT to include the link, yes I am an idiot).
I do really hope it’s useful.
Update: guess what? I forgot to link to it on this post as well. Here it is — How to turn a normal WordPress installation into a working online shop (without too many tears).
No one needs to take responsibility
This is nuts. Someone kills his father, and because he played GTA: Vice City, it’s not really his fault?!
The latest lawsuit lays the blame for the muders at the feet of GTA: Vice City. It describes Cody Posey as being obsessed with the title and says that had Posey not played the game, “he would not have killed.” The suit accuses the Take-Two and the other defendants of a “civil conspiracy” in creating and marketing the game, saying that the possibility of “copycat violence” should have been so plainly evident to them that they should never have released the game.
How bloody ridiculous. Games, movies, books, music, and whatever medium you wish to pick on do not make people commit violent crime. They choose to do it. Someone who was going to be violent may look to these influences for inspiration, but if it wasn’t GTA it would have been something else. Maybe it would have been the film Elephant.
It is irresponsible and stupid for people to blame a video game for someone’s decision to shoot and kill his abusive father. Violence on teevee and in video games do desensitise people to pain and suffering, I agree with that, but someone who is normal and non-violent isn’t ‘turned’ by watching something or playing a game, they have to have that in their psyches in the first place.
The Night Listener
This reviewer is not a reviewer, nor is she a critic or a cinephile or anything serious and academic related to film. She just really likes going to the cinema.
Okay, speaking in the third person is over. It feels weird.
I love Robin Williams, his hotness is an island in the sea of normal hot people. He is especially hot in [tag]The Night Listener[/tag], a movie about a radio presenter (Gabriel Noone) who finds himself alone after his partner moves out, and finds himself embarking on a telephone friendship with a young boy (Pete Logand) who has written about his painful childhood of sex abuse, and is, tragically, dying of AIDS.
The first thing that got me was the look in Gabriel’s eyes when he saw Jess moving more stuff out of his house. Wow. I almost cried seeing the pain.
(I’m pretty easily affected by emotion in films. It’s kinda fun.)
Okay, spoilers now.
Keep Door Close
… and windows closer
Snapped on the second floor of People’s Park Centre. Heeheehee.