I make a beautiful website design for these people and what do they give me? Terrible, terrible photos! Then they call up saying that they don’t like their images. What the hell do you want me to do about it? It’s so depressing

Erect a tree in the middle of Victoria Square and don’t decorate it. Doing us proud, Australia!

Back in August I blogged about something that really pisses me off: When applications install in to your C drive regardless of where you tell it to install.

Another thing that is similar and just as heinous is when you download a program, run the installer and then the installer downloads another installer. Again.

If this isn’t the installer, what is it? An installer for the installer? Redundant much?
I could give a flying fuck if you want me to have the latest version. Create an auto-updater for your software if you want everyone to be on the bleeding edge. I downloaded the setup file because I wanted it to be accessible from anywhere. If I knew this was just going to be a proxy for the real setup I would have just run it from my temp files after it had finished downloading. I chose to save the file so I could use it anywhere and any time. Now I need to be attached to the internet just to install your stupid browser that nobody takes seriously anyway. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, this is Google after all, not exactly king of the software realm. Unfortunately though, they aren’t the only ones that do this.

Dear developers: Stop it. Just stop it. It’s not clever. It’s not cool. It’s stupid and you’re stupid for thinking it’s any good. Just quit it.

Work is so much more interesting when things stop working.

Happy birthday to me.
I’m a hundred and three.
Something something I don’t like your face.
THE END.

I wasn’t going to post this but it’s become sort of a tradition.

and now it’s making a buzzing sound.

Clearly the best name for a band ever. Almost as good as Electric Six’s latest album title, “I shall exterminate everything around me that restricts me from becoming the master.”
Their music isn’t half bad either.

Stream them at Last.FM or Myspace.

Speaking of music-related matters, Sleeve Channel, one of my favourite recent trip-hop artists have released a new track “Give A Little” definitely worth at least 15 listens over at their MySpace.

Continuing today’s ragey theme, why the fuck do things require space on the C: drive when I explicitly tell it to install to another drive?

Adobe’s Audition music editor is the latest culprit of this stupid and archaic trend. The program requires ~350mb of disk space. During the installation it asks where you want to install it, so I decide to install it on to my 750GB drive I’ve named Local Data. So you know what it does? It installs about 50mb in to the drive I told it to install in to and the other 300 in to my C. Why? Why even ask me where I want to install it if you’re just going to stick it all in C anyway. Fuck you. No wonder I never have any free space on C.

As some of you may know I’ve recently been on the lookout for a new Portable Media Player.
After much research I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m going to get a Creative Zen 32GB. I say “going to” because NOBODY FUCKING HAS THEM.

I’ve been to every shop in town that would have them, except for Tandy’s because it doesn’t fucking exist. Seriously I’ve been up and down Charles street ten times, inside David Jones and in the fucking mall. IT DOESN’T EXIST. It’s a LIE.
Nobody has them.
I’ve been to every shopping mall in South Australia, the largest sized MP3 player that wasn’t an iPod I found was a whopping 8 gigs. Eight. Fucking. Gigs. Fuck you Australia. I purchased an iRiver h320 over four years ago. At the time it also came in a 40gb variant. Are you honestly telling me that in four years we’ve managed to regress 32gb? And the fact that they sell ONE gigabyte models at almost the same price as the 8GB model is just fucking hilarious.

The kicker is that when I ask them if they sell the 32gb model, most salespersons’ jaw almost drops to the floor. They’re like, “What? There’s an MP3 Player that isn’t an iPod that’s larger than 16GB?”
One guy even tried his darndest to sell me a crappy 8gb model. Why the fuck would I want 8gb when I explicitly asked for a 32gb model. He was all like, “8 gigs is all you’ll ever need!”
I told him Bill Gates said the same thing about memory but I don’t think he got the reference. I don’t think I even have 8gb free on my iRiver h320.

So Why? What the fuck does Australia have against MP3 players with decent storage? I can buy a piece of crap iPod touch with 80 fucking GB of storage but if I want a functional, modern PMP I have to put up with 8gb? What kind of logic is that? FUCK YOU AND YOUR HOUSE.

Fuck you South Australia. It’s times like these that I thank Science that online shopping is a reality. Sure I have to pay extra for shipping and handling, but at least I can actually fucking OWN it.

/rage

I recently had to implement spoiler tags in to Co-Opp and had a quick perusal of the nets and found no such phpbb3 plugin/mod. So I figured I’d make one using their good old fashioned custom bbcode page and inline javascript.

In case anyone else needs some inline spoiler tags for phpbb3, or anything else really, do as follows:

Login in to your phpbb3 ACP and click on the Posting tab, then click on the custom bbcode link on the left.

For the BBCode usage, enter:

[spoiler]{TEXT}[/spoiler]

For the HTML replacement, enter:

<span style=”background-color: #000; color: #000;” onmouseover=”this.style.color=’#ffffff’” onmouseout=”this.style.color=’#000000′”>{TEXT}</span>

Example of what this will look like:
OH MY GOD SPOILERS

Ideally, it would be better to add a javascript function, the main reason that I didn’t in this case was that I’m lazy. But it also wouldn’t be globally usable, unless I whack the function in to every template, or God forbid I make a mod or something. Wowzors in my trowzors! Too much effort for such a simple little thing in my opinion.