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Comment on Signs of the times: the old web vs. the new web by David

David — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:14:10 +0000

Thanks for the comment, man! I’m so used to getting spam comments, so it took me a while to find this. Also because of some server issues..

That’s true, I suppose giving the user more power and making websites more of a social network are the main trends. I think things are headed in an awesome direction. Moving desktop computing to the web or cloud computing is an interesting idea and I definitely think we’re headed there, but I’m not sure if were ready for it yet.

Douglas Crockford gave his keynote today at the Yahoo Frontend Engineering Conference - in it he mentioned both the current HTML standard and the current version of Javascript were last updated in 1999, almost ten years ago! People have done amazing stuff with that limitation, but it will be interesting to see how we progress beyond that. What new type of frameworks or technologies will browsers experiment with so we can get even more awesome stuff out there?

Comment on Signs of the times: the old web vs. the new web by Armando Padilla

Armando Padilla — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:24:31 +0000

I know this post is a bit old but wanted to chime in since i just located your site. I believe the difference between Web 2.0 and 1.0 is the way in which the user deals with the content. Again this is just the non technical side of 1.0 vs 2.0. In 1.0 the user could not share the content and personalize the content as easy as it is now. End the transition to a web 2.0 mind set where the user had more power.

In terms of technology, 2.0 is more of a Asynchronous based tech approach. Ajax, Flex, Advanced CSS skills, and to a large extent Restful/Web-Service fundamentals (SOA) are what the companies look for when they ask for “Web 2.0 experience”

Personally I think there is a slight push now for the term, Web 3.0. 2.0 allows users to share content across many sites while 3.0 will allow content to be given meaning. Semantic Web. :-p

Comment on Funny WoW Guild Names by skeli

skeli — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:40:52 +0000

and 2 stealthed rogues

Comment on iPowerWeb: Documented Defraud Practices by Kimberly McClure

Kimberly McClure — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:40:46 +0000

I can’t even begin to tell you the nightmare experience we’ve had with IPower (who is STILL a reseller for Tucows) - another racket set up to commit fradulant business practices. Just one of the many instances I’ve endured, having the pleasure to do business with the devil, was my bank account of 10 years being closed out after IPOWER over charged by account by thousands of dollars by double and triple billing me on hundreds of domain names. I truly can’t believe noone hasn’t blown up their office because of their extensive training in jacking the customer around, and robbing them blind to the extent of driving them crazy. I even have proof of domain names IPower sold to me that were already registered to other people. I have proof of domains I owned that were stolen from me out of their original CLS - which was in Beta and under their control. They’ve made millions in parking/ppc fraud - off of customers domain names. I personally believe in Karma - and every piece of crap person who works at IPower and Tucows that has participated in any of their disgraceful, evil, fradulant ways of doing business will pay in one way or another. They too will be blatenly screwed, ripped off and jacked around and left pennyless - because what comes around goes around! They all “act” like a bunch of idiots, but they know exactly what they are doing and they all need to be in jail.

Comment on Wall-E summary and review by Patrick Chan

Patrick Chan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:34:08 +0000

Yes, great movie! Thanks for the review.

Comment on More memories of Brandon Garcia by Cindy Paciocco

Cindy Paciocco — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:31:31 +0000

I am Brandon’s cousin on his father’s side, yes, Brandon had a father who did not leave him or Erin, however, this is not the forum in which to lay out the truth that I witnessed and remember. Sadly, the last time I saw my little cousin was when he was a blonde 8 or 9 year old. Had I run into him on the streets a year and a half ago, I would not have recognized him. I used to babysit him and Erin and loved them both very much, still do. Our family is grieving a son, cousin, nephew, and grandson that we were not allowed to get to know.
Erin- you were very young and I don’t know if you remember me, but when you were a toddler you looked so much like me (when I was a toddler) that Brandon would see a baby picture of me and say your name. Please know that the Garcia family has always been here for you and Brandon, perhaps we could have done more to let you two know that you were loved and missed deeply in our family.
I hope to someday meet the beautiful woman that you have become and learn about the man that Brandon became. PS. please send your mother and brother Matthew my sincere regards and condolences.

Your cousin,

Cindy (cp2k3@aol.com)

Comment on More memories of Brandon Garcia by Cindy Paciocco

Cindy Paciocco — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:31:31 +0000

Your cousin,

Cindy (cp2k3@aol.com)

Comment on Funny WoW Guild Names by dudeitztom

dudeitztom — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:04:30 +0000

yeah..im in the guild OMG LASERGUNS PEWPEWPEW

Comment on Funny WoW Guild Names by Calypsone

Calypsone — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:21:27 +0000

I got a guild called Your Mom’s My Epic Mount..

Comment on Kyrie Eleison by David

David — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:11:28 +0000

A lot of my posts like the above are pretty intense, I realize. Note that I wrote this just after coming back from the movie (3:30am) and still had these thoughts in my head. This is what I was thinking at the time, or maybe overanalyzing, which definitely can be a bad thing.

The next morning was a lot better. Getting some sleep gives a lot better perspective on things. Sleep is the ally of the depressed person, or at least it’s always been my ally.

For all the uncomfortable feelings I have about my life, I still have it a lot better than a lot of people. I have great friends and a great caring, stable family who really genuinely enjoys spending time together.

I think every thinking person has thought about suicide. Depressed people tend to think about it more. Suicidal people, well, obviously think about it almost all the time. I don’t think about it all the time.

There was a time when I broke down and had to rethink my entire life situation. I had to understand to circumstances regarding suicide. I had to consider that traditionally it’s been an unpardonable sin, guaranteed to be punishable by Hell. But for that to even be possible, then God must exist. This is the time in my life when I seriously considered arguments for and against God’s existence, and came to believe strongly in His existence. So that makes Hell much more possible, and much more real.

But it’s not the thought of Hell; it’s more the thought that I would be throwing away something God has worked on, something that may have some small purpose in this world. Suicide is kind of like questioning God’s judgment on the matter of your existence.

Not only that, even looking at it from an atheistic perspective, unless under severe inescapable pain, suicide is a waste.

The next “best” thing, I thought, would be to put myself in harm’s way in the process of doing something good for the world. So I thought, I can join the Army and possibly get killed in the line of duty. Or I can be more riskier than I would’ve been normally, and try to wrestle the gun away from the man robbing the bank. But even these are crazy ideas.

Most of all, I would be throwing away something my family has been working on preserving for over two decades. They have struggled to maintain a home, provide food, schooling, toys, etc, for me, who has the ability to selfishly throw it out in an instant. That would be a great injustice, and they definitely wouldn’t deserve that. If there’s one thing I hate to see in the world, it’s injustice. And if it’s me doing the injustice, then I have all the power to prevent that from happening in the first place.