Author: Portfolioso

Google Ruined my Homepage

November 19, 2009

Computer/ Tech Related, Rants

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Some moron engineer at Google made a brilliant decision: let’s collapse the iGoogle themes to fit more widgets in for those of us with smaller screen resolutions. FALSE. What the hell is the point of having a theme if it gets cut off? Use your brains, Google. I would much rather see the entire theme and scroll for my widgets. At least make it an option. Fix it now, it’s pissing me off.

What my theme looks like:
Google Theme Cut Off

What my theme should look like
Normal iGoogle theme

My screen resolution is 1280×800. I know I’m not really doing well height-wise, but it’s not the worst. I like my Google themes to be seasonal, and they ruined it on me. Now everything’s cut off. Thanks Google

Update: 11/25/2009 – A Google employee replied back on their help forum and acknowledged that the users were upset. Google will be making a change to how this was implemented and will post back to let us know. I will keep you updated

Leeches

October 26, 2009

Rants

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You know what pisses me off to no end? Leeches. People that have nothing better to do than to follow you around and chew your ear off about topics you don’t give two shits about. It always happens at the worst possible time also. Sometimes, I’ll have a minute to chat or will be in a good mood and won’t mind, but that’s when they’re in hiding. These leeches pop out either 1) when you’re exhausted 2) just failed a test 3) rushing to a meeting 4) just want to relax. And there’s no avoiding these people. There is absolutely a 100% chance you’ll run into them. It’s scientifically proven.

You know what’s the worst thing ever? When people who are walking in one direction run into you, and they do a fucking 360 and walk 20 minutes in the opposite direction from where they were originally headed to. I thought the stop and chat was bad, but I can tolerate that because it’s like 2 minutes tops, and you can walk away if you say you are in a rush. But this is 400 times worse, because you’re stuck. It’s like a guided missile just locked on target and it doesn’t go away. Then you wonder why people end up flipping out.

Off topic, but I just ate a fortune cookie. It read “Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.” Those Chinese. I’ll leave these leech dudes with them for a few days and they will rethink that fortune.

Phillies Phans are Phuckin’ Morons

October 22, 2009

Rants, Sports

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I hate the Phillies. Their fans are all bandwagon obnoxious assholes. The team makes the World Series two years in a row, and all of a sudden, fans spawn out of nowhere. Mind you, I’m in Connecticut right now – Yankee/Red Sox rivalry land. Just because a few jokers from south Jersey or PA come to this school, they go nuts. You know what was ignorant and made me rage? Right after the Phillies won the ALCS tonight, people outside started screaming:

“Yeah Phillies! F*ck New York!”

What a dumbshit ignorant comment

  • The Phillies just played Los Angeles. NY has nothing to do with anything
  • The Yankees haven’t even gotten to the World Series yet – they still need one more win (in three chances).
  • This isn’t related to anything, but why are the Mets your bitter rivals? The Mets are JOKERS. It’s not that hard to win a game against the Mets.
  • You are still the losing-ist pro team ever, with 10,000+ losses, so die.
  • I know a Phillies fan here. She’s really ugly.

So go away and stop yelling outside my window.

Hello from… A Proxy

October 19, 2009

Computer/ Tech Related, Rants

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First update in a long time. I just woke up because I decided to sleep off a pissed off mood from a Yankee loss and a campus internet outage. I am posting this from a proxy because the dumb shits here at my school network go home after 5PM, and then the internet frequently goes down and no one is here to fix it. Very common occurrence.

So… I do some investigating, and websites do not load. But we do seem to have a live internet connection, since some other protocols worked. So what do I do? Tunnel to a server I administer back in my hometown (thanks KF-Dedicated) and proxy traffic from there to me. Works wonders. So what is wrong with our internet here? I have a feeling that it’s an overloaded traffic-shaper and it’s just dropping all web traffic. Either that or the DNS server died. Some encryption and tunnel action, and bingo, I’m the only moron here with a working connection. Now CNS, get your shit together, you are horrible people. So that’s my rant.

Black Gives Way to Blue

September 30, 2009

Music

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When the first single A Looking In View was released and over 7 minutes long, I didn’t know what to think. I wasn’t a complete fan right away, but it grew on me. Check My Brain was released over the summer and I first heard it while in a car driving through the Bronx. “This is more like it,” I thought to myself – maybe this album has some potential.

And now that it’s released and I’ve been listening to it nonstop, I’d like to point out that the album is amazing. Of course, it can’t be compared to earlier works like Facelift and Dirt, but even with a new lead singer, it does an excellent job capturing AIC’s original essence. DuVall and Cantrell have some haunting vocal harmonies that take you back to the 1990s. Acid Bubble is byfar the most melancholy and is comparibale to the song Dirt from the album Dirt. This is an example of true 1990s grunge being released in 2009! Other songs such as Your Decision and When the Sun Rose Again focus more on acoustic guitar work. It’s a great mix. Usually when I get an album, I only like 2-3 songs, but as I listened through, they are all unique in their own way and I can never skip any of them.