fiddle2: hypertext that makes your mother tingle

Date: 2003-07-29 00:38:46 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/002031.php

Whoa, Nelly. This is about the biggest break from my normal design style as I've ever gone. The other designs are still available if you wish to use them instead, but I really think this one livens things up a bit. God bless Cascading Style Sheets.

Comments:
"I like the color, definitely."
     -Nic   [2003-07-29 01:35:29]
"Sweet Jesus! I like it."
     -Melissa   [2003-07-29 02:45:44]
"I love it!!"
     -Char   [2003-07-29 09:47:45]
"CRAZINESS!! ... but that's a good thing."
     -esther   [2003-07-30 12:31:54]
(4 comments)

Date: 2003-07-27 21:23:37 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/002023.php

Appently, this post on my quoteboard is #2 for "Lars Ulrich Sucks".

Date: 2003-07-21 20:39:09 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001995.php

Some people are bitching about how AOL journals are going to lead to the downfall of the blogosphere, and how the "Me too!" newbies are going to somehow infect the comments of the rest of us to make them somehow unusable. For example: This prick.
I'm on Michele's side: more availability and mainstream acceptance can't be anything but good. Hell, one of these infidels used "grok" properly in a comment. "Me too!" newbie indeed...

Comments:
"I agree with Michele, too. AOL has its purpose, especially with people like my parents, because it is ultra-friendly to those who haven't used the internet before, or even owned computers before. We got it in 1997, and I grew out of it once I learned how things worked. My parents have grown into it (they just NOW used Ebay). I'm sure there are plenty of good people using AOL for a variety of reasons."
-Nic [2003-07-22 15:31:47]
(1 comments)

Date: 2003-07-19 01:31:02 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001980.php

Is it me, or does AT&T wireless suck?

Comments:
"I just want to know if my long-distance includes Canada. You think?"
     -bianca   [2003-07-19 21:23:29]
"Nope, I don't."
     -trav   [2003-07-19 23:12:08]
"Yes, it does!"
     -Nic   [2003-07-22 22:25:26]
"sucks, i mean. All I know about long distance is I can call North Dakota!"
     -Nic   [2003-07-22 22:26:20]
(4 comments)

Date: 2003-07-18 21:56:09 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001977.php

Is it me, or are apple notebooks falling apart a lot lately?

Comments:
"i wouldn't know - i have an iMac. :o) "
     -esther   [2003-07-19 04:30:14]
"Even if they're falling apart, I'd still give one of my nuts for a 12" G4 PowerBook."
     -trav   [2003-07-19 12:31:13]
"i want a g5 tower with 22" cinema display soooo bad. alas, i am po'."
     -esther   [2003-07-19 19:54:14]
"My old Compaq is still slugging away! Even though I've broken everything on here at least once."
     -Melissa   [2003-07-20 00:43:55]
(4 comments)

Date: 2003-07-14 01:10:45 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001960.php

Back when I was living in the dorm with my friend Brian, we knew this guy. I'll call him "Eric", because that was his name. Eric had this facination with lighting his farts, and for a while, he actually carried a lighter or a book of matches with him. Seriously. So one day, with a QuickCam VC and a microphone, we made a video. He never really wanted his face included, but... what the hell, the guy was a prick. So, then... Eric Bradley, from Fargo, North Dakota, this is your ass. (I'd also like to point out that we didn't add any sound effects to this video. It's all-natural.)

Comments:
"oh, that's some good shiznit. "
     -esther   [2003-07-14 13:52:55]
"HAHAHA oh dear god. "
     -kelly   [2003-07-14 16:58:57]
"Dude, that is so fucking funny, I know we had talked about exploiting "the fart" but what you said is great. "
     -Brian   [2003-07-20 22:07:37]
(3 comments)

Date: 2003-07-13 23:48:48 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001959.php

Why is it that the video store never puts movies in the right genre? For the way they arrange them, they might as well not have sections. I rented Edward Scissorhands tonight, and after looking in Drama and Comedy(!), the video guy suggested Sci-Fi, and then looked it up on the computer: Family. That's even farther off than Sci-Fi. How the hell is this a family film?
Apparently Tim Burton thinks we should teach our kids that wives are inherently unfaithful, cops are corrupt, you should barge into people's houses if they don't answer, and it's okay to have premarital sex with assholes in high school. Oh, and the cool kids are cool because of underage drunk driving.

Comments:
"Maybe because the American family as a whole wants to make love to Johnny Depp?"
     -Melissa   [2003-07-14 10:44:38]
"There are so many reasons that I love you. "
     -Nic   [2003-07-14 15:20:28]
"But, but if it weren't for pre-marital sex with assholes many of my freinds wouldn't be here."
     -bianca   [2003-07-14 17:50:27]
"Don't blame Tim Burton! Blame the parents!"
     -Fran   [2003-07-19 16:49:02]
(4 comments)

Date: 2003-07-13 14:34:12 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001957.php

Pretty Girls Shouldn't Smoke
I've been beta testing Ben & Mena's new service for a little while, and I kinda dig it. I think once it goes live, I'll want to set my mom up with a blog over there.

Comments:
"Neither should pretty boys."
-Nic [2003-07-13 16:09:50]
"Now that is something I'd like to see."
-SuperD* [2003-07-13 16:51:04]
(2 comments)

Date: 2003-07-10 16:50:09 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001947.php

...under the thumb of some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office in that phony election.

Date: 2003-07-05 17:32:40 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001913.php

...and now we're playing with the public beta of Zempt, and so far it's crashed once, and I've found a UI bug. Peaches. I have no doubt it'll be cooler soon, though.

Update (2003-07-10): After using it for a while, the statement "I have no doubt it'll be cooler soon" becomes less and less accurate. It seemed to have a lot of promise, as one can generally do a lot more with a local app than a stateless web system, but now that I've explored it some more, I really don't see how this is any better than using MT's web interface. The only functionality it really adds is a spell checker, which is simply a poorly-written module they got from somewhere else, and a media updater thing, which is only marginally useful. On another note, one of my bug reports was met by condescending sarcasm by the Zempt staff. To their credit, I did overreact and leave a "snarky" remark, but it still bothered me. Anyway, we made up, and hopefully Zempt can become something more useful as shitty modules are replaced with better ones.

Comments:
"Please either email me with details of the crash or post it in http://forums.zempt.com/ so I can get it fixed. thanks"
-Bill Zeller [2003-07-05 19:20:05]
(1 comments)

Date: 2003-07-05 13:11:02 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001911.php

Testing the new Technorati pinger...
(Pssst! Dave, it works.)

Date: 2003-07-04 18:56:01 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001910.php

Yup, FeedDemon rocks. I've never actually published a link to my RSS feed. So, uh, there. (Everybody else on kroh.net has one, too.)

Date: 2003-07-04 12:51:34 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001908.php

Anil was talking about pieces, and in doing so, managed to accurately express a feeling I've had since I came to college. I learned C++ in high school, and I learned Java freshman year at SU, but I always had a feeling of this isn't me-ness. This is why I decided to switch to the B.A. program shortly thereafter.
His point is that a lot of Computer Science programs have a focus of hardcore programming and math: building the blocks with which to build the world. But this is contrary to everything about how it's supposed to work, going back to the spawn of the Hacker Ethic. The goal should be making "tools to make tools". That is, using the blocks that have been previously built. Why are we teaching people to reinvent the wheel? The vast majority of my job is piecing together code written by someone else to make cool stuff that other people haven't seemed to get right yet. (Using tools to make tools to make tools, if you will. This is why monkeys can't build skyscrapers.) I expect this will be the case for most of my career, perhaps even strengthen in truth. Pity that many of my peers won't figure that out until after they've been working for a while on stuff that's been done and been done better. And what hasn't been done already will most definitely be shipped overseas due to the fact that "the entire Indian subcontinent is learning Java."

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