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the collected version of just about everything I do on the net-o-tubes
Nov 05
Nov 03
“ A blow-by-blow breakdown of the young president’s first year reveals that today’s frustration stems not from a lack of policy so much as a lack of common ground. The myth of the American center looms in this, the second part of a week-long series on our country since the 2008 election.
Oct 19
Flickr - WHAT THE FUCK?!
From Yahoo / Flickr’s helpful-delpful help page:
I have a free account. Some of my photos aren’t showing up. Why?
On a free account, Flickr limits the number of photos displayed. If you have fewer than 200 photos, we display them all. If you have more than 200 photos, only the most recent 200 are displayed. Your photos are not removed from Flickr, only from the list of your photos. If you blogged a photo and it no longer appears in your list, it will still appear on your blog, and the photo’s Flickr page will still work just fine. If some of your photos aren’t showing up, don’t panic! Just upload some fresh ones. Or upgrade to a Pro Account.
Note: If your free account is inactive for 90 consecutive days, it will be deleted.
So, here’s the deal - I’ve been a Flickr Pro user for 4 years now. I have tens of gigabytes of photos backed up to this site. When I first got a pro account, long before the Yahoo buyout, Flickr promised me my browsing / downloading of my own photos would always be unlimited. If my pro account ever lapsed, I could still browse and download my photos as much as I wanted, but my uploads would be throttled. That’s why I signed up for Flickr in the first place.
Now, only because my pro account lapsed, with no notification from Yahoo / Flickr, I find more than 90% of my photos to be inaccessable. I wanted to use one for a meeting this morning, and I can’t. All I can browse are my photos from Fanime, which aren’t very inspiring.
This is inexcusable. One of Flickr’s avowed purposes is as a backup site, but now I can’t trust them to make my pictures accessable when I need them. If I wanted to email an old friend a photo of my road trip from last year, how could I, now? I’d have to pay Yahoo more money than I already have, just to get access to the photos I’ve already uploaded to the site.
I’m immediately moving all my photos to Picasa Web Albums, and perhaps my own server as a backup, and Yahoo / Flickr will not get another dime. I’ll delete my account within the week.
Yahoo has completely ruined Flickr. Fuck you, Yahoo!
Oct 16
“ After the ‘Four Leaf Clover’ mission, money in GTA IV essentially serves an entirely symbolic purpose: once you become wealthy, you realise there’s nothing worth spending the money on. From a gameplay perspective, it’s irritating, but put into a symbolic context, one could summarize that it serves as a comment on Nico’s drive and desire to achieve the ‘American Dream’ through wealth.
Oct 09
Rev Rant - via Destructoid
Best comment: “When will film have its ‘Super Mario World?’”
Oct 03
Darude: Highlights
- Tech-trance remix of “Run So Far Away”
- “Hello - my name is Darude, and I think I’m from Finland.”
- VJ Video of a hot chick firing an AR15 in slow motion. No idea why.
- Darude flipping around signs showing the lyrics to “In the Darkness” - it’s like a sing-along!
- Darude making the thumbs-up, thumbs-sideways, thumbs-down gestures to ask the crowd if we were enjoying ourselves.
- Signs with smiley-faces, hearts, and the word “Thanks!” It was a conversation with the DJ.
- Dropping some classic tunes - early-2000’s stuff, “Music” - the 12” version from Rush, and yes, Sandstorm. He closed out with the last, just for lulz.
Oct 02
Rev Rant on grinding
Oct 01
» The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful
A billion here, billion there - eventually, it adds up to real money. Via Daring Fireball
Sep 28
Sep 25
» JRPG Name Generator
Love Japanese RPG’s? Get your character name here. Mine’s “Meiu SoulDark”
Sep 24
Sep 23
» OMG!!
Sep 22
Sep 21
“ We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here,” he repeated. “A
little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.
little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.
Sep 18
» Here’s One Reason Why People Buy Indie Games (Part 2)
In the post few days ago I covered one reason why people won’t buy indie games. I wanted to show how most developers are 99% focused on developing game, and 1% focused on “how to sell it”….
