Blrg - Humour

Suggestive advertising, anyone?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:36:55 -0500

This was supposed to be posted a while ago; Not sure why I didn't, but I couldn't pass up on this anyway:

http://www.naturellementpulpeuse.fr/

If you don't know French, here's a quick guide to the ad in question (and you don't need to know french):

Click on "Entrez ...", then the top of fridge, then the 60 second version.

Experts-exchange.com getting a bit desperate?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:46:56 -0400

Experts exchange, a website where some people go to resolve IT-related problems, used to show web visitors the solution to the problem being viewed. That is, they let you see the first one, and then set a cookie that wouldn't let you see the next ones you visited without registering first. Naturally, there was a simple work-around to this: Just block all cookies from their site, and you could view anything.

It seems, though, that they've recently changed this: Now the solution can't be seen at all - instead, a block saying "View this solution in just 30 seconds!" shows up - and the other comments to the problem are obfuscated in a few ways:

All text is encoded with ROT13, meaning that even if you viewed the source, you'd have to, uh... use Leet-key or something like.
A grid-like image is placed on top of the text, making it hard to read even if it weren't encoded.
When you hover over the comment, the text is replaced with a block that says "You must sign-up to view this comment".

This, however, is just what you see at first glance. Paying attention, you'd notice the solution is actually still there, oddly enough. The site used to be laid out in such a way that you'd see the question/problem, with a button at the end of it offering to show you the solution (which would then bring you to a registration/log-in page), followed by a list of categories for questions and answers (or problems and solutions, whichever you prefer), and then the comments given by others (including the solution itself).

The new layout, however, has the question, a short ad, the "encrypted" comments and hidden solution, then the categories, and finally the comments and solution in plain view. Very bizarre.

Well, at least they're not doing stupid things like trying to restrict the right mouse button (easy to circumvent, is amateurish, and often also blocks the middle button and other buttons too). I don't understand why sites continue to think they can hide their HTML (no, obfuscation by Javascript doesn't work - What, don't you realise all someone has to do is RUN it?).

Yup, that's the worth of a PS3.

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:57:07 -0500

Three dollars.
Yes.
Three dollars.
I kid you not: This is the worth of a PlayStation 3, or any Sony product for that matter.

Play time and work time get confused!

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:06:32 -0400

Recently, a friend of mine told me about a game named Okami, which I've gotten a copy of and so far has been a fairly interesting and very beautifully made game. While I've been able to find a few glitches (mostly related to invisible walls), it's been a fairly solid experience and I've been trying not to play it too much - I've limited myself to only an hour or two per day so that I don't finish it too fast. I also appear not to be the only one who thinks there are similarities to Zelda in this game - I think my sister may enjoy playing this game as well, so perhaps next time she's around I'll introduce her to it :)
I've found the music score to be so beautiful that I've written and highlighted the OST on my wishlist (Which, by the way, has lost most of it's items due to the database loss previously described.). I've already found a download for the whole OST and gotten it, but I'd much rather actually have those five CDs... as well as the game itself. Normally, I'd also back this up with And hey, I'd be supporting the company!, but it turns out that Clover Studio, the creator of Okami, will be dissolved by it's parent company, CAPCOM.
I've got a digit up at 'em.

Speaking of music, though, I've been finishing some uploads at Jamendo, and the music is pretty sweet. I'd recommend having a listen to Simon Slator and/or Saelynh, depending on your music tastes, or perhaps just browing by tags. It's too bad there aren't people as interested as I am in choruses*. Hard to find, that.
Moving on to more technological things: My mother recently decided to have VoIP installed at our house, though I've no idea why. She must've gotten an offer in the mail - I thought I threw that thing in the recycling! - and decided to go for it. Sigh. Though I've not had the chance to verify yet, I think this means that my bypass method can't be used anymore - Mereo, care to test this with me? Anyhow, I'd forgotten that I'd split the TV cable and run it to my room (without Rogers' permission... I guess that's where they make their money) at some point to test something out. So, the guys (Yes, there were three Rogers techs here to install the damned device!) decided to cut every cable except one TV cable, the internet cable and the VoIP cable. This might've been fine, had they picked the right TV cable... so we had to get someone to fix it the next day.

The recent downtime of my server was caused by me shutting down everything so as to completely upgrade and recompile everything. (Technical details: gcc & glibc update, you see; While C programs are actually mostly unaffected by such an upgrade, C++ programs usually all need to be recompiled. The problem is that you can't really tell one from the other, so you pretty much have to recompile everything that's C-based.) Thankfully the process wasn't all that long.
Also, on the subject of the server: Since I've been forgetting to do the changes on the gallery, I've been thinking of allowing access to it right now, but to still exclude the albums I haven't done the work on yet.
And one final thing: It seems more spambots have found me and decided to try to plague me. Although this one, while it gave me several spam comments (~8-10), was using pretty much the same URL each time so I only had to add that to the filter list. It seems even diabetes medication has made it to the spam market.

One of my cousins is supposed to visit near the end of November. Joy.

And finally a local event: Municipal voting has begun, and once again I wasn't on the voters list. I suppose it's not all that surprising, but anyway, I found it amusing that I didn't even recognize the names of most of these candidates, nevermind knowing who they are or what they're planning. I only know two because one of them keeps getting talked about (though he's apparently not the current mayor?), and the other I saw his ads on the bus about lowering bus fares. Hah.

* A particular type, I should mention. I'm very picky on the subject for some reason, and it's not even a steady mood.

The sillyness of these names goes well with my O&M name, I should think.

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:42:10 -0400

IRC, and why it doesn't need modernisation

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:45:09 -0400

I believe Nightwish nailed it, here:

IRC is a protocol which has been working flawlessly for more than 15 years. It simply doesn't need all that modern crap. It works and that's all most IRC users expect from it. I haven't seen a single serious IRC user who complained about "missing features". IRC has all features which are needed for a stable and relieable chat environment.

The Apple Intel Ad - Parody

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:07:17 -0500

Have you seen the ads about Intel CPUs being used in Macs?
This here's a parody of it. (And for those of you who haven't: The ad is mostly untouched, save the end.)

The Apple Intel Ad - Parody

Doy. ...the things people do...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:08:57 -0500

Ugh.

Parappa M-I-Xes flour into a bowl, LIVE.

Geh?

Prince Of Persia: The Two Thrones acted out?

...just, what? x_x;

A little something I forgot...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:31:57 -0500

Much ado about nothing.
Look at the amount of comments given over... a post about an icon?
It's a little more than that, I admit, but it boils down to just a post about an icon. There are even a few (uninformed) people trying to say that it's a copy-off.

Katrina: The Gathering

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:21:14 -0400

I was browing some blogs and journals when I came upon one which linked to Katrina: The Gathering. For those of you familiar with the two terms there, you've no doubt guessed that beyond this link is a page which has Magic: The Gathering cards... à la hurricane Katrina. Filled with political comment. Enjoy! :>

Internet funnies?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:40:24 -0400

Damnit, w00t-comic.net died. The comic finished a while back, apparently, but I never got to see. Has anyone got an archive of it, or a torrent, or anything at all left of it? I'd ask the author, but I'm not sure how happy they'd be to have me (probably Yet Another Person) ask them for an archive of it.

And on the subject of internet-related fun(nies?)... Someone linked to this on the w00t-comic community (eh, as a joke; for any of you who've read the comic - think of Kendall) - it's a year old, but still an... interesting read. Adult content - the word says it all. Teledildonics. Well, it had to happen eventually. o_o;