This video will never get old. How I love and loathe Microsoft at the same time.
On a lighter note, I wanted to publish something, so here it is.
Thinking about redesigning my Blog using my new personal identity as the focal point.
A: Advertising men.
In the 1910s and particularly the 1920s, advertising agents focused their attention on identifying—and often inventing—personal anxieties that could be resolved by the purchase of specific products. “Advertising,†wrote one commentator in a trade publication, “helps to keep the masses dissatisfied with their mode of life, discontented with ugly things around them. Satisfied customers are not as profitable as discontented ones.†Advertisers, as historian Stuart Ewen notes, tried to endow people with a “critical self-consciousness†directed especially at their personal appearances. Read more.
Interesting, right? Well, I’m not saying we should change our way of life now, I just want to compare this to something else. Mac vs. PC.
This conflict was invented, as far as I know. I never knew of the term “Mac vs. PC” before Apple came out with the annoying commercials – and now after a few years of Apple doing it, Microsoft have gone and made an even worse attempt at creating conflict with these commercials: 1, 2, 3, 4.
I’m not saying there’s something wrong with a little competition, and since Apple started it I wouldn’t want to see Microsoft continue laying down and taking it without a little retaliation, and hey, the laptop hunters ads seemed to have worked.
Want to know what I’m most sick of though? “Mac vs. PC”. PC stands for Personal Computer. A Mac is a personal computer. People need to start saying Mac vs. Windows or something of that sort if they want to hold up with this petty squabbling.
I for one have used a “PC” all my life up until recently when I have had to start using a Mac occasionally at TAFE, and I don’t really mind it. The Macs at TAFE are considerably old (about 5 years) so it is understandable that they are a bit slow, as is my Windows machine. Want to know what I find annoying about the Mac? The Spinning Beachball of Doom, which happens more often than a BSOD.
Both have their pros and cons, I’m just one of those people that are indifferent. I won’t say either is better. I’m not an Apple fanboy, and I’m certainly not a Microsoft fanboy, I’m a “PC” with an iPhone, and I enjoy them both.
End rant.
I felt a certain need to publish something, and something that my be remotely useful to someone. So here is a list of Firefox extensions that I find somewhat necessary for living.
Mozilla’s extensive collection of addons is the main reason why I haven’t been able to swap over to Google’s Chrome browser.
Starting with the basics. Every intermediate web user (or everyone that is registered at digg.com) already uses this plugin, and for good reason. The web seems a lot prettier with this plugin enabled. I myself am a web publisher, but rely very little on ads, so if I were relying on revenue from ads I may feel a bit differently about this.
For now, I’m a supporter.
I don’t use this for the accurate traffic rankings. I just use this in hopes that it might influence my ranking even just a little bit 
I’ve only just installed this one, but looking forward to using it. So far it seems to work quite well.
A necessity to my survival. It has never failed me either.
I keep this hidden, so I’m not sure why I actually have it installed.
I haven’t used this one yet, but once I start coding I know it’s going to be helpful.
This one is great because it works for Google Apps accounts as well!
I keep this one hidden, so I’m not sure if it’s doing me any good.
Since I found this addon I haven’t been able to let go of it. I even make some of my own.
I needed a note-taking addon for Firefox, so I found this one. I’m not completely convinced of it’s note-taking abilities, so I’m still looking.
As a wannabe designer-of-sorts I find this addon a necessity. Absolutely brilliant plugin that has never failed me.
I use this to show Google PageRank and Compete Rank discreetly in the bottom corner of Firefox. This plugin hasn’t failed me yet.
A necessity for a Twitter addict that happens to be a Firefox user. Love this plugin, although it could do with some extra features (retweeting for example). To be quite honest, the whole thing could do with a facelift to keep up with other applications, but it does work considerably well.
Vi.sualize.us is a great site for image bookmarking that I’ve been using for a while (not enough as of recent however). Are you into photo bookmarking? Then vi.sualize.us is a good choice.
Again, I don’t use this plugin yet but I have it installed anyway. Hopefully when I get into coding websites I will be able to put this addon to good use.
And that seems to be all for now.
It’s considered common practice now that hyperlinks on websites should be underlined.
Well, not all links need to be underlined, just the ones that are amongst paragraph text, as they need to stand out for a user to find them. I found a problem exactly like this while reading this article from Gawker. My brother said “click that link” while pointing at some paragraph text. And I’m thinking, all the text is the same color, and there are no underlines, “where’s the damn link?”
The links and paragraph text weren’t actually the same color, just quite similar, so it’s hard to see the link unless you’re reading the whole article.
I would also assume now that because of the search engine giants users have associated this bright blue with hyperlinks as well.
/rant
A little while ago now I discovered a neat little site: DearIE6, and I used it to say goodbye to Internet Explorer.
Very cool idea. And to be quite honest, I don’t use IE. My friend that does my coding work checks on occasion (I hope) if the code works in IE, so that’s good enough for me 
Glad that most of the visitors to my sites are sensible enough to use a better alternative <3
“Sorry, but you can’t view this because you’re not from the U.S.”
Feb 19th, 2009. Filed under Ramblings.Ohhh how this hurts! It should just say “Sorry, but you cannot view this because you’re from a country outside of the real world.”
This will always happen when you (outside of the US) try to view a video on Hulu, so just search YouTube for an alternative video.
I keep getting the urge to publish something up here, but I keep getting turned off. I feel the need to redesign my Blog, something much more minimal and more focused on the content. Something like Gridalicious (sort of).
Anyway, I’ll leave you with a video:
So for that next two years I’m going to be working on Cert IV, Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Multimedia at TAFE SA. I’m more likely to be updating my Twitter a lot more than my Blog, so if, for some sick reason you actually enjoy reading my ramblings, please feel free to follow me on Twitter!
Cheerio! 
It’s plagued me for a few days now since I heard that the word was meant to be pronounced as “line uks” rather than “linniks”. I’ve always pronounced it as linniks, and apparently that’s OK, according to this article over at Suse Root.
A good read, however, the accompanying video doesn’t actually work. I got what I needed from the article though!
I’ve noticed a lot of these “Made on a Mac” notices at the bottom of websites, but no “Made on a PC” notices. I’m gonna change this though. Once I get around to it (not likely) I’m gonna add some notices to my sites, just for kicks
On another note, I’ve been very lazy lately. If you’re actually interested in reading my Blog, you should follow me on Twitter to get more frequent updates
Notice the large, middle-aged, nerdy-looking guy on the left? That’s not what I look like. And I’m a PC.