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Thoughts on Web Advertising

Published on August 19, 2007 in Media, Rants and Tech. 4 Comments Tags: .

I came across an interesting story the other day, linking to this site. It’s a site to send viewers who use Firefox and Mozilla-based browsers to because they have the ability to block web advertising with an extension. That’s absolutely ridiculous. Blocking any of your viewers from reading your site only harms you, even if they can’t see your advertising. Also, it’s possible that those viewers using Firefox aren’t blocking advertising, and have no idea what advertising blocking even is.

About 20% of my blog’s visitors use Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you were unaware, I have a seething hatred for Microsoft’s browser due to its complete disregard for web standards. Back in the old days, before IE7 premiered, IE was a security and feature nightmare. Now that it is ‘fixed’, I live with it. I still completely disrespect the application as a browser, but I wouldn’t ever stop you, my reader, from visiting Exposay.

To restore the balance, let’s learn how to block advertising in Firefox, our favorite web browser. Continue reading ‘Thoughts on Web Advertising’

Wisdom Tooth

Published on August 4, 2007 in Rants. 4 Comments Tags: .

If you’ve seen me or conversed with me in the last week, you know I’ve been suffering from intense wisdom tooth pain. Unfortunately, due to my work schedule, I wasn’t able to see an oral surgeon until today, Saturday. As I type this, I’m sitting in front of my MacBook feeling exactly how I felt all week, awful. Why, you ask?

Apparently another medication I’m taking suppresses my body’s ability to heal, so I’m unable to have my inflamed mouth operated on for four or months or more. Great! Fortunately, I was prescribed a medicated mouthwash to help my mouth, and I should be back to ‘normal’ in a few days. Unfortunately, somewhere around Winter or Spring break, I’ll have to go have oral surgery on four wisdom teeth at once.

Moral of the story? I suppose everyone should be hyper-aware of the medications they’re taking.

Chain Email?

Published on July 26, 2007 in Rants and Tech. 4 Comments Tags: .

Really? Does that still happen? Seriously?

I received an interesting email in my gmail inbox today. I’ll leave the poor soul of a sender anonymous; the subject read: “A Birthday A Day”. At first I thought it was spam, from the awful subject, but upon looking at the sender I realized that this was an acquaintance who must have acquired my email address somehow. In an angry rage, here, I dissect the components of this horrible email, and my blunt response. Continue reading ‘Chain Email?’