The new Facebook: Deal with it.

I’m pretty sick of people whining about the new Facebook or seeing online “petition” groups trying to revert Facebook back to it’s old format.  This, coupled with the fact that a friend urged me to write about it, has lead me to this post.  I’m going to deal with new Facebook’s infidelities first, and then [...]

Now you don’t need Cs to get degrees

Check out this ridiculous spam e-mail I got a couple days ago:
Bacheelor, MasteerMBA, and Doctoraate diplomas available in the field of your choice that’s right, you can even become a Doctor and receive all the benefits that comes with it!
Our Diplomas/Certificates are recognised in most countries
No required examination, tests, classes, books, or interviews.
** No one [...]

The Eighth Deadly Sin

I committed a crime today.
I wrote one and a half pages in a Microsoft Word document and didn’t save once.  Upon exit, I instinctively clicked “Don’t Save” (why it was instinctive I’ll never know).
Along time ago I vowed that this would never happen – I’d say around fifth grade, when I recognized that only a [...]

Kissinger? An actor?

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This name rings a bell… is this guy an actor? lolcats

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Henry Kissinger was US secretary of state during cold war >_>;;

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My bad

Yes, this excerpt from comments posted about a YouTube video confirms a sad state of affairs. Henry Kissinger has officially been mistaken for an actor.
I’ve been on YouTube [...]

Almost done with my week of hell

I haven’t been posting very often in the last week and a half because I’ve been constantly busy – I have a 3-5 page paper and a huge programming assignment due tomorrow. But I’m done with the paper and the program is basically done. I have four hours tomorrow to write up the [...]

Limit console output

That’s all I had to do – uncheck the “Limit console output” box in Eclipse SDK’s preferences.
I didn’t have to waste half an hour of valuable work time.
I didn’t have to say “What the fuck?” thirty or more times because the output of my program was constantly changing.
I didn’t have to wonder how in the [...]

Your extended network is not retractable.

I just realized a minute ago that MySpace’s “extended network” thing doesn’t make any sense.  What is an extended network?  If you’re in my extended network, does that mean you’re not in my other networks?  Do I have other networks?
I guess it’s not too important that these questions be answered.  But considering the words are [...]

Spring cleaning, Facebook style

I have both MySpace and Facebook, and I am pretty selective about who my friends are on MySpace.  I have less than 90.  For some reason, I’m not that way at all on Facebook, where I had over 350 friends.  That is, until yesterday.
I went on a friend-deleting rampage and cleared out more than 100 [...]

Social networking: the less you know people, the more they care.

I changed my Facebook status to “Abe is siiiick…”. Within five minutes I got a wall post from an old friend who, in the grand scheme of things, I don’t know that well. It said, “ I hope you feel better Abe:(“.
This is curious. I don’t expect anyone to express their [...]

Facebook offers IM capability with slick new toolbar

I haven’t liked all of the things Facebook has implemented over the last two years, but their newest creation is amazing.  You can now chat in real time with any of your friends who are signed in.  This didn’t sound that cool at first, but it’s actually very handy.
The old way of real-time interaction (AIM) [...]