International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Arrr, well, Me just wanted t’ wish you all a great International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

I hope ye all remember t’ raise your pirate flags and talk just like those seamen o’ yesteryear.

Check out http://www.talklikeapirateday.com for more information about this annual e’ent, and remember t’ post your pirate moments on Twitter with hashtag #pirateday, argh!

Translation into pirate speak provided by http://www.talklikeapirateday.com and a modified version of Dougal Campbell‘s text filter suite plugin.

How to spend $400 without blinking an eye..

Well. I did it. I hope it’s worth the price. But knowing Apple it will be.

Feel free to send gifts of food or money, if you wish to support me while I’m trying to bring my bank account balance back up.

Quotables.

It kindof concerns me when the standard unsubscription footer in a mass e-mail I received looks like this:

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, this “Unsubscribe Link” will give you the
opportunity to “opt-out” of Ixia’s mailing list. We respect your privacy. If you have any
questions or concerns, please contact us.

Makes you wonder. If it’s an “unsubscribe link,” what are they going to do with my address if they’re not actually unsubscribing? Hmm..

Personal pet-peave.

just like riding a bike

mariane dragged me out on a bike ride today.

it’s probably been five years since i’ve been on a  bicycle. combined with my lack of height and an overly large men’s bicycle we have a receipe for disaster. i traded that bad boy in for a slightly shorter but still uncomfortably tall women’s bicycle.

results: slightly less disastrous, but still entertaining for the common bystander.

we went for a nice ride along the road, occasionally dodging pedestrians, other cyclists and pesky cars, steering with the highest level of precision, and nearly veering off the road several times. such fun.

anyway. i’m glad to report i made it back to the hotel alive, and unharmed, though undoubtedly a bit shaken from the whole experience.

'blink,' when your Web surfing train goes wildly off course

I’m not really sure how I got there, but I did. Somehow, once again, I ended up at a random Wikipedia page.  This time, I feel compelled to share.

Do you remember the <blink> tag from the olden days of the Internet? Surely you do if you’ve been using computers for any length of time.

Anyway, here’s a Wikipedia article about just that.

For summary’s sake, the article quotes the tag’s creator as saying the <blink> tag is, “The worst thing I’ve ever done for the Internet.”

Let’s take this nostalgic moment to also remember our also dearly beloved and departed friend, the <marquee> tag.