Too much, even for me?

Posted at 8:47:07pm UTC
8 more rants down there!

I do sort of feel like I’m being overwhelmed with things, lately. Although it does seem to all be on the “online” front. RSS news articles spewing out of the inbox, more and more forums to check and post on, and an ever-increasing amount of tweets to check up with! I do feel as if I’m getting maybe slightly in over my head here…

Only a couple of days ago, I changed some settings on my computer so that closing down the lid wouldn’t put it into standby. I wasn’t able to keep track of exactly how many new tweets there had been since I last checked, mainly because TwitterFox could only catch the last 20. There were IM platforms, IRC channels and other programs that took an eternity to sign back in once I started up again. Windows Live Mail would constantly complain and try to bring itself to the front because it wasn’t able to fetch mail while the computer was still connecting to the Internet.

So I changed it all so that my computer essentially stayed on all the time. Now everything comes through no problem. I can put away the computer at night, and then come back the next morning and know exactly how many new tweets there have been (which averages around 250), the e-mails can be fetched as they come in overnight and I don’t have to deal with a moody e-mail client in the morning. The IRC channels don’t bug me for the identification passwords every 10 seconds :)

Yes, it does consume more power than usual, but at least it’s only a laptop. Of course when I get my proper gaming PC, that’s going to be on all the time - and not just to play games on! Only problem is I still have to get around to ordering the bloomin’ thing, but with such a low credit limit on my card (not to mention the lack of money to pay it off in one go, which my card is set to do), it’s kinda on hold.

Oh, and some more random crap:

  • Our new phone books just got delivered about half an hour ago. Only thing is, why do they still print phone books, when it would probably be cheaper and faster to just put it on a CD, a memory stick or online. It’s a technology that doesn’t know it’s dead (via AdjustantReflex).
  • Speaking of Mr. Spammer himself, he’s moved blog hosting provider. Feel free to go ridicule him for choosing Blogger.
  • This little prick seems to think it’s OK to rip off the “Is It A Good Idea to Microwave This?” videos and re-post them as his own. Well it’s not. Feel free to leave a nasty comment and 1-star ratings on his videos :)
  • I think I’ve finally managed to fix the whole WordPress/bbPress integration thing I had going on over on the Rumble Pit World Series. If you’ve ever added a table to a WordPress post, you’d know that they seem to add each table element on a new line in the HTML code, but bbPress took those extra line breaks and actually displayed them - leaving around 40-50 line breaks before each table. Now I’ve fixed that, althought it did take about 2 hours, and a lot of messing around with the default-filters.php file…
  • There appears to be a lot more snow in Pokémon Platinum, than in Diamond or Pearl. I am so getting even though I will have no idea what to do since it’ll only be available in Japansese for about a year.

Think that’s it for now. Stay tuned for the Twitter digest in about 3 hours time :)

PS: Anyone notice the new fancy dancing favicon yet? :D

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8 More Rants

  1. Friday the 1st of August, 2008 at 10:54:59pm UTC

    Yeah, I noticed the favicon. And it’s not my fault i chose Blogger. It’s Wordpress’ for letting me customize my blog the way I want to.

  2. TheChrisD ranted:Reply to this comment
    Friday the 1st of August, 2008 at 11:17:59pm UTC

    @AdjustantReflex: Well, they do have to have some form of control over the blogs they host. You could have paid to get custom CSS. The whwole true customization of WordPress are what you really need to self-host it for.

    I mean look at this and the RPWS. Both are installations that have been heavily customized to meet their needs. :)

  3. Friday the 1st of August, 2008 at 11:59:57pm UTC

    @TheChrisD: 2 things:
    1. I don’t like paying for something unless I get full access…
    2.It wouldn’t be a problem if this hadn’t broken down: http://adjustantreflex.the9thplayer.com

  4. Saturday the 2nd of August, 2008 at 12:07:00pm UTC

    Hasn’t microwaving things being a prank tv show staple for decades though?

    and blogger is without a doubt in the top 2 of the major blog service things.

  5. TheChrisD ranted:Reply to this comment
    Saturday the 2nd of August, 2008 at 12:09:49pm UTC

    @B’dum B’dum B’dum: Yes, microwaving things is something you do see on many science shows, but this series is being done for slightly more of the science side, and to find out what exactly happens to the things microwaved - rather than actually going out to blow it up or set it on fire.

    And I guess I’m just too used to WordPress and it’s functionality to understand how Blogger is as good. It does things just differently enough so that I don’t like it.

  6. Saturday the 2nd of August, 2008 at 1:10:23pm UTC

    I didn’t say blogger was better.

  7. Saturday the 2nd of August, 2008 at 4:23:26pm UTC

    I’ll admit, Wordpress is better than Blogger at some things, and vice-versa. But if I had a self hosted blog, I’d probably use Wordpress over Blogger.

  8. TheChrisD ranted:Reply to this comment
    Saturday the 2nd of August, 2008 at 11:21:28pm UTC

    I guess it’s all a question of self-hosting or using a free service. Each of the free services out there come with their own downsides, whilst self-hosted has the cost…

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