Please, please tell me how is this:

.. any different than this:

I can’t stand this anymore. I love the technology, I love the innovation, but I can’t stand all the discrimination, what the hell is the difference between Pageflakes and MSN?! Both are filled with absolutely useless content that looks hideous, or is it just a version bump? 1.0 to 2.0?!

I really like the fluffy colors, the big ass icons, the screencast craze, the make-your-own-blog-in-five-nanoseconds stuff, but please don’t call it something like: Blabr Flikuroo, it gets on my nervous, it’s too touchy feely.

What in the world happened to “regular” names? IBM, Sun, heck, even Microsoft is more of a real name for a company.

Phew, there you have it. Execute the brainfart, I had to get this off my chest.

Now back to my regular schedule.

Logging out of Yahoo! Mail I was offered a kind screen advertising Yahoo! Toolbar. I don’t know how difficult it is to check that I’m neither on Windows 98+, nor am I running IE 5.0+.

Otherwise, My Heritage is really cool.

The thing is, you probably got lost a couple of times - and as I told you, that’s what usually happens, so don’t stress. So don’t feel bad if you have to reread each chapter more than once, or even ten times before you’re truly good to go.

This is a quote from the Sybex CCNA Study Guide by Todd Lammle. What I can’t really understand is who is this guy? and why is he underestimating his own readers?! I understand TCP/IP, subnetting and VLSM can be a little tricky, but not to an extent where I need the writer to “ease my pain”. Maybe Todd should take a look at this.

Writing rule of thumb: Encourage your readers, don’t put them down.

And when a company as cool as Apple releases something as sucky as the iPod Nano, everybody grumps and complains and sues their ass, but they still find a thousand excuses for why they messed up (or just praise the iLord).

But when a company as sucky as Microsoft releases something as cool as WinFS, Aero and .NET, everybody rants about what a rip off it is, how stupid, evil and brain-damaged it is. Kill Microsoft!

The characters basically have three abilities, scream, run like hell, act with an attitude. Paris and Robert had absolutely no role whatsoever, well except for the we’re-going-to-make-out-baby scene. Brian can fight like a champ after bravely receiving two arrow in his arm and chest. People from waxy town Ambrose are were mysteriously turned into wax figures, I can’t even think of how it ended up this way:

Waxo Smith: Hey, did you know that Wixen was found dead sitting in the church?
Waxa Green: No way Waxo, that can’t be true, I was with Wixen yesterday.
Waxo: Oh yeah, and you were doing what exactly?
Waxa: Non of your business you freak!
Waxo: You turned him into wax… bitch.
Waxa: Na’ah.
Waxo: This town is getting weird.
Waxa: Na’ah

Few days later…

Waxo: Hey, you heard about Weaxer?
Waxa: What’s up with him?
Waxo: He was found waxed to death in that restaurant.
Waxa: Nooo, I was just with him yesterday.
Waxo: Bitch.

Apply, rinse, repeat.

Trust me on this, if you like horror movies you should go for something that at least has some sense of a story.

The blog post, the page, and the page itself are all one and the same. I assure you, you only have to direct me once to any post and I’ll click, I swear to God I’ll pay a visit, just don’t keep repeating it over and over and over again. My eyes got sore from going back forth between the status bar and the post itself just so I don’t go to the same page twice. It’s not going to help anybody’s PageRank, you just have to trust me on this.

I really like you, so please don’t let me drop PHPDeveloper.org from my aggregator.

I know, I know. Linux is going for the enterprise, blah, blah… But wasn’t the point of free software is to be, well, at least free (oh you know what I mean, as in speech damn it)? I don’t want to have to ask for a certification for my software quality which I might not get because some incredibly ignorant manager decided that he doesn’t like my hair.

So I guess this means that if GNU doesn’t get certified by a multi-billion dollar company we won’t have ls or gzip, right? Or how about Apache, BIND, Qmail and Sendmail? They aren’t ready for the so-called enterprise. Excuse my rage here, but free and enterprise don’t seem to get along well, you can get either, but not both, at least by current standards.

Yes, UnitedLinux is a great effort, having various standards that Linux distributions must follow is also great, but what’s the point of having a single entity decide whether my software (or distribution for the matter) is Linux-quality?

A call for the open source community, please don’t make this happen, IBM and RedHat are a lot of help, just don’t let them take control.

What in the world happen to MT Plugins, they have tons of these so-called boxes. Why do I want a photoblox if I have Flickr, a linkblox if I have del.icio.us, a weatherblox or a clockblox when everyone is reading my blog using some news reader?!

This can’t be what Laszlo was made for, now can it? Is it all they could come up with? Bloggers don’t care about proof-of-concepts using X platform, or Y language, give them something that works and that’s it. You want to market for geeks? Give something to be proud of.