5 posts tagged “geek”
I'm buzzed up on Redbull this morning, and have cleaned out my inbox. The IT guy made the mistake of starting some geek talk with me, and the conversation quickly descended into moron-land....
[10:09:44 AM]
sharkcrow says: not very often, but when she gets excited about something silly, she's hilarious to watch
sharkcrow says: even if i can't understand her - she's like a hyperactive doll
ITguy says: kind of like those little things they like hanging on their dashboards.
sharkcrow says: :D or the ones you can get now that you plug into your computer USB
ITguy says: haven't seen those
sharkcrow says: i'll see if i can find picture
sharkcrow says: OMFG! HOW COOL IS THIS?!?!?
sharkcrow says: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/usbcompatible-voodoo-doll-223888.php
sharkcrow says: you so need one of these, for every person in the company :D
ITguy says: would be better if it could spit out nastygrams on other peoples computers, like a network version!
sharkcrow says: THAT would be gold!
ITguy says: lan voodoo gaming
sharkcrow says: 'YOU STUPID MORON! YOU'VE DOWNLOADED ANOTHER VIRUS AND I'M NOW STUCK WORKING LATE!! HATE HATE HATE!!'
I'm obviously way too easily amused.
Why do I have to wait until Monday to get Breaking Dawn, when it's being released everywhere else at midnight Friday? I'm going to have to avoid the internet this weekend to avoid finding out any spoilers. GRR!!
I had the standard, Windows photo of Stonehenge as my wallpaper at work for well over a year. A couple of weeks ago, Smashing Magazine had an article on wallpapers, and a stack of free ones. There were so many fantastic designs, I decided that it was time to start mixing it up a bit.
For the last couple of weeks I've had the below one from this link (minus the calendar)
I've just changed my wallpaper to the following (from here)
It was close - there were 2 others that are on my shortlist for my next change:
I had an absolute shit of a week last week. I was tired and moody and stressed and snappy and ready to crawl into my bed and never come out.
Being dragged out shopping and spoilt by mum on Saturday got me out of my blergh mood, which then led onto a win at soccer (woohoo! It's so much more fun when you actually win), then a lovely big fat HD on my website prototype.
I was actually really worried about the site, because I blatantly ignored the requirement that headers and stuff not be made in a graphics program, but be done in XHTML and CSS, unless with permission. I asked for permission, and got clearance to do the header in a graphics program, but they asked that I try and do the navigation in code. So, I pretended that they approved it, did the navigation in a graphics program anyway, and wrote over a page in my progress report justifying why I had done it, and explaining what I had done to counter the crappy search engine results that come from using images rather than text.
And it obviously worked, because I don't appear to have been penalised for it. A few people on the discussion board are pissed because they were accused of using Dreamweaver rather than hand coding (obviously - the main point of the assignment.) None of the people commenting on it have uploaded their progress reports to their student sites, but from what I could see in their source coding, they hadn't bothered to put in many comments to show that they knew what the code all meant. It's not common practice, but one of the tutors carried on about how doing this would give you a good mark, so I went a little overboard (but again, it obviously worked, cause I got a mark I'm extremely happy with). Not being able to see what they submitted as their progress report makes it a little hard to comment too, but from the people that DID upload theirs - not many seemed to go into very much technical detail about how they did stuff.
Because I've been tinkering with HTML since high school (so over 10 years now) I have a fair bit of general knowledge, so it was difficult to put everything into my learning & progress report. It was a case of going through books and sites and looking for alternative methods of doing things, then talking about why I was doing things that way. Thinking outside the box and all that jazz.
Yes, I'm having a bit of a gloat here, but if I can't gloat on my blog, where can I?
My website is pretty much completed, I'm just fixing all the browser compatability issues. Not surprisingly, Internet Explorer is the most painful to cater for.
I have an IE tester that tests my page in all the previous versions (I'm a dedicated Firefox user), and just realised that I don't have v7 to test my page in.
So I open IE6, go to the Microsoft page and attempt to download v7. IE crashes.
I try again. And IE crashes again.
So I open Firefox, mosey on over, and download with no problems.
Ironic.
