!!blue’s blog

Nov

2005

introvert me

My thoughts are in my head.

Today, via Slashdot, I found a great article “Experts: Introverted youth have deep roots for behavior” that says:

Researchers using brain scans have found introverts have more brain activity in general, and specifically in the frontal lobes.

—Janie Magruder

I finally feel like someone gets it; just because an introverted person doesn’t say much, doesn’t mean there isn’t much going on inside. I value my ‘me-time’ very highly, but I also enjoy time spent with friends and family. Most of my private time is spent knitting because I can sit quietly and think my crazy thoughts. I bet an extrovert would go crazy knitting by their lonesome. Extroverts are engergized by external stimuli while introverts are energized by their own mind.

Extroverts focus their energies outward on actual people and things in their world. They express their thoughts and feelings, however fleeting, freely and openly to their world. Introverts focus their energies inwards on internal thoughts and feelings inside their head. They express their thoughts and feelings to people carefully and guardedly.

An extrovert’s mind is a river that is poured onto the world whereas an introvert’s mind is a river behind a dam that only opens when necessary. I hope this helps you relate to people in your lives and not force others to change.

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Nov

2005

css bible

I quoteth unto thee

I received this in an email and found it hilarious. Here are the rules for CSS:

And the Style Sheet offered these declarations, specifying,

I am the File thy Style Sheet, which have brought thee out of the land of <font>, out of the house of incompatability.

Thou shalt consult no other files before me.

Thou shalt make not onto thy webpage any spacer image, or any likeness of any text that ought be in <p> above, or ought be in <a> beneath, or that is in the navigation under the title.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the File thy Style Sheet am a jealous File, visiting the iniquity of the superclasses upon the subclasses unto the third and fourth child of them that hate me;

And shewing mercy unto thousands of elements that love me, and abide my declarations.

Thou shalt not type the URL of the File thy Style Sheet incorrectly; for the Style Sheet will not hold him guiltless that typeth his URL incorrectly.

Remember thy save command, to keep it safe.

Six minutes shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

But the seventh minute is the saving-time of the File thy Style Sheet: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy gofer, nor thy goferess, nor thy scripts, nor thy grep that is within thy editor:

For in six milliseconds the Style Sheet made <body> and <head>, the <div>, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh millisecond: wherefore the Style Sheet blessed the renderer, and empowered it.

Honour thy spec and add thy comments: that thy code may be readable upon the space which the File thy Style Sheet giveth thee.

Thou shalt not delete me.

Thou shalt not commit noncompliance.

Thou shalt not steal code from others.

Thou shalt not write uninteligable code against thy neighbor.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s webpage, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s javascript, nor his jpegs, nor his gifs, nor his tables, nor his ass, nor any other thing that is on thy neighbour’s webpage.

And all the users saw the positioning, and the rollovers, and the color of the <div>, and the title bar: and when the users saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

And they said unto the Webmaster, Code thou, and we will watch: but let not us code, lest we make an error.

And Webmaster said unto the users, Fear not: for CSS is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye make error not.

And the users stood afar off, and Webwaster SSHed unto the dark server where File was.

And the Style Sheet said unto Webmaster, Thus thou shalt say unto the frosh of PALY, Ye have seen that I have talked with you of the W3C.

Ye shall not make with me <p>s of #f3f, neither shall ye make unto you <p>s of #663.

An altar of hard drive thou shalt make unto me, and shalt dump thereon thy code updates, and thy glitch fixes, thy HTML, and thine images: in all places where I am stored my name will end with .css, and I will bless thee.

And if thou wilt make me an altar of floppy, thou shalt not lift up thy magnet upon it: for if thou dost, thou hast corrupted it.

Neither shalt thou upload in steps unto mine altar, that thy down-time be not discovered thereon.

CSS Bible

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Nov

2005

sony/bmg crap

In case you haven’t heard.

Here’s a BoingBoing entry that has links to stories on Sony’s Digital Rights Management software that gets installed on your computer from several of their audio CDs and the hell that came from it:
Sony anti-customer technology roundup and time-line .

Also there’s a Wired article on a man who is trying to find all computers infected by Sony’s crap rootkit:
Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble .

Boycott! Here’s how to tell which audio CDs are infected:
Are You Infected by Sony-BMG’s Rootkit? .

Update: It turns out that the Tainted Sony CDs Used Open Source which means that Sony/BMG used open-source software to create the copyright protection rootkit which is a contradiction.

Filed under: music, web related

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Nov

2005