Create a Band. Create your own band! Select the players, instruments, background, lighting. Spend a lot of time for no reason at all.Thank Random Drivel for the link. [DeepFUN Weblog]

OK, kids...go play...!
7:43:47 PM    

Busted. Ron Lusk caught me stealin' his HTML. Heehee. I'm bad I know. I do this a lot actually... my MiniBlog code doesn't have a wysiwyg editor yet, so if I can I copy html to save myself some typing I just go for it.

Sorry about the lack of reference Ron, I actually had seen the post I stole earlier on Victor's blog - he's using my MiniBlog code too - and was thinking I needed to post it, then I saw your post all neat and clean and formatted already and thought "Ooh, I'll take that, thanks" and so I quickly viewed source, cut and pasted... I didn't think I was going to get caught. ;-)

You can't get away with much while blogging, can you? :-) Actually, I'm glad you wrote that because for some reason you're in my Blogs Tab-bookmarks on my mozilla, but not in my blogroll... adding now.

-Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook]

Well, a friend of mine (Joel Dietz) had complained that he couldn't tell my posts from reposts. I started surrounding material I commented on with blockquote tags, and stuff I posted without comment with div tags. In either case, I use the otherpost class to make them stand out on my blog (in case anyone actually visits the page itself).

When someone reposts something of mine, it turns up in the news aggregator in orange, giving me the pleasant impression that someone actually is listening. When I saw Russ' repost, the first thing I thought was that Victor or Russ had decided my idea was worthwhile, and had themselves started using the otherpost class. (See, Russ, my first thought was not of base plagiarizing, but of enlightened use of the same highlighting mechanism.) However, after inspecting Russ' and Victor's pages, I found that—to my sorrow—a grievous theft by wrongful reposting had occurred. Ah, the weight of the world!
12:22:32 PM    

"You can't go wrong practicing by playing music. Ultimately, it's what the goal is... however watch out for the trap of not working on technique." Daniel comments on my practice notes. Very helpful, thanks. [Steven's Weblog]

Save this for my guitarist friends (applies to keyboard players as well, though...except the part about our instrument delaminating, I guess...)
12:12:23 PM    

More clicks than needed.

I thank Norton Anti-Virus for discovering that my laptop caught the Nimda virus last night. I've come down with Nimda few times in the past couple of months. But, Nimda works by placing a file in a high percentage of the directories on your hard drive. For each file, Norton Anti-Virus puts up a dialogue box asking if you want to get rid of the infected file. Several thousand clicks later, you have a virus-free machine.

Yo, Symantec, you mighty maker of Norton Anti-Virus: How about putting in a button that says: "Shall we remove in one blow all the nasty files created by this despicable virus, or would you like to look at every single one in case some make a plea for their lives that you find compelling?" [JOHO the Blog]

I'm afraid the UI addition suggested here was so compelling I had to repost this. Love it.
12:01:17 PM