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Monday, August 7th, 2006Myspace theming without the ads
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Okay, I’m going to make it very clear before I even write the rest of this. I am not a fan of myspace.com. In fact, I think it is the sludgepit of the internet. So no that we’ve made that clear…
So we’ve all seen the disasters of pages created by millions of teenagers (like myself :/ ), that are impossible to read or even look at without giving yourself a seizure. To top all of that off, they have annoying flash ads that even talk without a mute button. So, today I set out to get rid of them and create my own, special, page.
First off, here is a screenshot for you to drool over:
moo Hosted on ZooomrSo to start, the first thing I did was see if I could escape the tables. Once I did this, I knew I could get rid of the ads and every other piece of junk I could. So in the About Me section, I had the following:
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This allowed me to get out of the table-hell layout that is myspace.com, but I had to do one thing to make it not display the rest of the page. I had to reopen the tables. Code is below:
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Knowing this, I just added the CSS/HTML and images that can be found in the zip below to the About Me section.
Click here to download the zip file.
Click here to see the myspace live.
I hope that helps some of you.
NOTE: This *WILL* violate your agreement to the Myspace.com Terms of Service. Until they allow the iframe, we have no way to show their ads.
BeBox Edition
Sunday, July 30th, 2006Well, I’m finally home from Tennessee. I appologize for not updating the site in a while, I’ve been busy between running around with my friends and working on my new web site.
Anyway, my new toy came in Friday. A just-like-new, 1 in 700, 1996 BeBox. Mine has dual 67mhz powerpc processors, 16mb ram, 1gb scsi drive, a cd drive, and more ports on the back than you can shake a dongle at. It also came with BeOS R4 installed with extra software. To top all of that off, I got a ton of BeOS cd’s including: AA, PR2, and both Intel/PPC R3 releases.
Hopefully, I can locate an R5 Pro disk to upgrade to. This will allow me to run BONE hopefully. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment. More can be found here.
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IMAG0060 Hosted on ZooomrDealing with Domain Name Parkers
Friday, July 7th, 2006Well I guess I’ll finally go ahead and make the annoucement of what my new “Web 2.0″ site was suppose to be called, Theed. Over the past few days, I have been trying my darnedest to work with the guy who has it parked. He’s trying to sell it as theED.com (the erectile disfunction for those not familiar with spam). This guy is on his fourth year of trying to sell it.
I emailed him and offered $50 for the one domain name, which he just renewed and pointed out that he would still be making a profit on it. ($8 * 4 = $32). He then comes back with a personal attack on my “IQ” level. I’ll let the following emails speak for themselves:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
Are you interested in selling this domain name? I know it is going on it’s 4th
year for sale. What are you asking for it?
His reply:
From: ravi4321@aol.com
HI CODYI BUY AND SELL DOMAINS GLOBALLY…AND I HAVE MORE THAN 9200 DOMAINS..
MOST OF MY DOMAINS ARE ON AUTO RENEW.I HAVE…THE FOLLOWING DOMAINS..
*THEERECTILEDYSFUNCTION.COM*
*THEED.COM*I CAN MAKE A SACRIFICE IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT.
I SHALL SETTLE FOR *$900*
THANKS.
RAVI
THE*ED * ALSO CAN BE USED FOR EDUCATION.
My response:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
I really only want theed.com, but I’m not paying $900 for it knowing what you just payed last week for it.
The most I would be willing to pay is $50. Would you be willing to sell it for that? It is still almost $30 profit.
His reply:
From: ravi4321@aol.com
HOW MUCH DID U PAY FORCODYMAYS.NET
AND WHAT IS YOUR
ASKING PRICERAVI4321@AOL.COM
My response:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
It is not for sale.
Do you or do you not agree to the price I offered in the last email?
His reply:
From: ravi4321@aol.com
WHILE
THEED.COM
IS NOT FOR SALE FOR $50…
WWW.CODYMAYS.COM
IS FOR SALE …RAVI4321@AOL.COM
My response:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
Sir, I hate to break it to you, but it’s definitely not for sale. There is no way I am paying
$900 for one domain name that was purchased for about $8. Right now, you are the only
one at a loss here. I have nothing to lose, but you do because you have renewed the domain
for four years now.If you accept the $50 payment for it, you will come out ahead, but if you don’t, you’ll stay in the
hole. No one else, obviously, wants this domain name because this is your 4th year of attempting
to sell it.
His response and the beginning personal attack. Notice the above email has no attack on him.
From: ravi4321@aol.com
HII BUY AND SELL DOMAINS GLOBALLY.
I DO NOT WANT TO WASTE MY TIME TRYING
TO GAUGE YOUR “IQ”. I LEAVE IT AT THAT.RAVI
My final email before this post:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
Okay, you’re going to gauge my IQ as lower than your own because I pointed out basic
business logic to you?Well if we’re judging IQ here, you better get reading a grammar book, because you are
flunking English 101 right now. You see the key marked Caps Lock? Press it so the light
turns off. That will get you started. Hope you have fun in the coming days.
Now, I become another person to ask the international blogosphere for some help here. I know the blogosphere has been pretty powerful with Comcast and AOL over the past few weeks, so I figured I would try it as a last resort. As of right now, my partners and I are very set on this name and really want the domain. Is there anyway we could still go about getting it? Any help would be appreciated.
Note:
We do not want to harm Mr. Ravi. All email addresses provided here are for reference only. Do not attempt to spam him by email or phone number from a whois lookup of theed.com
Crazy
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006As of last Monday, I have travelled to the Dark Side. I am taking a 4 week class on Java. (Not the coffee) The class starts at 12pm and gets out at 4pm, but we can leave earlier if we finish the day’s project. I think I got a pretty good deal on it. The class only costs $20 and it covers one semester of AP Java in 2 weeks, then the last 2 weeks we focus on game development. To top that off, the class is taught by the college’s computer science professor, so we get a knowledgable instructor that can answer our questions.
So far, I haven’t learned to much. I have learned a few things I could have picked up from a Google search in less than five minutes, but that’s about it so far. It is nice to be attending the class with a friend though. My neighbor was the one who found out about this program and the one I’m taking it with.
These last few weeks have not been all good though. My grandfather Prince “Tex” Moon passed away Father’s Day night. They tried to administer an I.V. at the nursing home, but couldn’t get it done properly, so they shipped him to a hospital. Shortly after they arrived they told us to get down there. Not too long after, he passed away when his breathing stopped.
Apparently, he had some kind of infection (high white blood cell count) and was extremely dehydrated. It is amazing what the human body can withstand though. On the paper they gave us that lists the problems he had, he had 21 medical issues, including Parkinson’s Disease, pneumonia, and Insomnia. So, tomorrow I’ll be heading to his funeral.
Since I’ve been slacking on posting for a few days, I would just like to get a thought out that came up a few days ago on TechCrunch, in one of the largest flame wars I have seen on their site. This battle was mainly between the TechCrunch users, Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield, and Zooomr’s Kris Tate in this post. If you read the comments, you see an interesting thing that really hasn’t come up in “Web 2.0″ yet. Should user’s data be open to everyone, including competitors or should it be locked away?
Most people agree that Web 2.0 includes openness of data via API’s and other various methods, but not once do you hear about where the line should be drawn when running a business based on these ideas. I personally think it would be a better world if all of this data was open to competitors, as long as they do not damage, edit, steal, or delete any of my data, but this is a hard thing to trust random people on the internet to do. If a site can move your data over to their’s and then delete it on competitor FooBar Inc…what’s stopping them?
