The problem with relying on social websites rather than controlling all content through your own custom interface is that you don't really have a say in anything. They can change the layout however they want, they can do whatever they want, and the only choice you have is to either stop using the service or quit bitching and remain a loyal yet deeply aggravated user. I sent a ton of feedback to Youtube before they upgraded their video manager, when it was just a previewable upgrade. I pointed out some obvious flaws, hoping they would be fixed, but now I've had the video manager forcibly upgraded and NONE of the flaws I pointed out had been taken care of! Are they trying to make the service worse or what??

The new video manager is missing so much! What happened to the previous usability? It looks great but if feels like a downgrade in functionality. I can't list the files from A-Z anymore, if I have a series of videos that don't have a common name but rather a number at the beginning, I can't view them all in a list any longer! Copying the file title is also impossible for longer titles, you need to visit the video-specific page for this simple task. When I downloaded my videos from the old video manager I could copy and paste the video titles directly from the video manager to the files, now I can't. And the statistics column (which is the reason why titles no longer run their full length across the page) is a waste of page space if you disable statistics, which I have done. There should at least be some way to remove this column from the page. There's not.

I understand the need of a change for increased functionality, but this is the other way around! Design shouldn't be more important than usability! I sent YT this feedback too, and I hope it reaches the right people. I hope the layout changes for the better instead of the other way around. The way it is now it's not just something you need to get used to to fully appreciate the splendor of, it sucks! Some of the features from the old manager remain, some don't. Other than that there is nothing new, just a redesign. Looks beautiful. Tastes like crap.

I don't even remember what this was about, but I like the score. :)

Been typing like lightning. How fast are you? Test here. :)

Oh, and not to forget my current record, 103 WPM!

I should probably mention that I don't type properly either. I mean, I don't type every finger on each hand, it's more like 4 Fast Fingers for me, but I don't think that handicap shows does it? :D If I learned how to type properly I could probably give that amount a mighty boost though. Theoretically I should be able to more than double my typing speed with the proper placement and all fingers in use. Wouldn't that be something?! This site is the perfect place to learn typing properly too. Will give it a try if I get any time left over. Later.

When I copy files, I just copy. I don't bother checking to see if the data is the same. It's easy to check if the filesize is the same, or the date, or the name, but what about the data? Recently I decided to check through a backup drive to see if the data was identical on both backup and primary. I did a binary comparison with Beyond Compare, and it turns out it wasn't!

Though a few files had the same date, the same size; even worked the same, there were differences in the binary data.

I don't know what significance this has. Does it mean the drive is breaking down? Does it mean nothing at all? Fortunately I know which drive is primary and which one is the backup, so I can easily copy over the 'original' files to the backup drive once again, and maybe run another binary check to see if there's still any difference. I used to use various programs to speed up copies between drives, but they were problematic, so I switched back to the no-program alternative. IOW the built-in Windows 7 explorer. As far as I know it verifies files for inconsistency errors after each copy, so that makes it all the more mysterious why the files aren't exactly the same.

It should be noted that comparing thousands of relatively large files binarily takes a lot of time. The directory that needed checking would have taken an estimated 25 hours if I had let the scan run. I didn't, I just tested comparing a few files. Now that I know there are differences I will need to run a full scan. Wouldn't be a problem if I didn't use the computer, but I do. :) Anyway, realizations everyday. If anyone reading this knows anything about the questions posed, do answer. Also, a question, would a binary comparison or a comparison through checksum/hash be more efficient? Later.

I'm listening to Royce D5'9 and trying to write a rhyme. Absolutely impossible.

That's why I tried it, though, and I did come up with some interesting lyrics. Bits and pieces, words that fit together. Nothing that makes sense. I guess that's one way to write a song; be inspired.

Otherwise? I be sorting files, working on studies (or should I say studying?), being constantly pissed off at the US for shutting down MegaUpload. I hear they're getting ready to raid FileSonic too, but that's just a rumor. I did hope this year would be interesting, but this is way too interesting for my liking. :) Anyway, applied for a job today, studied much, other stuff. A lot is going down right now but nothing worth mentioning... yet. See yall tomorrow.

Not much of the new year has passed and already a lot has happened. The victory against SOPA & PIPA was a great one, but it didn't last very long. The day after SOPA was indefinitely postponed (all thanks to CyberD's blackout, obviously ;) the FBI raided Kim Dotcoms house and shut down MegaUpload along with all other sites in the Mega series. The charges against Kim Dotcom and a few other employees was money laundering and copyright infringement on an incredibly large scale. I've spent a lot of time reading all about the charges so posting a few pages about it would be a piece of cake, but I won't. Here's a few links for those of you who haven't read the news lately.

The fact that the US government took down a website of this caliber shocked everybody. Did you know MegaUpload stood for over 4% of all Internet traffic? That it had around 150,000,000 hits every day? That's a heavy blow by the feds. Who are they going to take out next? Google?

People all over the globe are pissed at the government. Not just because a great upload service disappeared, but because their personal files did so along with it. Apparently there's a lot of people out there with crucial documents, computer backups, etcetera- all hosted with MegaUpload. I had some files hosted there too. My GTA SA mods for one were all hosted with MU, I'll have to spend a few hours uploading them someplace else now. Fortunately I had a backup. Not everyone did.

What's going to happen to all those personal files, the ones who didn't infringe upon copyrights? Will people ever be getting them back? Not likely. Sure, a lot of people used the MegaUpload service to host illegal material, and the staff might have not done their best to stop it, but who are the criminals now? Who stole personal files and data from millions of people all over the world? The US government!! In attempting to stop online piracy they're committing the worst acts of it themselves. They're not stealing duplicate content from a multi-billion-dollar industry like the pirates they're trying to stop, they're stealing original content from innocent citizens!!

It seems like big things will be going down this year. The first real Internet war? Who knows. With MegaUpload down to state an example; the owner(s) in jail, file hosts are shutting down on their own. They're falling down like flies. Filesharing sites are turning into regular backup sites, allowing you to download only content you've uploaded yourself. That kinda takes away the point of a 'filesharing' site, don't ya think? Maybe this is the end of an era. Maybe it's the start of a new.