Vedel Sem, Da Bi Pomenilo To

20/05/2010 Random No comments

And that’s all I have to say for today. Or now. Anyway.

Text Blocks

20/05/2010 Life No comments

Most people don’t like big blocks of texts much. Why don’t they like big blocks of text much? Is it because these big blocks of text are boring to read? Is it because these big blocks of text aren’t informative enough? Is it because these big blocks of text tend be unformatted enough to appear completely confusing to the near-end user? A combination, at times, probably.

Mostly it’s just time, though, and availability. There are probably millions of large text chunks online you can chose from, so why chose this one? What could this one possibly offer you that you may need? Do you have time to read this big block of text, even though it is split up into three smaller blocks of text to seem a bit less massive? Or should you be doing something else? Maybe reading many smaller blocks of text so you can read more blocks of text overall. Logically smaller blocks would contain more information when read continually than a larger block of text, since larger blocks tend to be tended to. Rewritten, worded out, explained, descriptive all those things that good reading should be that you just don’t have time to read.

There’s no real point in this wonder, I’m just wandering aimlessly through thoughts, trying to sort out the answers, stating the questions, wasting approximately one minute of your time, or less if you’re a very fast reader. That’s all for now, sayonara.

The Speed Camera Lottery, Winner In Funny Theory & Aftermath

20/05/2010 Internet No comments

I posted my submission to the contest here. Stumbled across the post while flipping through posts today and I thought I might as well do a followup on the project. If you haven’t yet, go to the official website, it’s still online.

First of all, I didn’t win. Bummer.

You can see the winning video demonstration onsite. Basically the idea is to take all the cash people pay on speeding fines, pack it all together, and give it back to the people, to the people who actually drive at legal speeds. I didn’t expect to win, so don’t think I’m just being jealous or something when I state my view, but I think it’s pretty stupid that this entry should win the whole competition.

Sure, the idea is ok, it might make it more interesting for people to drive at legal speeds, the reasons I’m not interested at all are multiple. First, I like driving fast. I also don’t like the idea of putting up speed cameras all over the country, not just because it forces me to drive slower, but because it causes injustice. People pay more attention to the speed cameras than to the cars around them, they drive slower than needed, they waste time, they waste interest, they waste energy. Some people drive fast, still they drive great. Laws apply to everyone, but I don’t think I’m the only one who sees the speed limits as a recommendation, not a barrier. I mean I know it’s a barrier, but I don’t believe it should be, I believe it causes more stress than it solves. Everything depends on the weather, on you, on your car (I’m not saying BMWs should never need to slow down though, that’s a myth) and the environment around you.

Another stupid idea is to fill in the gaps between speed limits, instead of needing to focus on 30,50,70,90&110 we now have 20,40,60,80,100&120 as well, and that’s just unneeded. Waste of time, waste of money, waste of resources. I can think of a thousand better things to spend that cash on. Example: giving everyone in the country a free toothbrush. Or, if they want the giveaway to be commercially beneficial, give everyone something with sugar in it instead. That’s how the world works, not like it should work, much like this contest.

I’ve vented out my thoughts a bit, but the main point is that there were so many other great ideas, much better than the winning entry. Entries that provided only benefit, that wouldn’t be subject to such an ongoing feud as this one would be. Even my dynamo idea was better, and there were heaps of ideas that were better than mine, but not this one. I’m disappointed. :/

Typing Err-or?

20/05/2010 Life 1 Comment

I’ve been going through old posts, and one thing that strikes me is the amount of typographical errors I left uncorrected. The reason is pretty basic, I didn’t have a spell check on my blog, and I wasn’t bothered to use any external services. Besides, there were no good spell checkers online back then (there are now). I still don’t have one on my blog, but since I use Mozilla Firefox with a built in spell check, there is no problem. It checks for typos only though, not grammar, so all the errors I might find with a program such as Word are still unfound here, but that doesn’t matter much, I don’t post all too bad.

The question I’ve been pondering over this morning is what defines a typing error. So far there are four uncorrectly typed words here (five now). There’s blog, twice. There’s online, unfound & uncorrectly. Blog is a word, I checked, and so is online, so those don’t count.

As for unfound, it’s a word I made up, and so is uncorrectly. For uncorrectly there is a valid alternative, incorrectly, but for unfound there is no alternative. I make up words as I go, and if they don’t exist, does it count as a spelling error? Or is it just an abstraction? Does that sentence I just wrote count as a grammatical error, since I’m using a word in the wrong vocabular context, or am I allowed to mess with language as much in written form as in vocal?

When I write unfound, it’s the context that binds it, that makes it understandable. If you heard the word separately you might think of it defining the act of unfinding something, making it not found, instead of it being not found to begin with. Same thing with the abstraction example.

Sometimes I post wordplay too, like in the title of this post, or in ehh… the “CyberD is heir” piece I designed earlier. It’s not a typo, it’s not an error, in my point of view. How about you? Any thoughts on this? Be great to hear them!

Wazzat? Birds By Window?

20/05/2010 Life No comments

Woke up at, woah, 5:30. I don’t feel too sleepy, so I guess it’s time to start working then?

No doubt I’ll be sleepy as hell in an hour or so, but that’s expected.

Good day.

555 Comments

20/05/2010 Cyber No comments

Well isn’t that something? :) That makes about one comment for every other post ever posted! And this excluding the 83 comments I couldn’t be bothered to port over from the “Lets Count to a Million” blog, back in 2007, no functionable CN > WP hack exists, so each entry has to be entered seperately, unless I want to hack the text archive into SQL, but that’s beyond my knowledge, or will, maybe it would take even longer, who knows.

I’m getting beside the point here. The point is, we just reached 555 comments! Yeah! Woohoo! Banzai! Keep commenting peoples!