Speckled Green

Well, I haven’t been blogging much recently… kinda a shame. But mostly it has to do with either not feeling in the mood or just not being able to think up of something to write that wasn’t so mundane that it bored even me (and hey, I can read some really boring stuff sometimes).

But the thing that has been going over my mind the most is the new Doctor Who series (which, along with David Tennant leaving and Russell T. Davies leaving as well (he was the lead producer/scriptwriter/director for the 1st 4 series + Torchwood), brought about a new face and style to the series, hence their idea to completely renew it) which is now called Series 1 (again), with Matt Smith as the new Doctor (you know, when I first saw him, I thought he wasn’t going to be anywhere as near as good as David Tennant, but hey! He’s living up to David’s reputation pretty well!), the new Sonic Screwdriver (green? Wow, odd, like when the one Dr Lovesong (or whatever her name was) had in the Library… red with lots of extra parts), and the New Brand New TARDIS!!!! It’s like, childlike, fun, bigger! Kinda like the Doctor’s personality. At least, David’s portrayal of the Doctor… Read more »

Yet another XKCD comic. It’s rather unfortunate that he’s right in this comic. Don’t people have any common sense?? Like using your mobile to post on Facebook that you’re stuck down a storm water drain, and not calling 000, instead relying on friends to do it for you… stupid people.

Seismic Waves

The USGS operates a really neat email/SMS earthquake notification service (earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/) that allows fine-grained control of notifications.

But there’s another one I really like. Reminds me of the Tetris craze on Facebook.

Hell

There's also a Katamari level where everything is just slightly bigger than you, and a Mario level with a star just out of reach.

Yeah, I capped myself on the internet. “What?! On the beginning of the holidays??” you might ask? Well, it’s the end of my billing month, so, On Monday, I’ll be fine again =]

However, until then, I’m stuck with dial-up speed internet, courtesy of Telstra Bigpond (I wonder why Telstra & Optus don’t provide off-peak, and count up-loads as well as downloads, when their competitors, who have to buy data plans off them anyway, are willing to do that?). So, when I try going to my blog’s homepage, I realised how slow it was to load without broadband speed internet. I was considering what I should do to lessen the impact of the download times and stuff, but I couldn’t come up with much.

I mean, I’ve already tried reducing the quality and size of the images, the javascript and CSS has been minified as much as I can without having to resort to a program to minify it more (is there a program to do that?), and I’ve tried to leave as few files as possible. Although I guess I could find a way to cut down just a few kilobytes, it’s not gonna make much difference at all, it still takes forever to download the stuff for some reason.

I mean, using a simple 1×10 pixel image as a background for the sidebar buttons and getting them to be repeated to create a solid bar, you can’t get much smaller than that without forgoing the appeal of the image. I guess this is just a problem faced with modern websites which thrive on the broadband speed so common now with internet users with large downloads (maybe ignoring the majority of the mobile phone users still on older plans).

Regardless, I really don’t know why the browser is continuing to try and load portions of the page I’m on. The server connection has timed out whilst it was trying to load the info (although it hasn’t realised because some setting on the server probably let it have a really long timeout…)

And I’ve watched Alice in Wonderland (in 3D) twice now. I reckon, for a Tim Burton movie (he’s odd in my opinion, and I only like some of his movies), and for the extremely odd book, it was a good movie. I love the soundtrack. Must get a copy of the soundtrack…

Oh, I have many things I’d like to put up here for my blog, but I can’t be bothered right now. I’ll do it later, another day when I have better internet.

Anyways, I’m gonna post this now, and say:

Happy Easter Guys. Remember the real reason for this time: that Jesus came to Earth not just to do fancy miracles and impart good morals, but to take our place on the cross of spiritual life, so that we wouldn’t have to go to hell and pay for our sins.

TTFN, Ta Ta For Now!