Disoriented
Is that how it’s spelt?? Disoriented? I can’t tell, I’m too lazy too look up a dictionary, but the spell check says it’s correct! Anyways, that’s how I feel. The two weeks of holidays, and then pupil free day before returning to school on a Tuesday instead of a Monday, and then spending most of the day out driving around with my dad or at the Band comp today… it’s just got my mind all muddled up. That and I feel sad at finishing two stories this weekend. I finally finished reading Cardcaptor Sakura (yes, the manga, not the anime. And yes, I know it’s a kid’s one, but hey, I’m allowed to relieve parts of my young childhood aren’t I? Besides, I wanted to know what the story was. When I was a small kid and tried watching the anime series, I missed too many episodes and didn’t understand it. That and the fact that the anime changed many things from the manga). And today I watched the final episode of Monk (season 8) on Channel Ten. Yes, I know, as Kai pointed out to me, that it finished last year (actually the last episode was filmed in 2008), and it’s just taken forever to be aired in Australia, but still, it’s finally finished. After growing up with it, it’s sad to see it ending. I don’t seem to be able to believe that it’s over…
So… as I watch Firefox trying to save a draft of this post while my ADSL2+ router says that the DSL signal has been lost and blah blah blah (seemingly awfully cheap 2wire Gateway free from Telstra). Ohk, maybe it’s just the awful phone lines we have in Australia, maybe it’s heaps of people using the same wire for the same thing (wouldn’t surprise me), maybe it’s the router, or maybe it’s just inherent in the technology and the distance I live from the exchange, but does it have to drop the signal so many times a day?? If that wasn’t annoying, the router hijacking your browser and saying “Connection Lost” or “Resolution Successful. Please restart your browser” certainly makes me lose my temper. I feel like (and this is getting violent) getting a sledge hammer and smashing it to pieces because of all the pain it’s caused me and others. I mean, it says to restart the browser so that you can use the DSL connection again, as if the browser was incapable of realising that the connection was temporarily lost, when if the connection is lost, then resolved, and I haddn’t tried loading a page during that process, then nothing pops up!!!! I think the real reason 2wire added that was because they realised that the router, after hijacking that, just loved to keep on hijacking the browser. Instead of fixing the hijacking (or even out right removing it), they decided to tell the user to restart their browser, get them all annoyed, frustrated and later angry (like I’ve sometimes got) at having to restart the browser, waiting for it to close (Firefox can take a surprisingly long time to close, you know. And I don’t mean like the window closing, I mean waiting for the entire process to close. Why does the computer take so long to close a program after closing the window?) and then opening it up again, and waiting for it to load up everything, and then load all the tabs you had open. Waste hours of my life, and everyone else’s life, or just a couple of hours of yours where you remove a bug and make people happy and buy your products again… which is better programmer? Yeah, I’m not buying a 2wire router again if I can avoid it. This Telstra router (probably a bad example to have learnt from) has made me afraid and annoyed of 2wire routers now. Cisco, you look like a good brand, I’m gonna try you next.
Now that I’ve finished ranting about every thing. I just want to say: screw it! I’m not bothering to make this site look the same in all browsers. I’m designing this theme I’m working on for browsers which support nice portions of CSS3. In other words, I’m supporting the better browsers of Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Internet Explorer and Opera can go and try to impress someone else. I can’t be bothered trying to design a site and create countless images for backgrounds to try and make it look like the CSS3 I want, when I can use CSS3 and say ‘stuff Opera and IE’. Although, I’m sure Opera does have CSS3 support for the features I’m going to use, they just don’t seem to render it when I add the CSS for it (even with the vendor extension of -o-… like, when I put -o-border-radius like it supposedly was in 2008, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t render it with obvious ones it won’t use like -khtml-, -webkit-, -moz-, but it doesn’t even work with just plain border-radius)
Anyhows, before I write a massively long post about nothing (oh wait, I just did), I’m gonna finish off with saying that the band comp today was reasonably good. Many people were missing (we only had 4 flutes turn up, and the bass guitarist didn’t show) and so we sounded lacking, but we apparently still managed a bronze, so that was ok. I felt extremely nervous up on stage, and I’m sure I sounded nervous playing, especially my solo. Even after all these years of performing, I still feel extremely nervous. Maybe it comes from me feeling subconsciously under prepared from lack of good, solid practise.
Well, TTFN!! Ta Ta For Now!