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A movie that doesn’t quite know what it’s about. It’s not a western, it’s not a romance, and it’s not a buddy film. Though the parts are played as well as they can, a lack of depth keeps the film sub-par all the way to the end. While the film has some entertaining moments, the characters and story are poorly written. The action is weak, the emotion isn’t heartfelt, and the resolution is abrupt and confused.

Curious Logic

Why do mechanics always have a bad attitude, particularly when dealing with customer questions? I mean, being somewhat knowledgeable with computers, and having fairly obvious (to me) questions asked, it is semi-annoying. But I understand that most people have better things to do than, and don’t have enough time, to know what chipset the CN Pro200WL NIC has.

However, the major difference between talking to Joe-Neighbor and Joe-Customer:

I don’t expect Joe-Neighbor to hand me money at the end of my answer.

See? I don’t get it.

Update: OpenZero –> .slightly.amiss.

In case you visit this site (and I’m sure you don’t), you may have noticed that everything on OpenZero is different and now this garbage is here.

First and foremost, congratulations on not being stupid; OpenZero is now .slightly.amiss.

Secondly, no: I will not be typing “Slightly Amiss” as .slightly.amiss. ever again within a post. It’s just that the font I liked for the title graphic looked silly both capitalized and not, and only spacing the two words with one dot in the middle made it look like a type of computer file. So– “Slightly Amiss” became “slightly.amiss” became “.slightly.amiss.”

I know. It’s dumb.

Thirdly, I still need to import legacy posts into the site.

Finally, I like the new WordPress versions lots.

1,000 songs. Impossibly small. iPod nano.

How To: Using The Old Facebook

It recently came to my attention that the New Facebook is riddled with AJAX technology and all other Web 2.0 garbage. Any idiot running a website would know that isolating legacy operating systems, browsers, and computers in general would be a very bad idea, particularly if you have tens of millions of users, daily.

Websites far and wide have used something called a User Agent Identifier to parse legacy browsers from the new, loading basic HTML versions of websites or newer, dynamic versions respectively. This is usually the same way that “browser specific” websites operate as well. Yep, that’s right, that site that says you can only use it with Internet Explorer is lying to you.

A fix for these inconvenient issues has been developed for several different types of browsers that actually temporarily changes the browsers User Agent String (what a User Agent Identifier reads). The easiest to use and install is an extension for the Firefox web browser called User Agent Switcher.

Do a simple internet search for “User Agent Switcher” and find the page regarding Firefox add-ons. Your search engine should specify this. If not, find the link with “mozilla.org” in the URL.

The User Agent Switcher add-on page should have a description box near the top detailing the author, functionality, as well as when the extension was last updated. Click the large “Download Now” button. A dialog box should appear with a cautionary warning about installing Firefox extensions. Wait for the install button to become active (usually about 4 seconds) and press it to install the add-on.

You will have to restart Firefox one time in order for the extension to work from then on.

Once the extension is installed, a new sub-menu will appear in the “Tools” menu. Open Firefox and click the “Tools” menu at the top of the web browser. Go down to the “User Agent Switcher” sub-menu. A list will appear with several different web browser names and operating systems.

One of the defaults within this list should be “Netscape 4.8 (Windows).” Highlight and select this. a large black dot should appear next to the Netscape option.

Netscape was once the most popular browser on the Windows platform. After the introduction of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape’s reign declined to a small fraction of users. Eventually the web browser was purchased by America Online and switched to the Mozilla web rendering engine. Netscape 4.8 was the last in what is now called the “Netscape Classic Series.” Essentially, it was the last version of Netscape that used the original rendering engine before the AOL buyout.

So what does this all mean? Essentially, it means that every website on the internet will think you are using Netscape Communicator 4.8, a browser released in 1997, and will treat you accordingly. In 1997, CSS was in its infancy with AJAX and DHTML (both used in The New Facebook) nowhere in sight.

As long as Facebook thinks you are on Netscape 4.8, you will be able to browser Facebook.com with the old interface.

Huzzah!

The Dark Knight Posters

Yay!

Records of Shame, Records of Awesome

I’ve seen Jurassic Park III in theatres three times, against my will. This will be surpassed by The Dark Knight before the end of my lifetime.

First Screening
July 18th at 12:31am
Eden Prairie AMC
-Natysin
-Fries
-Pascal

Second Screening
July 19th at 3:30pm
Southdale AMC

Third Screening
July 23rd at 10:55pm
Apple Valley IMAX
-Lawrence
-Natysin
-Fries
-Pascal

Fouth Screening
July 26th at 2:45pm
Southdale AMC
-Pascal

Fifth Screening
July 30th at 7:00pm
Southdale AMC
-Pascal
-E. Lee

Sixth Screening
August 7th at 11:15pm
Southdale AMC
-Pascal

Oh, and I put my Dark Knight posters up, too.

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