Yet Another Boring Journal

Guns of Brixton

2007-08-23T12:24:40Z

From The Clash, probably the greatest punk band of all time...

When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, Guns of Brixton

The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell

You see, he feels like Ivan
THROWN under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come

You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton

When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
And even shoot us
But oh- the guns of Brixton

Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game was survivin'
As in heaven as in hell

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton

Online Regular Expresion Tester

2007-02-19T00:18:00Z

ReJax - Coolest Regular Expression Tester. Ever.

As the first online Regular Expression tester to offer realtime highlighting and offering more languages than any other online tester, ReJAx continues to be the coolest and easiest to use Regular Expression tester on the web.

ReJax

message144 @ 2006-10-20T01:50:00

2006-10-20T08:51:30Z

buppy buppy buppy buppy buppy of course.
im im im im buppy of course.
buppy of course buppy of course.

im like.. hot chick that you can't even touch.
im im like.

- bup

message144 @ 2006-07-30T23:54:00

2006-07-31T06:54:46Z

i love bup.
ahh

New Muse

2006-07-01T17:01:06Z

The new Muse single, "Knights of Cydonia" is amazing. Dramatic and fatalistic in typical Muse fashion, and wreaking of Queen, this song rocks.

I am pissed

2006-06-02T06:39:43Z

I am so pissed about how my GFF has a pic of her and nedrick on myspizzle. peace xoxoxox

How funny

2006-03-30T06:13:17Z

I find it funny that the same people who run AdultFriendFiner http://adultfriendfinder.com/ (WARNING: contains adult content) are also the same people who the Christian personals site, BigChurch http://bigchurch.com/.

If you look through BihgChurch, you will notice a hint of sarcasm in everything they do. Absolutely rediculous.

Furthermore, the stupid picture they have on the front of BigChurch.com makes no sense. Notice that the lens flare allegedly coming from the sun is in FRONT of their faces, yet the sun is BEHIND them. This is technically impossible. Talk about a bad photoshop job.

message144 @ 2005-12-06T14:32:00

2005-12-06T22:46:09Z

1) Was 2005 a good year for you?
YES

2) What was your favorite moment of the year?
getting engaged... getting my dog... writing 5 songs in one night.

3) What was your least favorite moment of the year?

4) Where were you when 2005 began?
peeing at knotts berry farm i think?

5) Who were you with?
orduna?

6) Where will you be when 2005 ends?
peeing at knotts berry farm

7) Who will you be with when 2005 ends?
orduna

8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2005?
YES

9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2006?
Lose 25 pounds.

10) Did you fall in love in 2005?
Yes

11) If yes, with who?
tegan

12) If yes, do they know?
no

13) Are you still in love with them?
no (just kidding)

14) Do you regret it?
no

15) Did you breakup with anyone in 2005?
probably burned some bridges, im sure..

16) Did you make any new friends in 2005?
Yes..

17) Who are your favorite new friends?
I am not going to say, because its kind of gay to say "OMG!! My new bestest buddies are so and so!!"

18) What was your favorite month of 2005?
ALWAYS december!!!

19) Did you travel outside of the US in 2005?
No, unfortunatly.. and im pissed about it.

20) How many different states did you travel to in 2005?
3

21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2005?
no, but i expect to soon, unfortunately

22) Did you miss anybody in the past year?
maybe

23) What was your favorite movie that you saw in 2005?
High Tension, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

24) What was your favorite song from 2005?
White Stripes - Doorbell
Gwen Stefani - Hollaback
Mars Volta - Cygnus Vismond Cygnus

25) What was your favorite record from 2005?
not sure

26) How many concerts did you see in 2005?
probably about 10.. not very good

27) Did you have a favorite concert in 2005?
DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN BABY!!!!!!! BOO YAHH!!! FAVORITE SHOW OF ALL TIMEEE!!!

28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2005?
no

29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2005?
aside from the horse tranquilizers, no.

30) How many people did you sleep with in 2005?
8 or 9

31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
no regrets ever

32) What was the biggest lie you told in 2005?
not sure

33) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2005?
that a pigeon came in and destroyed my entire ceiling.

34) Did you treat somebody badly in 2005?
heck yeah

35) Did somebody treat you badly in 2005?
definitly

36) How much money did you spend in 2005?
a lot.. probably 20k - 28k. next year i plan to cut that down to about 15k.

37) What was your proudest moment of 2005?
writing 5 songs in one night..

38) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2005?
almost falling off of a 15 story building.

39) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2005 and change something,
what would it be?
none

40) What are your plans for 2006?
possibly go to school.. finish an album.. play shows.. travel to canada and new york

message144 @ 2005-11-10T10:01:00

2005-11-10T18:01:54Z

"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."
- Maurice Maeterlinck

message144 @ 2005-10-17T10:07:00

2005-10-17T17:10:00Z

Tom Mcklintock will be running for Lieutenant Governor, to replace that evil bastard, Cruz Bustamante on the November California initiative. One of his big issues that he is going to fight to put an end to all private use eminent domain within California. I would like to encourage all Californians (even though only 2 people read this) to vote Tom Mcklintock.

more 3d textures

2005-10-07T00:48:53Z

More 3d textures i made using only text and css.

http://shirtconcepts.com/z.html
http://shirtconcepts.com/z2.html
http://shirtconcepts.com/z3.html

message144 @ 2005-10-05T20:11:00

2005-10-06T03:11:25Z

A stupid thing using only css and text i came up with whilst bored with work. yes i know this could have been done better. You can actually highlight the text which is cool i guess.

http://redredmusic.com/brendon/test/z.html

message144 @ 2005-10-05T20:05:00

2005-10-06T03:06:55Z

A stupid thing using only css and text i came up with whilst bored with work. yes i know this could have been done better. You can actually highlight the text which is cool i guess.

At least she didn't...

2005-10-05T09:08:40Z

At least she didn't steal my shower curtians. That would have put me over the edge. I am positive she has been around the house, snooping and checking things out. I can smell her scent on the doorknob (yes I actually sniff the doorknob on occasion). I can see footprints in the carpet. The hair on the lock is gone. Somebody has been around. I knew it. Did they think I was that stupid. I may be crazy but I am not stupid, at least not this week.

The farmer of Rome has come. Deepthroat has burned everything. I love it.

message144 @ 2005-09-27T21:13:00

2005-09-28T04:14:28Z

funny quote from House MD on FOX

"You want to really stick it to whitey? Be one of the few black men to live long enough to collect social security"

hmmm

2005-08-25T20:45:46Z

worlds ugliest dog

yeah.

Please

2005-08-11T00:40:03Z

Can somebody please buy me this book from AmaZON? It's only 5 bucks.. thanks

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671708821/ref%3Dpd%5Fsr%5Fec%5Fir%5Fb/102-6799343-8055337?v=glance&s=books&st=*

Woopsie!

2005-08-09T18:58:50Z

I am an idiot. In this big software application I wrote for work,they brought in all the temps and did all this work, then a few hours into they realized all the dates were wrong.

After further investigation I came to the realization that September is NOT the 10th month of the year. I always thought it was.. hmm wierd..

It's amazing how one small mistake like that can screw everything up and make my day miserable.

Mozilla Incorporates

2005-08-04T07:16:02Z

It seems that Mozilla once again perpetuated it's reputation for not being open with the Mozilla community, and not promoting participation. Today the Mozilla Foundation announced that a Mozilla Corporation has been formed. This might not be necessarily bad, but they did not consult with the community about this at all. They simply announce one day that they are going to do it.

Here is a breif list of actions taken by Mozilla without any kind of attention community feedback or participation:

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* Formation of the Mozilla Foundation - The public was not warned nor consulted about this.

* The early release of Thunderbird and Firefox 1.0 before all MAJOR bugs had been fixed - They pushed the release of both products despite many well known bugs.

* Constant obfuscation of severe bugs in Bugzilla

* Adding a number of major online Web services to the Search Bar in exchange for undisclosed profits - Why did they not even give the option to remove these? What happened to choice?

* Using Google as the standard URL keyword engine - Why was the community not consulted about this, and furthermore, there is no option (except for in about:config) to change this.

* Providing no easy way to find how much money has been donated by various organizations and how that money was spent. One such organization being Google, who allegedly has given upward in the millions.
-----

So what about all the thousands of people who have donated time and money to Mozilla. They are all just left in the dark about all these major decisions? Also, I would like to know how much exactly the Mozilla Corp Board of Directors and the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors make. This kind of information should be made available to the community, since afterall, Mozilla was built on the backs of the community.

Mozilla Suite, Phoenix, and Firebird all did quite well without big corporate interests. Not that I am against major corporate support, but Mozilla already doesn't have a good reputation for transparency and participation. I just suspect this will get worse.

Windows and OSX Application Comparisons for a Web Developer

2005-07-27T20:39:14Z

I recently switched to Mac OS X. As a web developer, one of the biggest hurdles I had was finding adequate development software.

Here is a comparison of my old Windows software and my new OSX software. These are, in my opinion the BEST applications availabile for their platforms. I have done a LOT of searching and tried just about every app out there, and these seemed to really stick on me the best.

---------------
Word Processing
---------------
##OSX & Windows##
*** OpenOffice
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 3/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 4/5

------------
Web Graphics
------------
##OSX & Windows##
*** Adobe Photoshop CS
  Cost: $600.00
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 5/5

------------------
Instant Messenging
------------------
##Windows##
*** GAIM
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 2/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 3/5

##OSX##
*** Fire IM
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 3/5
  Reliability: 3/5

----------------------------------
General Text Editing/Manipulation
----------------------------------
##Windows##
*** UltraEdit
  Cost: $39.00
  Speed: 5/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 3/5
  Reliability: 5/5

##OSX##
*** Text Wrangler
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 5/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 4/5
  Reliability: 5/5

---------------------
Web Development: HTML
---------------------
##Windows##
*** Homesite
  Cost: $100.00
  Speed: 5/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 4/5

##OSX##
*** skEdit
  Cost: $25.00
  Speed: 5/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 3/5
  Reliability: 4/5
*** jEdit (Java)
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 2/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 3/5

---------------------
Web Development: PHP
---------------------
##Windows##
*** PHPEdit
  Cost: $100.00
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 4/5
  Reliability: 5/5
*** PHP Designer
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 4/5
  Reliability: 5/5

##OSX##
*** Zend Studio (Java)
  Cost: $100.00
  Speed: 2/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 5/5

---------------------
Web Development: CSS
---------------------
##Windows##
*** Bradbury TopStyle Lite
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 5/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 5/5

##OSX##
*** Zend Studio (Java)
  Cost: $100.00
  Speed: 2/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 4/5
  Reliability: 5/5

-----
Email
-----
##OSX & Windows##
*** Mozilla Thunderbird
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 3/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 4/5
  Reliability: 4/5

-----
FTP
-----
##Windows##
*** FileZilla
  Cost: FREE
  Speed (File Transfers): 5/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 5/5

##OSX##
*** Panic Transmit
  Cost: $29.00
  Speed (File Transfers): 2/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 1/5
  Reliability: 4/5

-------------
Web Browsing
There is currently no suitable version of Internet Explorer for
OSX which will behave the same way as Internet Explorer for Windows.
This will mean that for proper web development, SOME windows use is inevitable.
-------------
##OSX & Windows##
*** Mozilla Firefox
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 3/5
  Security: 5/5

##Windows##
*** Microsoft Internet Explorer
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 2/5
  Reliability: 1/5
  Security: 1/5

-----------
VPN Client
-----------
##Windows##
*** Cisco VPN Client
  Cost: N/A
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 4/5
  Reliability: 4/5

##OSX##
*** Equinux VPN Tracker 4
  Cost: $80.00
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 4/5
  Features: 4/5
  Reliability: 4/5

------------------------------
Command Line & UNIX utilities
(including CVS & SSH)
------------------------------
##Windows##
*** Cygwin
  Cost: FREE
  Speed: 4/5
  Ease-of-Use: 2/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 5/5

##OSX##
*** Apple Terminal
  Cost: Included FREE
  Speed: 5/5
  Ease-of-Use: 5/5
  Features: 5/5
  Reliability: 5/5

My conclusion on the matter is that OSX is still lacking in a uniform, speedy Web Development environment.
While JEdit is absolutly amazing and very close to Homesite, it is just so slow and hard to configure. This is the killer
for JEdit.

skEdit is great for HTML work, but not PHP. It is much better than BBEDit, TextMate, or SubEthaEdit, but it is in no way as good
as HomeSite for Windows.

OSX is also lacking in a decent FTP client. While Transmit is decent, it is light years slower than FileZilla.

holy crap

2005-05-17T08:20:10Z

So the Real ID act passed. What does this mean?

In 3 years, you will have to have a National ID card. You will most likely have to use it to purchase many things -- certainly anything involving travel and anything purchased on credit.

This excerpt from the Real ID act is scary:

SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS.
Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows:

(c) Waiver-

(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.

(2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court shall have jurisdiction--

...

Holy Crap!? Maybe I am reading this wrong, but this is essentially saying that the Department of Homeland Security can have NO accountabilty to the US judicial system. This is out and out blatantly removing any kind of checks and balances. It also appears to be saying that the Department of Homeland security can waive or by-pass any laws which they feel is hindering them from doing their job.

Hello People!! This passed in the senate 100 to 0!!

our last show

2005-05-17T06:45:20Z

me at our last show:

message144 @ 2005-05-16T23:25:00

2005-05-17T06:31:05Z

Some facts on affirmative action

2005-05-11T00:50:38Z

Affirmative Action - Proposition 209

[I will get back to this when I have worked on it more]

Great News!!

2005-05-06T18:05:24Z

The Federal Appeals court has struck down the FCC's proposed television broadcast flag..

This is wonderful news. A major step in the right direction. Score one for Liberty!

The People: 1
The record Companies: 387

Only 386 to go!

Here is the article:

http://news.com.com/Court+says+FCCs+broadcast+flag+is+toast/2100-1030_3-5697719.html