efilson
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Posts by efilson
Awful Verbiage from Xbox Live
January 20, 2010 - 06:27
Tags: microsoft, video games, xbox
Posted in Rants, Video Games | 4 comments
Pretty self explanatory here but this doesn’t even make sense! All I did was add some points I didn’t just signup for an account…
This whole things started as I wasn’t able to use any of my current cards in Xbox Live. I don’t know if it was because there were already “pending” charges on the [...]
Federal Gun Laws Make Me Laugh
January 6, 2010 - 08:14
Tags: federal law, firearm, government, gun
Posted in Politics, Rants | 6 comments
Ok so perusing through the North Carolina gun laws I came across the Federal gun laws and laughed my ass off after reading this little bit:
C. Eligible Persons
1. Federal Law Requirements
As a general rule, the following categories of persons are ineligible to receive or
possess a firearm under federal law:
…
d. The person is an unlawful user [...]
Asheville Snowstorm – December of 2009
December 22, 2009 - 07:43
Posted in Random | 6 comments
I would have blogged sooner but my girlfriend and I were without power since Friday at 4:00… Perhaps later I’ll chronicle my adventures but for now here’s the visual story of the disaster that was my road. Enjoy!
Alexa, Compete, and Other Educated Guesses
December 15, 2009 - 14:23
Tags: alexa, development, rank, seo
Posted in Rants, Technology, Web Development | 4 comments
Hey you! Yeah you, the one obsessing over your Alexa rank… you CEO, you “webmaster”, you marketing guy, you whomever you are…
STOP
Seriously… you people are driving me crazy with your Alexa rank whoring. It’s the same few things over and over and over again that I hear:
WTF my traffic went up like eight fold and [...]
Smarty Templates… Get That Shit Out of My House
December 15, 2009 - 10:10
Tags: development, PHP, rant, smarty
Posted in PHP, Web Development | 12 comments
If the title wasn’t strong enough for you, allow me to rephrase. Anyone that thinks Smarty is a good idea to implement should be shot in the face (or at least immediately removed from all developer responsibilities) because I’m tired of it junking up the tubes…
First of all there is absolutely NO reason anyone should [...]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Worst Game Matching EVER
December 10, 2009 - 12:29
Tags: call of duty, modern warfare, mw2, rage, rant, video games
Posted in Rants, Video Games | 9 comments
CoD: MW2 is quite possibly the best multiplayer FPS game ever made however it has one of the worst matching systems ever seen. This problem is amplified if you try to party with ANYONE… even adding a single person to your group causes massive headaches. I just tried playing with a friend of mine during [...]
Book Publisher Fail
December 9, 2009 - 08:23
Tags: book stores, books, business, ebooks, rant
Posted in Rants, Technology | No comments
Brendan sent me this article: Two Major Publishers To Hold Back E-Books
Yet another industry failing to get with the program…
First up:
“The right place for the e-book is after the hardcover but before the paperback,” said Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS Corp. “We believe some people will be disappointed. [...]
Google Chrome for Mac
December 8, 2009 - 09:42
Tags: chrome, google, web browser
Posted in Technology, Web Development | 2 comments
A short post this time around… I just wanted to make sure people landing here (for whatever obscure reason) know that there is, at long last, an OS X build of Chrome. While it’s not a full release I’ll take a Google beta over an alpha any day:
http://www.google.com/chrome
Get it while it’s hot!
Internet Explorer – Holding Back the Internet… Again…
December 4, 2009 - 08:09
Tags: browsers, css, ie, internet explorer, rant
Posted in Rants, Web Development | 1 comment
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team needs to pull their collective head out of their ass and get with the fucking program. IE6 has long been the bane of many a web developer and designer and it looks like IE8 is going to be the same way. First, let’s take a look at CSS3 selector support: [...]
The Out of Control Taxation of Tobacco
December 3, 2009 - 11:16
Tags: government, taxes, tobacco, tobacco taxes
Posted in Politics, Rants | 3 comments
Most people aren’t even aware of why the cost of a pack of cigarettes is so high. I’ve come across numerous articles and blogs with comments from people ranting when major cigarette manufacturers raise the cost on a pack by a few cents. The problem with cigarette prices isn’t the manufacturers… in fact they’re the [...]
