Month: June 2007

Using Dreamweaver May Stunt Your Growth


I strongly believe Dreamweaver keeps you ignorant of knowing what html and css are for,what they can do and how to solve problems with both.

I think it should only be used by experienced designers so they can cut down on the time it takes to design a new template,not by folks wanting to know how to make pages fast without knowing what goes into the design of a page.

Maybe you’ll think I just say this because I am threatened by folks having the ability to DIY.Nope.Because a noob will f up and make a total hash of things and end up having to hire someone anyway.

And I have nothing but respect for the person who wants to do it themselves.

I hate you (MTA bus drivers)


All MTA busdrivers need to stop it. I don’t know where they get off being a hell mixture of officious,nasty,ugly,obese,stentorian,mean,

petty,wrong-minded,wrong-headed,evil,
ugly,blind,greedy, and short.

Alright, I was steamed. Not all MTA drivers are ugly, obese, evil and short.

All I know is I rely on them to get around.And so I have to put up with their nonsense to get to where I want to go.Bus drivers should be seen and not heard.
Not only are they mostly incoherent with passenger hatred they like to pick and choose who they pick up…if they feel like stopping at all.Which they sometimes don’t.

I’ve witnessed a handicapped man get turned down for the strapping in of the wheelchair passenger ritual because the driver “didn’t like the man”.

Ok, so this particular unfortunate panhandles downtown then takes the bus back home. So what? He had a Metro card! Whenever I’ve been caught with the wrong purse(the one with the card at home) the driver has let me take my sweet time finding change and 7 out of 10 times they say forget it.
I don’t think this is kindliness on their part. I think it was just them not wanting me lurching up and down the aisles,probably worried I’d sue them if I fell down.

Last night I had to take the cart and the bus to Fairway in Redhook.
All went well on the way there.
On the way back one bus passed me even though I was standing under a streetlight waving my arms. He looked at me and kept going,stopping down the block for other, better people (I guess).
Then when the next bus came by,the driver said I couldn’t get on the bus with an open package.
Confused, I looked into my cart to see if the packages were open but since it was groceries in bags I soon realized she meant open cart.
The correct noun had failed her. She woofed something about how I could get on if I stood in the back, in the way of the back exit.
So when everyone got off I had to somehow get out of their way. Not easy on a moving bus with a cart.
I’ve been going to Fairway with my old lady cart for awhile now.
This is the 1st time I was ever told I couldn’t come on the bus with an open package(cart).
So what am I supposed to do Ms. driver of bus?
Take a cab home? Isn’t it apparent to you that I am unwealthy
what with my big old cart of food waiting for a bus when all the other patrons of Fairway drive away with their booty in their SUV’s?
At least I got to ride for free because once again I had 3 Metro cards, all empty.

More Work Stuff

I posted that poor me I’m being paid for such an easy job,boo hoo post a little too soon.

It was easy because I didn’t have to name or create the database or anything but I did have to spend hours looking for the right plugins and stuff.I’m working with WP 2.2 and a lot of plugins don’t work on this new WordPress

Then I used a theme whose png files must not have been compressed properly or something because they were really visible in IE and didn’t blend at all.So I made psds in Adobe ImageReady then converted them to gif or jpg in Photofiltre and they look better.

you idiot it was ie 6!!! it doesn’t support png files and you knew that and yet you still blathered.

This “it’s too easy” stuff comes from my earlier uphill climb web experience working with insanely unfriendly environments like AngelFire,Purehost and Myspace all of which disallow mostly everything fun.

A friend suggested that it’s not easy for them to do it which is why they pay someone to do it for them.I guess it’s like math for me,code for them makes their eyes glaze over.

Also: (shhh!) I think this might be a school project!(shh!)

Any “easy” work I do get is always balanced out by the really hard jobs like my ongoing project for an online jewelry store.The CMS is custom built by me using that edit in place Ajax doodad.It turned out that my other really easy CMS wasn’t easy enough. But now it’s just like Flickr and I am a badass!

Get famous, then put up some ads.

Really? Do you really need that 5 dollars a year you get from Google if someone clicks an ad on your site? More like 400 someones–just to make $5? I don’t. And I am poor.
I think it’s just like all the other trends.Someone monetized their blog so someone else did it and so on.And let’s face it:sometimes the only new content in a blog for weeks or months are the ads. So there’s a service they do provide. I don’t mind ads in blogs.I do mind picture ads that are so close to the content that if I click anywhere near the ad all of a sudden I get whisked away to advertiser land,disrupting my read of how much someone hates Lindsay Lohan or is jealous of Ms.Jolie’s beauty. Yes I read that crap.
My point is don’t clutter up your site or blog with ads picture or text and annoy your random readers all in the name of tiny money. Because you will make more cash just by keeping your eye out for loose change on the sidewalk.
Wait until you have the traffic to justify it then annoy whomever you want.