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# Evnin' all!


Just made a new title logo for my website...
The face is off an accordian playing-gange smoking-tophat wearing-blunderbus toting-gypsy friend of mine.
Attractive or just put everyone off?
(I helped save b3ta! Brims Spurts., Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:19, archived)
# depends
are you trying to sell accordian playing-gange smoking-tophat wearing-blunderbus toting-gypsy stuff?
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:21, archived)
# well it's not really a website
its actually one of these free forum thingys that i set up for me n' my friends...but i see a new buisiness oppertunity opening now!
(I helped save b3ta! Brims Spurts., Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:23, archived)
# just make sure I get 15% off everything you sell
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:25, archived)
# *whistles the theme to Tales of The Unexpected*
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:21, archived)
# "hello darkness my old friend"
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:21, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:24, archived)
# ^
teh sound of silence

get it? get it?..............


*tumbleweed*
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:25, archived)
# *swift kick to the nadgers*
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:26, archived)
# Saucy!
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:28, archived)
# I’ve come to talk with you again?
which reminds me...long time no see Rik!
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:24, archived)
# hello space cadet!
yeah.. new job, lots of busy-ness, and a shitty 50K/s (just faster than dial up, you people who post 500K BMPs...) download

I doubt I`ll be on the board during the day ever again!

how`s tricks?
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:25, archived)
# Oooh sounds good though...a new job I mean
I'm okay-ish, buried my aunt today.

Well, I had some family help me
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:27, archived)
# christ
the missus has just done the same thing

.. different aunt, I`m guessing
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:30, archived)
# I guess it wasn't a good week
to be an aunt
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:35, archived)
# 12/13 yr olds taking up a lot of your days now eh?


sick perve!
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:29, archived)
# pfft
nah this is nasty web servery stuff

a web site that looks ok to the user, but underneath the bonnet it`s like a cut and shut Lada
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:30, archived)
# RIKRIKRIK
I read your comments about the Google pre-fetch thing, it made me think (actually THINK) and I wrote to them, basically about the adsense scheme they run. I was interested to know whether advertizers could be charged for a pre-fetched page without anyone actually ever seeing it. I just got the reply:

"Thanks for your interest in AdSense and dWords. Please note that we don't execute the javascript utilized by our ads with the prefetching capability of Firefox, therefore an AdWords advertiser will not end up paying if their site was prefetched in the manner described."

Of course that doesn't change the point you made, which is that it potentially inflates their page view totals. I personally don't think that's a very big issue though... I think they sell mainly on strength of their name and rep, not their numbers.

(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:34, archived)
# isn't that how all
corporate companies operate these days?
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:37, archived)
# definitely, but they don`t all have a motto along the lines of "don`t be evil"
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:41, archived)
# don't be evil
even though we're soon to be the biggest advertising merchants on the planet!

Even though they rock technically, there's still some cnut doing the figures, helping them with the "Future Strategy" and guiding them towards the darkside.

Outcome: All the good guys will leave and something better will grow from that, until the bankers catch up and the evil creeps back in once more..
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:46, archived)
# aye
suppose it could be worse.. I just have a problem with people pushing stuff at me - it`s no better than spam e-mail
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:59, archived)
# It could be a lot worse,
this morning I read a recent UN report from Darfur and one from Uganda.

It's a lot worse than people trying to sell you shit for sure.
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 23:11, archived)
# true
good point well made

I never really noticed it before I started poking around with squid last night, but I`m not happy they`re forcing stuff down the browser without asking (much like when I sit and make sure I block as many trackers as possible)

some git could easily set up a few google bombs and fire megs of crap down the line, plus you`re still getting picked up in the #1 match`s server logs as a referral

after all this China stuff, I think google isn`t quite the "ethical" company they like to think

/rant rant rant ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:40, archived)
# I like it
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 22:34, archived)