Crapweaver

I’m in favour of creating websites from writing raw html codes. Which is to say, type out every single HTML tag in a simple text editor. With this mentioned, I will proceed to rant on how much I hate Dreamweaver.


At work, I had to edit an existing webpage. Move this logo here, open up that space over there, blah blah. So I saved a copy of the site onto my harddisk. Opened up the index.htm in Firefox, used the Web Developer Toolbar plugin to render a red-dotted outline on the invisible tables so I could get an idea on how everything is laid out. Turned out to be a mess of columns and rows only a computer can comprehend.


This mess of rows and columns could be greatly simplified just by adding 1 or 2 more tables. It could even make the code more readable.


Next worse thing, since this is a computer program, it has completely no idea how to generate user-friendly filenames for images. So it automatically generates filenames like craptastic_1-1×1, craptastic_2-1×3, craptastic_9-2×4.


And I have no clue why there’s fragmented images of a single-color bar, whose color is the same as it’s background. Not to mention those images come in both jpg and gif formats!


Oh, and there’s one more important factor for a fucked up dreamweaver-made website, a noob Dreamweaver user.

I love logs

For this blog of mine, I threw in a quick INSERT sql statement at the end of
every page request to log down the IP, referrer, date and time so I can get a
rough idea of where my visitors come from, how did they come here and when. Rest
assured I can’t tell exactly who is viewing my pages.


I can see visitors coming in from links from my friend’s blogs [:D]. I can
see what search string the visitor entered in google which brought him to my
blog [XD]. I can see what you manually enter into the query string
[8|].


And sooooo, the “title” query string in my PermLinks serve no purpose other
than just being there for search engines’ crawlers. Manually entering
“title=..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd”
will not reveal any of my passwords nor will
“title=http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/Redist.txt”
make my blog read data from Microsoft.


Helloooo Florida.

What the fuck?

I bought a few Jpop CDs to pop in on my second machine and listen to during my mining sessions in FFXI. My secondary machine, Chii, is connected to my speaker which accepts 2 inputs and plays them simultaneously.


And so out of the audio CDs I bought, 2 of them have cd copy protection. And to my great dismay and understanding, it involves tricking your computer into thinking it’s a data CD. It automatically launches an ugly looking player program from the CD and plays the tracks. What further annoys me is that program takes up 90+% of my CPU power. Very unacceptable. I guess I should have read the cd copy protection warning label closely.


Anyway, good job recording companies! Thanks to you, I now have to resort to digital alternatives downloadable via the internet.