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GW likes to take a couple people with him whenever he travels…

…as he should be doing. He’s the PRESIDENT for crying out loud. And some people say this is excessive.

After I updated my MacBook to Leopard, I realized that my Logitech s530 Laser Keyboard and Mouse weren’t working. They had been fine before. After rebooting and changing the batteries, I checked Logitech.com. Scrolling down, it listed the system requirements as “Mac OSX 10.3.9 - 10.41″. Duh, I thought, the OS just came out so Logitech hasn’t updated their drivers yet. I checked the Logitech website every other day to see when they released a compatible one. Today, their website showed a new version. I downloaded and installed it, but the keyboard still didn’t work!

The USB dongle is plugged in. It’s light is on, so it’s getting power and I know the USB port is good. The keyboard and mouse both have freshvbatteries and I tried pressing their connect buttons just as the instructions said to. But it still didn’t work.

I went to http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/433/158&cl=us,en again and realized the driver had only been updated to include Mac OSX 10.5. Since Leopard came out, Apple has released system update 10.5.1. So good job, Logitech, you released an update that didn’t do anything. Thanks.

Pictures:
the USB dongle is on
but it still doesn’t work

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I’ve been experimenting with Googls Adsense Youtube ads (which are simply embedded Youtube videos, just like those on any webpage, but with various ads appearing next to them as they play) on an experimental, theme-switching version of this site at http://pakman20.com/test.php. I think they’re a great idea, they should certainly drive more revenue.

However, there’s something called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It sets the standards of web languages such as HTML and CSS (both of which the page you are reading now uses). The W3C tells what a web developer can and can’t do with the computer language. It’s important for there to be a standard like this so that visitors to a web site using different browsers all see the same thing. This way, a webmaster can create one webpage which looks the same no matter who looks at it.

The language that the test.php page I’m talking about is written in XHTML and PHP (PHP is not exactly a W3C standard, but that’s because it’s a server-side language, not client-side and is therefore never seen by the browser. but regardless,). I work hard to make sure everything I write on that section of the site is perfectly, 100% valid by the W3C’s standards. I take pride in the fact that my (at least that part of) website displays exactly the same in any given W3C-conforming browser.
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without a doubt the best Guitar Hero mod ever. i would love to make one of those, but there’s no way I’d be able to mold the plastic but the translucent buttons.

EyelessWriter.com called Verizon Wireless 56 times and asked 2 simple questions. Out of all 56 people, only 1 actually answered both questions correctly. In fact, the reps were wrong 93% of the time. That’s a lot. I’m a Verizon Wireless customer and I’ve found them to make up numbers every once in a while, but this is ridiculous.

Actually, after thinking about this for a while it seems that the problem isn’t only that employees can be clueless, but that they were trained improperly. When the correct answer was $0.002 (2 tenths of a cent), most of the answers had a 2 and some zeros, but the decimal was in the wrong place. The reps who answered correctly said “point zero zero two dollars“. Perhaps that’s how they were trained to say it. But since the question was “how many cents” some of the reps probably messed up the decimal. I’m not trying to make excuses for them, though. 93% incorrect is absolutely horrible. Inexcusable. Horrendous. Substandard. Mediocre. Negligent. Incompetent. Yet strangely funny.

I didn’t make this but it’s still funny!

Look at these pictures of google.co.kr (click for larger version). In the Korean version of Google, the images change when you move your mouse over them. There’s even a little animation. Why doesn’t the US version of google.com do that? Also, when you type something into the search box in the Korean version, you get suggestions kind of like you do at ask.com.

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This amazing image shows a couple of planes on their descent onto a pair of parallel runways. The smaller plane is in the foreground; the larger plane in the background. This creates an optical illusion that makes it seems like the planes are merely a few feet from each other, when in reality they are a few hundred feet from each other.
http://www.noahwass.com/two_airplane_optical_illusion.aspx

via: http://www.noahwass.com/two_airplane_optical_illusion.aspx

I am an Apple-fanboy-typing-this-on-a-Logitech-S530-Laser-Desktop-For-Mac-connected-to-
a-MB-running-Leopard-with-dual-monitors-while-listening-to-my-iPod(s)-on-my-BOSE-QC2-
headphones-bought-from-the-Apple-store-and-reading-TUAW,-fake-steve,-Engadget,-and-
idolizing-Woz-and-Leo and I am proud.