I’m still unemployed and looking for work in Columbus, OH now. Spokane has become a barren wasteland of full-time jobs at $10/hour for someone moving in May. Well, Katie and I talked about it and decided that looking for jobs on The Ohio State University campus at this moment in time is a really good thing. As well, she would be ok with me going early and taking most of our stuff with me. Anyone out there have a job on OSU’s campus?

I really want to like OmniWeb 5.1. I really, REALLY do. I like the sidebar that shows screenshots of different tabs. I like the elements of control that it gives you for telling servers what kind of browser you’re using. It is great, but…

1. The ad-blocker doesn’t work properly. I’ve thrown away all the prefs and even reinstalled the damn thing, only to see the same damn html gif show up on the Dilbert webpage.

2. The bookmark file isn’t standard html. It has some funky coding to give more information to OmniWeb, but makes it incompatible with other browsers for importing.

3. I can’t search just by typing in the webpage. It is a setting that I cannot find, if its there, which it isn’t.

So, I propose this scenario. Using Bookit to export my OmniWeb bookmarks to a Mozilla-readable html file, I will import them into Mozilla 1.7.5 and Firefox 1.0. This suite has always been good to me and I abandoned it just to find something that looked different. Stupid me. Between the two, they cover every possible website that I go to with beautiful rendering. As well, the Adblock software for both browsers kicks ass! Bookit is my new favorite piece of app software after this little ordeal.

First of all, happy Presidents Day to all.

My Logitech Bluetooth Headset has been a conundrum to me. The first headset was a dud, I think. After calling Logitech, they sent another headset and it still didn’t work properly. Then, I thought perhaps I was setting it up wrong, after all, I was following the directions. The directions said to pair the headset as a Handsfree device, which I did. Now, I went out into uncharted territory and paired the headset as another My Device inside Bluetooth. At first, it didn’t work. Then, I removed all instances of Logitech from the phone and re-paired the headset as My Device only. Worked like a charm. Just a tidbit of info for anyone with a SonyEricsson T637 and the Logitech headset.

I’ve decided that OS X is a powerful piece of software and I should take advantage of it more often. Usually, I hunt around for GUI programs that harness the Unix power of OS X, but I’m branching out now. I’m attempting to use ipfw, the built-in firewall program, rather than Brickhouse or Firewalk X, both good programs, but I want to KNOW what is going on with my network, you know? So, I made the switch to ipfw. That was when problems started occurring. Searching the web for information about manual configuration for ipfw is kinda hard, since ipfw is unix and os x. Narrowing down the search gives me false positives of lots of ad sites and phishing expeditions for a random search click. I found that I needed to modify several files to create my own manual rules. This site is very informative and I ended up following almost all of the directions. I actually used a rule set from here, here, here, and here to create my own special rule set. I will probably post my blow by blow account later on in the Digital Playground when I’ve figured out how dynamic rules work and how long they last. On the whole, unless you’re quite adept at cli or like a good mystery, don’t try this at home.

I’ve been in talks with Matt and Ralph concerning their own websites and Matt asked for a specific thing: a forum where anyone could post a message. Well, he has a .Mac account that doesn’t allow for that sort of thing, but I always wanted to put up a forum on my site and this gave me the excuse to try. Well, after much sweat and tears, the forums are up and they include a section for Matt and Beth’s site. Hopefully this will be almost as good, Matt. Check out the site when you get a chance and post something.

This movie came out on Feb. 2, 2005 on Amazon and I immediately ordered it. I haven’t said anything about this movie because there was no tangible evidence that it was coming to DVD and all my rantings would be in vain. Now there is hope. Hope that I will have a serious, intellectual discussion about this movie that I have never had before. So, I propose to try and screen it as soon as it arrives at my house. It is scheduled to ship on March 15, 2005 and I will know more as soon as Amazon tells me more. If you are not in my area to see this movie, GO BUY IT! You will rethink some things about life. You know I’m not an evangelist, but this is different. This movie doesn’t give answers, just poses questions, which is my favorite kind of movie.

I just watched the documentary Super Size Me and Katie’s worried about her liver. Morgan, the guy in the movie, had some serious problems with his liver and Katie says she’s never eating at McDonald’s again. This is not really an issue since she’s vegan, though she eats the least amount of vegetables EVER for a vegan…I think. She likes sandwiches, soy sausage and bread with tomatoes and olives. She recommends reading Fast Food Nation, a book detailing disturbing facts of the fast food industry. Now, she’s whining at me about french fries. I hate this movie.

The problem with detailing what is wrong with people eating this food is that it is all about addiction. Fast food makes it easy to fulfill the human body’s need for addictive substances that make us feel good, even for a short amount of time. See my next post for more information on addictions.

and people start showing up when Trev and I create a party to go matchmaking. At first its cool and everyone is having fun. Then, this one guy with a username of torquemada or something starts kicking his own teammates, my teammates when they accidentally kill him. Now, I saw one time and he stood in front of a turret and then kicked the guy right afterwards. I didn’t know until later, but as party leader, I could have kicked torqu-dork after the game, which I should have. Online play is fun and Halo2 is unique that there are no computer-run players, bots, just real people. Yet, it is rather frustrating that human boredom and stupidity keep creeping in. I shouldn’t be surprised though, after all, this is the first time that 8 year-olds mix with 35 year-olds on somewhat of a level playing field.

I did another redesign of the site. Now, you’re going to have to remember what the pages looked like because I changed it a little. The index page is still the same though, so dig deeper and be rewarded. You can email me if you don’t think anything is new and I will email you proof.

I went to see it with Katie tonight and I have issues with it. Not the kind you might think, though, so wait before forming that thought. Nevermind, you already formed it, didn’t you? Right. This is an informal presentation of different women portraying an informal study of women talking about, you guessed, their vagina. On the whole, I thought the substance of the show was good, by that, I mean, the words that were used and the order of them was very powerful. It got the point across that the word vagina is taboo and that women need a safe community in which to feel comfortable to discuss vaginal things. I think reading the play would have been more powerful for me, but that’s because 13 out of the 17 women on stage took refuge behind the cards that everyone held. I understand the idea behind the cards, it is not the women directly talking about vaginas, but instead relaying common knowledge of all women that no one speaks about. It is a postmodern technique to portray the power of ordinary women’s words into art. I don’t have a problem with actors reading off of cards, especially when it is used effectively. The problem is that most of the women were NOT actors at all. They were charlatans parading on stage with only their membership cards for the female race to guarantee them admittance. This statement includes the man in drag as well. I think he was there for gasp effect only. Whatever. I paid $9.00 a ticket to see non-actors portraying other non-actors on stage. It wasn’t pretty. Four women shone as semi-professional actors and they stuck out like sore thumbs. The whole production had a lopsided feel to it and I was a little seasick by the end.

Still, the monologues were better than the women who ANSWERED her cell phone a row down from us. Who said it was ok to take a phone call in the middle of ANY performance? I didn’t get up and start flipping people off in the middle of the show and I equate this with answering your goddamn phone in the middle of my sea voyage, woman! I’m ok with women being “vagina warriors” as coined from the show, but be respectful of my experience. I want to hear the “actors” not the conversation with your grandmother about beets.

Katie, on the other hand, had a problem with them portraying women raped in Bosnia right after a monologue about orgasmic moans. Katie told me that the rape monologue is more important than the orgasmic moans and shouldn’t be put in the same show. I disagree on the basis that it is art, though, not very good art in my opinion. Any thoughts, reader?