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HOLY SHIT!!! I am going to die!!! I am well on my way to become a diabetic, if I'm not already one. My craving and additiction to soda is now very clear... For the first time in my life, I did a review of my soda drinking habits in the last 2 weeks, because it's been exceptionally high. I've found myself under a TON of stress, working incredibly long hours and I've been craving Cherry Coke and Coke.
I have consumed
more than
7 pounds of sugar
in the last 2-3 weeks
in sodas alone!!!
I wasn't even paying attention to it... 2 cases of Cherry Coke (42g of sugar in each can!!!) and glass after glass of "Coke or Pepsi please" at every restaurant...
I'm freaking out!!!!!
What have I done to my body?! It doesn't show yet, but OH MY GOD!!! I probably can't just quit cold-turkey... I'd probably die from that too, or throw myself into a diabetic shock without having diabetes. Shit... Alright, alright... I'm gonna start downing water and vitamins over the next few weeks and wean myself off of the juice. dammit! I knew better too... I was minoring in Nutrition for God's sake!!! I certainly can't blame anyone else for my actions, but it sure was f*cking easy to do!!! Shouldn't be this easy for kids or people that don't know about nutrition...
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So, I joined a host, creating a new and, as of yet, undiscovered "strand" with all sorts of wonderful "meals" in it. Hopefully one or more spiders will come along, gobble up my meals, and possibly link the "strand" into its own "web". If not, I will have to attempt to personally feed each spider my meals and hope they then link my strand. Once linked, I plan to create even better meals for the spider and hope that I can convince the spider that my linked strand should be moved to a more prominent spot in their own web, so that outdoor enthusiasts can enjoy my spectacular strand! I also hope that other "chefs" like myself will find my strand interesting and create meals that incorporate my delicious recipes, linking their strands to mine without the spider's involvement! Or, if the spider finds a recipe someone has created using my original recipies, the spider will remember my savory meal and give me the credit I deserve. Then, when an outdoor enthusiast is searching for the best meal in every spider's web, they will see that I am the best spider meal chef they've been looking for!
Since I'm heavily involved with internet technologies all of the time, I often get frustrated with tiny things ordinary people using the internet would never think about...
The problem on my mind is that someone coined "web" as the catchphrase for the internet. That's fine, but that's where it should have ended! Although I think "web" is a TERRIBLE name for it... Automated programs that make requests to web pages and "read" the content for bits and pieces of interesting info were then called "spiders". This is my main issue... The concept of a spider "crawling" the web is kinda fun and all, but it has nothing to do with the technology.
Pros of the "web" and "spider" Metaphores
- A "spider" DOES "crawl" their web, in fact they crawl on lots of things
- A "web" has linkages that hold it all together. So, if were to expound on the metaphore (as so many people have wrongly done in the past and present) I guess a website without any links to it or out of it would be called a "strand"?
- Like it's real-life ancestor, the "web spider crawls" web pages looking for interesting info and "gobbles" it up... like a spider and a fly.
Cons of the "web" and "spider" Metaphores
- A "web" is CREATED by a "spider", not by another creature entirely. So, when all a "web spider" does is crawl web pages looking for info, the metaphore doesn't apply at all. Just because someone named the internet the "web", doesn't mean you should run with it and make up names on top of names... kinda like recursive acronyms.
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FYI: If you didn't already know, you can currently specify ANY directory / catalog / folder in your MSN Space URL after the name of your MSN Space...
*Note that the trailing forward slash "/" is not required, but it's recommended to avoid confusion with other web items that do not require a file extension.
Q: "This is sooooo cool, how is this possible?"
A: MSN Spaces uses the technology provided in ASP.NET to "map" all of the information that follows the "/members/" web directory to an MSN Space. In other words, the programmers have written a little bit of code that says:
- Does the MSN Space they are asking for in the URL exist? "/members/ThisMemberDoesNotExist/"
- If the space exists, what web page are they requesting with what parameters?
The following example will tell the code that we are asking for the MSN Space "eswanson", that we want the web page "PersonalSpace.aspx", and that we are passing some additional information to that web page... specifically that we want to see the "Blog" tab of this member's space:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/eswanson/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=blogmgmt&_c=blogpart
- The code then passes the work onto this web page, which likely doesn't exist in the member's MSN Space. In other words, the web page "PersonalSpace.aspx" probably doesn't physically exist under the web directory "/eswanson/". The code that handles EVERYTHING in the URL after "/members/" figures out which web page you want and gives it to you.
Pretty nifty. Nothing "incredible", since the concept has been used since the dawn of the web... But interesting.
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Category: Other
Posted: 9/7/2005 9:28:00 AM
I've been programming in seclusion for a couple of days and I was wondering if real people still existed outside... So, I went to the all-knowing Zork and asked:
> Do real people still exist outside?
Invalid Input
> real people
I don't understand that.
> neither do I
I don't understand that.
> man
I can't see one here
> hey! That wasn't nice!
I don't understand that.
> woman
I don't understand that.
> lol
I don't understand that.
> look
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Sure enough... no people!
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Category: Other
Posted: 9/7/2005 4:38:00 AM
"Many ideas are like dogs in the pound... they're gonna die unless you adopt one." --Eric S. 1978-
... morbid, but true.
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