Blogging from Rotterdam

After my failed attempt to try that Dutch audio book, I've been a bit wary. Fine fine, so it was my fault; I should have listened to the chapters in correct order. It's still discouraging. Will get back to it soon. Once my ego is feeling a bit less pathetic.

In the meantime, I found this funny link. This made my day. I am always making the worst jokes about postal deliveries. Alright, so that is not very flattering, especially to my friend at the post office. But, on some level, you'd think that the worldwide jokes about the post office must be there for a reason. No smoke without fire and all that.

No wonder one of Pratchett's books were about the Post office!

As it is, I am anxiously waiting for some books I ordered from play.com. I am willing to write off the delay as an after-effect of the snow storm. Even after my neighbor ended up with my first book package.

At least I am not like that bloke in that link I just provided. What was it, postal delivery after 15 years?

Ooh and I am watching Black Blood Brothers now. The vampire bloodline story is awesome, as is the Korean(?) power metal intro.

I was talking to some friends about that recent controversy - Joe Satriani suing Coldplay 'cos they kind of ripped his song.

Well, we started talking about various songs which were 'inspired' by older songs. I don't mind when people attribute songs to the original and then make a tribute cover. But if you are going to stand up on a stage and say "ye, we wrote this little song" then I must laugh. And of course boo!

By the way, that last reference was to Beach Boys saying they wrote Ring Ring Goes the Bell (oh dear dear).

Anyway, so I came across this songs inspired by other songs list on Youtube. Actually it is called Similarities in Songs and you can find it on Youtube. Some of them are pretty funny because it looks like they seriously ripped off the other folks. Some don't quite sound the same.

Must say I laughed when I saw that Avril Lavigne was on the list. Of serious borrowers. No offense to any of her fans, but she did go a bit far left of the traffic light when she aped that blonde look.

On that note, did you know the song In the Army Now was sung by Bolland & Bolland who were born in South Africa? I don't think they were SA citizens but it's strange to think song is now more popular as the Status Quo song.

Upon reading Questioning the Norm recently, I found out that the Save the Developers site was gone!! Kapot! Eki Eki Eki!!

Why why why?

For info on what the Save the Dev site was about, check out Questioning the Norm . To put it briefly, it was a site that berated the torture that was IE6 and provided a javascript that told you to get something less problematic than IE6. Like FF, Konq, or Opera.

The biggest advancements have come through Opera in recent years and hence it would be the first browser that I recommended.

But coming back to Save the Dev site, here is the problem: Not only is the site MIA but it now redirects to IE7 site.

Arrgh!

Anyone know what is going on?

I loved that bit of code; so much better than using IE hacks for all the web dev projects.

Continues looking ...