Cip’s Thoughts & Co

The Internet Playground

For a lot of people the internet is an endless source of fun, for others it’s one humongous opportunity to be who you want to be. I’m going to talk a bit about the latter.

A lot of kids show up on the internet, big news. Some of them photoshop their avatars and upgrade their virtual identities to be something they think the general population will envy and respect. Sure, this may very well prove true for a lot of the online population. But every polished persona will at some point look like just that, polished. Upgrading your 15-year old IRL identity to an 18-year old datacenter owner without neither the english skills nor the internet infrastructure knowledge to back it up will eventually get you into trouble.

Of course, trouble on the internet isn’t the same as trouble IRL, thank god for that. But still, when you’re getting your threads about non-validating company websites with no grammar whatsoever flamed to a constant 1st place on the New Posts search you might want to consider dropping the charade.

Fine, you go ahead and keep it up if you want, but consistently claiming that you are 18 might prove difficult when your WHOIS tells us otherwise.

What troubles me the most is the amount of legal education that the kids of today seem to be getting. I get threatened for breaking PUL (Swedish Privacy Protection Law) by posting his real age when this guy is ripping copyrighted websites (his / theirs) and send the admin threatening messages (sorry about the lousy translation, even in his native language he makes no sense) about closing down the forum for not complying with PUL (which strictly prohibits handing out sensitive personal information, so that doesn’t even make any sense!).

I love the playground.

Photoediting made fun

Picnik.com really lives up to their motto! It’s childishly simple and it can do quite a surprising lot! Oh, and of course it’s all AJAX.

Moderators

Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn’t be better to have no moderators on certain forums.. Here I am, having a constructive yet intensive discussion and all of a sudden there’s 42 posts less in the thread!

Maybe allowing users to purchase moderator-free threads would be mutually beneficial?

The Story of Stuff

20 minutes I don’t really regret spending on a presentation.

You should too! http://storyofstuff.com/

Waste of perfectly good time

One of the downsides of working with people that display symptoms of Asperger Syndrome is that every once in a while you end up in an argument, and you know it’s meaningless to correct your colleague because facts don’t matter as long as he can keep telling himself he knows everything.

Now, in my case my colleague is usually a very bright person who knows what he’s talking about, and this makes things even worse when I then after above mentioned argument have to Google it and spend 30 minutes making sure I was right.

Bah, now I spent another 30 minutes finding this picture just because I’m so angry.

It must be bunnies!

If you recognize where this came from originally, good for you!

 
(Press the Play button)

If you know someone who keeps blaming things on other people, perhaps this might help explaining his or her arrogance? :-)

Sex in The City

Generally speaking I’m not much of an enthusiast when it comes to romantic movies, and I never really followed Sex And The City but even I must admit that the movie qualifies for the subtitle “Epic Lovestory”.

Disclaimer: I watched the movie out and made this post out of free will.