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| User: "Marvin The Paranoid Android" |
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| Title: Re: Top 2005 Story |
31 Jan 2005 06:19:31 PM |
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Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words is
stretched and blurred too.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
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| User: "Aidan" |
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| Title: Re: Top 2005 Story |
31 Jan 2005 09:03:57 PM |
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"Marvin The Paranoid Android" <marvin@heartofgold.com> wrote in message
news:1107217187.7bf45ff9164091e1ca7e3992e719cbc4@teranews...
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words is
stretched and blurred too.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
I dunno... should we tell him that his site only works with IE? Firefox
show me an ugly looking, misaligned heap of links and text.
You used MS frontpage to create the site, didn't you Michael? As a
web-developer, it makes me laugh when I see how shittily you've presented
your "stories"... is this a part of the overall effect your aiming for? A
parody site, making fun of the right-wing of America by trying to present
"Evangelistican" stories inside a fucking shambles of HTML templates?
That's the impression I get at least... LOL!
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| User: "Michael Johnathan McDonald" |
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| Title: Re: Top 2005 Story |
01 Feb 2005 04:18:40 PM |
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Aidan wrote:
"Marvin The Paranoid Android" <marvin@heartofgold.com> wrote in
message
news:1107217187.7bf45ff9164091e1ca7e3992e719cbc4@teranews...
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop
shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words
is
stretched and blurred too.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
I dunno... should we tell him that his site only works with IE?
Firefox
show me an ugly looking, misaligned heap of links and text.
You used MS frontpage to create the site, didn't you Michael?
Yes.
As a
web-developer, it makes me laugh when I see how shittily you've
presented
your "stories"... is this a part of the overall effect your aiming
for?
Well as a Webber you should have a good clue - seen others with themes?
If you are wondering why I use MSFP, for some of my newer pages - it
is that I'm a College student and do not have time to create from
scratch WebPages (not enough time, you see).
A
parody site, making fun of the right-wing of America
by trying to present
"Evangelistican" stories inside a fucking shambles of HTML templates?
Like to present some examples - because I have no idea what you are
talking about - like usual though ;)
BTW: Did you ever think that a career in web development cost you vital
intellectual training in the fields of liberal arts? IMO it shows with
ya ;)
That's the impression I get at least... LOL!
at least... ? I hate to read what you would say was 'at most.' :-) lol.
Your feedback is vital ;)
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| User: "MonsieurStat" |
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| Title: Re: Top 2005 Story |
01 Feb 2005 01:25:32 AM |
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Aidan wrote:
"Marvin The Paranoid Android" <marvin@heartofgold.com> wrote in message
news:1107217187.7bf45ff9164091e1ca7e3992e719cbc4@teranews...
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words is
stretched and blurred too.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
I dunno... should we tell him that his site only works with IE? Firefox
show me an ugly looking, misaligned heap of links and text.
Yeah, Michael is shitty at everything... but I am not sure if this
multiple browser thing surfacing up again is a good thing. I had Firefox
beta on my computer about 6-7 months before version 1 came out. Used it
from time to time, but went back to IE after a little while. The feel
just wasn't there. When version 1 came out, I figured give it a shot
again. Installed it the first week that it was out. Same thing... tried
it for a while, went back to IE, tried again, back to IE... Firefox has
a cold feel to it. Kind of like Netscape, but even colder. It's like
driving a Lada, a car manufactured by the Godless Communists. Come to
think of it, this whole idea of open source has communist roots...
everything is connected!
Stat.
You used MS frontpage to create the site, didn't you Michael? As a
web-developer, it makes me laugh when I see how shittily you've presented
your "stories"... is this a part of the overall effect your aiming for? A
parody site, making fun of the right-wing of America by trying to present
"Evangelistican" stories inside a fucking shambles of HTML templates?
That's the impression I get at least... LOL!
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| User: "Aidan" |
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| Title: OT Re: Top 2005 Story |
01 Feb 2005 07:39:10 PM |
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"MonsieurStat" <monsieurstat@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Yeah, Michael is shitty at everything...
LOL, agreed...
but I am not sure if this multiple browser thing surfacing up again is a
good thing.
I beg to differ...
I had Firefox beta on my computer about 6-7 months before version 1 came
out. Used it from time to time, but went back to IE after a little while.
The feel just wasn't there. When version 1 came out, I figured give it a
shot again. Installed it the first week that it was out. Same thing...
tried it for a while, went back to IE, tried again, back to IE... Firefox
has a cold feel to it. Kind of like Netscape, but even colder.
Well, I don't think the look and feel are the major proponent of it's
growing popularity. The real draw card of Firefox is that it simply isn't
as vulnerable to spyware/adware... This is mostly just because it is not
targeted as much as IE, as I'm sure there are security holes in it waiting
to be exploited. So there's the fact that you can browse to certain pages
with confidence that you will not have spyware forced onto your hard-drive,
and also the built-in pop-up blocker (which yes, IE now has... Firefox has
had it for a long time though... typical MS playing catch-up and calling it
innovation...), as well as tabbed browsing, which IMO is the best thing
since Mosaic... In any event, if you don't like the look of Firefox, you
can always grab a theme to make it prettier:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/themes/?os=nt&application=firefox
Another major gripe I have with IE, is that it isn't standards compliant...
I can create 100% standards compliant pages that look great in Firefox, but
are substantially messed up in IE... here's a page I made while playing
around with some concepts in a book I read (Eric Meyer is great), it looks
nice in Firefox, but IE screws up the transparancy effects...
http://ssl.linknet.com.au/aidan/sakura/
So a side effect of the competition that Firefox brings to the table against
IE, is that MS may be forced to comply with W3C standard for once...
Currently, MS is creating their own "standards", and this is what makes the
web-broken... not having multiple browsers to cater for... multiple browsers
would be fine if they all adhered to the standards. Admittedly, some of the
proprietry MS extentions are quite handy, but they really don't help to
unify the web accross all platforms, and that is why I believe IE is evil.
It's like driving a Lada, a car manufactured by the Godless Communists.
Come to think of it, this whole idea of open source has communist roots...
everything is connected!
Stat.
Communisim isn't bad an evil concept... just most of the implementations
we've witnessed in history have been failures due to corruption. The reward
system of open source is the software itself... If I create a bug-fix or new
feature for an open source application, that is my 'payment', if you will,
to the community that allows me to use and improve the software they've
collectivly created.
There are some major corporate backers of open source software these days,
most notably IBM, Novell and Intel... I would hardly call _them_ communists!
</rant>
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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| Title: Re: OT Re: Top 2005 Story |
01 Feb 2005 09:08:22 PM |
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Aidan wrote:
8<
Communisim isn't bad an evil concept... just most of the implementations
we've witnessed in history have been failures due to corruption. The reward
system of open source is the software itself... If I create a bug-fix or new
feature for an open source application, that is my 'payment', if you will,
to the community that allows me to use and improve the software they've
collectivly created.
Open source has its place, I use FF & TB gladly... however, open source
Nazi's would be the first against the wall come my revolution.
What I mean by that is the attitude that commercial = evil. Everything
should be free... and if not then we'll damn well pirate it.
There are some major corporate backers of open source software these days,
most notably IBM, Novell and Intel... I would hardly call _them_ communists!
Pragmatism I'd say, they know it won't go away and it can damage those
competitors who persist with commercial equivalents.
Taken to it's logical conclusion, OS would only leave niche and bespoke
coders gainfully employed.
-A
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| User: "Aidan" |
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| Title: Re: OT Re: Top 2005 Story |
01 Feb 2005 11:25:18 PM |
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"Absolute Zero" <amycaton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Open source has its place, I use FF & TB gladly... however, open source
Nazi's would be the first against the wall come my revolution.
What I mean by that is the attitude that commercial = evil. Everything
should be free... and if not then we'll damn well pirate it.
I agree, that kind of "if it aint free, I'll steal it" mentality does plague
certain fragments of the FOSS community...
But, when _I_ say free, I'm talking about it in the sense of 'libre', not
'gratis'... while zero cost software makes me happy, I don't mind having to
pay for quality software, regardless of the license attached... though
having the option to modify the program's code is a big plus when comparing
2 competing products... Though by all means, not all open source software
is non-comercial, just look at Redhat... their stock price is amazing, given
their whole business revolves around a software technology they don't
control.
There are some major corporate backers of open source software these
days, most notably IBM, Novell and Intel... I would hardly call _them_
communists!
Pragmatism I'd say, they know it won't go away and it can damage those
competitors who persist with commercial equivalents.
Taken to it's logical conclusion, OS would only leave niche and bespoke
coders gainfully employed.
Well, Redhat employs many programmer's and all of what they produce, as far
as the Linux kernel is concerned, is usable by other companies, like IBM and
Novell, who abide by the GPL...
To be honest, I can't extrapolate a logical conclusion for OS... simply
because nothing like it had existed until the GPL came along (BSD is a type
of open source licence, but it was the GPL that ignited the current
revolution we're seeing)... But just think, if scientists of the 19th
century (and before) had kept their discoveries and ideas secret, in the
same fashion that proprietry software companies do with their code today,
would computers, or telephones or cars exist today? I would guess probably
not... at least not as commodities
The way I see it, the IT industry is headed in 1 of 2 directions:
- the MS way: hardware will be as good as free, software will be what you
pay for
- the IBM way: software will be as good as free, hardware will be what you
pay for
IMO, the only logical option is the IBM way... because one day, in the
distant future, the only software that will need to be written from scratch
will be games. In an IBM future, programmers will have a vast pool of open
libraries on which to base thier programs. In an MS future, you will need a
license to use an "if{}" statment in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script.
Software Communism vs. Software Dictatorship... I know which one I choose...
</rant>
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| User: "MonsieurStat" |
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| Title: Re: OT Re: Top 2005 Story |
02 Feb 2005 06:25:56 PM |
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Aidan wrote:
"Absolute Zero" <amycaton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ctpg45$ddm$8@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
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Open source has its place, I use FF & TB gladly... however, open source
Nazi's would be the first against the wall come my revolution.
What I mean by that is the attitude that commercial = evil. Everything
should be free... and if not then we'll damn well pirate it.
I agree, that kind of "if it aint free, I'll steal it" mentality does plague
certain fragments of the FOSS community...
But, when _I_ say free, I'm talking about it in the sense of 'libre', not
'gratis'... while zero cost software makes me happy, I don't mind having to
pay for quality software, regardless of the license attached... though
having the option to modify the program's code is a big plus when comparing
2 competing products... Though by all means, not all open source software
is non-comercial, just look at Redhat... their stock price is amazing, given
their whole business revolves around a software technology they don't
control.
There are some major corporate backers of open source software these
days, most notably IBM, Novell and Intel... I would hardly call _them_
communists!
Pragmatism I'd say, they know it won't go away and it can damage those
competitors who persist with commercial equivalents.
Taken to it's logical conclusion, OS would only leave niche and bespoke
coders gainfully employed.
Well, Redhat employs many programmer's and all of what they produce, as far
as the Linux kernel is concerned, is usable by other companies, like IBM and
Novell, who abide by the GPL...
To be honest, I can't extrapolate a logical conclusion for OS... simply
because nothing like it had existed until the GPL came along (BSD is a type
of open source licence, but it was the GPL that ignited the current
revolution we're seeing)... But just think, if scientists of the 19th
century (and before) had kept their discoveries and ideas secret, in the
same fashion that proprietry software companies do with their code today,
would computers, or telephones or cars exist today? I would guess probably
not... at least not as commodities
The way I see it, the IT industry is headed in 1 of 2 directions:
- the MS way: hardware will be as good as free, software will be what you
pay for
- the IBM way: software will be as good as free, hardware will be what you
pay for
IMO, the only logical option is the IBM way... because one day, in the
distant future, the only software that will need to be written from scratch
will be games. In an IBM future, programmers will have a vast pool of open
libraries on which to base thier programs. In an MS future, you will need a
license to use an "if{}" statment in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script.
Software Communism vs. Software Dictatorship... I know which one I choose...
That's a very prolific analogy of the actual situation, and a very
accurate one, I might add. If computer industry follows what happened in
politics, Dictatorship will be the ultimate victor. There is however
another angle to all of this, and that is what will happen to the
content. After all, the whole of computer industry, both hardware and
software revolves around processing information. Text, image, sound,
video.... all this stuff that contains some kind of information needs
software and hardware to be used. There is a lot of information
available for free now, but tons of it is already only available through
paid services. And as we move forward, we see more and more content
having a price tag attached to it. So perhaps at some point, we will see
the price of software and hardware included right into content. You want
to see/read/hear something, you just pay for it. The content providers
will pay a commission to the hardware/software companies who will be
acting as vehicles between content providers and content consumers. Good
old capitalism in action!
Stat.
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| User: "Marvin The Paranoid Android" |
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| Title: Re: Top 2005 Story |
01 Feb 2005 06:14:21 AM |
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MonsieurStat wrote:
Aidan wrote:
"Marvin The Paranoid Android" <marvin@heartofgold.com> wrote in
message news:1107217187.7bf45ff9164091e1ca7e3992e719cbc4@teranews...
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words
is stretched and blurred too.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
I dunno... should we tell him that his site only works with IE?
Firefox show me an ugly looking, misaligned heap of links and text.
Yeah, Michael is shitty at everything... but I am not sure if this
multiple browser thing surfacing up again is a good thing. I had Firefox
beta on my computer about 6-7 months before version 1 came out. Used it
from time to time, but went back to IE after a little while. The feel
just wasn't there. When version 1 came out, I figured give it a shot
again. Installed it the first week that it was out. Same thing... tried
it for a while, went back to IE, tried again, back to IE... Firefox has
a cold feel to it. Kind of like Netscape, but even colder. It's like
driving a Lada, a car manufactured by the Godless Communists. Come to
think of it, this whole idea of open source has communist roots...
everything is connected!
Stat.
Try Opera ... it's got 'mouse-gestures' for the truly lazy surfer. And
it's a bit warmer IMO.
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| User: "Marvin The Paranoid Android" |
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| Title: Re: Top 2005 Story |
31 Jan 2005 09:25:44 PM |
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Aidan wrote:
"Marvin The Paranoid Android" <marvin@heartofgold.com> wrote in message
news:1107217187.7bf45ff9164091e1ca7e3992e719cbc4@teranews...
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words is
stretched and blurred too.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
I dunno... should we tell him that his site only works with IE? Firefox
show me an ugly looking, misaligned heap of links and text.
I was about to suggest he start previewing in alternative browsers ...
You used MS frontpage to create the site, didn't you Michael? As a
web-developer, it makes me laugh when I see how shittily you've presented
your "stories"... is this a part of the overall effect your aiming for? A
parody site, making fun of the right-wing of America by trying to present
"Evangelistican" stories inside a fucking shambles of HTML templates?
<evil laugh> Devilishly clever!!
Actually, *my* latest favs are TSW Webcoder and Site Spinner ... the
latter the wifey uses 'cause it's drag'n'drop but it's all done with CSS
.... so pixel-perfect-precision and layers too! WebCoder's great for hand
coding, php, etc ...
That's the impression I get at least... LOL!
I think it's a great site!
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| User: "Aidan" |
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31 Jan 2005 10:35:48 PM |
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"Marvin The Paranoid Android" <marvin@heartofgold.com> wrote in message
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Actually, *my* latest favs are TSW Webcoder and Site Spinner ... the
latter the wifey uses 'cause it's drag'n'drop but it's all done with CSS
... so pixel-perfect-precision and layers too! WebCoder's great for hand
coding, php, etc ...
WOW, TSW Webcoder is awesome! Thanks for putting me on to it ;-)
Before this I just used vi or PFE... this is exactly the kind of Web-dev IDE
I've been looking for...
Cheers!
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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01 Feb 2005 02:46:47 AM |
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Aidan wrote:
"Marvin The Paranoid Android" <marvin@heartofgold.com> wrote in message
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Actually, *my* latest favs are TSW Webcoder and Site Spinner ... the
latter the wifey uses 'cause it's drag'n'drop but it's all done with CSS
... so pixel-perfect-precision and layers too! WebCoder's great for hand
coding, php, etc ...
WOW, TSW Webcoder is awesome! Thanks for putting me on to it ;-)
Before this I just used vi or PFE... this is exactly the kind of Web-dev IDE
I've been looking for...
OMG! vi <= shudder
-A
Cheers!
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| User: "Aidan" |
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31 Jan 2005 09:14:28 PM |
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Quite sure this was generated in MS Frontpage...
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelreport.com%2F
700+ HTML validation erorrs... nice work Michael... not
"Aidan" <nospam.aweraw@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:newscache$t5q7bi$kf2$1@titan.linknet.com.au...
"Marvin The Paranoid Android" <marvin@heartofgold.com> wrote in message
news:1107217187.7bf45ff9164091e1ca7e3992e719cbc4@teranews...
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words is
stretched and blurred too.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
I dunno... should we tell him that his site only works with IE? Firefox
show me an ugly looking, misaligned heap of links and text.
You used MS frontpage to create the site, didn't you Michael? As a
web-developer, it makes me laugh when I see how shittily you've presented
your "stories"... is this a part of the overall effect your aiming for?
A parody site, making fun of the right-wing of America by trying to
present "Evangelistican" stories inside a fucking shambles of HTML
templates?
That's the impression I get at least... LOL!
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| User: "Michael Johnathan McDonald" |
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| Title: Re: Top 2005 Story |
31 Jan 2005 08:26:53 PM |
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Marvin The Paranoid Android wrote:
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
I didn't mess it up - I only formed it this way to ***** with your
(And only you) head - like it? ;) Now that was self concerting. Eh?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
Everything but the kitchen sink.
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words
is
stretched and blurred too.
No they are not - that is your tri-focals, ya know, out of focus -
better get them checked. ;) he he.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
Are you impersonating Tony now on other threads?
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| User: "Nonsequiturlexa" |
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31 Jan 2005 10:15:05 PM |
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Subject: Re: Top 2005 Story
From: "Michael Johnathan McDonald"
Date: 1/31/2005 6:26 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: <1107224813.700379.235240@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Marvin The Paranoid Android wrote:
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
I didn't mess it up - I only formed it this way to ***** with your
(And only you) head - like it? ;) Now that was self concerting. Eh?
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
Everything but the kitchen sink.
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words
is
stretched and blurred too.
No they are not - that is your tri-focals, ya know, out of focus -
better get them checked. ;) he he.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
Are you impersonating Tony now on other threads?
Mind blaster for sure! Your site has the
perfect everything. All hail the top story of 2005. Of course though 2005
ain't to far into itself yet - either.
Tangents are infinite in all of natures
universes constantly and at random.
*D OUOSVAVV M*
*NONSEQUITURLEXA*
*PUBLIUS ENIGMA*
Oh Joy!
The Psychedelic Pope
Patron Saint of the Internet
http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/me/
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| User: "Marvin The Paranoid Android" |
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31 Jan 2005 09:03:17 PM |
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Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
Marvin The Paranoid Android wrote:
Michael Johnathan McDonald wrote:
http://www.michaelreport.com/
How did you mess up the banner at the top?
I didn't mess it up - I only formed it this way to ***** with your
(And only you) head - like it? ;) Now that was self concerting. Eh?
Uh ... yeah ...
What are you using for a graphics program(s)?
Everything but the kitchen sink.
There's a new version of The GiMP out ... ver. 2.2 I think. It's *free*.
*Much* easier to use then earlier versions. I don't know what you've
already paid for, but this would be something you might be interested in
checking out. As a somewhat experienced Photoshopper, I highly recommend
it.
IMO, too busy. Reduce the number of colours and move the drop shadow
closer if you want to keep it. The last letter on each of the words
is
stretched and blurred too.
No they are not - that is your tri-focals, ya know, out of focus -
better get them checked. ;) he he.
The quad-focals are fine ... and I don't think it's Opera fucking it up
either. The lettering is 'smudged' dude.
Without a doubt, I'd say that's the top story on your site.
Are you impersonating Tony now on other threads?
What threads??? :)
The 'itwill@happen.com' posts are his ... he's been in my kill-file
until he changed that ... was he in yours too??
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