I resorted to install the demo of Arcade Reality on my Treo, 3 years after it started collecting dust. I saw it came out for the iPhone and I remembered how awesome this game was. Is it ridiculous to want an iPhone to be able to play a game with the camera?

“In 1808, two Frenchmen are said to have fought in balloons over Paris, each attempting to shoot and puncture the other’s balloon; one duelist is said to have been shot down and killed with his second.”

(source)

I really don’t know how this crap happens while I’m alone, so I guess I’ll have to blame it on divine intervention…

Am I the only one to still chuckle at ChuckNorrisFacts? Also, this is probably the first and last time “chuck norris” will appear as a tag on my blog.

I can’t help but laugh in silence when I scan 50 dollars worth of losing tickets for a customer. The most played lottery’s odds of winning a prize are of 1 in 32. Heh.

After a few years of playing with various kinds of code, I started to take a serious look into web development. It took me less than a few minutes to realize I absolutely had to know CSS to get going in the webdev world. Three months later I still don’t have a clue of whatever the fuck this language is up to. Let me get this straight: CSS is bad, very, very bad.

I wanted to do something pretty simple today: align a textbox in a square. That kind of stuff would be simple with any programming language, but with CSS, it’s a whole another thing. For some reason, the one language that holds the graphical web together performs awfully at laying out your shit. Don’t get me wrong, I know it can be done with a few hours of intensive research and trial-and-error, but it doesn’t simply work, and the web is ALL about laying things out.

CSS does not do simple things simply. A ridiculously simple design like mine (a textbox in a rounded rectangle centered in a page), 2 hours after I started trying, still isn’t working. I know I’m not an experienced coder, but shouldn’t centering stuff vertically be easy as pie? I don’t have to hack the shit out of my shoes to kick things with them, so why should I have to spend an hour on Google to center a fucking textbox?

What is wrong, I’d say, is that CSS is still playing with webpages expecting that websites are mostly text-based. In a world of shapes, colors and images, how can something akin to a document editor handle graphical user interfaces? Shouldn’t we already have something closer to coordinate-based layout as of 2009? It looks – at least to me – that it would be simple to create a website with Java/C++/Basic than with HTML and CSS. Making an executable that looks and acts the same as a webpage would take – what – a quarter of the time?

I recently installed Windows 7 RTM on my machine (a legit copy, mind you!) and there is a ridiculously crippling bug in Windows Explorer that doesn’t allow you to access your Computer folder.

What happens is that the Computer folder doesn’t show any drives and keeps searching for them for over 10 minutes everytime you open it. The green URL bar will not progress at all after some time and you still won’t be able to see your drives. However, you can access them from programs just fine.

The temporary solution is simple. Open a second Explorer window and then point it to the Computer folder and it will magically work. For some reason the second window will display it right.

Hopefully we’ll see an update that fixes that soon enough. That’s not the kind of bug that should be allowed on a freshly released operating system.