annoyance

I love my phone. But it sucks to use it while lying down, because no matter how I turn it, it tries to stay right-side-up. But I've figured out a coping mechanism. So here's how to use your iPhone while lying down in bed:

1. Lay down on your side.
2. Turn the iPhone on it's side, so it's actually usable.
3. Open Safari, or any other app that can't stay right-side-up.
4. Wait for the interface to turn all sideways and worthless.
5. Turn it so that the iPhone is completely upside-down. Most apps, Safari included, won't know what to do… so they'll freak out and stay in landscape mode.
6. Now the landscape mode is usable!

3.2 ghz core 2 duo
4 gb pc2-6400 ram
10,000 rpm sata hard drive

so why is iTunes still so incredibly slow?

My bank has the worst security for their online banking. Honest.

For years, the only security feature (if you can call it a feature) was the password: seven letters or less, alpha-numeric. You couldn't even use punctuation symbols.

I guess there was one other security feature: if you messed up your password three times, it would lock your account. Once locked, an account had to be reset by calling the bank during business hours and talking to a teller...

At some point the bank decided that this security was insufficient. But instead of improving their existing security (i.e. by letting me use a password of sufficient length), they decided to supplement it.

anyone who uses that stupid SnapShots plugin on their blog deserves to be Shot.

enough with the hookah. our house is hooked to yours. every time you light it up, our house starts to stink. as of the time of this post, the smell has wafted all the way to my bedroom at the other end of the house, and i already had a headache.

please.

don't make me tell your mom.

it's 7:00. i know this because my alarm clock is going off.

and i haven't been to bed yet.

i suck at this game.

in no particular order:

• congrats, myspace… you got one through adblock plus. the first ad i've seen on myspace in months.

• the light in my bathroom has had issues since i moved into this place… if it stayed on for more than ten or fifteen minutes, it would randomly turn off. then a minute or two later it would come back on. and then again. rinse and repeat. made for some interesting late night showers and bathroom visits. i always thought it was a wiring problem. but tonight i pulled off the globe to look at it. turns out the bulb is one of those helical florescents… bad ballast. makes perfect sense now. changed it out and now it works great.

• for some reason i never eat breakfast. maybe because it would be wasting a few precious minutes of sleep-in time. but i always feel like breakfast food late at night. especially after dancing. tonight i made biscuits and gravy and hash browns. and i keep picking at the cold remains of hash browns sitting on my desk. someone please take them away.

• who decided that table cells should use a <td> tag? <tr> i get. that's a row. <th> is a header. this makes sense… but <td>? wtf?

• one of these days i'm going to get a backlit keyboard… i don't mind using my keyboard in the dark so much, as long as i'm not trying to hit any of the odd keys. normal typing is fine. but print screen, or insert… i have to keep hitting those ones until i get it to do what i want.

• i just found out that a friend of mine has a job doing web design… doesn't even program it. he makes css and templates. raking in 50k a year. he's about to graduate in film and he has a job desiging web sites… while i'm working for chump change. forget this.

• i think i accomplish more between two and eight am than i do the during other eighteen hours of the day. unfortunately that's when normal people sleep. when do i sleep? sundays mostly.