Do you know ACDSEE?

Well, it's exactly what I'm looking for in an image viewer.. except for that crashes on certain image files (typically images people send me in IRC), and it's a nagging shareware, too.

So I need a different image viewer. My requirements aren't too tough. Here they are:

1. When I see one image, it'll let me move to the next or previous in the directory by pressing on PgUp or PgDn. (yes, very simple, but the image viewers I found don't do that!)
2. Will let you easily pan through images using the arrow keys (it'll continue panning until I release the key
3. Will have zoom-in/zoom-out keys.
4. Will support JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP. There are many other formats but they are less important.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Update (23.03.2003): This journal entry sucks.

Following my previous post about the NJ Turnpike, today the first Israeli toll road, Road no. 6 (also known as the cross-Israel road), was opened (it'll be free for the first few weeks).

I haven't used this road yet, but I read about it, and it's much more advanced than most of the other toll roads in the world. Unlike all the other toll roads, like A1 in Italy or the NJ Turnpike (besides of road 407 near Toronto, Canada), you don't have those toll booths where you have to stop and pay - even if you're not subscribed. The video camera takes a picture of the license plate, and the bill gets sent to your house. You don't even have to slow down.

Everything in the road is computerized. This way you can have automatic traffic reports and other stuff like that. The allowed speed is 110km/h (68.3mph), but probably the police won't stop drivers who drive up to 125km/h. :)

Now.. if they only bothered to do something about public transportation around here (eg. subways)..

If you know Hebrew, you can read more about the road here.

Hello all.

Do you know the New Jersey Turnpike?

It sucks ass!

Such an ugly, slow and boring road.. like, who would want to travel to NJ anyway? The only people who go there are Kevin Smith fans, or people who want to get the fuck out of that area (the Newark airport). And yet, it's a toll road. Does it makes any sense?

If anyone wants to fly to NYC, I'd recommend to avoid Newark and fly to the JFK airport instead. That way, you can also get into NYC with the subway (which costs 1.5$) instead of using the port authority bus (11$)

Btw: The Anime Web Turnpike sucks too.

Update (23.03.2003): So why did I write this useless journal entry? Because I encountered the word "turnpike" before, but I never knew what it is and didn't bother to check since I hated that word, and when I finally saw what turnpike is, I decided that my hatred towards this word was justified.

After seeing that this movie was mentioned here, I decided that it's good enough for renting, and I was so diasppointed!

The movie is about.. cubicle life, with all of its little annoyances. It tells about the hero, Peter, who starts off as a bitter worker ("Every day in my life is worse than the previous one, so today is the worst day in my life") but he gains some sort of hypnotic experience which causes him to change his attitude and enjoy instead of suffer (by ignoring his bosses and stuff like that). It starts as an interesting movie, as many movies do, but after a while (when Peter starts with the scam) it just becomes annoying, mostly because of the rap parts. Don't they know that I don't like hip-hop?

Besides, the characters aren't very interesting, not to mention that I don't identify with any of them. They obviously need a better script.

Also, the character who appears on the cover of the DVD, Milton, only gets a minor role. Apparantly he's a character from an animation series with the same name.

Here's an even worse review for this movie, by our hero Jon Katz. (For example, he wrote that Peter threw fish guts all over the office, while Peter threw those guts only on the T.P.S reports)

And here's a added bonus for my frequent readers: 10 most used sentences in movie trailers, courtesy of the movie reviews site named Ein Hadag:

• In a world where..
• She will take your heart
• X had everything he ever wanted...
• Two unlikely heroes
• An adventure which will change their lives forever
• And now, one man must...
• will make you fall in love again.
• A chance of once in a lifetime
• Get ready for a story you've never seen before
• A story about courage.. friendship..

Why do I receive this error when I try to post comments - even if I try to write in my own journal?

Is it because I have BankOfAmerica_ATM in my friends list?
Is it because I widened my journal?
Is it because they turned on my $troll flag?

Anyway, I resent that! .....

Update: It was because I tested to see if some open proxy works, and forgot about it. Apparantly that proxy got banned. I returned to the my usual ISP proxy and now everything is fine again.

Hello all.

Do you know Sarit Hadad?

She's the girl who represented Israel in the Eurovision with the song "Light a candle" (12th place), and now, when the radios play over and over her song "You're a cannon", I believe we're close than ever to declare her as a national disaster.

She represents the non-sophisticated elements of our culture (yea. every cultue has ones). I believe she's a bad person, too, because she enjoys singing rejection songs (like "Yalla go home Motty").

So enough of her! Okay?
(I wouldn't mind sleeping with her, though)

Hi all!

Last time I asked for a girlfriend here, I was overwhelmed by the results. Even ANNE MARIE answered. So many results in so little time (unfortunately I can't hear Anne anymore.. and neither Lunar82, who suggested me to go to the library).

In order to make it simpler for you and me, I'll write here what kind of person I'm looking for, so I'll get more relevant results from the hundreds upon hundreds of chicks we have in this place that we're so proud about.

So I'm looking for a girl who have one or more of the following qualities (unfortunately no person can have all of them). Have a look:

• Good person. Just like me.
• Creative/artistic like GirlLovingTheVibe or Jin Wicked.
• Computer literate, like Geek Girl.
• Enjoys contact - it's important, isn't it?
• Redhead. Readheads are so cute, like Willow (is that her natural hair color? Well she's cute nonetheless) and Miranda.
• Sci-fi lover so we can read together.
• Dancer - it adds a lot to my attraction, at least in most cases. :)

Note: All the girls I linked here are either too far from me or aren't single. That's why I'm not hitting on them.

And here's what I'm not looking for:

• Hairy - if you're a girl, take off your shirt and go to the mirror. Do you see any hairs? If you do, then remove them for god's sake! I can't understand how can a girl see such a thing without doing something about it (I haven't slept with such hairy girls, but I saw girls like that on the beach..)
• Bad person - and you know what I mean. I need a girl who will be there for me.
• Overweight. Unless you look like her .
• Over-sarcastic, or just a girl who doesn't care.
• Passive - don't leave all the job of love to me.
• Religious - unless your religion supports sex before marriage.

Now, I'm not being too demanding, right? Can't wait to see you then! :)

Hi all!

Do you know $carab?

He's an evil terrorist!

I was happily writing in his journal, and then suddenly he demanded me to stop writing there because I'm writing from Israel (also known as 972 or region 2:40).

Isn't that NASTY? Instead of supporting peace, he wants war and evilness all around. Unfortunately, that's the problem of many arabs - especially the PA officials - they are powered by hatred, and enjoy when people get killed. They are happy when their people get killed, too, because it increases the rage and they can post pictures of it like they do. So, instead of trying to reduce the suffering, they encourage people to throw stones on the soldiers who guard the borders, thus increasing the casualties.

After writing on his journal, I suddeny started receiving racist AC messages like this and that. I believe that it's $carab's doings.

On one hand, I enjoy getting messages like that, since I love attention (no matter if positive or negative). On the other hand, $carab must be a terrorist because he wanted me out of his journal. So guys, help me and tell him that he's stupid and evil and must have his brain repaired!

Thank you.

UPDATE: Seems that $carab, in a miserable attempt to defend himself, replied to this journal as an AC. The result is very funny. :)

Homepage configruation

First of all, the date. For some reason the default date display doesn't show the YEAR, which can be very annoying, especially when you're running a search. So change it to something with the year.

Enable the Collapse subsections option. There are several sections on slashdot (bsd, apple, ask slashdot etc) and sometimes stories are posted in those sections but not on the main page. If you enable this option, you'll be able to see some more slashdot stories which get a little coverage usually, and might be quite interesting.

The Slashbox can be quite useful. You place HTML code there, and it shows up on the main page and also on the stories page. The only problem is that you're limited on characters.
You can put even an IMG tag there, in order to see a webcam, for example.

Here's what I placed there:
My Journals Other's journals Messages Logout

Notice the "Other's journals" link. It's the list of all the recent 30 journals people posted. It's useful if you're very bored at work and slashdot doesn't have any interesting new stories.

Comments section

Only one thing which isn't obvious here: (Default) comment post mode. Change it to "Plain Old Text". I don't know if people are aware that you can use HTML codes on "Plain Old Text" too (unlike in Kuro5hin), so for 95% of the cases, it's better that way. I believe that posting in HTML mode is necessary only if you use the OL, UL or BLOCKQUOTE tags, or if you want more than one blank line between paragraphs.

Message section .

The messages are useful too, and you should use them too. However, it isn't mentioned anywhere that slashdot will not store more than 50 messages for you, so if you're getting a lot of messages and you don't want to lose the notifications, you should tell slashdot to send the notifications via email (or just delete them all the time).
Update: Seems now that slashdot does store more than 50 messages. Go figure.

That's all. Feel free to post more un-productivity tips here.

(Inspired from this entry by JTS; Ofcourse, this is a true story, too)

There's that girl that I know for a long time. She had a boyfriend for over a year, but they broke up. I didn't like their relationship anyway - it wasn't an honest one.

So.. we had a friendship-only relationship (going out to cafes or movies and stuff like that), but I wanted more. She always attracted me.. and after a while, I decided that I can't go on like this, because we didn't have a lot to talk about, and I didn't know what she was wanting from me, as it seemed that we both were existing in different phases and communicated using different frequencies (the biggest problem was that she wasn't showing a lot of interest in what I was telling her).

I decided to make a drastic move, which could either cause her to stop talking to me, or result in an upgrade of our relationship, if you know what I mean. :)

I knew she would call me sooner or later, because she cancelled a previous date we were supposed to have. So, yesterday she did call me. Our conversation went something like that:

- (she) Do you want to do something tonight?
- (me) I don't feel like going out today..
- Well, we don't have to go out. We can watch a DVD at your place. You know, I have a birthday tomorrow.
- Okay, but I want to tell you something.
- What?
- I am really attracted to you. It's really hard for me to see you without doing anything about it.

She was shocked.

- I love you as a friend.. I mean.. .. . . it might ruin everything.
- Not at all! This whole thing will add a new dimension to our relationship.. if you could only let me do something like.. letting me put my hand under your shirt..
- It's weird to hear you talking like that. You want to see my bosom? I never knew..
- Will you let me?
- No.
- Well, it's a pity. I mean.. It could be so nice.
- (decisive staccato) No.
- Oh well.
- So, are we doing anything tonight?
- Will you let me to put my hand under your shirt?
- We'll see how it evolves.

So I took the DVD of Amelie (full name: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Pulain; Region 2 DVD with Hebrew/English subtitles - nicely shaded.. usually DVD subtitles are ugly), and took her to my place. But before I pressed "play", I told her:

"So... what are we doing about what we talked earlier?"
She went all red (it looked quite cute.. I don't remember anytime causing someone to blush like that) and tried to resist a bit, but eventually she allowed me to do that.. and then we started watching the movie, while I was holding her hand, and soon I started making out with her.. we didn't reach 1/3 of the movie before I took her to my bed.

It was so lovely.. I wonder when we do that again. :)

Hi guys. Guess what?
I'm back and good as ever!
Now I have, once again, time to write various stuff here, mostly for my catharsis. It has been a taugh 13 days (was supposed to be 14, but I blew it and resumed writing in the wrong day).

Have you missed me?

It was heartwarming to see the messages you wrote me while I was gone.. especially CKW's messages, who proved me he's not ignoring me as he promised. Yes darling, I know you missed me too. :)

So, I hope you're happy. Great additional journal entries are ahead (and I really mean it, unlike Napster).

Since the addition of journals and friends, I have became addicted to slashdot. It's so fun, messing with the options, searching for other people's journals and writing in them.

But the result is a big time waste. And I'm really sick of it. It's time to throw some discipline around here. Therefore, I announce that No slashdot output will be emitted from me for a period of 2 weeks, starting today (ending at 21apr2002).

Thank you people. I love you too.

I've spotted The WIPO Troll in No More Trolls' foes list, and found him to be a remarkably entertaining troll.

I liked the formality of his troll posts and his crazyness. He was funny, unlike most of the trolls here. But there was also the dark side.. while Slashdot has some sort of protection against trolls, many other sites are not, and their are very vulnureable to mass-floods, and WIPO didn't care about that when he flooded them

So, I'm not sure if I still like him or not. I want him back, but only if he won't flood other sites. Unfortunately, this isn't going to be too easy, since the guy killed his textual entity, and I'm not sure he wants to resurrect it.

You can read more about the troll here. (Is J'raxis the WIPO troll?)

Welcome, once again, to my pulpit! Today, I'm going to positively preach you about honesty, bad people and me.

In his recent journal entry, CKW tries to devalue my contribution to Slashdot by bringing a series of my quotes (he did update his article without telling, which is highliy unethical. There was the link to my message to Anne Marie, but he erased it for some reason). One of my friends said that this journal entry is hilarious, but CKW can't do anything funny by himself, because he's full of hatred - the reason that entry was funny is that it contains my quotes (btw: I am not an immigrant, and neither my parents).

Anyway, I do stand back behind all of the quotes (although I love Jamie less, since he doesn't do anything about Klerck's Page Widening Posts). People may say I'm a loser, and I don't really care - on the contrary! I want to tell everyone about my life. That's one of the reasons I'm here, no?

I try to make my comments and journals interesting by honestly telling various information about myself. Sometimes it's internal material (like how I have to fight with civilization), and I'm sure many other people experience the same - only that not many of them write about that, because they are afraid that bad people like CKW will call them "insipid" or "loser".

I do not mind what bad people think, and I even go further - I want to help those bad people and turn them into good people. That's why I've taken on myself the task of educating CKW, and I'm sure that even if he suffers from it, he'll be thanking me with all of his heart once he turns to the path of being a good person.

Thank you for listening.

- Metrollica?
- Yes, CKW?
- How are you?
- I'm fine.
- Yes, I'm fine too. I read a new book which you might find interesting. It explains in length about the influence of metal bands and their impact on the teen behavior.
- Good for you.
- Uhmm.. sir?
- ...yes, CKW?
- I was wondering, can we.. like.. meet and have sex?
- No.

Yes. Life is hard for CKW. Ever since he inflitrated into the land of infinite choices, in a stinking truck full of special imported monkeys, he can't find his place in this new society.

Life was much easier to him when he lived in the small Chinese village and worked as an animal feeder in the zoo, and that way he could fulfill all his bestial fantasies.. he lived so happily, until one day, they found out about his doings and fired him, so he had to escape. However, he couldn't find a similar job in the US. He failed in all of his interviews because the animals were so scared of him.

And even worse, he can't even find people to talk with here. He tried everything, from chatting with the people in the burrito buffets, through entering libraries and attempting to engage in conversations with the cute little girls in the library of Chinatown in SF.. getting drunk and singing in the karaoke pubs of LA.. hitting on the waitresses and waiters.. and talking with the other homeless people in the soup kitchen. Unfortunately, most of the people around him don't regard him, the balding four-eyed man with the high vocabulary, as an interesting person.

Lately he found Slashdot. At first, it was great for him. He finally found a place where people will respond to all the stuff he writes. But after a while he got fed up with it. Textual communication with people is nice and all, but there's more to his puny life than this - he's sick of masturbating.

So he got an idea! He'll hit on the trolls. He loves animals more than humans, and making love to a troll sounds exteremely kinky to him.

That troll, Metrollica, seems to be a prefered target from his point of view. He saw how that person curses and decided that he wants Metrollica inside him.

In order to make this wish come true, he started showing Metrollica that he's a slave for him, by praising him whenever possible and calling him "sir". However, Metrollica isn't very excited from it. He will have to try other ways to get Metrollica to bed with him. Will he make it? Currently, the future doesn't look so bright...

- Metrollica?
- YES, CKW?
- I wanted to ask.. what do you want me to do in order for you to like me more? I'm very interested in our mutual friendship.
- Will you let go of me already? Go troll in Slashdot.
- But sir, I don't get an erection from that anymore.
- So why won't you have sex with Klerck?
- You know he loves widening things, and I care too much about my rectum. I want to reserve it for you.
- That's too bad.
- Don't you appreciate the way I write to you? You know how I troll most of the time, but when I talk to you, I write in the most insightful way possible. Did you like my reply to you about the Chinese hegemony?
- Are you talking about this thread?
- Yes! Yes! Isn't it nice?
- It wasn't even my post, you idiot!