BlackBolt's Journal: More Paranoid than ever.

I'm still not convinced that the multiplication of ads loaded due to the recent Slashdot code bugs isn't deliberate. Call me paranoid, but if Slashdot's making money from showing us ads, they're making 10x the money if they force us to cycle the page 10 times. And I often do, trying to preview successfully. I hope they fix that bug, maybe it's only in Mozilla, which is my preferred browser...

I've also noticed that I never get to meta-moderate any Apple-related stories. Why is that? I meta-mod every day, but I never (ever!) get any Apple-related stories (which are what I'm usually interested in). Weird. I wonder if Taco's got me pegged as an extremist... But, enough whining.

Cool desktop pictures here.

a fantastic opportunity.

Now that Google seems to be slowly turning to the Dark Side and is pretty darn mainstream, in order to be geek chic cool we need a hip new search engine. Any suggestions? How about Turbo10? Of course, I just popped over there and did a search for "Angelina Jolie", the first thing that popped in my head, for some reason ;-), and it came up with ONE result. ONE.

It's tough being on the bleeding edge of cool.

EDIT: It *was*, however, one very good Angelina Jolie site.

Try Firebird?

[bethanie]

I was having *huge* problems with /. using Mozilla, but when I got my new laptop last week, we downloaded Firebird instead. I am having almost NO problems now -- WTF?!

In any case, unless you're using all the other stuff packaged in with Mozilla, I recommend Firebird. It loads faster, and as a browser I can't see any difference -- except for the almost total absence of problems with /.

Nice theory, though -- certainly would explain why they're not in a hurry to fix it.

....Bethanie....

Re:Try Firebird?

[BlackBolt]

Thanks Bethanie, I'll try Firebird out tonight if I get a chance. I heard an announcement of some kind about it here on Slashdot, and made a mental note to try it out, but like always, it goes in one ear and out the other.... Je suis stupide.

Like a snail on a razor blade

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

A search for search engine returns 7 results... pretty bleeding edge.

Re: the ads - you know they're milking it for all it's worth.

the ads

[turg]

I'll bet most, if not all, of their advertisers pay per click-through rather than per impression.

Re:the ads

[BlackBolt]

Good point, turg. Of course, the more ads I see the more likely one is to tempt me to follow it, but you're right, during the preview bug I have I don't even look at them... probably no conspiracy, just a bug.