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man your page is badly written you cannt read the whole of the left had side on most browsers so its kinda stupid
So, can you read it? I tested the design on IE, Firefox and Opera and it seemed ok to me. Perhaps this ‘gus’ is living in the mid-90’s and has his screen set at 800×600. If this is the case then I pity him, and admit that I deliberately excluded him by absolutely setting the site width to 880 pixels. He probably gets headaches from his 60Hz refresh rate.
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Written on 03 February 2005
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A little over five years ago, when I lived in Lane Cove with Jai, we came across some graffiti written in the footpath. It says “Lane Cove Sux”. Having a new digital camera, I took a photo that included Jai.
This photo has become quite popular on some forums, including kissmyknees and soosed.
from this soosed post in the “Girl Next Door” thread:
This is a GND Public Service Announcement
Girls next door, when you binge drink, shoot heroin, snort coke, free base, or smoke pot
bring your camera along and take lots of pictures.
We want them here up here in the GND.
LOLF!
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From time to time I check out my logs and am often surprised to see the things for which Google perceives me as an authority. Some of the latest:
If I suddenly disappear, it is because echelon has found the reator hit and I have been arrested for terrorism.
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Written on 02 December 2004
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I thought GDI+ was supposed to be good. I am sure that it is better than whatever came before, but as far as I can tell its JPEG encoding is poor. Consider the following code, which creates a BMP format file from a System.Drawing.Image:
System.Drawing.Image myImage = thumbnail( afileName ); //makes the image
ImageCodecInfo myImageCodecInfo;
myImageCodecInfo = GetEncoderInfo( “image/bmp” );//bmp so uncompressed
EncoderParameters eps = new EncoderParameters(1);
eps.Param[0] = new EncoderParameter( Encoder.Quality, 100L );//don’t really use this as bmp
myImage.Save( ( thisDir + “admin\\zip\\” + thumbName ), myImageCodecInfo, eps );
The following code uses GDI+ to produce a JPEG file of the same image, at “100%” Quality.
System.Drawing.Image myImage = thumbnail( afileName ); //makes the image
ImageCodecInfo myImageCodecInfo;
myImageCodecInfo = GetEncoderInfo( “image/jpeg” );//jpg so compressed
EncoderParameters eps = new EncoderParameters(1);
eps.Param[0] = new EncoderParameter( Encoder.Quality, 100L );//this is 100% quality!
myImage.Save( ( thisDir + “admin\\zip\\” + thumbName ), myImageCodecInfo, eps );
| GDI+ BMP Image |
GDI+ JPEG 100% |
Photoshop JPEG 80% |
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The problem with my example above is that the browser renders them quite similarly. It is still easy to tell that the middle one is of the poorest quality, but the difference is not so pronounced. Download the images and view them in your favourite viewer, or compare these 400% zooms of a portion of the BMP and JPEG images:
| GDI+ BMP |
GDI+ JPEG |
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That is NOT 100% Quality, in my book.
So the call is going out to all the real developers out there. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way? Comments please.
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Network Solutions have once again fucked me over. I am now waiting the eight days necessary to transfer registrar to register.com who provide a much faster and cheaper service. I am taking this opportunity to change hosts as well, and my domains will be hosted by turbohost from now onwards.
I am still looking for a job, the market has dropped out completely for IT people and I know that I am not the only one to feel the pinch. If you are in a position to hire excellent employees, check out my resume. Otherwise, just send donations to me at the address listed in contacts 
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Reachin Records I have removed an offending item from the archive.
A referring article on another site has also been removed
It hasn’t been all bad - I discovered a bug in my 404 code that used relative rather than absolute URLs. This has now been fixed. Darryn.net is now stronger, yet less offensive.
Peace.
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Written on 07 May 2000
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XXXengine for total power. I have ditched the entry tunnel (the bit with orbiting darryn heads) because after looking at the logs I found that half my visitors thought that this page was the extent of the site. And they still told me it was ‘cool’. Sycophants.
In ‘real-world’ news, I resigned from my job today - I will be finished in two weeks. I might take a week off, and then go job-hunting crazy. Its not like IT jobs are hard to get ;-Þ
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SLUTBISCUIT filtered through today, so I had to remove as much stupidly offensive stuff as I could in a hurry. Go check it out. It is not funny. Unless you are an idiot (like me).
I have added links to the Shifty Website Paradox Ring websites in the contents bar. Click! Click! Click! I am very proud of the animated ‘Shifty website’ logo. I plan to use a version on all my sites. Shifty is the name I take as Craptain of [SCoJ] (the Shining Crowbar of Justice). Snotbiscuit.com is maintained by my evil sidekick, Spong (not to be confused with my alter ego ‘evil sp0ng’ of “Fuck You, Evil Sp0ng” fame). Hence the non-existence of any content. he is currently playing cs_facility (not as well as me).
I was unable to add anything to this site over the weekend, due to suffering extreme shock after visiting the Den of Cheese (aka the Cauldron) on Saturday night. Quite the contrast from Simon Caldwell’s groovy set at Chinese Laundry.
I have added a new character to darryn.net - ‘the gorgeous cath‘. Perhaps with her super skills she will be the winner of the Amazing Slutbiscuit Make-a-Logo Competition. There will be, like, a prize or something. For details, see the site.
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Written on 19 October 1999
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