WCEXO

First of all, I would like to say that, I absolutely hate the way that Windows Live Spaces is setup. Before, what would happen is that you have an “admin page” where you see all your settings and stuff, allowing you to move your modules around, so who commented and a good summary of your blogs. Now you have this gay page showing you comments and people on your contact list who’ve recently updated their blogs. Personally, I’d be more interested seeing my blog summary so I can easily, edit, view them. Now a days, I have to make significantly more clicks to what would be relatively simple task.

Ever since I made my blog open again, people land on my blog through unusual ways…here are some recent searches people have made.

Big Brother and Kids?

Pizza Hut

Do a search for “wcexo” and you’ll be search to find my blog amongst the search results

Also…check out this blog I made in the past with the most hilarious search ever…

Hilarious Search

I’ll be posting whatever interesting searches I can find here.

Information Systems (ISYS) reminds me of Economics in High School. Ton of information, lots of fancy words to describe something rather “obvious”. If you were to carefully sit down and think about it, it all makes sense but in order for you to put it into fancy words and actually remembering all of the crap can be a problem.

I’ve spent more time studying for ISYS than I have for any other subject…and the biggest problem is that…I haven’t studied that much for it. Most of the time I would sit down and try and study for it…but end up wandering else where on the internet. It’s so boring.

By the looks of things, once ISYS is complete I can finally focus on other subjects. Databases seems like a last minute crammage, since it’s the day after ISYS. I’ll probably, study Maths all day after Databases, and then followed by some C on Friday, followed by Maths and C on Saturday and then C on Sunday. That’s how I like to plan it out but it never works out

*sigh*

I would like a Distinction Average, hoping for a HD average, I haven’t failed any assessments thus far. Using a bit of unix and spreadsheeting skills, I’m ranked 16th in Maths at the moment, out of like 28 people in advanced or around 150 if you include everybody in normal.

I have some plans for after the exams, mainly spending time with you-know-who, catching up with friends and working on my website. I’m thinking of using PHP, mysql, ajax to make it. Going to design a system that replaces this current blog. I’ve also worked out a method to “alert” people on my contact list of any updates to my new site.

What I can do is whenever I submit a new post on the new website, it’ll automatically send an email to “this blog” which will automatically publish an entry linking to the entry on my new website. That way, people will see the shiny star, click on it, visit my blog, and see the link to my site and yeah…you get the idea.

I’ll have 4 weeks to design, code and implement it…hopefully it’ll be enough. I’m also thinking of designing a Photo Album system where it’ll fetch thumbnails directly off Google Photos, and then once clicked it’ll enlarge the photo on the screen ajax style allowing you to traverse back and forth. It’ll save space as the images would be hosted by Google and it’ll also be extremely fast to load since that will also be hosted by Google. But everything is still conceptual, hopefully I can get a working prototype going.

I should go study now. Ciao.

I have a thought. Why do people put links in their WLM names? Or better yet…why do they put it in their PMSG?

Actually, I don’t mind links that much, but I guess the question I’m really asking is…why do people put youtube links or any links where the url is defined through a hash in their nicknames/personal message.

For the people that place it in their nickname:

1. Your nickname does NOT need to be longer
2. Nobody wants to see a line of underlined blue every time you send a message
3. You do realise that people will have to:
   a) Start a convo with you to copy/paste the link
   b) “Rename” your nickname in order to copy/paste the link
4. If you want to let everybody know of this website…just send it to the people you think that care…

For the people that place it in their personal message:

1. Are you aware that it’s not possible to click on the link?
2. Are you aware that only those bored out of the friggin minds will bother typing it into their browser?
3. Are you aware that it’s not really a “personal message”?

Thankfully, with Messenger Plus! Live you can easily open urls in nicknames/pmsg by using the “open url” function.

On a side note, I actually enjoy opening random links people put in their nicknames/pmsg I just don’t know if they understand that the number of people actually opening them is extremely low.