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It’s just the way I are!
May 19th
So this morning I hopped on a train to work and began going through facebook on the iphone. I should probably stop doing this as it’s killing my data usage and I’m not even stalking remotely attractive looking girls!
Anyway, facebook brings a face to what would be trolls on internet forums. I read one post that aggravated me. It’s one of those “Look at me I’m posting something that most people would have seen anyway AND I’ll add my own obnoxious opinion about it!” Then of course you’d have the minions that follow that go “oh yes, this is so true”. Fuckers.
Basically, the feed was regarding Portugal and same-sex marriage. That’s fine. We’re in the 21st century, if a man could be forced to marry a goat, I don’t see why a man can’t marry another man or woman with another woman. Fair’s fair. I do, however, have a issue with the statement that came after “…congratulations to another country far more civilised than our own.”
Excuse me?
Whether or not same-sex marriage is allowed does not determine if a country is “civilised”. It just shows that the Portuguese government has an open mind to these kind of things. Australia is great, maybe the technology isn’t up to date with the rest of the developed nations, maybe the transport system is a bit poor, maybe we have a government that promotes internet censorship, maybe we do have egg laying, duck like mammals with poisonous spurs, but honestly, every country has their problems and I think we can tolerate our problems. In fact, isn’t that why most Australian’s are immigrants in the first place, sick of the problems in their home country to come to a country with lesser problems? Hmmm.
Though I do not understand why there are so many rallies for same-sex marriages in Australia. Sure. Gays want equality. I understand that. I want them to have their equality. But maybe wait a generation? Think about the people in power right now. What era were they from? Thought about it? Do I really need to explain why they will never give in to your demands/requests? These are the same people trying to censor our PORN. Personally I think that the next generation of government will be absolutely revolutionary. Having said that…the generation after will be epic fail. The prime minister will most likely be some epic troll, trolling the entire country by adding rick rolls to his/her speech. I’m lolling just thinking about it. I can’t wait to troll my kids.
Any who, I think I’m done in terms of ranting. You can probably stop reading here as I’ll be talking about something else now.
I thought that my day would be slow, boring and tedious. But it wasn’t. Manager was away so I got to sit in the same row of desks as my team. Worked on a relatively simple problem that took the entire day to implement.
Basically I had to implement a form for uploading multiple files. Simple right?
Well…yeah…it is pretty simple but I wanted to do it elegantly and either there’s a gotcha that I didn’t know about or it’s just Spring being a whiney little bitch that it is. Basically I have 5 input fields and I wanted it to bind to a File array, except, it would only bind the first input field. Googled a lot, didn’t turn up with anything. So in the end I gave up and did it in a not so nice manner.
File file0, file2, file3, file4;
File getFile0()…
void setFile0()…
You get the gist of it.
In addition to that…because it didn’t bind properly I couldn’t use an index to look up the corresponding “description” that correlates to the file being uploaded.
So I had to do something like
if i == 0 getFile0()…
Yuck.
My manager arrived as I was about to leave so I showed it to him…the form that is…not the code and he was like “Perfect, that’s exactly what we want”. Well, just shows, as long as the end result satisfies the client’s requirements nothing else really matters.
So the day ended on a positive note.
Any who it’s taking me forever to write this blog >.>
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Random stupid things and ramblings
May 13th
First, I’m sure everybody hates those stupid Q&A facebook apps that posts the following shit on your wall:
1:Do you think John Jiang is a virgin?
2:Do you think John Jiang is hot?
3:Do you think John Jiang is attractive?
4:Do you think John Jiang is cute?
5:Would you hook up with John Jiang?
Sigh.
Second, I really hate how I ask people that I meet “Oh so what do you do?”. I cringe when people ask me that question yet I do it myself. I find there is no “correct” response that I would like to hear. Even if they are doing something remotely interesting they’re probably not that passionate about discussing it.
I find I have absolutely NOTHING to say after hearing that someone is doing law. It just tells me they had a high ATAR/UAI and used their “points” wisely.
“Oh…um…that sounds great…law…another Asian…doing law”
Third, I fail at playing “Have you met John”. *shudders* Can’t believe I said what I said.
Fourth, I have an assignment due tomorrow and I don’t plan on finishing it properly. Instead I went to games night with chopsticks, got back home to write up another stupid blog whilst drinking the last “Pure Blonde” in the house. I also think I may have inadvertently given myself a reputation for drinking.
Fifth, I’m also sick of seeing the following crap…”X liked if he/she tells these lies, 99% chance they are cheating on you on Facebook and suggested you like it too.” Similar to how I don’t need a personality test to tell me about my personality I don’t need facebook to teach me life lessons. I’m sure life teaches me these things just fine.
Sixth, I think I’ve become extremely confrontational which may or may not be the smartest thing to do.
Seventh, remember back when my blog was hosted with MSN Spaces? God, that feels so long ago. Anyway, remember how it had a Windows Media Player plugin and I would put up songs that represented how I felt at the time or simply because I was really into it? I was on the train yesterday morning and “In the end” popped up. For some reason I thought about that WMP plugin.
Off-topic, thanks for the emperor puffs…well…the ones you thought about getting =D
Edit: 14/05/2010 12:03AM
I just thought of something else to rant about.
Jase, if you’re reading this, your friend is retarded. Okay, retarded is probably too harsh and I really shouldn’t be so worked up as I am. But she (yes SHE) turned a perfectly nice analogy into something that makes absolutely no sense.
Basically a friend of mine quoted a line from “When Five Fell” a video by Wongfu Productions and it goes like this:
“She tells me she wants to be a raindrop. She doesn’t mind falling, as long as she’s not alone. And raindrops are never alone.”
In which one of his friends replies with ”yeah… they drop like chopsticks… and chopsticks are always in pairs.”
Now if I actually knew this person…I’d rip them apart so hard. But since I didn’t I added a slightly “cheeky” comment. Okay okay, you’re probably thinking “Jesus John…take a chill pill, it’s no big deal!”. Fair enough, it may seem childish to get worked up at something so insignificant…but hey…this is entertainment for you right?
Any who, where to begin?
I tell some very bad analogies, but I usually do it on purpose…to be humorous and this is definitely not one of those analogies. This was just BAD. Raindrops do not drop like chopsticks. Chopsticks are not known to “drop”, you use them to pick up food and place it in your mouth. Even if they do drop, most of the time only ONE of them drops. Even if both happen to fall off the table you should have the reaction speed fast enough to catch at least ONE chopstick. Unless the chopsticks are connected (like those ones n00bs use) I don’t see them “dropping” in pairs. Not to mention the fact there could be ODD numbers of raindrops when it’s raining. Also, the original quote was an analogy for what she represented. You don’t turn an analogy into another analogy! Fail on so many levels. I know I shouldn’t take it so literally but it’s just hard to comprehend metaphorically. It makes little to no sense. When I read it my immediate reaction was “What the fuck is this shit? Girl are you trying to be deep cause it’s failing.”
Sorry. I’ll stop now.
Yes this is the douchebaggery that is me.
Facebook you’ve done it again…
Apr 19th
Facebook, I never liked you in the beginning, but eventually I came to terms with you, we compromised. I can handle the radical design changes. I can handle the daily emails.
You know what I can’t handle? The shitty psychological applications you allow developers to produce that drive me fucking nuts!
I hate it how I tend to dig up information regarding someone that I would prefer to have found out “naturally”. But this has become a norm, stalking your friends, going through pictures. You’ve brought laughs, sure, but you cause unwanted frustrations.
I thought that the compare people application was bad enough, telling you how people rank you compared to other friends, but then I get this “Untold Secrets” popping up on my feed?
What the fuck is this shit? Do I need to know it?
*click*
Q: Have you ever had a crush on John Jiang?
A: Yes
WHO? Who are you woman?! Tell me now! Two people answered yes to this.
Q: Do you think John Jiang is a virgin?
A: Yes
Asshole.
Q: Do you think John Jiang has ever had a crush on you?
A: Yes
Again…who?! I don’t have crushes that easily…so either you have extremely high confidence or you’re very lucky. Again 2 people answered yes to this >.>
Q: Are you embarassed to be around John Jiang?
A: Yes
Don’t hang around me then!
*sigh*
You know what makes it worse?
“Find out who answered for 50 credits.”
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
Though it did boost my ego a bit…just a tiny bit.
Edit: After checking the applications page it says that only 2 friends has “Untold Secrets” installed. Which is strange since I’ve seen a lot more people use it. So I’m totally confused at this stage. Fuck I hate this bullshit.
Ignorance is bliss. I don’t need to know. Don’t tell me anything. I just want…h
Facebook Connect
Jun 17th
I installed a Facebook Connect plugin so now people can connect using Facebook and post up comment. Only problem is that my previous theme breaks with the plugin. I also realised it fails at handling “replies”. E.g. when you reply using the old theme, it doesn’t bother nesting the comment but rather just links back to the first comment. With the current theme, facebook connect plugin doesn’t break and comments are now nested. I wish I had the skills the create my own theme. I also decided to get rid of the “Share and enjoy” crap.
So even though you can’t “like” this blog Ben, you can at least publish the fact that you comented on Facebook .
Edit: I inadvertently boosted my page views to 147…which beat my record of 145. This was due to testing my site whilst not logged in. Pageviews are not recorded if I’m logged in.
Oh the Vanity!
Jun 13th
Facebook Vanity Links have been up for around 30 minutes now. I have my own vanity link 
www.facebook.com/john.jiang
Whilst I’m here I might as well talk about things like OpenID and Gravatar.
OpenID is great. It means I can log into supported sites with my gmail account! Sites like wordpress.com and stackoverflow.com supports OpenID. The idea is great! You also have Facebook connect that does the same thing. I think Amazon also has a similar service also.
The other problem is…avatars. I have soo many accounts on the Internet that supports the use of avatars, I can’t possibly keep track of them all! Well Gravatar comes to the rescue. It allows you to have one account that stores all your avatars!
The only problem is that not many sites support gravatars. I also cannot find a Facebook application that syncs the profile pic with Gravatar. This may be a limitation of the Facebook API…but hopefully it is possible and nobody has bothered to implement it yet (doubt it) in which case I shall take a look into it! Please for the love of god, don’t take my idea 
Anyway, back to study *cough*
