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Oh and as a newbie to boxing, I actually enjoyed Mayweather's performance. He's very accurate and threw some really nice clean punches. He's great at defence and Ricky Hatton was finding it difficult to anticipate and dodge his quick punches.

There's been lots of publicity here in the UK over this fight, not sure if it was that big over in the US. I would have liked Ricky Hatton to win, he seems like a likeable and down-to-earth guy from all the "life stories" they've been screening here, in contrast to what Mayweather has been portrayed as.

However, having watched the fight (my first ever boxing fight thanks to all the hype), I think it was pretty obvious Mayweather outclassed Ricky. Early on in the fight, I thought he might have a fighting chance when he threw Mayweather off balance but it became more obvious who had the upper hand as the fight went on. Ricky seemed to be in a frenzy in the first half of the fight but Mayweather hardly broke a sweat.

I think the better man won. And he's been incredibly humble and gracious after the fight too.

Yeah, as for the idea of the "hack" itself, it seems pretty daft and juvenile to me. I never really noticed it though as I didn't read Glenn's site until after the whole thing so doesn't really bother me. I'm never sure about Phill Ryu and his schemes, he tends to come up with stuff that's full of hype but delivers very little.

Well I just posted a comment on his post -

Well I have to say it was a daft idea but some of the criticism has been way too harsh, especially on those who played along to help MacHeist. I’m not familiar with MH and having just read Josh Gruber’s post, I guess there are those who don’t think too highly of it. But the guys who played along probably only had good intentions in trying to help publicise it. I think those who have a right to be royally pissed are the hosting companies and CMS makers, whose reputations are on the line, as well as those who host commercial sites with them, who were misled into thinking their sites were at risk.

Other than those two groups, I don’t see why regular readers have to get their panties up in a bunch. It’s not as if the New York Times just played an April Fool’s joke by telling everyone a nuclear bomb had gone off in NY. At its heart, this is still a personal blog and Glenn’s a young guy, you can’t possibly expect “journalistic professionalism” from it. If you did, then you’re a fool.

He did make a huge mistake, as did all the other participants in this silly promotion, but he’s been man enough to own up and apologise now. I think we all know how hard it is to stand down and admit one’s mistakes, not to mention in front of an entire readership of thousands. If you’re just a reader who gets his feed from your RSS reader, I don’t see how this whole charade has monumentally changed your life. Cut the guy some slack man.

I don't get why some people get so angry over this if they're not directly involved. He's made a mistake and apologised, yet some still throw vitriol in his direction. It's not as if they've been monumentally affected in real life. They have a right to be annoyed but I don't think they have a right to be this abusive. Well I guess that's life and the school of hard knocks for Glenn. The Internet really has made some people so narcissistic that they think the world revolves around their opinion and the fact that they unsubscribing from a feed. Go figure.

Firewall, without a doubt. Paul Bettany has to be the worst villain ever.

Siamese twin train conductors!

I use it primarily for launching applications (those that I use less and don't warrant a place on the Dock), system functions like empty trash (just hit 'E', use this all the time) and restart as well as folder browsing. It's much faster browsing folders using QS than the Finder. Some of the plugins are pretty useful too - I use the Flickr plugin to upload stuff from my desktop.

It takes forever to load a login though, don't know why. Hope going open source will help bring people in who can streamline its performance and update the plugins, some of which are now hopelessly outdated. Hopefully there'll be some innovative new ones too.

I guess QS is more for those who prefer to use the keyboard for navigation rather than the mouse. It all depends on your usual workflow.

Somehow I think most guys aren't really comfortable discussing more private issues out in the open. Other general interests that males tend to gravitate towards such as technology and sports already have communities of their own. Women who have similar interests can use those communities, I think this one is probably reserved for more personal female-specific issues.

Oh I thought it looked like two men with their arms around each others' shoulders LOL. Don't know how "clips" fits in there though...

I'm not too keen on code (both PHP or CSS), in fact customising my regular template already gives me headaches. So the answer is...nope :)

Well I guess it depends if you want to mix in the longer posts with your tumblelog entries or have them separate. If you want them mixed in then you could leave a category basically consisting of unhacked regular blog posts. If you need them separate then I guess some sort of pages template would be great.

Yeah, Wordpress is great in that sense because I'm more familiar with the code and there are so many great plugins that I miss from my blogging days. And with named slugs it makes for much better SEO than Tumblr.

I did try the QuickPost plugin when I first started but it was broken with the release of Wordpress 2.3. It's been updated since and I've tried it out again but I'm too used to using the Mac Dashboard widget now. It's awesome, I just pop up Dashboard and post there and then.

Tried French onion soup once and I never want to touch the stuff ever again.

Tumblr 3 just came out on November 1, there was quite a lot of anticipation over it but personally I'm not really impressed with the new update. They didn't introduce their planned alternative to regular blog commenting which had really intrigued me from the start. I do enjoy the medium tremendously though, and it's picking up in a big way seeing as how Tumblr got a fresh injection of some VC cash not long ago.

There's still no search or commenting (they're recommending Disqus) built in, so I'm sticking to my ported Wordpress theme for the moment.

my design tumblelog: inertgreymatter

Just got myself the whole Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War series not long ago, pretty addictive gameplay. I'm going to try the last expansion Dark Crusade once I get Windows up and running on my Mac again (procrastinating).

And Pro Evolution Soccer 2008. Best...game...ever.

Not to mention the Iraq invasion has allowed Osama bin Laden to elevate himself through propaganda to some sort of messiah-like figure among radical Muslims.

I think you're wrong Alday, the war on terror = the war on Al-Qaeda. Bush's reasoning for invading Iraq was that they were harbouring Al-Qaeda operatives and were also stocking nuclear weapons, raising the possibility of Al-Qaeda conducting a nuclear terrorist attack on the US homeland. As has been shown now, Iraq was not a base for Al-Qaeda (it is now) and did not have any "weapons of mass destruction". In fact, Saddam Hussein's one-party regime was secular, and he often tried to galvanise regional support for him not by using Islam but by using pan-Arab unity.

By invading Iraq, Bush handed a powerful propaganda tool to Al-Qaeda. Arabs and Muslims have long resented US support for Israel, and the invasion allowed Al-Qaeda to incite hate around the Muslim world against the US. I don't recall many international objections when the US invaded Afghanistan to root out Al-Qaeda, because that was a justified response. The Iraq invasion provided Al-Qaeda with the platform to expand and become the global umbrella organisation for Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. It was a strategic misstep on the part of Bush's administration and aggravated the situation.

I do think however that Ron Paul's stance on non-interventionism may be over-simplistic. The US has to intervene in the Middle East because of Israel and oil, not because it wants to be the big brother and police the region.

Lol@Rich

That's the risk you take if you add the thread to your faves :) I'm thinking it should be an opt-in feature that the user has to activate, email notification isn't some people's cup of tea.

I am pretty staunch in my atheist views but I do try to avoid religious-themed threads since I prefer avoiding heated arguments (like those I have had with some friends before). I did find this quote the other day though that I liked:

"If you follow a religion, you are atheist to all other Gods, I just have one God less."

There are so many ways religion is being distorted by man today that it's hard not to feel disillusioned with it. After all, weren't all the holy texts written by a man's hand so who's to say who was the origin of those words.

I'm also a very doubtful when it comes to some of the Charismatic movements that seem to blur the lines between religious belief and financial gain. Fund raising and grandiose buildings/conferences/gatherings seem to be the mainstay.

Benny Hinn doing some kung-fu fighting

I don't really think about resolution these days although I guess every professional web designer should. Having a large display has made me take the space for granted :) I do try to keep all the content within a 800px cell though so I guess I'm still designing for 800x600 in a way. All the computers in my college's labs are still on that resolution, so we shouldn't be too quick to discount that resolution since there are quite a few who browse from work.

Glad to know I'm not the only one then. I never change the actual content of the post, but like some of you have mentioned I go back and change stuff like grammar and sentence flow. However, sometimes rearranging the sentence flow means the post looks quite different from what it originally was, even though the content is the same.

Even so, I'm sure you'd get murdered if you changed the entire sentence structure of posts if you wrote on a mainstream blog. I've noticed some blog readers now have really high standards of bigger blogs and expect them to maintain the same standards as traditional news media (like newspapers etc), which means proofreading again and again for errors and double checking sources before publishing.

Even playful posts are lambasted as wasting peoples' time. I don't really agree with this viewpoint, I still don't expect the kind of regulation on blogs applied to formal media but that's just me.

I just use TextEdit on the Mac really, not a hardcore coder and it serves my very basic needs. I edit all my CSS in it, but it does get a little troublesome finding code sometimes without colour coding.

Yeah I don't edit many days/hours after, mainly just immediately after I publish. And I write a tumblelog with hardly any words LOL. This is probably one of the reasons why I gave up full-blown blogging, I'm just too pedantic with my words, little niggly errors irritate me to hell.

I have to say though, I'm not really into "intelligent" blogs with long and verbose posts. Ever since becoming a medical student and having to face a huge amount of text with notes, textbooks and the occasional journal article (urgh), I seem to have developed an attention deficit disorder when it comes to text. I've stopped reading books/novels, the only stuff I can read now are newspapers and magazines.

When it comes to online browsing, I generally surf news sites, blogs with short entries and design sites that have lots of pictures and very few words :) Maybe everyone's a little tired at having to face tons of text everyday, that could be why longer and more thoughtful blogs don't monetise as well since they don't get the kind of hit count that advertisers want.

Beer on the house all round! Cheers Ozone :)

I don't use RSS at all, never have been a fan of it since I prefer viewing the blog itself, graphics and all. So I don't know how it would appear in an RSS reader. Editing wouldn't be such an issue with someone reading the website, they just see what's there at that moment.

Adium! I would use iChat but everyone else I know is on MSN/Windows Live so it's a no-go for me. Plus I like how Adium is infinitely customisable.

I'm not really an avid F1 fan, I only really caught on this year because Hamilton was getting quite a lot of coverage here in the UK and it really has been quite an exciting season. Schumacher and Ferrari rolling over everyone else made F1 really boring before this, the only other time I watched was when Mika Hakkinen was around.

I guess I support McLaren only because I'm a sucker for punishment haha! Just like I support Liverpool in football (soccer). I can only imagine how crazy Ferrari's support is in Italy, it's crazy enough in the rest of the world! Nearly every F1 fan I know loves them. Their cars' performance is awesome, look at the Brazilian GP they blew the McLarens away. Alonso couldn't even catch up if he wanted to.

Next season is going to be good! What with Raikkonen (have to list him first now), Hamilton, Alonso and even Massa fighting for the title. I think if Hamilton won this year, it might have given him an air of invincibility somewhat like Schumacher. Now at least everyone else knows he's mortal and can lose too :)

Thanks for the tip, I just checked the F1 website and the stewards have decided not to impose penalties on both teams. I think they might have taken into consideration the fact that they would be penalising Raikkonen unfairly. He does deserve a title, he was rather unlucky when he was with McLaren, not to mention he came out at a time when Schumacher had a stranglehold on F1.

I was cheering for Hamilton, but I'm kind of glad Raikkonen won because Alonso acted like an ass during the season and didn't have the kind of graciousness a champion should have. Raikkonen keeps quiet and gets on with the job, and he's got the ultimate reward!

Apparently McLaren may appeal the stewards' decision but even if they succeed, I think Hamilton winning the title would really be soured by all this and he won't derive the true pleasure of being champion. It will bug him until he wins a clear-cut championship. Well done Ferrari and Raikkonen anyway.

I'm not from China, but as a Chinese guy from Singapore I can assure you that moms getting naked to teach sex education to their kid is not generally accepted socially LOL. I think most Eastern societies are still very conservative. Pornography is (theoretically) banned in Singapore and public display of affection is still frowned upon by many older folks.

Wow what a race! Both Ferrari cars started fantastically, the way they edged both McLarens into third and fourth. Yeah, I think inexperience showed at the beginning, Hamilton got momentarily desperate and tried to overtake Alonso. If he had stayed in that position till the end of the race, he would have won. Even with the engine trouble, he may even have managed to fight his way to fifth at least.

Seems he had some engine trouble and the McLaren crew had to get him to switch some settings to get the car back up again. And their pit strategy didn't seem particularly good either. What a terrible week for English sports! Losing at soccer to Russia, losing the rugby world cup final to South Africa and now Hamilton loses the F1 title!

An indeliberate stream of design since I have a tumblelog with a constant unplanned stream of entries on design.

Thanks Andrew! Haha your visit was tracked by Mint!

LOL Andrew, that is my ride of choice too :) London is way too expensive to have a car, considered getting one before but the £8 daily congestion charge to get into Zone 1 convinced me otherwise.

I'm definitely going to be pre-ordering it, probably at the rip-off price that's the norm here in the UK. Hopefully, the student discount will ease some of the pain. The only downside I'm seeing at the moment is the new dock and menu bar, they seem to be rather extraneous and "Vista-like".