Hello, Internets. Or should, I say, “Fucking Internets”?

I’ve been away from ill-literati.org. Not by choice, necessarily.  I’ve been very busy with attempting to get up for work at 4:30 am, coming home and spending time with the Kid and trying to get other things done.

In other words, I’m tired all of the time, and I whine incessantly about it.

Work has cracked down on internets usage, and I’m no longer hidden in my “area”. So all of my internets happens through twitter on my BlackBerry, which is why to some people, it appears that I am on the Internets all of the time.

Good news is that work is getting to the point where it will be less intrusive. Bad news is that, I soon won’t have my kid to keep me occupied in the afternoon evening.  She’ll be moving back to Florida with her mom after the end of the school year.

Which sucks. I’d rather not have the more time that will give me. But at least I can bitterly take that away with me.

Internets Projects have been reinstated. And I’ll start sharing them now. But don’t bother checking them out yet. Unless you really want to.

ShatterCity.com is now mostly operational. It’s down to design and opening it up and getting people to sign up. It’s designed to be a local destination for people here in the Mid-Hudson Valley to share news about music, art and other local happenings, current events, etc.  I’m using WordPress MU, with BuddyPress for the social networking end of it (yes, just what people need, another social network) and bbPress for the groups/forums. It’s also something I’m hoping to eventually monetize with local advertsing or something along those lines.  Especially if it gets large, because I’ll likely have to find myself alternate webhosting solutions that will cost me some larger coin.

The other project which is currently in a state of more than early development is fuckinginternets.net.  This is based on my new meme which was created by my constant swearing and talking about the internets on twitter. Apparently, the two most frequent words I used to casually use on twitter were “fucking” and “internets”. Now their use is more than casual. I don’t know what the core of fuckinginternets will be. The idea is likely to be a blog about things on the internets that make one say: “Fucking internets!” But I’ll also be selling some merchandise on that one. Fucking Internets t-shirts and shit like that with cute innuendo-laden graphics. Will probably start out using cafepress or some such fucking internets service like them to produce the merch.

Lame-ass project with potential if I ever get around to it, is a NetFlix user site that won’t be discussed further at this time. Shouldn’t have mentioned it, actually. Shut mah mouf.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I missed you, fucking internets. And I look forward to sharing more shit with you soon.

Laters,

AB

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So, you may say to me, “AngryBob, why the fuck would you start another web project, when this one is 98% daily twitter digests and the occasional ‘Jedi Jesus’ comic?”

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, doled out by myself.

But to be fair, this is a project I’ve had kicking around in my skull for quite a long time. I tried occasionally to attempt to think about integrating it with ill-literates and ill-literati, but it was always crowded out by the fact that the ill-sites were more of a personal nature.

So, another attempt. One which I have no fucking time for, but will fucking make the time for.

But this will be purely separated from the ill-sites. No random blathering on my addiction to BlackBerry tweeting from the shower. This is all business.

Details to be announced soon.

I hear you laughing. We’ll see.

AB

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CrackBerry, you’ve done it again…
Thanks to them, I’m now beta testing a new mobile browser, name of Bolt. It’s only been a few minutes, so I’m just gonna share some small tidbits and give you a proper review in a few days after I’ve fucked with it lots more.

1. No Flash. Actually, this is alright. I haven’t found a mobile browser yet that has it. This mostly means no Blip.fm on the BlackBerry for me. I tested that first thing out. Still only reblips off of page 1.
2. Supports Ajax, Java and FLV (streaming video, kids!). Logged into my site here, and everything looks and acts just as it does in the big internets.
3. Fast? Well, yes and no. Page load speeds are impressive, but navigation with the trackball is a little slow and hitchy/jerky. The faq says you can use the keypad, but I haven’t tried that yet.
4. Split Screen. The amount of the page being displayed is smaller than it is in Opera mobile. This means that what you are looking at is bigger. Problem with that is that this means you are seeing less of the page, which hinders navigation. But! You have the option of doing a split screen, which gives you a second screen that shows more of the page, with the first screen being a boxed area within that. This makes navigation much easier.
5. According to the faq, Bolt will work on “lots of phones, even basic ones”. You don’t need a smartphone for Bolt. Which is a nice option for people who don’t have smartphones.

Again, give me a few days to fuck around with this and I’ll let you know what I think of it.

AB

http://crackberry.com/bolt-browser-updated-version-83

http://www.boltbrowser.com

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Share and enjoy kids. I’ve had enough for the evening, all the behind the scenes shit for four hours now. I is a sleepy Bob

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.:I made it through a day of work without choking myself by swallowing scissors.  That’s something.

Of course, Gantor borrowed my work scissors a couple of weeks ago and has yet to give them back.

.: Got a belt clip and dashboard clip for the phone. Yay.

Got a bluetooth usb thing for the computers too.  Tomorrow, I may figure out how to work it.

.:And finally, I picked up a network card for Gantor’s PC, and then taught the range extender how to connect to the network by force.  Gantor now has internets on her computer.  In fact, I am using it now.

.: Just need to put Orifice 2007 on her desktop and she is good to go.

With the exception of the sound card, which she apparently needs.

And now I go to sleep.  Fuck.

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