If you have been living under a rock you probably haven’t heard the great news. The RIAA is going to go after individual file swappers! All of you guys who are sharing gigs and gigs of songs on Kazaa and Morpheus, watch out! The RIAA is going from the top down (most data shared/transferred) and going to sue the top file swappers on the most popular file swapping networks.

I think this is going to worsen the already dreadful public image of the RIAA. Their current tactics have been likened to the strong-arm tactics of the mafia. Personally, I’m less scared of an angry CAPO than the RIAA’s legal team. With the growing public disgust with the RIAA, how do you think their new barrage of law suits is going to effect music sales? I know a lot of people are planning to boycott. Are you?

If you didn’t know it by now, the cowards at Microsoft have decided to drop development of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the Mac platform. I am grateful that I no longer have to worry how badly IE is going to mess up my next design project, but I’m also pissed off that the giant spineless wonder decided to run at the first sight of competition. Yeah I said it.. Safari scared MS and they packed up their bag of tricks and headed for higher ground. BAH! I was looking forward to a longer battle between IE and Safari for the Mac desktop, but I guess that’ll never happen. I just want to know how many of you people actually still use IE. Isin’t the consensus that it’s not standards compliant, therefore it’s almost impossible to code for both IE and another browser without one of them barfing on your design. Furthermore, there is no tabbed browsing. How do you friggin browse the web without tabs? I, personally, would shoot myself if I was forced to go back to a PC, much less have to use IE as my browser. *GAH* Tell me what browsers you have gotten to love.

What’s with these so-called educators today? Why is it that when they fail at something, they blame everyone else. They blame the kids, their parents, society, technology, and anything else that they can pass the buck to. Their failures result in the gross undereducation of American children and sorry excuses for teaching methods like Ebonics. Who talks like that? I mean for real. If kids aren’t picking up proper English why would you burden them with ANOTHER vernacular?! It’s this mentality among many of the educators in this country that really lights my fire. They assume that since the children aren’t learning, it must be something OTHER THAN THEIR METHODS that is keeping the kids from acquiring the requisite knowledge.

The newest dying art in America is penmanship. Kids aren’t learning, or rather, aren’t being taught to write in cursive anymore and the blame, so bloody obviously, is falling on technology. Kids are using instant messaging and text messaging on mobile devices and they’re not learning how to write, furthermore they’re barely learning to print legibly. This if course is the fault of society, the parents, the kids, and the technology. The educators take no blame of course. Maybe if kids were held properly responsible for learning and writing in cursive, they’d actually learn it and be good at it. I come from a generation where your handwriting style was one of those things that helped to define you (aside from the silly handshakes with your friends, your favorite song, and those orange Cross Colors jeans you wore in HS). Now I guess your e-mail signature and buddy icon are what separates you from the others.

So yesterday sucked. I’m not going to rehash it, that’s what archives are for, folks. Anyway, I go to the mall to get fit for new sneakers (for the gym and stuff) and I stopped to get a smoothy at Julius. Either there was a miscommunication and they didn’t understand that I didn’t want bananas or the retard behind the counter didn’t listen to me at all, but some portion of a banana made it into my shake. Why is this a problem you ask? Well, over the past few months I have developed some sort of violent allergic reaction to fresh bananas. The last three times I’ve consumed any part of a banana I have thrown up, gotten a fever, and had severe stomach cramps and pain (sometimes accompanied by diarrhea) for at least 6-8 hours after consumption.

Now you know how I spent my day. Thanks folks, you’ve been really kind. I’ll be here all week.

So yeah, I’m 26 today. I don’t feel older than I did yesterday, nor do I feel any wiser. If anything I feel a little younger because my aches and pains from the gym are gone.
Anyway, the first song I heard on the radio this morning (around 7am) was Mambo #5. It’s been forever since I’ve heard that one and when I heard it I kept thinking about that stupid little flash video called Combo #5 about the chinese food. Aah the memories. Reminds me of conquering the Uncle in 2 Willard. If you don’t know what that means, you weren’t meant to know.
If anything interesting happens today I’ll throw up an update later. I might get my hair cut. If it’s particularly bad, there will be pictures.