Decomposing composers, or: Why WordPress starts to get on me nerves.

May 1st, 2011 by Sascha

Sometimes, having an easy install routine sucks ass. To wit, WordPress blinds you with “it’s soooo easy!” while making it fucking complicated to simply move your fucking blog to where it’s supposed to go online.

Yes, you have to change only two lines of code. Theoretically. But then, you might be working with subdomains which makes the whole thing go haywire.

Dudes, seriously. If you market with ease-of-use and lack-of-shitpants et al please make your bloody configs easier to understand if you want to go one step beyond™. I’m talking one step here, not the bloody Camino de Santiago.

You want to be easy-going? Then be simple and don’t go the Apple way. Thanks, guv.

Stop clicking them fucking buttons on Facebook.

April 27th, 2011 by Sascha

You’re on Facebook? Okay, then you know you’ve uploaded shitloads of personal data. You’ve hooked up with all them friends from grade school you haven’t spoken to in ten years. You’ve liked lots, mostly weird 80s television serials, and you’ve uploaded a plethora of pictures, namely of your tyke.

So why the flying bugger would you not check the official facebook stream or, for that matter, the news, for phishing-viral-worm-privacy-stuff?

Dude, these scams usually have been documented and debunked months before they hit you. So why oh why do you still hit the LIKE!!! button?

And spread that shit to your contacts, namely yours truly?

You have every reason to be careful about what you click on in Facebook. You’ve uploaded all that intimate crap to begin with, so for fuck’s sake take better care of your shit.

Thanks.

Surprising: Adobe still sucks at PDF, and blogs are catching up.

March 28th, 2011 by Sascha

Well, almost four (4) years later, one major publication got wind of font rendering issues in Adobe products. That is, if you want to work with OS X-generated documents using Postscript-flavored OpenType fonts inside Adobe’s world domination scheme aka PDF.

Does this change anything? Probably not. But at least I don’t look like a total crank anymore. Lonely and unloved, boozing too much while getting riled up on things 99.999% of the local populace doesn’t care a flying fuck about. While my customers do. Yours too, probably, otherwise you wouldn’t read this.

You rock, Adobe!

Huere gopferdami siech.

February 19th, 2011 by Sascha

Swiss sports commenter and all-time master of on-air cussing Hans Jucker died today, aged 65. Fuck that.

RIP, dude. Hopefully, there are no chairs in heaven falling on your noggin.

Hail to the king, baby.

January 23rd, 2011 by Sascha

Shite, after 12 years of development and almost 20 years since the original, the Duke seems to be back. For real.

Gearbox, don’t bugger this one up!

Now please excuse me while I daintily remove a tear from me eye. And re-schedule my holiday plans for May.