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Tumblr is gangster.
Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures, Spotlight Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:26 No Comments
Well, I obviously do not have much time to be blogging every now and again, so I guess I’ll start leaving this site to rot or perhaps make better use of it (Portfolio, perhaps? Forum?) So yea, I decided to go for something much more simpler in the lines of Micro Blogging (E.g. Twitter). But since Twitter only offers a 150 Words limit, I decided to try out Tumblr.
Link: http://ianlai.tumblr.com/
Since I’m not experiencing any problems with Tumblr so far and I’m actually having quite a bit of fun! I’ll continue using it, so byebye Wordpress. Hello Tumblr. I guess there’s nothing else much to say besides, Follow Me! On Tumblr + Twitter.
There’s nothing much better than seeing all these hilarious Tumblr posts and reblogging them.
If you’re interested in making some small contributions to the blog, please drop a comment and I’ll e-mail you regarding a few details. Besides, I’m quite fed up of all my previous posts (yeap yeap, they suck . I know).
Till next time, I’m signing off,
Ian Lai.
Hi :D
Posted by findergm in Marvellous Misadventures Saturday, 19 September 2009 22:25 4 Comments
Hey readers, I was bored and decided to post some boring crap about me 
So bear with it and if your don’t feel like reading anymore, then ALT+F4 is always there for a reason.
My name is Theodore, if you havent already noticed in some of the posts made earlier by Ian/MrSaints. Though many people in my school call me Teddy for some reason… Dunno why though. I’m cute? Ok, I live in Singapore a.k.a, Little Red Dot, Lion City and am currently studying in Victoria School. I’m 14, and in Secondary 2. Which is probably America/Canada’s equivalent of High School or grade 10 or something.
In my free time I enjoy reading , writing, blogging (here only), learning how to code, playing Team Fortress 2 and GMod. I first noticed Ian when I saw his awesome proness in PHP/HTML coding. Not to mention JavaScript and Java. And so I got to know him, and here I am today due to his generosity . I also like Warez , and am currently double booting Vista and Windows 7, after a few days of trying to partition and almost losing everything in my computer.
My mother is an English teacher, explaining my love of reading and writing. My father works in the company that organises the bi-annual (me thinks) Motorshow in Singapore. So be sure to catch it. I’ll get you free passes xD
Hopefully, this has given you a short glipmse into my life, and I hope to hear from you guys soon.
Add me on MSN, Facebook and Twitter!
prince_theodore@hotmail.com (Please state who you are or I won’t know if some terrorist is adding me)
Iz All Abut Ze Pirates, Arh!
For those that were a little behind on the news, its Happy International ‘Talk Like A Pirate’ Day. Also, in other news, The Pirate Bay is in full support of OpenInternet.se, so all the best for them in keeping The Pirate Bay alive! So, before you continue reading, make a Tweet about it on Twitter or go to Facebook now and set your language preference to English (Pirate) BETA.
As you may have already known, this major online event and possibly ‘reality’ of ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ is the talk of the day. Its officially a Twitter trending topic and there’s even official sites for it. For those that wish to find out about the ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ origin, here is a small abstract from Wikipedia’s article, it seems that this year it has become a more international online movement than before.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1] who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.[1] For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with “Hello,” but with “Ahoy, me hearty!” The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy. The holiday is a major observance in the parody religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
From Wikipedia – International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Yes, like the Wikipedia article says, its just a parodic holiday, and perhaps an international online meme. And as with events like these, it gives owners for MMOs, Online Services, etc a chance to setup promotions and offers to celebrate the occassion.
Several MMOs, such as World of Warcraft, Kingdom of Loathing, Lord of the Rings Online and Guild Wars have introduced special events for the day, permitting characters to receive special appearances or special in-game prizes or drops.[17]
From Wikipedia – International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Personally, I would be setting up a few hosting packages for this, but seeing as I have already put one out for the September Promotion, I don’t think thats necessary. Well, why is it so popular? and a global phenomenon?
Well, like most other things that have taken off in the last few years, it’s the Internet that’s fueled it. Although it hasn’t amassed the 126 million times the “Evolution of Dance” video has been watched, there are more than 1,500 “Talk Like a Pirate” videos on YouTube, and more than 12 million websites dedicated in some way to the holiday.
Read More About It Here.
In other news, the Pirate Bay has a new facelift on the homepage with OpenInternet’s logo, and if you have the time, be sure to check out their website as they have put up a few FAQs, especially relevant to online crime (cybercrime). As far as I’m concern, the whole rumour of Pirate Bay being a paid service or having some form of payment is not true, it remains a public tracker and is still accessible for many. Their recent blog article talks about the ’support to stop people like Monique Wasted and Peter Dworsky from abusing and harassing ISP:s and small business owners, costing them hundreds of thousands in legal costs’ too, so long live OpenInternet.se and The Pirate Bay! It currently has over 280+ comments.
The Black Internet case was just the first step to eradicate the Pirate Bay, but it has not stop it and lets hope they’ll continue (: For the moment, there isn’t much news about the Pirate Bay being bought over, as far as I can see, the buyer is facing a few setbacks, primarily due to the fact they can’t actually afford it! See Here.
Remember to check out Aerosol Studios affiliate sites including Aerosol Hostings and our future Frozone Networks now known as Aerosol Networks. I’ll be online all day, so remember to leave me a Twitter reply @MrSaints. Happy ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ and long live The Pirate Bay.
Please also welcome our new bloggers Flipps and Yui as well as Theodore (whom is quiet at the moment), hopefully they will spend some time to introduce themselves too! Welcome aboard guys!
Tagging FTW! And credits to the success of this article and any in the future to all the links specified above (See Here bits).
Ian says… Google Proxy!
Posted by MrSaints in Spotlight, Stepping Stones Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:09 2 Comments
So your sitting on your computer, in school, at work, or even at home (but thanks to your parents, its all blocked!), and yes, its all blocked! You can’t access YouTube, nor can you access awesome flash games or other social networking sites. Have no fear! Google.com is here.
Most of the time, finding a reliable web proxy based on Zelune, Glype, PHProxy, CGIProxy or whatever may be difficult. There’s a high chance you may run into a site packed with ads and stupid popups (Haha I had one with ads on the side saying, Find Someone For You In KUALA LUMPUR – It was all white chicks xDD LOL strange… cause I never seen that many whites in Malaysia; *points* especially those blondes!).
So the point is, its just not easy finding good proxy now a days unless your using your own or perhaps one that you know of for a while now. Personally, I have my own proxy (here), but I prefer to keep it private and underused. That way, there’s more for me and less chances it’ll be placed in block rules or crawled into by Search Engines (I did add an ignore/block for all search engine bots to my proxy directory).
Drawing some conclusions… In case you didn’t know, Google.com actually provides a proxy… well not directly! I can almost garauntee you that you had used it before even without knowing! Its the Translator Tool.
Most of the time, I meet with YouTube videos that are “Blocked in your country due to copyright infringments”, the only possible and least troublesome way around this for me, is Google.com’s Translator.
Simply navigate yourself to Google.com Translator Tools and place the address under “Translate a web page” and just click Translate, doesn’t matter what language you set, just as long as you can view it! (In this case mine is from Spanish => English). And boom! Presto. It works (: I can now enjoy I’M ON A BOAT without having it blocked.
Now this does not ensure the sites your going to will actually be accessible fully, to some extent, you may still face issues with the site’s personal visitor validation or even functions the site may use, like Cookies! Despite all this, its always best to have your own personal proxy.
That’s all I got for now (: So, have a great upcoming weekend and continue LOL-ing at Kanye West.
Please be sure to re-tweet…
“Kanye West just interrupted Patrick Swayzes funeral to let everyone know that Michael Jacksons funeral was better. RIP Patrick”
GAYFISH!
P.S. My school’s web filter blacklisted my URL due to the suspicious taggings including GAMES.
Additional Interests: (Taken From My Tweets!)
Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’ Official Trailer – http://bit.ly/2QeFVJ
Carter says Obama row is ‘racist’ ( Via BBC – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/… )
For more of THIS… and THAT. Follow me on Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/MrSaints.
IAN OUT!
EDIT: I’m bored (: I got English homework to do and I’m tired… Nights webby.
HAPPY TOTAL 20,000TH VISITOR.
Facebook Lite
Posted by MrSaints in Spotlight Monday, 14 September 2009 01:36 No Comments
Its accessible. Its clean. Its sleak. Simply what is it? Its Facebook Lite.
Located at the most obvious subdomain: http://lite.facebook.com/, The all new FACEBOOK LITE lets you see updates, photos and videos in the most simplest way you can think of. It is officially live! So do check it out.
Sources: Google.com, Twitter.com, Facebook Developers.
Instead of ‘me’, writing an article on it, be sure to check it out yourself and see:
http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-lite-live/ as well as…
http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/facebook-lite-screenshots/
Mashable is just great, so you don’t need me to explain why.
Refer espcially to this:
4. What’s the point of Facebook Lite?
A: Speculation says it’s a direct assault on Twitter. Facebook continues to find ways to make itself competitive with Twitter. This is why Facebook has been launching features such as public profiles, profile fans, public status updates, and realtime search. Twitter is simple, so Facebook’s fighting back with the same.
I really do agree to this in some sense and think its a major move for Facebook considering the fact its almost one of the most dominating networking sites not packing together almost everything! From entertainment, to chatting, to catching up with old friends and plain e-meeting.
EDIT: To some degree I may have to agree with the speculations regarding Facebook attempt to reach its target audience and gain more users through the new Facebook Lite, as well as the incredibly obvious ‘tag’ feature that almost ‘SEEMS LIKE’ Twitter’s @UserHere feature. Wow? Why the sudden change Facebook?
To tag someone, type @ and then the friend’s name
Anyhow, thats part of life!
Its Facebook stripped down to its skin, but still keeping its cool. Its 1.34am for me, so i’m out, peace.
View, Rate, Comment, Advise (:
Its your world.