I'm just wondering how many of you out there have a myspace page. The reason I ask is that I think myspace pages represent the worst in web design on the Internets. It boggles my mind how popular myspace is.
Have you seen a myspace page? First, it allows users to embed a song that plays automatically when someone visits their page. That's just awful. And the backgrounds people choose for their pages make it impossible to read the text. The formatting in general makes it a usability nightmare. If Jakob Nielsen were dead (and he's not), he'd be spinning in his grave right now.
So let's see 'em. If you're on myspace, let's take a look. I'll show you my myspace page if you reciprocate.
If you live in the Lower Mainland, you no doubt were aware that we got hit with another snowstorm last night. I, for one, cannot remember a time when Vancouver has had so much extreme weather. Between the rain, the gale-force winds, and the blankets of snow, this has been a pretty miserable winter.
I wouldn't mind it all, except for the fact that the weather causes a lot of problems city-wide. When it gets windy, the power goes out. In the last three months, I think the power has gone out more times than in the last three years combined. The last incident happened last week, where the power was out in my area for twelve hours. There was no heat, no hot water, and no Xbox 360. The wind also caused trees and light poles to topple. On one very particular windy day, it took me two hours to get to work. Who ever heard of traffic delays due to wind? Also, when it gets windy, they tend to close down the Lions Gate bridge. That means all traffic goes to the Second Narrows, along Hastings Street, which is of course, the route my bus goes along. It all makes for a great commute home.
Back to the snow though. This morning, my bus never came, leaving me to stand at the bus stop for about half an hour. The only thing that made it half-bearable was that I shared the bus shelter with this very attractive young lady. I finally had to take the Skytrain instead, which was actually not crowded at all this morning. I only was late perhaps 25 minutes or so to my surprise. While the snow seems to have stopped this evening, temperatures are supposed to drop way below freezing level overnight. The resulting ice should make it awesome for commuting and walking tomorrow morning.
I was about half way through writing a post when I realized I might get someone in trouble. I was telling a story anonymously about a friend of mine. Then it dawned on me, that however small the chance, his girlfriend might be reading this. Actually, it's a really small chance but I've learned over the years that it's amazing who's reading my blog.
I don't want to get him into trouble. Is he breaking the law? No. Is he cheating on his girlfriend? Definitely not. Is he making me ask myself questions? I don't think so.
So I got nothing else to write about. How about this weather eh? Wind storms suck. The Canucks are doing well lately, isn't that interesting? How's your mom doing? Good... good... I'm getting a haircut tomorrow. Right...
Well, I had intentions of writing this long post about the meaning of life but there will be no time for that tonight. My friend Joel from NYC called me right before I started to write and he wanted to talk since he couldn't sleep.
After a lengthy discussion about the 1959 NY Mets, I am plum of out time for tonight! Maybe tomorrow I will get to it!
