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May 20 The VIRB on the street ...Permanent Link

Virb http://www.virb.com : Great site. Kinda like myspace but not visually and structurely disgusting – the opposite in fact. Will write more about it in this post soon. It’s late. Can’t really be bothered right now. Read my post about my new doggy for now. It’s the post below this one. She’s well cute. Brown. Blue eyes. Tail. Yer know. A dog. Bye.

3, 2, 1 … you’re back in the room.

Yes I’m awake. No, I haven’t been asleep since the 20th of May, but I have been tremendously busy with work stuff which has meant blogging had to cease yet again.

So yeah … Virb. Bloody excellent. I’ve set my account up and had a look around the admin bit and the user interface for reskinning pages etc. is really, really nice. That’s as far as I’ve got.

The site has been designed and developed by the big noob folk (the noob guys have got it sussed as far as I’m concerned. I’d put them up there as possibly the collective I admire the most on the web at the moment – they have a very sound understanding and concern for both the visual and the technical side of web design and development)

Now MySpace. Sigh. Yes I do have an account, and I do occasionally post the odd comment on some friends spaces – but it’s usual just that: an ‘odd’ comment. Mostly some random nonsense or something about something that I remembered about something at uni or something. That’s as far as it gets I’m afraid. I can’t really be bothered with it. Sorry.

I admit, it does have some good uses. The primary being that it is my first port of call if I’ve been to a gig and been impressed with the support band. They’ll no doubt have a myspace with some tracks on, so I can suss them out – now that I’m not pissed and in the artistically persuasive environment that is ‘the gig’. (btw, didn’t know how to spell persuasive, so right-clicked in firefox, added dictionary, and then spell checked! Firefox is the bomb!)

Another thing. I don’t want one hundred and eleven thousand friends. If someone in the street came over and said: “I see you’re wearing a ‘The Bees’ T-shirt. I like them too. D’wanna be friends?” I’d find that bloody odd. I’d mumble something about having to go to Tescos to buy some bread whilst stumbling away from them with haste, with a concerned look on my face.

There are a million other reasons I don’t like it. To summarise:

  • It looks gross and full of smiley face adverts that shout at you when you accidentally roll over them on your way to the back button
  • The code is gross and bloated and everything looks broken
  • It kinda allows those not brave enough to stalk people for real to do it snidely from the safety of a computer chair (you know who you are)
  • It, I dunno, causes the majority of unnecessary deaths amongst babies and small animals in most cases?

All good reasons to hate it. Apart from the last. Which I made up, obviously. But a part of me kinda wants it to be true so someone will pull the plug on the foul waste of webspace that it is.

Now go from here. And if you have a myspace account delete it. Right away. Then lock yourself in a room and spank yourself dead. Then resurrect and haul your forgiven self to Virb. And be pure once more. You are with true ‘friends’ now. Breath the air. Tastes good doesn’t? ...

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