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  . . . : ; neetneves - august 13 1998
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    . . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/



. . . : ; The "NEED-A-NEW-SODA" Notice

I feel like I've partaked in almost every soda flavor in town here,
except, of course, for the diet shit. How can people stand WOW! chips,
let alone diet soda? I don't know either.


. . . : ; The "BUT-MY-POINT-WAS" Notice

I just need something new to drink. I walk down the soda aisles, and
nothing appeals to me anymore. I've been on the Ecto-Cooler kick
already. Caffeinated water just doesn't do it for me, and milk was old
when they started automated the process. And, yes, I tried Orbitz when
it first came out, and didn't like the added "straining" action you had
to do to drink the damn thing. This sucks.


. . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and someone needs to send me some drinks...

ONE YEAR, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!: In a fanfare of "the date passed by" and
"oop, I forgot about that", the Disobey.com website turned ONE YEAR OLD
on the third of August. And we missed it. We didn't even plan any
celebration. Sniff. It's probably going to get pissed at us now. Ah
twell. We've been through a helluva lot, and brought you more content
then one person would think possible. Yeah... we got work to do. Happy
Birthday, Disobey, I love you.

NEW DEVIL SHAT (#ThirtyThree): This issue concludes the two part series
on the legalization of drugs and why it shouldn't happen. Based upon the
amount of email that we received, it seems like the first article raised
a lot of people's hackles. You should go read the emails we added. They
bring up some issues which I have not addressed in either of the parts.
And be sure to send some email in response to the final four arguments
of our mystery writer.

NEW GHOST SITES (#18): Filled with many a decrepit site, Ghost Sites of
the Web is the ultimate resource for that which is dead. Take a look at
a "portal" before there were "portals", weirdo movie-speak from
Berkeley, a site whose goal was to archive your website when YOU died
(what a fateful twist!), and much, much more. And hey, we're STILL a
featured site in the New York Times. So there.

LOW BANDWIDTH: Modified some more of the archives due to some agreements
we've been entering into... Seems we are really fulfilling a lot of want
for an archive. That makes me happy. I still have much to do. Oh yeah,
added one new listing. Also changed the front page and all the assorted
content on that as well as doing a better job organizing how the
archives were dealt with. And added the "How You Can Help Us" page along
with two new "i was feeling weird" link images for people to use. This
is excitement at its peak.

DEBUGGING SOME MORE: Finished debugging the Devil Shat section this
week, and that was certainly a pain in the ass... but it definitely
caught some glaring errors that I should have seen, but just slipped by.
Writing code is like revising a paper without reading it out loud... you
think you caught everything, but BOY, WERE YOU WRONG. Also finished
debugging Ghost Sites and Zero. Yeah, I saved Low Bandwidth for last,
because I cheated and did a quick bug check on one page. Sniff, sniff.
It's gonna take a bit. But hey! I'm doing it for you!!!! Ok... enough
sucking up. Anyways, spent most of the morning on Friday debugging Low
Bandwidth, and I can say that I do feel better about it.

SPELL [GROAN] CHECKING: Since I finished the debugging, I started
running through the site with spell checking. This is even more tedious
than debugging... sheesh. Anyways, started backwards for a change, and
finished up all the sections including the associated text files. Took
me the rest of my Friday morning, and well into the evening. Man, am I a
loser or what?

IMAGEREADYSETGO: Adobe ImageReady is simply awesome. I recommend it to
anyone who has the chance of getting it. Consider it a Photoshop for the
web. With incredible compression ability. Because of this, I have
started going through every image on the Disobey site to compress them
even more. Shaved off 30k off the Zero directory as it is. That's
impressive considering I thought they could be compressed no more.
Anyways, after completing every image, I can now say that you will see
no noticable difference... besides the fact that I can see about 500k
shaved off the 200 or so images that make up Disobey.


. . . : ; EVERYTHING else and if you have one, email me

SADNESS: I'd like to take this time and space to ask you to be a little
easy on me. One of my cats, Baby, died today, Tuesday the 11th in the
final stages of leukemia. She has been with me since I was just a tot. I
bawled my fucking eyes out. She was all black with beautiful eyes, and
the loudest mouth you could have ever heard. She cuddled with me in my
arms each and every night I went to bed, begged like a dog for lovings,
and was generally, all around, closer to me than most humans. She will
be dearly missed. I love you, Baby.

LEARNING 1-800: I feel so much smarter now... Hehehe... I have actually
begun what I have wanted to for quite a while: getting the chance to
take an hour away from my schedule each day and just sitting down and
learning something. Right now, I am alternating between BASIC, Perl for
CGI scripting, and Photoshop 5.0. Photoshop will be done in about a
week, and I plan to move to Flash. Or so I hope. I just like the time I
have given myself... I feel like my new abilities will definitely help
me with my creative ideas. Time management rocks.


. . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK:    ( july 31th - august 13th )

[Movie-of-the-Week]-= Halloween: H20
---No doubt about it. This movie kicked ass. Akkad returns to direct 
---the final movie in the series that began with little Michael Myers
---killing his sister. This is quality at its most... what happens
---when a creation returns to its father.

[Other-Movies-We-Saw-of-the-Week]-= Not that Much...
---Ripe (a coming of age movie for females; "no one stays innocent
---forever... not that bad, actually... a la Doom Generation);
---Child's Play 2 (that guy keeps coming back, anyone see the preview
---in "Snake Eyes"?)

[Ooga-Booga-of-the-Week]-= Zero... ho-hum.
---It's starting again. It's annoying. We'll see.


. . . : ; The Issue Was Then Laughed At And Humiliated

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