I cannot believe I left that depressing post up there for so long. I am finally back at home ... the last few days are a complete blur for me. I got about 5 hours of sleep the night before my last day (Friday) ... and Friday night I went out with all my coworkers (as well as a dinner thing with the hakwon owner) ... and ended up getting like two hours of sleep that night. I flew out, got almost no sleep on the plane (damn those free movies!), but I passed out on my Chicago - RDU plane ride. I came back and watched Harold and Kumar with Yush (need to get back into the American thang). And I find myself awake still. I should sleep soon.

I notice whenever I get on a plane, I am secretly hoping some hot single girl will sit next to me. Nothing like a 14 hour plane ride to get her acquainted with me.... but then it always turns out to be a fat dude or an old man. Do hot single girls my age not ride coach?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I'm in the market for a new cell phone. But the American phones all suck. Here are the problems:

  • Ugly: Yes, I know I always make fun of people who buy stylish things. But damn. I need a nice-looking cell phone.
  • Features: If it's not pretty, it better pack in a lot of cool little features. But guess what? American cell phones are over-featured in the absolutely wrong places. All the camera phones here look like ass, and all the decently-looking phones have absolutely no features.
  • OS: I CANNOT STAND THE OPERATING SYSTEM ON THE NEW CELL PHONES. Why does everything need to LAG on a cell phone? My old Nokia 8890 had no lag which I LOVED.
  • Overfeatures: I am a minimalist. I like my phones to have as few options as possible. And when it HAS features, I would like them to be in a logical order. My mom got me a new phone when she upgraded our family plan, but the new phone has the most retarded options organization ever.

I am seriously considering buying another new Nokia 8890; it's small, has great reception, and doesn't have a bunch of useless features and doesn't have a laggy OS. But no camera phone ... and that's something I really wanted to experiment with. :/

I'm totally excited to be home. There's lot of stuff I need to get done. So I shall now crash ... and when I wake up tomorrow, I will become my old webworkaholic me :)

Posted by roy on August 21, 2004 at 10:10 PM in Ramblings | 17 Comments

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Comment posted on August 26th, 2004 at 01:33 PM
you're right about the fact that US phones do suck big time, it's actually late... for some reason the new cellphones over here is actually 6 month old in asia.

my first ever nokia phone was 6310i, i love it and NO LAG at all, i find it fast, compared to the new ones i am using right now. anyways, if you're looking for a phone cam, stick with getting a Sony ericsson or nokia, problem is we don't have the good ones here in the US =(

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 23rd, 2004 at 12:48 AM
You know what would be really fuckin nice? If you could say to a phone manufaturer what you wanted on your phone and got it. I want a calender, a good camera with vid and I want it to look like something that wouldnt get me beat up by the cooler kids. Is that too much?

Hey, Royo, is there a way to change the color of the posting forms in the comments and tagboard through CSS. I think there is, but I dont know how anymore or something. Can do or crazy?
Comment posted on August 23rd, 2004 at 05:14 AM
Yes. You can change the form by adding:

input {
background-color: #hexcode;
}

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 25th, 2004 at 08:10 PM
It changes the boxes for logging onto through the page, but if you notice the tagboard is unaltered.
<a href="http://www.tabulas.com/~MacDaddyTatsu/432650.html#comment">http://www.tabulas.com/~MacDaddyTatsu/432650.html#comment</a>

I have asked this user repeatedly on how she did it, but she has not replied.
<a href="http://www.tabulas.com/~xmissxthangx">http://www.tabulas.com/~xmissxthangx</a>/
Comment posted on August 26th, 2004 at 04:39 PM
If you use the tagboard command, you won't be able to set the styles because they are in an iframe. There's really no "clean" way to style the tagboard.

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 27th, 2004 at 05:30 PM
How about:

/*CSS BASED FRAME*/
&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
&lt;!--
div.scroll {
height: 200px;
width: 300px;
overflow: auto;
border: 1px solid #666;
background-color: #ccc;
padding: 8px;
}
--&gt;
&lt;/style&gt;

Then the html would look like:

&lt;div class=&quot;scroll&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a scrolling are created with the CSS property overflow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;This is red color&lt;/span&gt;
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a normal paragraph.
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px;&quot;&gt;This is big
bold text&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scrolling are can contain normal html like &lt;a href=&quot;index.php&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam
nonummy nibh.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam
nonummy nibh.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 25th, 2004 at 07:04 PM
Roy, I may have put this in the wrong place. This goes in the style sheet portion? I want to change the form box bgcolors on the tagboard for Tallullah's Template, but I think Im being a bonehead...I put it in the stylesheet and nill.

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 23rd, 2004 at 10:54 PM
my thanks. im in the middle of fixing up tallullah\'s template and that will really come in handy1

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 23rd, 2004 at 11:02 PM
That appears to have only changed the color of the \"Submit\" button. I was taling about the \"Signer\", \"URL\" and \"Entry\" box BGs. Is that possible?
Comment posted on August 22nd, 2004 at 11:45 PM
welcome back roy!
Comment posted on August 22nd, 2004 at 11:11 AM
You\'re gonna love this: the reason most cell phone OS\'s lag is......they run on JAVA!! Yes, it\'s true, and no, I\'m not going to defend java like I often do...this time, it\'s definitely a Bad Thing. Hopefully cell phone makers will realize that it\'s shitty to use it as an OS and will start putting in the work needed to write a good OS in assembly, or at least C. Java has many applications, but an OS (especially for hardware which runs at just a few megahertz, like a cell phone) is not one of them.
Comment posted on August 23rd, 2004 at 05:15 AM
Yeah. Another example of how people try to overextend Java. Grrrrr.
Comment posted on August 22nd, 2004 at 08:11 AM
Well... I take lotsa coach... but i\'m at the other part of the world and not hot too.. geezz.. haha.. :-D :P

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 23rd, 2004 at 12:48 AM
You are hot. You are Roys type too. Want his phone number?
Comment posted on August 21st, 2004 at 10:58 PM
welcome back
Comment posted on August 21st, 2004 at 10:30 PM
Camera phone = Roy could start a moblog.

Roy\'s moblog = Tabulars (Tabuladians? Tabulites?) happy.
Comment posted on August 23rd, 2004 at 05:15 AM
Actually one of the reasons I really wnated to get a camera phone was to expand the mobile capabilities of Tabulas, but until 2.0 gets out and I have a solid framework to expand new features out upon, I can\'t afford to do it :/