The Darkest Evil

As one of the very few Rexanni employees (and the only “designer” on the Rexanni team) I am charged with the duty to code and design EVERY Rexanni site. But, to kick off the series of new designs I am developing, I want to show you the new design I have planned for THIS site. It’s pretty sweet and I hope you like it, I did while I was creating it. (Thanks to Bryan, Heather and Skye for their critiques. I really appreciate it guys!)

Edit: I edited the words to convey my true opinion

Why is this bad? Well, the Internet is a very social network and it was built to be decentralised and an open standard. However, this bill will make it more impossible to run a website with the truth. How so, you ask? Well, here are the reasons MY blog and site would be effected if Net Neutrality were to fail in the states.

1. I tell about my bad experiences of Charter Cable, AOL, Microsoft and all those mother fuckers so once Net Neutrality fails, they will have the power to block my content or make it slower.
2. Advertisements and advertising partners will make less payouts to webmasters and give the ISPs and Telcos more money to prioritise their advertisements. Content is king and it is the reason why the Internet is so successful. Would someone watch 30 minutes of television to see 29 minutes of advertisements as opposed to just 6 minutes of advertisements? Of course not! We would get out a bit more and enjoy life and do other things. And eventually, since we wouldn’t be able to see the benefit of having a “high-speed” internet connection, we’d cancel it in a heartbeat.
3. Do you really think we’d be able to use Instant Messengers from other ISPs? Like if I were using Yahoo!’s DSL programme in the states, do you think that I would be able to gain the same level of connectivity with MSN Messenger, ICQ and AOL IM that I would gain with Yahoo!? Of course not, because Yahoo! would love to try to drive people to help improve it’s market share.
4. Great sites like The Pirate Bay and Boxtorrents would drastically be reduced in popularity as we would probably have an even lower level connection to bittorrent.
5. Firefox is gaining considerable steam and market power. Now, if Net Neutrality fails, it may be that the only browser you will be able to use (if you use MSN or an ISP that works with MSN) is Internet Explorer. That sucks, doesn’t it?

So I approve of Net Neutrality.

I have decided to start using the trackback feature of my blog. Why? Well, there are several reasons to this theory.

1. The feature is built in. No escaping it, so why not use it?
2. Trackbacks are great for your Technorati rating. Plus, if you are like me, you like going into your WordPress administration panel and seeing that there are more people linking to your blog. Nice ^^.
3. It gives the authour of the post where your link is going to appear that SOMEONE is paying attention to their blog. It’s usually very uplifting to Trackback.

Of course, there is always for trackbacks to be abused, but if you have WordPress (great blogging software, must say), you should use Akismet. It is very successful and I’ve had no probs with it.
So rev up those trackbacks everyone!

Steve Jobs announced in his Keynote speech this month that there would be new games on the iPod as well as movies with DVD quality on the iTunes Music Store. With over 75 titles to begin with, Apple has truly made it’s music store the world’s largest place to waste your entire paycheque on.

Why do I say this? Well, I have always found The Pirate Bay to be one of the best places to get MY movies (and the other would be BoxTorrents). In fact, once I get my new Mac Pro, I am going to burn myself a copy of The Ultimate Matrix Collection.