19 May 2004
…that I’ve ever accessed is this one. At the dentist (or, nuisu, as I imaginatively managed to spell it in an SMS to someone), this afternoon. I’m pleased to note that this page displays pretty nicely on a WAP browser, although the 3c/KB cost is somewhat prohibitive.
I checked the size of the front page when I got home, and I’m thinking the most it could have cost me is 51c, which I can deal with, I guess… I was thinking about making my “most expensive post ever” FROM my phone… now THAT would have been cool… but then I realised that would be two webpages away, and I could see this getting ridiculous – especially seeing that (of course), I would have to check the front page again (another 51c + the amount of data in the message posted x 3c) just to make sure that it worked… putting an entry up via WAP could easily come to $2 without blinking.
Which is kind of scary, seeing the most I’d ever paid for internet before then was $2.50/five minutes for 33.6k dialup in a dodgy Western Australia hotel. But anyway. That is an experience I’d rather not reflect on, thankyou.
This experience, however, rates as downright cool… I so better not make this a habit, or my mobile bill will be… lets just say several kilobytes in length.
19 May 2004
The first post I make after accessing it with uberly expensive WAP just happens to be the 11th, pushing the filesize of the front page down to slightly above 4KB, or 15c.
As mentioned previously, dentists are the cause of all sorts of angst when it comes to double bookings by certain people… now exorbitant mobile costs can be added to that list ;)
Got to love dentists. I’m meant to be going back in a few weeks… an opportunity for “most expensive post”?
18 May 2004
I read an interesting blog entry here today, on the various methods of selecting colour schemes for a website.
Whilst I’ve heard of the first two methodologies being used, I don’t think I ever really took it seriously… the “colours from nature” thing is something that I’d only heard spoken of briefly, and never really followed up.
Shows how great nature is, I guess, if we can even make great looking websites out of it!! ;) Thanks God for colour schemes!
18 May 2004
No, OGG audio files aren’t the same, for two reasons. One, eggs are pretty far from my favorite foodstuff (ranking slightly better than seafood), and, whilst I wouldn’t attempt to eat an audio file, I’m sure that if it was edible, I would enjoy it far more, and secondly, eggs don’t have per-track and album custom gain and peak settings.
Neither do MP3 files, for that matter. There you have it. Conclusive proof that there *is* a difference between eggs and oggs… and a possible connection between MP3s and eggs.
I don’t like MP3s. Although they’re not as bad as fish…
18 May 2004
Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend; inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
–Sam
Priceless ;)