Seth Hoisington

But there is a solution. If you are like me and you can’t stand people who download these annoying layouts for their myspace, because somehow they think making every image blur or reverse or having a dizzzying background is teh kewl, they are wrong. It’s annoying and makes me want to click off of your page even sooner. But now there is a solution for Firefox users. Goto http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3316and download their greasemonkey script. You will need Greasemonkey first which is available here http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
Now browse through Myspace minus all the CSS junk. It’s not perfect, but does make the entire experience of Myspace better.

Also, here is an interesting article I read last week about Myspace, http://www.valleywag.com/tech/myspace/myspace-the-business-of-spam-20-exhaustive-edition-199924.php I encourage all myspace users to read it. Below is an excerpt from the article written by Trent Lapinski. (When he references the name “Anderson”below, that is Tom, the friend everyone gets when they sign up. Tom Anderson is his full name)

“Most users believe that MySpace started as some kind of fluke–a happy accident that began in Anderson’s bedroom or garage–and many still don’t wonder, know, or care about the site’s real business history and model. Heralded as a haven of DIY self-expression, MySpace was actually created by executives whose backgrounds are anchored in spam and mass marketing, and who are tied to investment scandals. With his almost alternateen good looks, Tom Anderson has served as an exceptionally convincing distraction. The PR campaign is one of MySpace’s two strokes of genius, brilliant, but not groundbreaking.”

I don’t think anyone likes being sick, but uggh. I had my first experience of Ethan getting his parents sick. Welcome to the world of parenthood has been the general concensous from friends. To make matters worse. Ethan was feeling 100% yesterday and Jessica and I were at -100%. So here we were, confined to the couch and floor, while Ethan ran around all crazy like. I felt bad, but we let the TV raise Ethan yesterday. We usually restrict TV watching to a minimum, but yesterday was an exception. Of course we had to watch some Backyardigans, no day would be complete without them. We also tried to read some books with him, but trying to focus on something for more than 5 minutes was difficult. Every single joint and muscle in my body ached. Luckily, Jessica had heard about this stuff called Zicam, so we mustered up some energy and made a trip to the store to get out of the house for a little while. That was the hardest shopping trip I have ever made. I felt bad when random people would stop us to say Hi to Ethan (common occurence when we go out)Here we were potentially infecting them. Anyways, back to the reason we went out (plus the fact that the fridge was empty). The Zicam Cold and Flu medicine worked great. Within 10-20 minutes after taking it, the soreness started to subside and my head got clearer. Now we bought the spoon verison of the medicine which is pretty gross. It’s like pouring a thick syrup into your drink and it doesn’t difuse well. So you have to slam your drink to not get sick with the consistency of the syrup. It might work better in a hot drink. But grossness aside, the stuff works awesome. Luckily Ethan took a 3 hour nap after our shopping and lunch break in the day, So I was able to get some much needed rest. Through out the day I kept changing from pants to shorts and back to pants. For about an hour I would be freezing and then I would shift to burning up. It sucked. Thankfully, when the alarm went off this morning, I felt much better. I would write more, but since the time I started to write this entry, I have had to reply to about 20 emails, 5 IMs and 3 phone calls.