After all who doesn’t actually have flash installed on their computer? I mean, jeez there is even an official gnu/linux version out there for all those geeks who have one less trip to the command line. Good news for everyone I guess, now that they no longer have to install some crappy plugin (read: RealMedia) or use quicktime or some other whatever to play an mp3 file on a website.

These players are simple, they open an mp3 file, read its contents, and use the magic of code and flashvars to create the sound. In fact some sites like http://www.youlicense.com rely on such flash code to help their business model.

Some places like http://myflashfetish.com use flash mp3 players for the myspace crew and I’m sure like the ad revenue they create through that pipe.

What I find odd is how even though many sites and many people use these players, will no longer see these wonderful devices. I pulled my own hair out for an hour or two trying to find out why my own mp3 players no longer showed up on websites.

My myspace page no longer had my favorite song playing. As the mp3 player no longer shows up. Go ahead, go to my myspace page (see right hand of this page). If you are using firefox v3 you won’t hear anything.

Go to youlicense and click anywhere on any link to any song. Click view source and search for .mp3 and see if you can find the flash player. Its in the code, but then why isn’t it being displayed?

Through my crazy intense research of using different browsers, I can see that as of now it seems to only be affecting ff3 as IE 6/7, opera 9/10, and earlier versions of Firefox all display the flash mp3 player.

Am I the only one? or is this a case where many users are going to have to yell BUGZILLA at the top of our lungs?

EDIT: Looking throught he 1pixelout website others are having a similar problem with firefox 3.

The EMFF player on sourceforge also seems to be affected by this.

Other than that I’ve been enjoying paying my own rent, gives me some weird type of satisfaction I guess.

Whatev…

This is bullshit, I had an xbox for 8 fucking years and it was usually located underneath blankets, nothing ever fucking happened to it.

How is it that the 360 is in every way an improvement to the xbox v1.0 except for the fact that its made out of pure shit?

Disgusting, I’m going to play my 7 year old gamecube that I dropped down the stairs that still works.

Thanks nintendo.

While I still love all of my instruments my electric guitar has been getting my ire recently. Sheerly for the fact that its just not good enough. Its weird, I used to think it was this ultimate godly guitar that could take on anything.

That was until I realized the strings aren’t supposed to be 1 inch of the neck, go figure.

Now that I have a job, I now have the money, and now that I have the money the schecter hellraiser is in my sights. Its all mine, and nobody can stop me.

The second I stopped by guitar center and plugged it in to a line6 I knew it was perfect for me, the pickups, the finish, the tuning, the action, the everything. It was perfect. Even the guy who was trying to get me to buy it at the time said to me “I can’t help but be biased towards them”.

Even if he did slightly push me towards the hellraiser instead of a silverburst epiphone les paul re-issue (which is what I originally wanted :/) I saw why he wanted to.
But ironically what made me want the schecter so much is that I wouldn’t have to buy a new case, since its a strat design it would fit in my nice road runner case and I wouldn’t have to spend the money.

Stupid? Not really, the cost of a new case in addition to the silver burst would make the price almost even. at 690 (case and silverburst) vs the schecter (700 flat). So I thought it would be wise to go with the schecter.

Soon it will be mine, no question about it.

I am a friend, and I hope that you know this.

To any of my friends, no matter how long its been since we’ve spoken, I want you to know that you are always in my heart.

No matter what happens to you, I am always there as a mentor, a buddy, a friend, just some dude to chill with.

I am always there, never forget that, because I forgot that once and to this day it still affects me in what I let happen to myself and others because I thought I was alone.

I say this again, in the pain you feel you are never alone, I share your burden with an armful of love and compassion. Whether it be a hug, or a lengthy conversation on the phone talking about whatever you need to talk about.

We all say that our friends are in our heart, but you need to mean it. You can’t just say that to hide any pain you are feeling because it won’t make it go away.

If you let me in, I will be in your heart, I will be with you forever, staying by your side no matter where you go, when your sleeping I’m dreaming your dreams for you and by your side.

I don’t care what you’ve done to get into the position you are, if you need any help, any advice, any thing at all that I can help with I will gladly do it.

Why do I do this?

Because I have faith in humanity as a whole, I believe that the majority of people that act retarded (purposly of course) because they either don’t know any better or are trying to hide something from the world.

For those who don’t know and do not care to know I have no sympathy for you, stay out of my way and don’t intervene with my life, for those who wish to know any relatively intelligent person can push you in the right direction.

For those trying to hide something from the world, I ask the question “do you think your the only one” I’ve felt what you’ve felt, and if I haven’t there are thousands of people that have. Talk to them, most of my friends live in rural areas unfortunately so face to face contact is sometimes not very prevalent, but there is this wonderful thing invented by Alexander Bell called the phone, apparently it lets you talk to people any where in the world.

We live in the most amazing society in the world, where we are (for the most part) allowed to do anything that doesn’t harm another person. Think of that for a second, anything. You have no right to deny yourself from doing anything great, but you can’t do anything great without starting to become great. Nobody runs before walking, its a lie.

I have no reason to write this essayish thought. Other than the fact that I believe that people have forgotten that there is always help for you. The pain is shareable and curable. And that people love you unconditionally for whatever you are and whatever you do.

I mean this as neither a religious statement nor as a sentiment of attention.

I am one of those people, I love all of you. Remember that.

But then again, how else are you supposed to learn but the correct way?

Also, Indiana Jones is still an awesome series. “How much life is wasted on waiting”. Holy shit, best line in the movie.

I need some luck.

Also, Hina if you ever read this you owe me lol.

I still have two more finals left over, Java and Pre-calculus… can you guess which one I’m actually studying for? If you have to think that hard then you don’t really know me.

Also, House M.D. = best show on tv right now.

Finally, this thing took 6 months to do. Still worth it though, had a blast doing it and now that its finally done I don’t wanna even hear the word Java for about 2 months.

Btw, the a+h thing is because when I get my transcript it will have an A for the class with an H for “honors successfully completed”
Shitiswin!

Of the three, I’m only not worried about programming.

Luke sucks.

But anyway, I also finished the honors project that I started about 6 months ago for programming class, and I go to present it on Thursday. Hopefully I get it so that way the grade shows up as “A-honors”… which apparently looks so much better right?…right?… thought so.

Any who, I also start work on Friday at alpine cinemas, place looks cool, people look nice and fun, and the job for all intensive purposes seems easy to complete. Typical stuff I guess, clean up that popcorn, wash those floors, stop those two kids from killing each other. You know, typical stuff.

The pay is good for a 18 year old living at home (which I have NO problem telling to anybody who’ll listen) and I’ll hopefully have enough to get some cool stuff. Working on that list now.