I first heard of MySpace a couple years ago and at first I thought it was another file storage site and paid it no attention.  Then came the unencumbered whining from fellow friends and family telling me that I absolutely had to get a MySpace account.

From the start I HATED and LOATHED MySpace!  It seemed that it was an excuse for everyone to have their own piece of the web and design those late 1990 style web sites with the animated graphics that just scrolls for an infinity below the fold, and has absolutely no real content.

Does anyone even view their own MySpace page?  Are they even aware that half of them have a page that is 2 miles long with 800 animated graphics, 50 YouTube videos, and a music player from 10 different sites that are all programmed to play upon load?  I mean seriously, if I am going to look at a web page, I would like a little control over the content.  If there is a song to play, I would like the option of pressing play.  Not spending 5 minutes trying to scroll up and down to look in between cheesy glitter graphics in order to find the music player and press stop.  Yes, you are right, that is your page.  But why do I want to look at it and listen to hardcore rap using the F word and calling each other the N word repeatedly?  If I like that kind of music I am fully capable of finding it on my own.

I still haven’t discovered the purpose of changing the name that goes under your profile picture to a reminder of your upcoming birthday.  Or a shout out to your loved one.  That might be useful information, but now, I have no clue who you are.  Or using your photo album to advertise your political, religious, or sexual affiliations.  Its so convenient when I look at my own page to see a picture of two guys making out, under where it lists my friends.  The scary part is I can’t see there faces and the persons name is “I love my new car”.  I know that my brother is somewhere in the mess but he has changed his name to a redundant statement and is using a picture of himself on top of a mountain in front of the sun making it look like a little green man exiting his space ship.  Which now I wonder, has my brother gone gay?  Or he being abducted by aliens?  Bottom line, I am unable to tell anyone apart, so I am always opening with “Who are you?  Which after the 100th time they are getting annoyed with me for not keeping up.  So now that I don’t know who anyone is, what is the point?

I try to stay on top of things and try to make myself available on every site that is on the web.  But MySpace?  This is goodbye.  Your tacky user pages filled with useless graphics and drowned out by all the ads make it too unbearable for me to endure any more.  Maybe if I could control how much content loads, or just get a quick summary before I download half a million pictures of a kitten smoking a joint.  Maybe it would help if I could just stay logged in, between visits.  Nope, not happening.  So this makes my final word easy to say…, Goodbye MySpace, and too all of you who insist that I view your page, get a clue!

tried this new tweak that I just posted…, and damn! It works. Along with the high speeds I was getting already it made them jump up even more. Here you can see for yourself.

Pay a little closer attention to the top download…, its not kB/s

This is more over all download rate.

Someone was asking how I am able to get such good download speeds. While most of it is because the internet is Korea is the fastest in the world, here is a guide that will help anyone improve thier torrent downloads…

I never noticed it until today, but certian parts of my blog, mainly the administrative part has this little button on it.

Basically its a site discrediting Internet Explorer (IE) and showing you all the other browsers they have out there. I don’t use IE unless I have too. I will use it when adding new content to my page to see if it is being viewed correctly but thats it. I use Firefox and have for a couple years now. The ease with the tabs make it more than easy to use. But listen to some of the comments this site has to say about why not to use IE.

New York Times:

Ms. Sandlin is so devoted to [Firefox] that she has taped a note to her monitor warning guests not to click on the desktop shortcut to Internet Explorer. Do not touch the blue ‘E!’ the note says.

USA Today

Using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser to surf the Internet has become a marked risk — even with the latest security patches installed.

The Inquirer

The US Government has sent out a warning out to internet users through its Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), pleading users to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

eWeek

Meanwhile, security researchers are reporting a new vulnerability in SP2 that could allow a malicious Web site to deposit an attack program on a user’s system.

The attack utilizes Internet Explorer’s drag-and-drop features and the Windows “shell folders” to copy an executable from a malicious Web site to a user’s startup folder, from which it would execute the next time the user logged on.

Now do you need any other reasons? Click the button above to read more. Or if I have convinced you use the one below to just go get firefox.