Strazos in Rome.

[Strazos]

Hey, don't hate just because I don't put shit software on my system.

Ruins of Myth Drannor remake, unpatched.

Fuck you, and die in a rain of formatted HDD's.

[Yegolev]

Ironically, my computer, both pre and post-formatting/repartitioning, has never crashed.

Ever.

Have you ever used Win98 or older?  If so, and you ran games, I salute you as a statistical anomaly.

I suggest tweaking RAM settings in your BIOS, preferably on a VIA board.  That one worked wonders for me once.  Required a format/reload, even.

Software-wise, lots of things gave me a wonderful lockup.  Whenever a demon appeared in Darklands, for example.  On WinXP, try installing something useless like RadLinker on something besides C:, then try to upgrade or refresh.  Horrible.

[Viin]

Ironically, my computer, both pre and post-formatting/repartitioning, has never crashed.

Ever.

Then you obviously arn't using it hard enough.  Someone rustle up a few choice proggies for him - I'm thinking the Ruins of Myth Drannor remake, unpatched.  Maybe my old ATi card and some classic ATI drivers if I'm feeling unusually vindictive.

Either that, or he doesn't know a crash when he sees one.

[Samwise]

A "crash" is when the computer falls off the desk, right?

[Strazos]

Keep in mind, my system is a bit less than 3 years old.

Also, I have had Programs crash, but my system/OS does not.

I try to keep things very neat and clean.

[Strazos]

Weblog Update:

Courtesy of Samwise, all picture dumps will now be accompanied by a thumbnail page.

Past dumps have been updated accordingly.

[Shockeye]

Weblog Update:

Courtesy of Samwise, all picture dumps will now be accompanied by a thumbnail page.

Past dumps have been updated accordingly.

Air fresheners, please.

[SuperPopTart]

The pictures make me very much miss Italy :(

Now I want to move.


I hate Mississippi.

/rude

[Shockeye]

I hate Mississippi.

/rude

Spending too much money on bleach keeping all those sheets crisp white?

[SuperPopTart]

Sorry, Do I look hick?

[Samwise]

Courtesy of Samwise, all picture dumps will now be accompanied by a thumbnail page.

WOO!  Someone is making use of something I wrote!  I feel l33t.   :-D

[Viin]

Courtesy of Samwise, all picture dumps will now be accompanied by a thumbnail page.

WOO!  Someone is making use of something I wrote!  I feel l33t.   :-D

Too bad it doesn't work:

[Strazos]

You're broken then, because those pages are produced with the most simplistic, bare HTML.


Ever.

[Samwise]

Too bad it doesn't work:

You're broken then, because those pages are produced with the most simplistic, bare HTML.

Yup, you lose.  I can see it just fine.  Try using a better browser.

[Viin]

It helps if you form basic HTML *correctly*..

Incorrect:

Code:

<td><a href=100_3809.jpg><img src=thumbs\100_3809_jpg_thumb.jpg alt=""><br></a></td>

Correct:

Code:

<td><a href="100_3809.jpg"><img src="thumbs\100_3809_jpg_thumb.jpg" alt=""><br></a></td>

Thank you, please come again!

[Samwise]

So your browser depends on having quotation marks around every string attribute in a tag?  I've never heard of any browser requiring that.  Not even Opera, which is psychopathic in its adherence to the HTML spec.  (Although now that I look at it, the HTML 4.0 spec does seem to require quotes if you have underscores in the string, so what do you know.)

If it will make your neurotic browser happy, I'll change my program to throw quotes around everything.  Tomorrow.  I'm going to play GTA now.  As a temporary workaround, I repeat my earlier recommendation of switching to a better browser.

[Viin]

Yah it is kinda funky actually, and I'll bug it for Firefox to see if they can make it play nice.

I think it's actually the \, I think it's counting that as though you want to escape something rather than include it in the path to the image itself. Anywho, I'm sure I could use an inferior browser if I felt like lowering myself to that level.

Funny that Opera works.

[Samwise]

Why am I using backslashes instead of forward slashes?  That seems wrong.  I'll fix that tomorrow too.

[Samwise]

Fixed.  Straz, just get the latest copy here and run it with the same webthumb.txt file you had before.  It'll automagically regenerate the HTML in a more spec-compliant fashion.

[Strazos]

Ok, the HTML should be fixed now. Also, I am, at this moment, uploading whatever pictures I took from my weekend trip to Florence and San Gimignano.

Also, today I went through the Vatican museums, including the Cistine Chapel - All without instantly bursting into flames for my heathen ways. Unfortunately, I thought we were doing Just the Cistine Chapel, so I didn't bring my camara (I had no idea how things were set up there). I had to turn to buying a Kodak disposable. Hopefully, I can get the film developed with a picture CD within the next couple of days.

I'll probably have a somewhat-lenghty entry for the blog later tonight...I'm just simply not in a writing mood at the moment. Here is a hint...

Tiësto.

Oh yeah...Go Phantoms, baby.

[Toast]

I just got back from two weeks in Italy.

Make sure you go to the Villa Borghese museum. You can walk to it from the Spagna metro stop. It requires telephone reservations a day or two in advance, but it's well worth the visit.

Also, try to find a restaurant called "Alfredo's (in the Pantheon area, I think)
http://www.alfredos.com/roma.html

Best fettucine alfredo I have ever tasted, and it's not even close. They apparently invented it. Most food in Rome is absolute crap, so this place was a huge boost to our trip.

Also, remember to drink your espressos or cappucinos standing at the bars as the locals do. It'll only cost about .8 euros each that way versus 2 to 4 euros at a table.

PS. Get to Venice if you can. Absolutely ridiculously cool. It's literally like travelling back in time 400 years.

[Furiously]

Anarchy Online - at release?

[Strazos]

Anarchy Online - at release?

Way to drop the ball and fall asleep while looking for it, Furiously. 

Make sure you go to the Villa Borghese museum. You can walk to it from the Spagna metro stop. It requires telephone reservations a day or two in advance, but it's well worth the visit.

Also, try to find a restaurant called "Alfredo's (in the Pantheon area, I think)
http://www.alfredos.com/roma.html

Best fettucine alfredo I have ever tasted, and it's not even close. They apparently invented it. Most food in Rome is absolute crap, so this place was a huge boost to our trip.

Also, remember to drink your espressos or cappucinos standing at the bars as the locals do. It'll only cost about .8 euros each that way versus 2 to 4 euros at a table.

PS. Get to Venice if you can. Absolutely ridiculously cool. It's literally like travelling back in time 400 years.

I can't promise anything about the museum, since we're all in class most of the day, and away on weekends.

I'll have the try this restaraunt, along with another someone suggested earlier within this thread. Just as you just said, Roman food is very....meh. Exception so far: Ristorante da Cesare, out sorta-kinda-but-not-really near the Vatican (Via Crescenzio 13 if anyone cares). The food was pretty darn good, especially my antipasta, which looked like poop on a cracker, but tasted great. I later found out it was a meat sauce made from chicken liver...good stuff.

And I'll be in Venice for a day/night right after I am done in Roma.

PS: I actually haven't been drinking a whole lot of coffee...mostly a metric fuckton of Gatorade/Powerade, with some water too...but it Has to be Naturale, not that fizzy shit; It makes me sick trying to drink it.

[Toast]

Haha.

We all got hooked on the Powerade. They make it with more sugar or something. That sparkling water stuff is horrible.

Have fun and beware the gypsies.

[Paelos]

The best gelatto place I ate at was on the corner near the Trevi Fountain, and the most interesting pizza place was a small shop down the road from the Parthenon. If you haven't found either of these places I recommend them for food.

[Strazos]

... the most interesting pizza place was a small shop down the road from the Pantheon.

Fixed a gross error for ya.

[Strazos]

Some more pictures up, though I would say the quality for most of them is...lacking.

Bigass Church + weak/no flash = darkass pictures.


I would really like to get a blog entry in tonight, but it's up in the air, depending on how I feel after I get out of the shower later. And hey, it might even be a somewhat angry post, who knows...


PS: Feel free to post comments on the actual blog. It'd be nice to know that more than 2 people are reading the slop I post. 

EDIT: New blog entry is up. I'm a bit tired, so the writing is somewhat weak, and not nearly as scathing as it could be, but I wanted to get it done before I head off to Capri/Sorrento/Pompei for 3 days. Ciao Bella.

[Toast]

Am I missing something? The posts at your blog are mostly password protected.

[Strazos]

Again, for those who missed it...


ASRoma (case-sensitive).

Am I missing something? The posts at your blog are mostly password protected.

Got back from Sorrento, Capri, and Pompei a few hours ago. Some decent pics to be seen; they'll be up later tonight, hopefully with a blog entry.

[Samwise]

Bigass Church + weak/no flash = darkass pictures.

Turn off the flash for church pictures.  And use a camera that'll adjust its exposure time based on the light levels.  Then hold your hand really still.   

[Toast]

A huge percentage of the church pictures my brother and I got in two weeks were blur-tastic. My camera has anti-shake, and the long exposures were a killer without a tripod.

[MrHat]

Pffft.  My trip > Your trip.

Except for my apartement in Paris.

Rue Monseiur le Prince indeed.

Best Gelato in Italy: Florence, just down the river from the Uffizi Gallery towards the sexy bridge there.  Get the lemon it's fantastic.

Venice is awesome, but so expensive.

Best meal:  At our host's house, she cooked for us.  Asparagus Alfredo and Tuscan Steak ftw.  96' Chianti is love.

Double Edit:  Florence > Rome.  Wish I had a car for Tuscany.

Triple Edit: Beer in Germany IS better!

[Strazos]

I could cut up the post, but instead, I'll just remind everyone that I still have 20 days and 6 cities left before I come home.

I also may go down to Naples this weekend to check out the museum and climb Mt. Vesuvius.

Don't count your chickens before they've hatched, etc etc.

[Signe]

No one has said anything in here for two days.  I thought I would so Strazos would think someone cared.  Time enough to ignore him when he gets back.

[Furiously]

No one has said anything in here for two days.  I thought I would so Strazos would think someone cared.  Time enough to ignore him when he gets back.

whozos?