What is a Pseudorant?
A rant by definition is:
“a speech or text that does not present a well-researched and calm argument; rather, it is typically an attack on an idea, a person or an institution, and very often lacks proven claims.”
Ok so what is a “Pseudorant”? By the definition above a pseudo rant would be a rant that is “not genuine” or “false”.
This is very true to the original purpose of Pseudorant. This site was designed to share information that I found interesting with people. Being my first blog I was not sure of the direction I wanted to take the site in, so I tried many different approaches and angles.
I felt a lot of pressure to write a certain way, and to cover certain topics. This expectation was self defeating to the original purpose of Pseudorant.
While I do enjoy writing tech guides, it is the not the main focus I would like for the site. I would rather share all the interesting aspects of the internet and web culture I come across on a daily basis.
The internet is so massive and evolves so quickly that there is always something interesting happening that others should know about. With this being said I am going to actively pursue a slight shift in the focus of the site.
I will still continue to publish tech guides periodically about various topics I come across but I want to share more with people than just how to troubleshoot. I think that a lot of the subjects I will be presenting will appeal to the same audience that has read the blog for the past few months, and I look forward to any feedback or suggestions people have to offer.
I hope you look forward to the new content I will be posting, and keep checking back for all the latest happenings online in the tech world.
Totally Useless HTML Element of the Day – The <'em'> Tag
EHH<EM>!… Can I have your attention please!</EM>
Today I would like to talk about the <EM> HTML tag. While searching for information on another apparently useless HTML meta tag, I came across the definition for this HTML element.
The <EM> tag is used to put words in an “Emphasis” style, which strangely enough looks just like italics.
For Example!
There is apparently a distinct difference between the two tags though. The HTML standard defines the <EM> tag as being a “logical style” where the <I> tag is considered a “physical style”.
What this means is that a “physical style directs the browser to display in an italic typeface whereas the logical style directs the browser to display with a distinctive emphasis leaving it to the browser to decide how this is achieved (underlining or distinctive colour might be used).”
(Reference - http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/encyc/em.html - Page is no longer available)
In order to further explain the “Emphasis” tag the staff at the University of Wolverhampton performed several experiments with the <EM> tag in different browsers to see how the tag would be displayed. These were their findings:
“All browsers rendered the text using an italic typeface.”
(Side Note: In all fairness, blogs do happen to use the <EM> tag but they use it to create the effect that you get when you click on the “Italic” button in your editor.)
As always thanks for checking out Pseudorant. We appreciate the support.
EntreCard is Back Online after Fire at Hosting
EntreCard is backup and running after a fire at their hosting.
For those who use EntreCard you probably noticed that is was down from Saturday afternoon until Monday morning.
The message on their site informed people that a fire had broke out at their hosting company causing the company to shut down in order to address an issue of faulty power transformers.
As of today EntreCard is back up and running so you can all get back to dropping your cards. I have just recently started reading some articles about Power Dropping and was looking into some good ways of doing this when their server went down on Saturday.
I will have to get back to work on that tonight. If you are a member of EntreCard please feel free to drop us your card or advertise on the site.
Just a short post today, as I need to get back to work on a client’s website. Thanks for checking out Pseudorant. We appreciate the support.
Pseudorant on FeedBurner! - Help us Burn our RSS Feed!
Blog now on Feed Burner, Please Subscribe to our RSS Feed!
Hey everyone! You have probably noticed the new Feed Burner icon on the site. Ya I know, it has a purple background in the widget space. As someone with the OCD this is all I have been able to think about for the past 20 hours.
Joe who is more of a wiz with stylesheets and widgets than I am, has already instructed me on how to fix it but being the creative individual that I am, I implemented the code in a ”unique” way so I am waiting to hear back from him on the new fix.
But other than that, Pseudorant is now signed up on Feed Burner so please subscribe to our RSS feed. We still want you to visit the site because that’s the best way to truly immerse yourself in the bulk of our rants, but when you can’t make it to the site then settle for the next best thing… RSS!
We are currently at 12 subscribers on our RSS feed, but we are hoping for a lot more.
We will be hosting a small contest for all the readers that once we hit 250 subscribers we will post several sets of custom made icons, available for people to use in their blogs.
I am very obsessed with “Glass” buttons and will be making a bunch for our new theme that we will be implementing soon. (But I can’t talk about that now.)
I will be making many extras that we will be hosting for our readers to download, once we have hit our goal of 250 subscribers! So tell your friends and get them to subscribe!
If you have not already subscribed please check it out. Every last subscription counts! Thanks again for checking out the site. We always appreciate the support!
AddAsPodcast Bug for Amarok on Kubuntu
Does it really have to remind me every time I move my mouse?
I recently switched to Linux from Windows XP, and I could not be happier, but getting where I am today has not been a walk in the park. A friend once told me that “Linux isn’t free, you pay for it with your time” and although that may be true to some extent, it is not as true today as it once was.
That being said, I thought that I would chronicle my experiences with Kubuntu and write an article on any inconveniences I come across as a former “Windows user”. To start things off, here is a very annoying bug between Amarok and Dolphin - a combination of two bugs.
For those of you who are not familiar with these programs, Dolphin is the file explorer for KDE that comes with Kubuntu, and Amarok is the popular media player for KDE. Apparently, developers for Amarok forgot a line in one of their .desktop files (menu/shell extensions for dolphin) which results in an error. Meanwhile, developers of Dolphin thought it would be really funny if every time you had an error message in a .desktop file it should show a popup error message to tell you about it.
Now, if you don’t do anything with .html files or xml files, then you may never see this bug, but if you do then you’ll know what I mean. Dolphin accesses the broken file every time you mouse over an html or xml file, which means just moving your mouse over a file with a .html, .htm, or .xml extension will cause a popup error message to appear. This is unbelievably frustrating if you do any kind of web development, but at least it is fairly simple to fix.
Just open Dolphin (click on the System menu next to the K menu and select any folder) and click on the shortcut on the left-hand side for “root”. Then go to /usr/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus and look for the file named “amarok_addaspodcast.desktop” (it will probably be the first file listed).
Right click on it and choose Actions -> “Edit as root” from the submenu. Find the line that says “Icon=amarok” and add the following line after it (without quotes):
“Exec=amarok -a %u”
Save the file and you’re all set!
If for some reason the option for “Edit as root” doesn’t appear under the Actions menu, you can go up one folder and right click on the servicemenus folder and choose Actions -> “Open as root”. Then you should be able to just open the file normally and still be able to make changes.
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