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josephdunphy

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Joseph is a guy from Chicago, Illinois, USA

Politically Moderate, Underemployed Jewish Applied Mathematician / Electrical Engineer tutoring all knowing freshmen in Mathematics. This profile, like most of the Web, is optimized for a screen resolution of 1024 x 768, and must be viewed in Internet Explorer. A more complete listing of posts, including archived ones, can be found on the introduction page for this site, and is backed up on this page at Googlegroups, with occasional commentary found on Stumbling into the Void on Tribe.

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  • josephdunphys blog - StumbleUpon

    Rated Dec 14 2008 • 7 reviews • stumblers • stumbleupon.com






    Hi, again. I'm in the process of turning this profile into something that will be more of a blog. A recurring theme will be my attempts to build on what I've seen on some of the sites I've reviewed; what did I learn from visiting them, what subjects did they touch on, etc. You might have noticed the continued post format I was playing around with on the Draka and Steak Porn Video reviews; expect to see more of that, with some of the short, one-liner reviews moved into the spaces between the essays. What I'm trying to get away from is the idea of Stumbleupon as a bookmarking site, as I move toward making this into a site that one can simply sit down and feel comfortable reading; more like a magazine and less like a phonebook, or something like that.

    Comments about Stumbleupon related drama, past and present, can be found elsewhere, if you really want to read about that for some reason.




    Browser selection - Please pardon the imperious tone in my comments above, but Stumbleupon surprised us by changing the background color on our pages. In IE, my blog has a black background, and you can see the links. In Firefox and Chrome, the background is white, so you can't, unless you have logged into Stumbleupon, in which case you might see a black background even after you log out, again. Very silly. I can't imagine what they were thinking about, when they did this. It definitely damages the functionality of our pages, and causes a needless headache for visitors to SU.

    I regret any inconvenience, but would point out that this wasn't my idea or doing, and that unlike the SU staff, I have no say in it. If you'd like to know when this will be fixed, they're the ones to ask. I wouldn't have the faintest idea, myself.


  • ImageShack® - Image Hosting

    Reviewed Dec 14 2008 • 141 reviews • internet tools • imageshack.us




    While I'm not completely ready to do as preceding contributers have urged us and abandon Imageshack, I will vouch for what others have already said here - Imageshack will often delete completely inoffensive images seemingly at random. A picture of a house in a quiet residential neighborhood with nobody in the frame - how can that possibly be offensive? On a page whose counter is clicking, but just barely, at that - meaning that bandwidth consumption can't be an issue.







    Too sexy for Imageshack? Typical image from the Chicago photo gallery of mine mentioned in this post.







    On occasion, I've written in to these guys, reported the problem, received a friendly reply in return and the image has gone back up - temporarily. Then it has vanished again. Almost as if somebody was trying to win a test of wills. While this doesn't seem to happen to most images, it happens often enough to be a real annoyance and something to think about if one is about to post an image to a location where one won't be able to revise one's code later (eg. in a forum post).