NESpresso: Archives \ February 7, 2005 Entry

Welcome back to NESpresso, where the past is slowing catching up with us... not that there's anything wrong with that. You're probably wondering how much has changed over the weekend (excluding SuperBowl XXXIX). I can tell you that a brand new section has been added to the site.

As some of my older views may remember, NESpresso used to host a dictionary of cyberslang. During the latest reconstructions, the cyberslang dictionary was lost. Since the site is now getting updated on a more frequent basis, the CyberDictionary has returned. At this time, their pages are pratically empty, but I'm planning to hit the Internet Archives & see if those pages were grabbed (hopefully, they were... unlike my photo album) so I can recover some of the lesser-known slang terms.

Going off on a little tangent here, but I can't stand people who use "leetspeak" (or what prefer to call "Leekspeek") because it's just stupid. The phrase, "£0ö|< |-|Ø\/\/ ¢õõ|_ Í @|\/|!" (Look how cool I am!) took me like 5 minutes to look up all the alt codes using the Character Map to find all the alternate characters (some of them not really "web worthy") just to make it something that looks like somebody is verbalizing a seizure. Anybody that uses "leekspeek" to talk to others should really have their brain examined because why would anybody in their right mind communicate in such a butched manner? English can be hard enough to understand already with multiple meanings & spelling variations, why add an extra level of obscurity? I know that Cyberslang may be attacked by newbies, but it's something that's pretty simple to understand & use because it's mostly abbreviated words & phrases. Anybody that spends about an hour in a chat room would be able to pick up some of the most common Cyberslang terms.

I know with HTML that some of the uncommon characters & (&), < (<), > (>) and even © (©) have special HTML-complaint codes (which I have provided in parethesis, for those who use raw HTML) that all browsers understand. These special character codes are important when dealing with HTML, especially with the "angled brackets" (<>'s) because they're used to mark the HTML tags & one stray bracket can really destroy the look of a page. If you use a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, the program should the HTML coding for you to prevent problems like that.

That's enough ranting for me today... even though this rant will probably show up on my blogger (where it'll most likely enrage others) as this is something I strongly believe it a totally stupid thing that people do. I'll get to work on the CyberDictionary so it because somewhat useful & contemplate on wether or not I add my "personal area" on the site (Note: Cryptography skills required to view) to the site as well. I'll C'ya Latte!




		NESpresso:\> Archives \ February 7, 2005


		Welcome back to NESpresso, where the past is slowing catching up with us... not that there's anything wrong with that. You're probably wondering how much has changed over the weekend (excluding SuperBowl XXXIX). I can tell you that a brand new section has been added to the site. As some of my older views may remember, NESpresso used to host a dictionary of cyberslang. During the latest reconstructions, the cyberslang dictionary was lost. Since the site is now getting updated on a more frequent basis, the CyberDictionary has returned. At this time, their pages are pratically empty, but I'm planning to hit the Internet Archives & see if those pages were grabbed (hopefully, they were... unlike my photo album) so I can recover some of the lesser-known slang terms. Going off on a little tangent here, but I can't stand people who use "leetspeak" (or what prefer to call "Leekspeek") because it's just stupid. The phrase, "£0ö\|< \|-\|Ø\/\/ ¢õõ\|_ Í @\|\/\|!" (Look how cool I am!) took me like 5 minutes to look up all the alt codes using the Character Map to find all the alternate characters (some of them not really "web worthy") just to make it something that looks like somebody is verbalizing a seizure. Anybody that uses "leekspeek" to talk to others should really have their brain examined because why would anybody in their right mind communicate in such a butched manner? English can be hard enough to understand already with multiple meanings & spelling variations, why add an extra level of obscurity? I know that Cyberslang may be attacked by newbies, but it's something that's pretty simple to understand & use because it's mostly abbreviated words & phrases. Anybody that spends about an hour in a chat room would be able to pick up some of the most common Cyberslang terms. I know with HTML that some of the uncommon characters & (&), < (<), > (>) and even © (©) have special HTML-complaint codes (which I have provided in parethesis, for those who use raw HTML) that all browsers understand. These special character codes are important when dealing with HTML, especially with the "angled brackets" (<>'s) because they're used to mark the HTML tags & one stray bracket can really destroy the look of a page. If you use a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, the program should the HTML coding for you to prevent problems like that. That's enough ranting for me today... even though this rant will probably show up on my blogger (where it'll most likely enrage others) as this is something I strongly believe it a totally stupid thing that people do. I'll get to work on the CyberDictionary so it because somewhat useful & contemplate on wether or not I add my "personal area" on the site (Note: Cryptography skills required to view) to the site as well. I'll C'ya Latte! ~TStodden


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