Drupal sucks!

Actually, Drupal is a pretty nice CMS and you certainly can’t complain about the price.

A CMS (Content Management System) is supposed to be a simple way to post information online. A blog is simply one form of content management. A CMS usually supports many types of content including blogs and forums.

Drupal is pretty nice and does pretty much what I need, though there aren’t many very good-looking themes and I never bother to spend the time to make my own. However, there is just one “quirk” that I cannot forgive.

If you are filling in a whole bunch of content and you navigate to another page by accident or your internet connection goes down, you will lose all your work! It doesn’t matter whether you’re pressing the back button or reloading the page, you will be greeted with a nice blank form.

When WordPress and Blogger.com has auto-save, this is simply unforgivable. The freakin’ browser will even remember your form data as long as it doesn’t crash! You have to actually go out of your way to physically clear out the form data to do what Drupal is doing! It’s probably dynamic HTML or some AJAX bull-crap from the Web 2.0 kool-aid that’s causing the issue. I don’t care, just don’t wipe my data for a simple navigation error! 6 versions of this software and I write in Notepad so I don’t lose my work. It’s simply ridiculous.

Japanese TV

Here’s a funny blog post about Japanese TV:
http://www.gaijinsmash.net/archives/drivel_in_a_box_1.phtml

Looks like Japanese TV has remained pretty much the same since I’ve been there.

I actually like Japanese variety shows, or to be more specific, the segments they show during it. It’s fun to watch a Japanese dude staying with some tribe in Africa hunting lions or cute, newly-wed housewives around the world cooking their husband a home-style breakfast in their cuisine.

One particular interesting bit I remember was when they compared the total monetary value of gifts (called 貢ぎ物) given to Shinjuku’s top host and hostess. It looked like the top host would win with a luxury car when at the very end the hostess remembers, “Oh yeah, that condo I’m living in was also a gift.”

What I CANNOT STAND in variety TV is watching the reactions and discussions by celebrities after they watch the segments. WHY AM I WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE WATCHING TV?? Maybe I should gather some friends and make a video of us watching celebrities watching TV. Then I can make a video of us again watching that video. Geesh.

Still, in my opinion, Japanese TV is way better than US programming. Also, I think they were doing reality shows before they really took off in the US and it never seemed to descend to the level of trash like “Flavor of Love”. For instance, 「あいのり」 started over 6 months before the first season of Survivor (ugh).

By the way, my wife LOVES London Hearts.

まさかこんなことになるとは

最近、自分のスケジュールをよく見て、運動する時間がまったくないことに気づいた。体重が本当にやばくなっているので、仕方なく、運動の優先度を上げることにした。でも、今のスケジュールに入る余地もない。こうなったら、睡眠時間を削るしかないと、そういう結論にたどり着いて、朝6時に起きてジョギングを始めた。

6時起床は、2日連続で、まだ死んでいないから、とりあえず可能だということがわかった。しかし、早起きが苦手で有名な私は、いつまでこんなことを続けられるかは不明。昨晩は、8時に倒れて11時まで寝たら、朝3時まで眠れなくなっちゃった。

う~、1日の時間を増やせないかな?火星では、1日には24時間+39分があるらしい。火星植民地化はいつごろできるんだろう?あんまり期待しない方がいいか。