Entries from October 2008 ↓

As of version 0.2, Quizine provides a set of reports detailing quiz results (screenshots here and here).

In addition, the application demo can now be downloaded with a bundled Tomcat. This package contains the demo .war file and can be downloaded as a .zip or as a .tar.gz (see Download section from the project page).

I hope I’ll find some time to write some decent documentation about it, including both setup and user guide.

This Crap 2.0 thing is really getting out of hand. Seriously. I am not 100% sure, but I believe it all started with the Web 2.0 idiocy. I don’t think anyone needs to hear anymore about that shit with web as a platform, tagging as new mechanism to remember stuff for imbeciles-that-can’t-navigate-a-tree-structure, Ajax as the new Jesus, social networking as a new term for “Are you a horny teenager, bisexual voyeur, or child-molesting monster? Sign-up now for free!”, etc. We’ve been there too many times and we all know what a big pile of crap that is.

What is really dangerous about this Penis 2.0 is that there’s a huge number of autistic morons who claim to have something to do with reality, and believe that everything that comes out their ass should be labeled as “2.0″. “Wow, my crap smells different today – I’ll call it Shit 2.0″.


The Orifice 2.0
For example, I don’t understand (nor I am very interested in) what people could talk about at an “Office 2.0″ conference. I believe we can all admit that office tools are in an eternal pre-alpha and has a long way to come until we’ll have a stable 1.0. For Christ’s sake, am I the only one that has had it with word processors that always (and by default) know better than you what you meant by typing “-”, and not “–”? If only I was there to smack a keyboard in the head of the idiot that had for the first time the genius idea to “improve my productivity by auto-correcting my typing mistakes”.

The desktop tools for office are still retarded. Most of these suck an elephant’s cock. They’re all slow, unintuitive, rigid, and very temperamental about changing default settings (that, of course, if you can make it to the long expedition of getting to that unreachable check box).
Now these guys (and lots others), in the name of “online productivity & collaboration” are taking everything (or most things) on the web (see Google Docs and Zoho, etc.). Wow, that’s awesome. The desktop application that was almost completely integrated with my OS couldn’t satisfy half my needs, and now I am supposed to believe that a browser-based office suite will? Does anyone in the room is still listening to this? Doesn’t anyone feel abused?

I am big Wiki fan, if we must speak about “online collaboration”. However, we all know that the target of these tools hardly contains any individuals with non-technical education. And maybe this is the point that we are missing: why should every moron “collaborate and be productive online”? No matter what democracy tells you, we’re not fucking equal (and surely not with the same level of intellectual development).
So I can’t take things like Orifice 2.0 seriously until I see a 1.0 that has an at least 70%-to-30% rate of usefulness vs. annoyance. Right now we’re at about 10%-to-90% with most desktop tools, so good luck with the browser solution.
And another argument for this (for those of us who can edit a Wiki in plain-text mode): http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/a-web-os-are-you-dense.html.


The retarded playboy that thinks he is artistically inspired by the comments on his blog post where he wrote about the fact that he has grown pubic hair.
I’ve seen this commercial first on Romanian television, and I gotta say I was surprised to survive it. I was expecting some serious brain damage (although if it happened, I couldn’t confirm it, could I?) and probably muscular spasm after hearing one of the final lines: “I am …. The first 2.0 poet”.

Bitch, say what? Oh my fuckin’ God! Are you serious? Was this produced in a mental institution? It was enough for me to hear that the moron thinks that his downloads uptown and uploads downtown have anything to do with poetry. It was already abusing the fact that he is such an idiot to believe that he has a girlfriend “half the globe away” – dude, if she’s half the globe away you can call it whatever you want, but that doesn’t mean she won’t bang half of the neighborhood.

This guy is such an imbecile that it makes my brain hurt. Especially when he’s telling us that he sent a picture to his mom with a kid that looked just like his brother. Huh? Dude, maybe you should ask you’re mom what she’s been up lately, but he might just be your brother.
And still, he thinks he’s a god-damn poet. Now I know this is just a commercial. But am I supposed to take this shit seriously?

I don’t know that much about poetry, but I could never guessed that these guys need a versioning mechanism. What in the world should 2.0 mean for poetry? Will all poets have blogs and talk about their penises and occasionally brag about having crazy-ass-bitches girlfriends abroad? All poets should start learning about downloading (uptown) and uploading (downtown), do web casts and such? What exactly is it, ’cause I don’t get the point? Does any of these has anything, and I mean anything, to do with poetry?

I believe that these are two relevant examples related to STD 2.0 and the way it is spreading. Basically, wherever you turn your head, there’s a moron with the head up his ass trying to impress the crowd and that’s it – there’s no 2.0 about it. Is the same sales and marketing people, with the same autistic behavior, licking their own balls. Nothing new about it, so stop calling it 2.0.
We are not re-inventing everything (and we shouldn’t). We are not re-defining the world as we know it. This is just a lame show with fewer and fewer audience. So why don’t you guys just give us all a break and stop insulting our intelligence?

My new baby project, Quizine, has now a demo .war file that you can download to and deploy in any Java web application container.

Since this .war is for demo purposes only, it uses an HSQL database running in-process and memory-only. As a consequence, all changes that you make will only be consistent until you restart the container, at which point they will be reset.

You can also check the project’s main page (http://code.google.com/p/quizine) where you can find additional details about getting the application, building it, running, etc.

Quizine is a project I’ve been working for quite some time now. It is a questionnaire management solution built as a Java Web application.

Although it is in only a first draft, I am hoping to find some time to finalize it and create a comprehensive and robust quiz tool. For this, any suggestions or contributions are highly appreciated at this stage, as the concept is still in the process of being defined.