Category: Web

Burger King’s website sucks

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I had a taste for a salad at lunch yesterday. My first stop to check the nutrition values was Burger King’s site. I checked their TenderGrill Chicken Salad since it’s my favorite. Even with full-fat dressing, it comes to only 490 calories (that includes their yummy garlic parmesan croutons) which turned out to be lower than any of the quasi-appealing salads at McDonald’s or Wendy’s. [Why is everyone obsessed with bacon bits? Is it just me who doesn’t care for them?] But this isn’t as much about the food as it is about their website. Although I have noticed that ever since I started counting calories again, I’m appreciating the food I eat more. Or obsessing over it. Semantics.

I understand that everyone and their brother codes their site to include Flash these days. It can be nice, there’s no doubt. But what it can also be is slow and annoying. That’s where BK’s site comes in. Granted, it turns out it’s slower in Firefox than IE, but still, the web designer should have tested their site in the two most popular browsers, don’t you think? Furthermore, I don’t want to watch a paper bag with BK’s logo on it rotate into different shapes and then turn into another animation representing the navigational item I’ve chosen before I get the result I want. If I ask to see the nutritional info, just show it to me. And how helpful is a flash map if I can’t copy and paste the address? I have to write it down? What’s that all about? I think they should worry a little less about how “cool” their site looks and code it to be quick and easy to use. A foreign concept, I know!

Elmhurst googles sex? Not necessarily

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This story that is proliferating the internet and local radio stations is a bunch of bunk. Want to know why? It just so happens that the largest Comcast headend in the Chicagoland area is located in Elmhurst. It serves pretty much all the Comcast internet users of Cook and Dupage counties. And since Comcast is the biggest IP in the area, it’s no wonder the area has the highest hits on searches for sex. So yea, maybe those counties search for sex more than others, but it isn’t actually the residents living in Elmhurst. Anyone in Cook and Dupage has an IP address that traces back to that headend in Elmhurst, that’s all. I live 10 miles from the town but my IP address goes back to Elmhurst too. You’d think someone would have figured this out by now. So don’t believe everything you read. Google isn’t God. But apparently people in Illinois are horny.

Bloglines

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Forever behind in the times, I just started using Bloglines yesterday. I tried to sign up and it told me I already had … so god knows when I did that. But anyway, so far I really like it. I keep adding more and more of my reads to it since most sites have a feed now. Even Flickr shows up on there when someone posts a new photo! No more clicking on every site in my bookmarks just to see if they have updated. Whatever will I do with all this new found free time?

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Why iTunes is dangerous

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Upon my readers’ suggestions, I downloaded and installed iTunes to my PC (running Windows XP) last week. Holy crap, do I love it! But it is dangerous because by default it uses one-click song purchasing, so if you’re wrapped up in a momentary “I love this song” stupor as you sample a 30-second clip, the next thing you know you’re downloading it and your credit card has been charged. Just like that, thank you drive through please. So I changed it to use a shopping cart instead. I can’t handle impulse-buying and they know we’re a generation of gotta-have-it-nows. In any case, there are eight songs sitting in my “Buy???” playlist because I have to seriously think about whether I want them.

While browsing through the lovely iTunes, I came across this song by Robert Smith, Perfect Blue Sky, that I had never heard before. It’s mixed by some guy called Junkie XL. I started listening to his album and now I can’t decide if I want to download some songs from it, or just buy the whole thing. I really like the song he did with Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. Then later it occurred to me that my favorite song off my newest Oakenfold cd is mixed by this Junkie XL guy too. I recommend you check it out, particularly if you’re a Cure fan because it definitely has a Cure aura in certain parts. It’s called Legacy – (Junkie XL remix, with Infusion).

Somnambulist

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I hate it when I like one song off an album and that’s it. I don’t want to buy the whole album just for that one song. I’ve considered paying for a digital download, but I’ve never done it before. What format do most sites put the file in? Can you burn it to a cd? If so, is there a limit? Someone please educate me. I need to get my hands on Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist) by BT since I can’t find a reputable store that sells the single.