Geiodo

Google wave, I have to say, is one of the only web apps that I took over an hour to figure out.

Google wave is like email on steroids. You can send multiple people a “Wave”, in which users use a comment -type content submission system.

These “comments”, are called “Blips”. Quotes “For The Win”.

Blips can be edited by all people, and I’m not 100% sure that they can be edited at the same time. I’ve tried, but it got pretty confusing. I’ll jut pretend that you can’t.

Although two people cannot edit the same blip at the same time, two people can create two separate blips at that same time, and see each other typing.

One cool feature about wave, is it’s ability to embed what they call “Extensions.”

These extensions are in a way, a replica of the flash player. They are a JS API for web based web apps. They use HTML for the JS, and GUI, which I have to say, is pretty cool.

I recently found a percentage bar extension, which, sadly, I’m not too impressed by. The GUI is great, and for that, I am using it, however, you are left to directly enter the percentage. I wanted it to instead take in a fraction, and from that generate a percentage.

So far, I have THAT done well, however I am trying, and failing at having the system save – AHA! Breakthrough… Explanation coming. – save the values.

However, when trying to resurface the values, only one attempt has worked, and I cannot replicate the results. All of my resources are pointing to this line of code – and even though ti works later in the script, it STILL refuses to work.

Line alert(“eviil” + state.get(‘in1′));

Alerts have worked before, and actually ONCE returned the correct value. It’s evil. Just plain EVIL!

Until….

That breakthrough. I think I know what might be wrong. state.get(‘in1′); might not be directly returning a string.

Perhaps creating a variable, specifying it as a string, and tTHEN setting it, will change my results.

Programming… I love it, but it drives me nutty when I can’t figure something out.

Here is a nice example of ad sneakiness, found on fail blog.

Most ads are much better at concealing their truth, than this, however this clearly explains what ad producers like to do.

At first glance, that ad says this: Our loss weight tea will lose you that much weight!

However, the ad simply says this person lost that much WITH the weight loss tea. That means that she could also have been doing any number of things, from liposuction, to giving birth. (Obviously the fat was from a baby.)

Depending upon “interpretation” (Word bending), Weight loss tea, can be anything between a magic potion that actually does induce weight loss, or a Japanese ritual tea that people would drink to celebrate weight loss. It could even mean that the particular flavor of tea was drunk on the day that someone broke the biggest loser all time record!

Which means, that the weight loss tea could actually be some store brand, or water with nasty leaves in it.

In other words, it could be an ad for regular tea, made to look more appealing by making it imply weight loss.

Never. Trust. Ads. (Unless the ad council made them.)

Anti Ad Intro.

Ever since false advertisement was banned (Whenever that was), ad producers have been very, very, sneaky. As the ban on false advertisement only extends as far as direct confirmation, ad producers have simply learned to work around the law; – They have found a way of doing legal false advertisement.

Implications. People around the web, and on TV, use implications to mislead readers into thinking that what the ads say is true. – When in fact, when an ad says “Done this with that”, the implication is that with means “only with”, however, if the company were to be sewed all they would have to do, is claim that the meant “with that, amongst other products.”.

Just for fun, and no practical reason, when I surf the webs, and see a false ad, I’ll blog about it, and point out all the sneakiness.