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I hate UTF-8!!!!

Posted on Tuesday January 24, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

I feel I need to share that with you.

If charsets were athletes, UTF-8 would be in the special olympics and have a special handicap sticker on it’s car!!! GAWD!!!! ARRRRGH!!!!

Currently I’m doing a MySQL database which features musicians with lots of wild schwas and tildes and accents. My host (for reasons that elude me) now has it so the data converts to UTF-8. So artists like Mel Tormé and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen turn into illegible words with question marks.

This is why I still use ISO-8859-1 for my charset, I mean how will Mötley Crüe survive the internet with such a restrictive and retarded charset like UTF-8??? I have since had to drop my “®” from WHUZZUP!^® because most feeds crash from it.

So if you need these funky characters you can use this chart.

Whoever you are that came up with UTF-8… I hate you too.

Eric Brooks

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Kinja Cards? How cool!

Posted on Sunday January 22, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

I just stumbled on this trying to find out what the hell happened to Reverend Mykeru…

Kinja Card for WHUZZUP – It’s… it’s…
Well, I don’t know what it is, but it’s pretty cool! And it ties in to Technorati, Way Back Machine, Alexa and all sorts of goodies. Continue reading “Kinja Cards? How cool!”

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Let us make MLK in OUR image, after our likeness

Posted on Monday January 16, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
-Malcolm X

“Be that change you want to see in the world.”
-Ghandi

Usually on this day, I can look all over the web and someone, somewhere is reshaping Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into a supporter of their cause. You name it. He’s for/against the Iraq War, he’s suddenly a vegan and a card-carrying member of PETA, he’d join the fight for gay marriage.

Frankly, I doubt the last one. As a man of the cloth, I’d imagine his view of homosexuality would be very much the same as any religious figure… I *DO* see the parallels, and this is a matter of Civil Rights and equality… and even in his own words “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” ring true in this case.
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Do Onto Others (Until they know how it feels)

Posted on Thursday January 12, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

New Rant in SoApBoX…
Do Onto Others (Until They Know How It Feels)

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Erox is Dead! Long Live Erox!

Posted on Monday January 9, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

I’m better now. 🙂

It seems for a while I was lost, and couldn’t see the bigger picture (I hate when I do that).

I needed a good flow of negative energy to respark my need and will to survive.

Yes. I need my hate and rage and pain. It’s what keeps me feeling for others. I need my chaos and mayhem to appreciate order. I need to see the world through the eyes of a child to tap into the magic and wonder that we seem to lose over the years. No matter how absurd it appears on the surface… I need to believe, and listen to that still, small voice inside me as my guide.

I need to believe and set my course to the largest star and follow it.

And that star is leading me the hell out where I currently live.
All I needed was a chance….

(Special thanks to ~T~, MissD, Bob, Jeanna and Lee for helping me find my way back…)

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ANARCHTICA: Colder than hell

Posted on Friday January 6, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

How am I?
Are you SURE you want to know?

Well the nightmares are getting worse. Much worse. I’m afraid to sleep. I take little cat naps, and I’m tired all the time. Recent events have left me questioning what’s real and who is just feeding me bullshit to get what they can out of me. I have just enough energy to put on a “happy face” for an hour or two before I have to excuse myself, and break down and cry again. Most of the time I don’t want to get off the couch to do anything.

I’ve lost that spark too. That part of inspiration that helps me to tap into my imagination and make magic. It’s gone. Like someone blew out the pilot light in me. Nothing adds up or makes sense to me anymore.

I find me back in the little world I’ve come to know as “ANARCHTICA” (Note the spelling, I’m not talking about the South Pole). It’s the place in my mind where love, hope, and forgiveness are non-existent. A world ruled by chaos and madness. A cold, desolate place where the sun’s rays are blocked by the dark clouds, and everything is in dismal shades of grey.

It’s where my darkest fears and nightmares come from.
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Remixed and Remastered

Posted on Thursday January 5, 2006Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Most of you have heard my music here before. For those that have thought “Jesus Eric, what did you do, stick your radio in front your computer microphone???”

Well, you were right. 😀

But now I rigged up my stereo to my computer to re-record them, with Sound Forge give them a little compression, boost and reverb… and now here they are again, plus a few other ones I never put out (One in particular to someone very special to me).

Plus, I’ve updated them in my RIP Rockstar miniseries. So they are no longer home-made mono pieces of crap…

They’re now home-made pieces of crap in STEREO! Enjoy! 😀

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My Little Princess

Posted on Monday January 2, 2006Friday October 9, 2020 by Eric Brooks

You know I never believed in love at first sight
Until the day I first held you in my arms
Through the lightning storms I’d come to you
And I’d hold you tight
I vowed to keep you safe from any harm

And with a paper crown, you blew out your first candle
Such a lovely girl so different from the rest
And on that day I prayed you would always stay
My little princess…

I wrote that song when you were six months old, Erika. It was a rough and scary time for all of us as things were touch & go with you. A dumbass babysitter decided to give you a bath and left you in a room with a window open as your mom and I went out for dinner on a cold February night. We spent Valentine’s day in Schneider’s Children’s Hospital, after your tiny little heart and lungs were failing on you from pneumonia.
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Closing Out the Year of the Phoenix with a BANG

Posted on Saturday December 31, 2005Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Wow. It’s over so soon?
I gotta say, despite the many, many MANY setbacks… it’s been a hell of a good year for me.
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Dear UPS…

Posted on Monday December 26, 2005Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Well, where do I begin?

I registered on your site, all for the sole purpose of changing the shipping address to a package that couldn’t be delivered to me. Why? Because the 800 number on my card isn’t accepting any phone calls due to high volume.

After registering, I was offered an impressive and wide range of options. I now know the names of all the people who have handled the package, their GPA averages in school and their full sexual history. I was able to do everything except what I set out to do, which was change my damn mailing address. I found extensive details on how to go about doing this, except these links and buttons in the instructions were non-existant.

Once upon a time, I thought I was a fairly intelligent person.
Thanks for straightening me out on that misconception.

-=e=-

Eric Brooks

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