On my one computer I had this straaaange behaviour. Everytime a page at lohan.me loads, the top gets a shaded block that keeps anyone from clicking on anything under it. I disabled all Firefox plugins, addons and, since its my blog, I disabled all bells and whistles. I tracked the issue down to Google Analytics, specifically, the line that loads the ga.js script that plonked a ga_shade div tag down onto my otherwise unveiled website:
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var gaJsHost = ((”https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
document.write(unescape(”%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(”UA-xxxxxx-x”);
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
Using the DOM inspector, I discovered what the veil was:
A fix for this is simple — clear your browser cookies and reload the page. Thanks to Paulo Orquillo
for the solution.
This one almost got me — as I went online my dad sends me a link through MSN Messenger: http://lohanj.historyshotz.com. Sounds interesting, I thought, but as I clicked it I thought, whooaa, my dad never send me links, and I never heard of historyshotz, so what gives? A quick search revealed a that its a phishing scam designed to steal your MSN contacts to propagate and who-knows-what-else.
If you use Firefox, you’re safe:
I’m releasing the first series of articles next week on the theory of Life Surface Areas (LSAs):
Your life surface area is the full extent of all relationships, assets, activities and desires that you have as you exist at this point in time. Think of your life as if it’s laid out on a land, where the above areas of your life are represented as areas on a map:
Subscribe to lohan.me’s feed for the first instalment that is published on Monday! The Project page is also going up this weekend with an LSA area and a li’l Clipboard-to-URL uploader that will help some of you out there whose trying to find a better living through circuitry.
While looking around for new personal business card ideas I came across ambigrams and thought either way you look at it, it would make a cool bizcard. If you want to make your own I suggest Jonathan Gough’s excellent tutorial.
You did get the pun, didn’t you? Well done 
Over the years I came to enjoy the convenience of stashed swathes of business cards in my bikes, jackets, Bibles, cars, wallets and speedos that I habitually placed there (just kidding about there); here’s why I like them:
Robert Scoble of Fast Company fame has a lot more to say about them than I can.
Having been rather independent from my day-to-day work obligations I’m looking around for a proper design for personal cards, which for some semantic reason I prefer to call personal business cards. It is worthwhile for anyone for carry a few of these around to keep in touch, but its utterly worthless to Google for good designs because the first few result pages’ sites are useless — its far better to use flickr to look for business card sets.
20080720 horseriding
No major surprises along the 20km trip, so it scored fairly low on the adventure index. However, Eben fell with his horse when it stumbled through a muddy patch, and my horse, named Surprise, had a habit of not responding to ‘halt’, ’stop’, ‘hokaai’ and a string of expletives not worth mentioning.
If you’re interested in riding horse trails of between 10 and 30km over a weekend for up to 15 people, get in touch — I’ll forward you Oom John’s number in Volkrust. N00bs will be fine with 10km or so rides, and there’s ample time and space to punish your kidneys if you want to longer or faster…
I just spent three hours updating the site by adding site maps, making it Google-friendly and adding niceties like Recent Comments and Recent Posts. It never cease to amaze me how long the simplest things can take if you get into it with the idea to do it properly so that you don’t have to revisit it again in future. The formula reads, xnow > 9xlater where x equals stitches or any other technique employed to keep your garments from opening up and exposing your lily-white bum to the rest of the world at the most inopportune moments…
Remember where this song is from?
(I’ve been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I’ve been to paradise, never been to me
(I’ve been to Neice and the isle of Greece while I’ve sipped champagne on a yacht)
I’ve been to paradise, never been to me
(I’ve been to cryin’ for unborn children that might have made me complete)
I’ve been to paradise, never been to me
(I’ve been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I’ve been to paradise, never been to me
Its I’ve never been to me on the Priscilla Queen of the Desert soundtrack. Now that the my blog has moved, I can’t say the same (thank heavens, especially with visions of broken-down Jetstream-like buses and two-plugger outfits in the Outback). I was looking for a domain to keep all Lohannesses and lo! the Montenegran domain, .me, is released to all. So I had to get Lohan.me, which does sounds a bit weird (I mean, how many people do you know who got Lohanned and lived to tell the story?) but its short and sweet. The only better domain I can get is http://loh.an but to do that I must live in the Antilles (or is it Andorra?) and set up a business as well. Maybe in a year or two…
This five-year old blog moved from Blogger to Wordpress.com to this sport. I kept the smoothie theme but will make my own as soon as I reach the next million viewer mark (eh, yes, that’s when I reach 1,000,000 viewers! Don’t be nasty now!). Apologies for the ads at the top — I haven’t sorted the hosting out yet and in the meantime someone else — you? — is paying for it. Thanks! They should be gone soon so I’m not going to tell you that AdBlockPlus can rid your browser of all sorts of adverts on the web.
Also, coming soon is a background paper on Life Surface Areas, a new term that I’ve devised to explain a framework of your life in terms of spiritual, soulish (or soulful?) and physical attributes and activities. You can see that this is already tagged under Soul > Communication > Lohan.me, which is a small indication of what I’ll be explaining soon.
Lastly, do try to use Google Reader to subscribe to this blog, otherwise you’ll get updates if you’re my friend in Facebook (request friendship to subscribe — I’ll put you in my limited profile, not much there that’s note here anyways!)
I’m off to get everything together for a horsie-weekend, enjoy yours! Oh and say a prayer for Nelson Mandela, he’s turning 90 today. Happy birthday Madiba!
Remember where this song is from?
(I’ve been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I’ve been to paradise, never been to me
(I’ve been to Neice and the isle of Greece while I’ve sipped champagne on a yacht)
I’ve been to paradise, never been to me
(I’ve been to cryin’ for unborn children that might have made me complete)
I’ve been to paradise, never been to me
(I’ve been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I’ve been to paradise, never been to me
Its I’ve never been to me on the Priscilla Queen of the Desert soundtrack. Now that the my blog has moved, I can’t say the same (thank heavens, especially with visions of broken-down Jetstream-like buses and two-plugger outfits in the Outback). I was looking for a domain to keep all Lohannesses and lo! the Montenegran domain, .me, is released to all. So I had to get Lohan.me, which does sounds a bit weird (I mean, how many people do you know who got Lohanned and lived to tell the story?) but its short and sweet. The only better domain I can get is http://loh.an but to do that I must live in the Antilles (or is it Andorra?) and set up a business as well. Maybe in a year or two…
This five-year old blog moved from Blogger to Wordpress.com to this sport. I kept the smoothie theme but will make my own as soon as I reach the next million viewer mark (eh, yes, that’s when I reach 1,000,000 viewers! Don’t be nasty now!). Apologies for the ads at the top — I haven’t sorted the hosting out yet and in the meantime someone else — you? — is paying for it. Thanks! They should be gone soon so I’m not going to tell you that AdBlockPlus can rid your browser of all sorts of adverts on the web.
Also, coming soon is a background paper on Life Surface Areas, a new term that I’ve devised to explain a framework of your life in terms of spiritual, soulish (or soulful?) and physical attributes and activities. You can see that this is already tagged under Soul > Communication > Lohan.me, which is a small indication of what I’ll be explaining soon.
Lastly, do try to use Google Reader to subscribe to this blog, otherwise you’ll get updates if you’re my friend in Facebook (request friendship to subscribe — I’ll put you in my limited profile, not much there that’s note here anyways!)
I’m off to get everything together for a horsie-weekend, enjoy yours! Oh and say a prayer for Nelson Mandela, he’s turning 90 today. Happy birthday Madiba!
At about 5pm South Africa time this afternoon GoDaddy opens .me domain registrations to the world, if that kind of thing excites you.
