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It has been a little while since I attacked Rusty’s lack of a website. So, I figured now would be as good a time as any to bring it back up.

It is not entirely correct to refer to his web presence as “lack thereof” as opposed to “archaic.” It seems as though Rusty has decided to embrace older internet formats, such as HTML 1.1, and older standards that we used to use back in the early days of graphical browsers. Granted, there are many sites that pay homage to this long lost period of the internet. Many of you are already familiar with vanland’w mario rpg site. Basically this site has not been updated in virtually forever, but it still gets a reasonable amount of traffic so Yahoo! has swept it under the carpet.

As you can see above, vanlandw uses these ancient tags in order to show his support for inferior grade technologies, not unlike cavemen created cave paints so that other cave men would know where to go to get the lowest price on car insurance. This brings me to my next point. That is basically a suggestion to Rusty that he add these tags to his site to make it fully HTML 1.1/2 compliant. Because, in his index.htm throwback design, he is overlooking the most important cultural paradigm of the time.

Some of you might think of it as awful for a contemporary site to feature these awful buttons. Well, this might not be entirely true. As you can see to the left, Chouse features these ancient buttons on his brand new wordpress install. Granted I honestly have no idea why, considering his site doesn’t look right in Netscape, but that is neither here nor there. The simple fact of the matter is that it is just as acceptable for Rusty to put these buttons on his “pseudo-site” as it is for anyone to put them on there. Either because they are…disturbed…or they are trying to deprive the internet community of vivid multimedia experience and give them a “throwback” archaic design. Either way, those suckers should be plastered across the bottom of squarehalo.

Thoughts?

ef you mr. vanlandw.

Some of you may remember the “where’s waldo” books from your childhood. The image above reminded me of those books. If only vanlandw were wearing a striped stocking cap.

vanlandw: vanlandw.com is dead again
vanlandw: write a post about it
vanlandw: god fucking damnit
vanlandw: i think the ps died again
vanlandw: i haven’t pulled it out of the closet yet

It seems as though the machine that renders forth vanlandw.com to world is yet again beyond the access of mortal man. The old beater of a Leadman that was propping up the Lemonade stand of an internet destination, vanlandw.com, has once AGAIN given up on life.

The last time that vanlandw.com succumbed to hardware failure was when Windows Server 2003 SP1 was installed. It was my firm belief that the extra taxation on the system is what caused the power supply to fail. Unfortunately, it once again appears that the power supply has failed. However, considering that there has been no unusual work done on the server, it is my belief that it died of loneliness. Over the past several posts there has been a marked decline in the quantity and quality of comments coming in. So, it may be that the server, rather than continue at a status less than its former glory, decided to take its own life. Only time will tell.

UPDATE: vanlandw.com is back up, thanks to the lebotimization of another desktop machine. GO TEAM LEADMAN!