Proposal for Internet Laws

I read today about a man in Japan that was arrested (in real life) because he cheated in a video game.
Apparently we're setting some kind of trend where virtual crimes can be punished in the real world. As long as that's where we're heading, I've composed a list of laws that need to be understood about any virtual activity.

1. If there are items on the ground in a video game, to pick them up is stealing.
   
2. Killing someone in a video game is murder.
3. Killing someone on your team is treason.
4. Picking to play on the side of the Germans or Russians in a video game is also treason.
5. Development of a game where you can play as the Germans or Russians is considered an act of war against the US.
   
6. The games "Grand Theft Auto" and "Thief" are completely illegal. The publishers and vendors will be prosecuted for entrapment.
   
7. A computer virus is considered a biological weapon, and the creation of a virus will be prosecuted at an international level as the development of weapons of mass destruction.
8. If your computer gets a virus you will be quarantined from the Internet (to prevent you from spreading it by your ignorance).
   
9. Online dating services that charge for membership will be guilty of running a prostitution racket.
   
10. You must have a license to operate an email account. If you cannot forward responsibly, then your email privileges will be forcibly revoked.
    
11. Web pages cannot make noises or play music unless the user requests it by pressing a button. Web pages that automatically play music upon being visited will be prosecuted for disturbing the peace, and the Web pages will be impounded.
    

30 year plan

Ben's dad got us an interview to re-make his company's Web site. AudioDig hasn't yet had a lot of clients, so we were pretty excited and nervous, but I think it actually went well. So with any luck we'll have an actual paying job soon, and then I won't sound like a liar when I tell people that I have my own Web design company.

The main page for the project that I do for BYU is finished, and today we were trying to figure out how to get the domain name pointed to it correctly, but we got it and the page is official as of today. I've been working on a module that sorts the images into galleries, and I finished the part that allowed a random image from the gallery to be displayed. I was uploading this just as my boss was sending out the announcement that the web site was done. You, there are several files and changes to the database that happen while I'm uploading a modification, so the web site looks screwed up for probably 2 minutes while I'm uploading things. These, of course, were the exact two minutes in which the dean of the college received the email and looked at the web page. Drama ensued.

I went to my first strip club tonight. In Salt Lake City. Two blocks from the temple. I even snuck a girl in that's not technically old enough to go there. I love my menace-to-society status.
My roommate Jordan had his band's first-ever show tonight; the band's kind of a unique mix of different styles: kind of like Ben Folds Five and Maroon 5 were having lunch and Guns and Roses came over to raid the fridge. I thought it was good (although they need a new sound guy: he mixed it all wrong).
Plus, I got to meet his managers and they seemed glad that I was a web designer so that they'd have someone to take advantage of when they needed a web site for the band.
Ok, the band goes through a lot of names and the one they settled on is Carnaby. What do you think of that? I think it's lame, but you should post your opinion so that there can be actual survey results behind my criticism. The other band name ideas they've had are the Pigeons, Solitude, the Fuse, Wax, Sugarhouse, and Red Window.

I made a radio station, check it out: Radio Provo Platinum. Its kinda just going through my music library for now. If you're rad, tell me and I'll make you a DJ. Isn't this neat?

So, this is currently a Blogger-generated page, but I host it on my own server instead of on BlogSpot, right? Well, I checked the stats for my server and it thinks that this page has been getting an average of 30 hits a day from 12 visitors per day. I think it might be broken, because no way are there that many people that visit my site. I don't even know 12 people. Anyway, just in case, if you're one of those 12 people (or some other poor soul that got lost here), leave a comment so I know who you are. Besides, it looks funny to always have that "0 comments" sitting there. Well, actually, I just want to feel popular by having people comment, but play along, ok?

So I tried to get this web design job today. When I talked to the owner of the store the other day she got really excited and she acted like she had already decided to have me do the site. I went back today to seal the deal, and her attitude completely changed when she realized that she was going to have to pay for it. I tried changing some options and lowering the price, but I think she just decided not to actually pay me for it. She even made some excuses about her husband or some friends making one for her for free, and I'm just like, Come on, your husband doesn't know how to make the site that I'm trying to sell you here. Besides, who makes web sites for free anyway? Well, whoever you are, I wish you would stop, because you're ruining my business.

I finished the Wonder Arch website yesterday. My clients seemed pleased with it but they were reluctant to say that they were, but either way, I got paid and I'm happy with how it turned out. I'm making my own spring break now, and since its not official I'm going to make it last two weeks. I'm going to go skiing tonight and tomorrow and I'm going to Denver this weekend and to Vegas the next. So there. Take that, anti-spring-break-ites.

Ok, I just got this thing to see how Blogger works and if I could steal some of its ideas for my own website(s), but I kinda like it, so maybe I'll hang onto it.

I'm working on another web page right now, my first "professional" page (that means I'm getting paid for it). It's for Kim Dubois's band, called Silver City Pink. What I have done so far is posted here.

I got an e-mail from Kim today, and I'm really worried about her. She appears to have some strange insecurities. Here's what she said:

Hi Be, how's it going? So what's the deal with your website saying I'm in control of Ben? And why did you put that list of dates on there? I'm embarrassed now. What if other girls see your site and hate me for judging dates that way? I'm not like other girls, you know. And what's up with 'Hi are you?' You're weird.

Kim! What are you talking about? No one will hate you! You have absolutely no reason to be embarrassed. Right, world wide web? Who's with me?

Ok, I have my own domain and host, now. Isn't this exciting? I'm trying to get everything organized and set up my web-based e-mail and fun things like that. Don't make fun of me.

Hi are you? I'm building a web page.