My Miserable Failure

About two weeks ago, I had this fantastic idea... You know the idea that I'm talking about. The idea that keeps you up all night. Well, to start things off, I think that I should just say that I have a small little obsession. This is also an obsession that I share with about 500 million other people, and its called MySpace. After playing around on MySpace for a little while, I realized that it would be so cool, if I could replace my friend box with a Flash widget! So, I did what any other super geek would have done with that idea, and I created the MOST ELABORATE Flash widget of all mankind. I conjured up some ActionScript that would actually scan peoples MySpace URL and then magically parse out all the information that I needed to create all the links... Not only that! But I made this thing skinnable. Meaning that anybody could create their own skins! NOT ONLY THAT, but I wrote a Drupal 5 website to allow people to log in, create their Flash Friend box, while I would just sit back and watch the Viral marketing take hold. Don't believe me? Go to http://www.flasherrific.com and see for yourself! You can even click on the link http://www.flasherrific.com/templates to see all the templates I made.

So, here I had this AWESOME idea, this AWESOME website... and when I was done, I said to myself. Hmmmm.... I think I should actually put this in my profile and see if it works! Well, that's exactly what I did... And I almost jumped for joy when I saw that it loaded perfectly! I even did some HTML magic to make the old friend box disappear. But wait!!! I then realized that none of my links were working.... Without the links working, my little Friend Box is USELESS. So, I did some digging on the internet and came across this little depressing article.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/20/myspace-security-measure-disables-v...

And that my friends is what I call a Miserable Failure! I think I will go cry myself to sleep now.