lol dork

omg stupid <-- Click that. Court case is scheduled for today. Let's hope he gets a nice sentence.

UPDATE: Above link is broken, I don't remember what the article was. I have a ton of other things I'm doing so I'll leave this as is.

Hey I Got A Comment On My Last Post!

Wait, no I didn't. Feel free to read the comment if you'd like - dude if you want to post comment spam, don't be an idiot about it:

• You linked to your blog three times (this is almost synonomous with saying "HEY CL1CK HERE F0R THE BEST V1AGRA ON THE W0RlD!!!1").
• There are 39 words in your post, and technically nine (URL counted as one word) of them are part of a link to your blog.
• There are also 180 characters in your post and 63 of them are linked to your blog.
• I also noticed that the day you visited was the same day that my blog was broken due to publishing issues and half the content didn't load. I do hope you'll come back and read the rest - however unlikely.
• You update your blog at most once a month - and yes I'm guilty of the same, but it's different because you're you and I'm not.
• You are not smart.

P.S. - Be gone with you, and find your own traffic. P.S.S. - Okay so maybe I wasted too much time on this but this thing needed an update anyway.

Go Ahead, Comment On This - Then You Can Go To Jail For Two Years

There are a lot of things that I dislike. I'm an optimist, and generally a pretty nice guy, but I use this blog thing to vent about things that I would otherwise yell at people about. In the genius of modern law, the U.S. Federal Government (the people that run this country and take our tax dollars) signed a prohibition that states the following:

Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (content editied by CNet News.com)

What this means, in a nutshell, is that if I blog something that you don't like, and using an alias name post a troll comment or something to otherwise make me feel uncomfortable or threatened (even to the lesser extent of me feeling "annoyed" - heck I get annoyed on a daily basis), you can go to jail and/or be fined. I don't care if you post a comment that calls me an idiot, that's the freedom of the internet. If you're too much of a pansy to put your real name, then your comment really means nothing to me. If you do put your name, then at least I know there's someone out there that doesn't like what I say - big deal; there are enough of them anyway.

Log This In Your Head

I read a good quote yesterday, and I thought I would share it with you all (like anyone reads this thing anyway - maybe it'll serve as a handy reminder when I read this post a year from now).

We are all self made, but only the successful will admit it. - Earl Nightingale

Well, everything I could find points me to believe that Earl Nightingale authored that quote, but if I'm wrong, and you know it, please correct me. I would like to give credit where credit is due, to the person who in my opinion, has said it best.

37,002 Versions of Windows

I'm a Windows guy, I've always been a Windows guy. I've worked with Macs almost as much as Win boxes in my career, and it's not that I think either is better, I just like Windows more. I have to admit, I haven't really given any 'nix OSes a chance yet, but that will come, and I'm sure I'll find things I like and dislike about them as well. What really irritates me to no end is this 'separate operating systems for different users' foray that we're starting to see. It seemed to start in the days of Windows ME (oh my was that a waste of money, resources, time, and whatever else it could have been a waste of). Windows ME was geared toward people who wanted to use Windows 98 but couldn't figure it out or wanted a more "user-friendly environment". Now I'll admit, I fell into the hype and bought ME, and had it installed for a total of about an hour before putting 98 back on my machine (hope my money was well spent, Microsoft). I liked some of the new features, but my main beef was with hardware incompatibility, and lack of support for Personal Web Server (oh MAN, remember those days?! We were all so young and foolish.) Then came Windows 2000 and Windows XP with their "Home" and "Pro" versions. YECH. Try buying a PC nowadays with XP Pro installed - you won't find a budget laptop with an XP Pro installation. The two laptops I purchased this year (about $1200-$1300 a piece) both came with XP Home installed, and I purchased OEM copies of XP Pro to put on them both (that's right, I pay for my software, so shut up). I hate XP Home and its lack of support for some of the things that I want to use it for. I hate that there are different versions, and I hate that you don't have the option to choose which installation you want when you buy a computer (I also hate bundled software on my Presario and like-machines, but that's a different story; they're easily removed with a quick format and reinstall anyway). So now here I am, checking out Vista online (yeah I'm a little late on this one) only to see that there are no longer two versions for us to choose from, but there are now SEVEN versions (yes 7, actually 9 according to the site below, but I didn't read it long enough to understand it) that we need to wade through to choose what features we want and what ones we can do without (at least for now, until we decide we need those unavailable features and are forced to upgrade anyway). http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions.asp Anyway, there's a link, check it out if you want. MS, stupid move, sorry. Why not just provide one version with all the same functionality and components, and offer different setup types on the same installation, including a "Custom" type for more savvy users. Ugh, and of course I just happen to use a bit of everything in Windows, so my version is going to cost like $600 (actually about $150 when I wait for a year and a half and then buy OEM with a $3 mouse, I can deal with XP Pro for now, but the only reason I will wait is BECAUSE it's going to cost like $600 when it comes out).