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I don’t know that terrorism has ever actually achieved anything except convincing world superpowers to invade some arab country… but this is a case where terrorism not only didn’t achieve it’s goal, it did quite the opposite!

The G.G.L.F.’s attempt at liberation have only ended with innocents detained, possibly indefinitely, by the French authorities. Yes, the French.

PS: Updated. Link added. Oops.. heh.

Oh. My. God.

Ok, so, granted… I mumble occasionally. Other than that, I have a purty good vocabulary and set of grammar skills to access when I need them. That said, I have sought employment OUTSIDE the telephone based customer service industry thus sparing frustrated customers from increased undue anxiety due to my oft poor elocution.

Anyhow, you’d think good verbal skills would be high on a hiring manager’s list of requirements for the job of phone tech support.

News flash: You’d be fucking wrong because apparently it ain’t so.

I just got off the phone with Verizon Online phone support. (I came home today to non-functioning DSL. It’s been that way all night. Good chance this is being posted from work the next morning. I wrote it at 23:12 and saved it to my iPod. Let’s here it for kick ass MP3 players that double as portable drives.) I had the most ineloquent phone operator ever. No, seriously… I mean ever. Besides mumbling, the guy couldn’t even pronounce all the words his screen was telling him to say.

Yeah. You know… that kind of thing just causes my confidence in the service to fucking SOAR by the way.

The guy told me they were experiencing some “issues” in my area, but that I might try connecting without my DSL modem anyways to see if that worked.

Um, no.. I didn’t mistype. He told me that I might try connection WITHOUT my DSL modem.

I dunno what the fuck he had in mind, but were I a little more patient and in need of entertainment I might have asked him what the fuck he meant. Instead, I took the “issues in [my] area” to mean I should give up and try again in the morning.

When he asked if I had any more questions that he might be able to answer I nearly choked on my wine.

/sigh

PS: Fire in the disco! Fire in the disco! Fire in the… taco bell!

According to an article on CNet linked by Slashdot, Gator has started sueing people for calling them spyware. The call it libel.

In this case, they sued PC Pitstop because they call Gator spyware on their web pages. PC Pitstop offers adivice and methods on how to clean Spyware off of one’s PC. They, much to the detriment of the ‘net community, bowed to Gator’s legal pressure and agreed to their demands. (Way to go, guys. Nice one. Thanks.)

Here’s the deal: Gator is Spyware. Almost every end-user installation of it was NOT intentional, it reports back data to home servers, it steals RAM and CPU cycles, it installs itself in an obfuscated location, it’s difficult to clean out… it’s fucking spyware.

They say: “If we find anyone publicly calling us spyware, we correct it and take action if necessary.”

Is my blog public? I think so… it may not be popular, but it must be public. So, yeah.. take action. (Action. Like, say, sucking it or kissing my ass.) (Admittedly it’s unlikley that they’d even see this amidst the noise… Currently google returns 138 matches for “Gator is spyware”. But still.)

Gator is spyware.

Fuck you, you fuckin’ fucks. Assholes.

Avaste, bloglubbers! Black Roger Bonney! Dat’s wot MY pirate name is!

“Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate’s life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!”

Aye…. an wot’s YOUR pirate name, matey?

Governator. That’s what many people are calling Governor-Elect Schwarzenegger.

I’m neither happy nor sad that Arnold won. I am, however, happy the Bustamonte did not win and that McClintock came in such a distant third that he almost wasn’t worth counting. Camejo garned enough votes that the Greens should be at the next Gubernatorial debate (again) and that’s important.

Even though I have some mixed opinions on the recall itself, I’m NOT sorry to see Davis go. The only reason he was re-elected was because Bill Simon was the greater evil in the last election.

It’s the weird end to a weird chapter in California history. Of course, it’s also the weird beginning to a new chapter… we’ll have to see how it unfolds. Arnie wasn’t very specific about a lot of things (lots of vague rhetoric and catchy soundbytes), but he plans to do at least two things in the first 100 days that I am pretty happy about. Repeal the car tax and smack down the illegal aliens’ driver’s licenses.

With regards to our fiscal woes, well… we’ll see. I hope you can deliver on your promises Governor Schwarzenegger.

By the way, for the first time in my life I voted GREEN.

No, not THAT Arnold! I mean Arnold Yabenson! Lookiehere!

Good art. Good characters. Oh, and it’s funny too. Mac Hall

PS: BAHAHAHAH

Hot vampire chick in leather with guns. How could that possibly go
wrong?

I’ll tell you… it didn’t. Underworld is a beautiful, beautiful
movie. (And if there was an academy award category for “Hot Vampire
Chick”… and there really should be… Kate Beckinsale would be sure to
win.) The movie is flashy, stylish, violent, funny and clever. It didn’t
have the deepest story in the world, but that’s not why you go see
Underworld. You go for the hot vampire chick in leather with
guns.

5 out of 5 hawt vampire chixx0rz