Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Not that I hate commercials
I got caught on the stupid Comcast commercial, where they advertize their stupid bundle Internet+Phone $59.99. Fuck it. I have both from Comcast, how come I'm not getting the sweet deal? Read again. $59.99 for the first three month. Right. Could be $5.99 for the first three month. What am I? A 10 yo with a 10 second attention span? What happens after 3 month? Well, it don't say. I won't look it up. But I'm sure it won't go down. Screw them. Screw me for listening to them.
In other news I also hate commercials for medicine. WTF. It's not enought the evil drug companies lobby my doctor and his employer to stuff their shit down my throat? They want to turn me into a drug demanding drone? I don't think so. The only drug I'm asking my doc are Valium and Vixodin. But only for relaxation and pain. Promise. ¶ 8:07 PM 0 comments
I got caught on the stupid Comcast commercial, where they advertize their stupid bundle Internet+Phone $59.99. Fuck it. I have both from Comcast, how come I'm not getting the sweet deal? Read again. $59.99 for the first three month. Right. Could be $5.99 for the first three month. What am I? A 10 yo with a 10 second attention span? What happens after 3 month? Well, it don't say. I won't look it up. But I'm sure it won't go down. Screw them. Screw me for listening to them.
In other news I also hate commercials for medicine. WTF. It's not enought the evil drug companies lobby my doctor and his employer to stuff their shit down my throat? They want to turn me into a drug demanding drone? I don't think so. The only drug I'm asking my doc are Valium and Vixodin. But only for relaxation and pain. Promise. ¶ 8:07 PM 0 comments
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Online scam?
Can't be!
I was just going through my spam folder in gmail, and I saw one of these fake ebay email. This one was slightly different. Instead of the usual "we're investigating your account, please login here or we'll suspend your account" style of email, it was a little more subtle. It was worded as a buyer's question (interestingly, I've never sold anything on ebay, but I guess when you're a scammer-spammer you don't really care about details) and the content was a mildly threat from someone claiming he bought an item from me, and he was gonna report me.
I should add gmail correctly flagged that one as fishing. Not that I would fall for this, but I'm pretty sure my awareness for those things is slightly above average.
More funny is the item # quoted in the email. 5801824341. It'll probably vanish in a few days, so I'll printscreen it here (click on it to actually read it):
In other news, how would you like to receive free text messages on your cell phone? Join the biggest online community of people that have cell phones or something like that? Yes? That's great. You probably don't know what I'm talking about. There:
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008835.html
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008792.html
But Google is a better friend, caching old stuff for you and all:
View the original post in Google cache
I can see how Russell got himself trapped in that one. Sign up to a service, half read the agreement that contains burried misleading language (or don't read it at all, like anyone else) because the previous page had a huge spinning FREE! TOTALLY FREE! NO CATCH! WE'RE GIVING IT AWAY! animated flash graphic. 35 days later, you get a bill for sms received from your carrier.
I was in Belgium last XMas and I was amazed how many SMS (text message) scam crap was advertized everywhere. I guess I'm getting too old. I use my phone to place calls. It does not even sing to me when it rings. It just rings! wow :)
¶ 10:15 PM 0 comments
Can't be!
I was just going through my spam folder in gmail, and I saw one of these fake ebay email. This one was slightly different. Instead of the usual "we're investigating your account, please login here or we'll suspend your account" style of email, it was a little more subtle. It was worded as a buyer's question (interestingly, I've never sold anything on ebay, but I guess when you're a scammer-spammer you don't really care about details) and the content was a mildly threat from someone claiming he bought an item from me, and he was gonna report me.
I should add gmail correctly flagged that one as fishing. Not that I would fall for this, but I'm pretty sure my awareness for those things is slightly above average.
More funny is the item # quoted in the email. 5801824341. It'll probably vanish in a few days, so I'll printscreen it here (click on it to actually read it):
In other news, how would you like to receive free text messages on your cell phone? Join the biggest online community of people that have cell phones or something like that? Yes? That's great. You probably don't know what I'm talking about. There:
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008835.html
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008792.html
But Google is a better friend, caching old stuff for you and all:
View the original post in Google cache
I can see how Russell got himself trapped in that one. Sign up to a service, half read the agreement that contains burried misleading language (or don't read it at all, like anyone else) because the previous page had a huge spinning FREE! TOTALLY FREE! NO CATCH! WE'RE GIVING IT AWAY! animated flash graphic. 35 days later, you get a bill for sms received from your carrier.
I was in Belgium last XMas and I was amazed how many SMS (text message) scam crap was advertized everywhere. I guess I'm getting too old. I use my phone to place calls. It does not even sing to me when it rings. It just rings! wow :)
¶ 10:15 PM 0 comments
Friday, February 24, 2006
Peep Show
The probably the funniest pee your pants funny show on BBCa. Crippled by the american way of doing tv though (commercial every 7 minutes)
Still, they have the balls to air words like (cover your ears and poke your eyes out) shit, shitting and more shit. Cock muncher is also uttered. But fuck is blanked out (there are limits I guess)
The content is hilarious in a British way. The characters have enough mean quirckiness to keep you interested and the writers are not shy: one of the heros is pissing all over his coworker/women he loves office and drawers.
- What happened?
- It's not piss!
I just love it. And I love the title too. ¶ 9:20 PM 0 comments
The probably the funniest pee your pants funny show on BBCa. Crippled by the american way of doing tv though (commercial every 7 minutes)
Still, they have the balls to air words like (cover your ears and poke your eyes out) shit, shitting and more shit. Cock muncher is also uttered. But fuck is blanked out (there are limits I guess)
The content is hilarious in a British way. The characters have enough mean quirckiness to keep you interested and the writers are not shy: one of the heros is pissing all over his coworker/women he loves office and drawers.
- What happened?
- It's not piss!
I just love it. And I love the title too. ¶ 9:20 PM 0 comments
Friday, February 17, 2006
Kind of a funny rant from Russel Beatie in this entry. I understand that his thing is the mobile world and especially mobile apps. Hoever, not everyone is on the go. Most of us in IT sit behind a huge (lucky like me 3) screen and stare at Windows all day (ouch, could be luckier).
I'm currently involved in a distibuted project. Oregon site, manager in LA, outsourcing drones in 2 locations near Boston. Parent company in PA. In OH too. The official methos of communication and information sharing is ... email. Yep. Target with the TO field, shower everyone w/CC.
So I would be happy to do just chat sessions sometimes with more than one site. Quick question, quick answer style. With a forum like format, or self building FAQ. Not hard, someone has a question, another has an answer. If you have the same question come up 6,985,041 you can save alot of breath by just pointing at the FAQ (and stupidity too)
If companies are developing new stuff using decade old technology, some are using 5 decade old technology... And don't get me started with phones! ¶ 9:13 PM 0 comments
Do I have a bolt fetish?
I'm wondering about this as I am gathering suyplies to make my own bean bag
(not to sit on, just to rest my camera for close range macro-like
photography.
I'm really thinking about fitting one bag with a tripod mount. Home made
with nice nuts and bolts from Lowes. It's not necessary, but I think it
would be nice. Do I have a bolt fetish or something?
Friday, February 03, 2006
Preview this!
Cool.
A dude ran a security tool that he wrote to test Microsoft's browsers. On a beta. And he found a bug. Wait, it's not even beta 2, it's beta 2 preview. That is, close to beta 2 but still with plenty of bugs in, even more than there will be in beta 2.
Wow.
In other shoking news, smoking cigarettes causes cancer. ¶ 2:33 PM 0 comments
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124595,00.asp
First IE 7 Beta 2 Bug Found
Security researcher needed just 15 minutes to find a flaw in Microsoft's browser.
An independent researcher needed just 15 minutes to find the first bug in the Beta 2 preview release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser.Tom Ferris, of Mission Viejo, California, published his findings just hours after Microsoft released the beta code. His findings are posted online
Cool.
A dude ran a security tool that he wrote to test Microsoft's browsers. On a beta. And he found a bug. Wait, it's not even beta 2, it's beta 2 preview. That is, close to beta 2 but still with plenty of bugs in, even more than there will be in beta 2.
Wow.
In other shoking news, smoking cigarettes causes cancer. ¶ 2:33 PM 0 comments
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Daytime TV is the best
Daytime TV is the best, because you get to watch the stupidest shows on broadcast network. I'm watching Starting Over on UPN, did not even know that existed before, really wished I had not found out about it.
But really, that's not the best part. It's the stupidest commercial for the most stupid things. Why would you want to make a penny shine like that? Why would you pick the cheapest Lasik surgery people? They really do insist on the $299 per eye. And ever 500,000 procedures done so far.
Wow, kind of slaughterhouse fashion. You know it's safe because it is cheap. You know eyesight is the most important sense to you. Go ahead and have a trained monkey shine a high power laser through your eyes. It's safe. And you know the dude is gonna care about you because he's doing 625 other procedures that day. You go ahead. It's a good idea. From $299 per eye. ¶ 1:47 PM 0 comments
Daytime TV is the best, because you get to watch the stupidest shows on broadcast network. I'm watching Starting Over on UPN, did not even know that existed before, really wished I had not found out about it.
But really, that's not the best part. It's the stupidest commercial for the most stupid things. Why would you want to make a penny shine like that? Why would you pick the cheapest Lasik surgery people? They really do insist on the $299 per eye. And ever 500,000 procedures done so far.
Wow, kind of slaughterhouse fashion. You know it's safe because it is cheap. You know eyesight is the most important sense to you. Go ahead and have a trained monkey shine a high power laser through your eyes. It's safe. And you know the dude is gonna care about you because he's doing 625 other procedures that day. You go ahead. It's a good idea. From $299 per eye. ¶ 1:47 PM 0 comments
