Dear Google,
I just wanted to tell you that I hate you.
Just because I live and surf the web from South Africa does not mean that when I type www.google.com I want to be redirected to www.google.co.za.
I don’t care that it may search the same content as the main google site. It’s just the principle of the thing.
If I wanted www.google.co.za, I would _type_ www.google.co.za.
You suck.
Sent to: comments@google.com
I’m _**not**_ fucking impressed.
It’s taken me 2 hours to install Half-life 2. First, you get the install from 5 cds. Then “Steam” launches, and spends half an hour updating itself — thanks to my shitty connection.
Once it’s done that, it spends god knows how fucking long, “decrypting” Half-life 2 game files. Now, literally, 2 hours later (I’ve been online 2 hours and 10 minutes now), I click on “Launch Half-life 2″, and it starts off by telling me that it will launch in about 82 minutes… which has dropped down to about 10 minutes now. The motherfucker is busy updating.
This is the _LAST_ so-called “Steam” game I’m ever gonna buy, so long as I live here.
Valve, you fucking **suck**!!
So I run out and buy Half-life 2 this afternoon. Get home, all ready to play it, only to discover, to my horror, that it _requires_ an internet connection to install(!). **Fucking** _bastards_. What the _fuck_ for??
Now normally, I wouldn’t be too bothered about this… but I think our telco exchange got nailed by lightning last Thursday, because I haven’t been able to make a digital connection (ISDN) since then. Using an analogue modem has been really flaky as well. It’s the first time in 2 days that I’ve been able to establish a connection, shitty as it is, and the fucking telco has been really slack about fixing the damn problem. I’m pretty damn pissed off.
It really annoys me that a game now _requires_ an internet connection in order to function. This ain’t America folks. We just don’t have the fucking infrastructure for that! — Well we do, but there is _one_ telco here, and it has a monopoly, so it charges the earth for phone calls and especially data connections. Check out [Hellkom][1].
So my question is, why isn’t there an alternate means of activating this game? Why no phone numbers? What the fuck is _wrong_ with you people? You think everywhere is the same as the USA? Kiss my ass. Unfortunately some of us have the misfortune of living in a shithole backwater (Or should I say shitwater backhole?).
[1]: http://www.hellkom.co.za “The Hellkom Website”
It had to happen. I’ve started getting comment spam.
Not too much of a problem though. I’ve taken some measures to stop it. At the moment, it’s more of a ‘fuck them around’ kind of approach if they try post any more spam, but if it gets any worse, I will implement an image auth code kinda thing, which will mean an extra step for adding a comment, but it will stop spambots cold.
Hmm. I should start writing an RFC for a new protocol, let’s call it DFSD, where you can send a network packet to a spammer’s machine, where it will summarily explode, decimating anything within 100 feet.
Sounds like a good idea. Anyone want to support this?
(Btw, that idea is now © to Me… so if you develop the idea and come up with a working plan, you owe me some money…)
There’s an open piece of ground 2 blocks up from us. On occasion a fairly well known local circus stops there for a few days. Other times there’s the “Massive Shoe Sale” tent. — Don’t ask me.
This time around, for the first time that I’ve ever seen (and I’ve been here almost 5 years now), there’s another kind of circus parked there. They’ve been there since Sunday.
It’s a frikkin’ mobile church.
I wouldn’t normally mind, but as I sit here typing this, I can hear the moron yelling into his microphone. It’s not loud enough for me to hear what he’s saying (thankfully), but it’s loud enough to irritate me…. and it’s been going on the **whole** fucking _week_!
###### Originally Posted: 03 August 2004 @ 07h43
>I refer to [THIS](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/britain_film_dc) story.
>Get a GRIP people! They’re just freakin’ stories, NOT based on reality. Fuck, they’ll probably go on about historical inaccuracies in Lord of the Rings soon.
–edit: Ahh well. The link no longer exists. I have no clue what I was on about, but you get the gist.
–edit #2:
This was really bugging me, but no amount of searching could find a trace of the article that originally incensed me.
This [Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=historical+inaccuracies+movie&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off&output=search “Google Search”) is enough to go on about in any case.
Again, get a **grip**, damnit. If they were labelled and marketed as *factual* documentaries, then you would have something to say about it.
This is so typical really.
I find some nice backend software for running the site, and then the developers release a new version, and change the whole licensing scheme.
Unfortunately I opted for a non-opensource engine that was available for ‘free’ for personal use, which is what I’m doing. However, some of the things I’m doing in the background are now, according to their new license, deemed as ‘commercial use’, which is a very broad generality in their license since it covers some questionable (to my mind) items.
Well, this wouldn’t have really been a problem at their old prices, but I’m certainly not going to pay $299 ($199(!) intro price) for a commercial license for this software.
Stuff that, it’s easier to move to a proper GPL system. Fortunately I have already found a system that will do what I want, it’s just a pity that I came across it AFTER I had setup MT. Just as well it has a kind of crossgrade facility, otherwise I would be sitting here banging my head against my desk.
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