February 21, 2006

Ok so I do not get censored because I do not have anything to really complain about, but this guy is hanging it out there...

Zhao Jing - better known by the pen name Anti

I cut this next bit out of the Washington Post (not that I particularly like that paper but...)

Bloggers Who Pursue Change Confront Fear And Mistrust

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/20/AR2006022001304.html

By Philip P. Pan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, February 21, 2006; Page A01

BEIJING -- When Zhao Jing moved his blog to Microsoft's popular MSN Spaces site last summer, some users worried the Chinese government would block the entire service. The censors had blacklisted the last site where the young journalist had posted his spirited political essays, and he seemed unwilling to tone down his writing at the new address.

But Zhao, better known by the pen name Anti, told fellow bloggers not to worry. If the government objected to his blog, he predicted, Microsoft would "sell me out" and delete it rather than risk being blocked from computer screens across China.

He was right. Four and a half months after he began posting essays challenging the Communist Party's taboo against discussing politics, Zhao published an item protesting the purge of a popular newspaper's top editors. Officials called Microsoft to complain, and Microsoft quickly erased his blog.

Ok so I understand that people are not actually free to say what they want in China, but in Redmond, WA? What was MSN thinking? Damn they caved into the Man... Wait a minute, they ARE the Man! Damn Microsoft is scared of something, go figure.

February 14, 2006

I hate when I find nothing new on sights I like. Oh sure you say you have not posted in months! Yeah, but no one reads this sight, so it does not mater if I do not post. What matters is when people I like to read about or who write things I like to read, fail to post for long periods of time. Imagine if the newspaper you get or news sight you visit just failed to post/write anything for a month. Wouldn't you feel let down? Wouldn't you be pissed and confused? Well I am both. People, what good are you to me if you are not consistently interesting?!? I need you to post more and more regularly!

Now get to work entertaining me! Damn-it

November 9, 2005

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September 16, 2005

I hate going away lunches. We are having so many going away lunches where I work that I think they are starting to impact productivity. I swear they need to limit them to one a month (or at least one a week), employees who have already left would come back and everything would be paid for by the head hunters who had placed them. It would be good for everyone. The employees (past and present) would get a free lunch and the headhunters would get introductions to all the ones who are staying. I think that way at least something good would come out of them instead of them ether being a huge group of people who once met the departing employee or a small tight nit gripe fest of those who wish they were going also. They really bring me down (and that's saying something).

July 22, 2005

Oh I really hate this sh*t...

Ok so here is the deal, every kid on the planet is secretly insecure. Evey kid in America is online (Ok, anyone about to post a comment saying "No, not all of them are, what about the XYZ kids they are not online!" can go F them selfs right now, I'm ranting!) [And yes, I know that you are also not insecure but I do not actually care!] So what have the great people over at AOL done? They have built a tool for testing your connected-ness in AIM. That's right, go to http://www.aimfight.com/ and tell them your and a buddies AIM ids and they will tell you which of you is more "popular". So what does this do for society? It causes yet another reason for kids to worry that they are less popular, and that will cause people to put lots of basically unknown people in their buddy lists. This entire thing is one giant waste of time. The only good that comes out of this is that some programmer got to code his wet dream for a few months. Oh and Big Brother may need this tool to look for Al-Qaeda member's friends and families.

Who's more popular you or binLaden123?

July 18, 2005

I hate vindictive people...

So a friend gets railroaded out of his job. Boss does not like him and does not like that other people do like him, fine. Life's like that. So the boss gets the friend fired, fine. Again, life is like that. Then boss quits. WTF!?!? If they did not like it here enough to stay why the hell did they have to piss on my friend's cornflakes on the way out the door. It is not like he was hurting the boss, she was leaving anyway. Damn that is cold hearted.

June 30, 2005

I hate everything, well no I mean I hate nothing...

So the other day I was talking to someone and they said they hated something, and I was thinking "why?", that does not sound sooooo bad. Then it hit me he did not hate the thing, he hated being told he had to do the thing. And then it dawned on me I don't really hate as much stuff I thought, what I hate is the "having to" part. I hate having to do just about anything. Your mom says you have to clean your room, "What! No way!", but if you are just sitting in that dung heap of a room you might say "Damn this place is depressing, I think I'll clean it up." Take anything you actually like to do, no love but like, and then have some authority figure tell you you have to do it, and wham! you hate it. It's that simple. If you force me to do it when I am not ready to or not in the mood for it, I hate it.

Damn that makes so many things soooo much easier to understand.

June 27, 2005

I do not know how to even express my hate for this:

1. ADAM PLUS EVE ($25; adam pluseve.com). A center seam in the pouch holds everything up; less fabric at the hips prevents bunching under tight jeans. How it feels: "Like wearing your mother's underwear." Watch out for a wedgie.

2. UNICO ($15; freshpair.com). This pair is cup-shaped to enhance what nature gave you. Comes with a strip of mesh, if you prefer to walk on the wild side. How it feels: "Too tight. I don't think I could wear them for more than an hour."

3. C-IN2 ($15; freshpair.com). A microfiber sling is sewn into the pouch. Slip it on for a lift-and-separate effect (not unlike your girlfriend's bra). How it feels: "Damn sexy." Still, "it could use some instructions."

4. DSQUARED ($79 at Saks Fifth Avenue). These ride lower and the pouch is cut shorter for extra lift. How it feels: "These did fill [me] out moreand they're still fairly comfortable."

Just goes to show that the world really is coming to an end... And that there is nothing new just old things that are forgotten, the codpiece is back!

June 14, 2005

I hate the jurors in modern celebrity trials! Ok, you have seen the news, you now know that Michael Jackson was acquitted of all charges in his molestation case. The jury said they did not have enough evidence to convict him. WOW! And now that I think of it O.J. Simpson's jury did not have enough evidence ether. Oh and nether did Robert Blake's... Damn. There may be a pattern here. Oh I know, if you are famous and you commit a crime idiots on the jury will be blinded by your over paid lawyer's B.S. and not be able to see the evidence the prosecuter presents. And if you are a minority celebrity, they have even more trouble hearing logical arguments because they are sooooo sure that it is a giant conspiracy to persecute rich successful minority celebrities, you know to keep them from getting uppity. Damn I hate this sh*t! If I was Dave Chappelle right now, I would capitalize on my fame and current "unstable" condition and rob a bank. Hell while I was at it I would molest one of the tellers. Then, when and if I was ever charged, I would just let some over hyped California lawyer talk me out of trouble. Hell, every single person involved would come out ahead. The people in the bank would all write books; the teller I violated would write a book, do the talk show circuit, and become a motivational speaker; the jurors would all go on TV, 1/2 would write books, and at least 2 would end up as jury consultants; the lawyers for both sides would earn enough from the hype and resulting turmoil to retire on; the judge would ultimately move up the food chain because he handle such a high profile case sooooo well; all the media outlets would print money on the pre-trial, trial, and post trial B.S. that they would love me for years; and me, the bank robbing teller violating nut job, would go on with my career, but since I was wrongly accused and acquitted, my fan base would be exceedingly loyal. I am telling you no-one loses out on these things! Oh, except the American justice system, which is currently sprawled out with a ice pack and a cold steak on it's giant black eye.

June 9, 2005

I hate this thing we have in the lobby of my building. It is a directory and its a computer with a flat touch screen, so it MUST be cooool. Wrong. Ok the product itself has potential, but not really. It needs a 15 minute reality check with a decent usability team (http://www.dylangreene.com). Ok here it is (actually this is from the companies web sight http://www.touchsource.com/ but who cares)

Ok so great its got lists of companies and people and the building management, cool. Ok so lets try and use it. Touch "List of Companies", it doesn't. Instead it shows me a new touch screen with the alphabet and a "0-9" button. So to find what companies are in the building you have to know what letter their name starts with. Bummer, I wanted to see who was in our building. Ok so I have to hunt and peck to find out, so I start touching letters. Figure since I don't know where to start I will just run through the alphabet a-z and then 0-9. Touching "A" takes me to the list of A companies in the build... none. And to add insult to injury I have to hit "Start Over", go back to the beginning, hit "List of Companies" again, touch B... nothing. Repeat for C... nada. Bitch! I am getting tired of this already. Nothing until G. G. One damn company under G. Ok so 27 lists later (a through z plus one numeric) I have 5 f-ing companies, 5! Two of those started with S, so only 4 of the 27 panels even had data to show... WTF. Ok so that sucked, but at least we can find people on this bad boy, so I figure don't get burned twice, start with me, that way I know the data is there... Wrong. Touch "List of Individuals" go A through Z not one listing. And why the hell do they have a "0-9" button on the people listing. Are there a lot of people name 4 out there I do not know about? So we still have "Leasing & Property" to go and these are the people paying for this puppy so lets check it out. One panel with a single name with address and phone number. That is it. 55 panels accessible though a touch screen interface with complicated hierarchies and no back buttons (no all, no listing by floor, no listing by company type [i.e. software], no... ) and a grand total of 6 pieces of information. That's it, six names. A single panel could have listed them all. Hell a decently framed printout generated by the property management company would have served me better. Sh*t, signs have been filling this important function for hundreds of years, thank God someone fixed it. I mean were would I have been if I only had a sign to guide me. I would be 20 minutes younger and less pissed off, that's what I would be. Thanks for nothing.

June 8, 2005

I hate computer abuse! So I go to the doctors office, I have a cold/flu thing going on, no big deal. The doc says I need an allergy/asthma medicine. He fills out a simple one med prescription. Now the Pharmacy is right across the street form the doc so I am so out of there, I had no real wait for the doc, now I was going to drive across the street (future posting about hating to walk link will go here) and I am back in the office in under an hour, sweeeeeet! But even better the doctor's office has a new computer system that will automatically send the prescription to the pharmacy for me so the meds will be waiting for me, Duuuuuuude! So I go across the street and I'm in the pharmacy 15 minutes later (had to pay the bill and drive the car around there) and I ask for my prescription. I get a blank look. There is no prescription. I call the office. I wait on hold. I wait a long time. The doc's office tells me it's the pharmacies problem. The pharmacy says, hey, no prescription, no medicine. I complain to both. I lose 40 minutes waiting. I lose 20 minutes of cell phone time. I get all pissed off! You see the new computer based system they have at the doc's is not so cool. All it does is fax the damn thing to them. There is no check built into the system to insure it gets there. There is no electronic confirmation, no handshake. They are not using some cool new e-commerce tool that will handle all aspects of the transaction. No they are f-ing faxing the paper using a basic dial up fax mach attached to a computer. Weeeeeeeeee! All because some A-Hole thought he could improve on an age old process that NEVER failed me my entire life, by using 1990 technology in 2005! Did i mention that it's a NEW system they have, brand spanking new. Not even old enough to have been mocked by the patients yet. If I had had a paper copy of the damn perscription I would have been in and out of the pharmacy in 5 minute, there was no line, no one waiting for anything. I was clean, I would have been able to fly through the system, but nooooooo. Someone fixed the system. People just because a computer is involved does not make it a better system. You actually need to research the technology and put together a coherent system that improves the existing process. If it is not fixing a problem, why do you need it. If it does not make it better, why do you need it. Work with me people.

June 3, 2005

I hate sh*t like this!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005250380,00.html

Lets face it if god is trying to talk to me or anyone else I doubt he would hide his face in ultrasound pictures, potato chips, water stains, water towers, bricks, ... Cut this sh*t out and get a life!

P.S. Follow-up 6/14/2005 - Jesus for sale!

Ebay - Jesus Christ Image Icon Materializes in Plaster Wall - Water stain is the son of God

June 1, 2005

I hate it when things are over but no one will admit it. I wish it was not true but the old one is dead and we need to find a new one. So why don't we just accept the situation, confront our fears and move on. Obviously we need to review the previous entry: I hate change. But this horse is definitely dead, we should stop beating it. Ok so there is no future, now what, that's the problem, we do not know what is next. You see if we knew what to do next, if the next thing (job, girl friend, roommate, ..., whatever) was already there, if we already had it in sight, we would not have a problem. But alas life does not often work that way. So here we all sit going through the motions of pretending everything is ok, secretly each knowing that we are all doomed, while the situation festers. If we could Just say it... SAY IT! out loud to each other we could much more easily accept this and move on. Well I for one am going to do something about it. I am going to sit in my cube and anonymously blog about it on a sight no one knows about. See I am not afraid to act!

May 24, 2005

I hate XBOX360.com

May 24, 2005 12:27 PM

May 20, 2005

I hate it when service industry employees, who are customer facing, do not speak the language of the country they are in. Don't label me a racist or a xenophobe or anything like that, I happen to think immigration is what made/makes this country great. America steals the best and brightest from every strata of the population from every other country in the world. That is why America rocks! Ok so I have nothing against someone coming to this country, struggling to learn the language, working 2 or 3 jobs, raising their kids to take jobs from my kids, because if my kids are not willing to work as hard as their kids it's their own damn fault. But if you can not speak English please do not take a human interaction requiring service position. Please. Ok so I am at the car dealership to get my car serviced (please do not give me crud about how expensive they are, I know) and I need to use the shuttle to get to work. Ok so I am waiting for the guy to come out and ask for riders. I am out there maybe ten minutes, when this friendly, clean cut gentleman comes out and asks in very broken English if any one "wants ride". Ok so I "want ride", so I get in his car. I tell him where I work and he nods and drives off. He heads in the general direction of my office, admittedly not the way I would have driven, but he's the one driving and he does this a lot right, so who am I to tell him how to get there. So 3 minutes later he pulls up to Enterprise rental car, and gets out. I try to explain that I do not want a rental, nor do I work there, but he can not talk to me about it because he does not speak English, at all. It turns out that "want ride" is his only English phrase. It turns out he is the Enterprise driver who periodicly goes over to the car dealership to pick people up. So after much pointing and general confusion he drives me back to the dealership. If the driver had just spoken, hell, just understood enough English to communicate a simple set of ideas, he would have understood what I wanted, or more importantly if he had a command of English I would have understood him.