Damn it China. You’re making my life a little more annoying right now with your gmail attacks. Who the fuck cares anymore? When I visited your country for the Beijing Olympics, I knew pretty quickly that there was a great facade showing. Locals even told me how many of the people were told not to leave their homes or were “temporarily” moved elsewhere to attempt to reduce the smog of the city. The Chinese people are bass-akwards from the rest of the civilized world and aren’t ready to completely enter, but you have to start loosening the reigns a bit. Read that as stop hacking accounts for dissent; such methods never work in the long run.
I am getting all kinds of emails asking whether gmail accounts are secure and whether China is after their information. The real issue isn’t about security, it’s about a public relations shit-storm you just made….
Jan 14 2010
China hacking Google
Oct 28 2009
The iPhone and Apple’s choices with it
Am I the only person in the fucking world that isn’t sucking Apple’s dick over their iPhone? I know the damn thing’s been out for quite some time now, and it’s still a piece of shit phone. I wouldn’t trade my four year old Palm Treo 650 for an iPhone, two strawberry tarts, six grains of rice, and a week with Balinese strippers. I’d gladly give it up for some action with a world-class gymnast though; oh, my mind’s doing handsprings thinking about the possible positions with flexibility like that. Down boy…Down!
I look at the device and see it’s a black brick with a piece of glass. It turns on and I’m immediately supposed to be taking it from Apple in complete obedience? That’s just not how I role-play. I see from the commercials that you’ve got an app for everything, but I must get everything from you guys. I…
Oct 17 2009
I am so wired
I work at a computer for a living, and I spend way too much damn time working with computers. I like things to go as smoothly as possible, and then I like to just leave and forget everything dealing with work or the computer. I have a huge problem with wireless devices, specifically wireless mice and keyboards. With everyone praising wireless like the next coming of Scooby-Doo, I must interject a bit. The problem isn’t with usability; it’s with those fucking batteries and the cost of convenience.
What happens when batteries die in a mouse is I’m going about my business and everything just stops working, causing me to lose scores of hours a year fixing everything. What happens when the batteries die in the keyboard is I’m typing and have an entire mental workflow and the computer instantly becomes possessed. Letters start magically repeating. Keys pressed don’t register. The computer…
Oct 16 2009
A diet for Firefox… please
Oh, Firefox. I remember way back when you were light and fluffy. I remember when you were the new kid in town and were a blast to play with. You could run around all day and never seem to tire. What happened? You just sat your fat ass down on the couch and ate candy for years and years. You’re fat, bloated, and slow. You now resemble World of Warcraft players. Shame on you for letting yourself go like that. Now when I’m working, I’m forced to use you because you have the right tools, but you make it painful to work very long. You need a diet, and you need some exercise. Move it fatso!
Why can’t Mozilla get its act together and fix the memory bloat that Firefox suffers? It’s been years and years of complaining. Sure, it’s open source and I could dive in if I wanted to,…