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I hated this weekend, and for once I will be glad when it's Monday and time for work again. For those of you who don't know, I'm part of the web crew that runs Urbanswirl.com, Slackerhell.com, this site and a few others. I only blog a little, my primary gig with the group is to design the sites and run the webserver. And now with that in mind, I will begin my rant. I hate Microsoft - and I love Microsoft. I hate Microsoft because none of their crap wants to work with anyone else's crap. I hate that I have to read 10,000 forum messages and search all over the interwebs to find a solution to a simple problem because Micro$oft's crap is so damn finicky. Why can't they make their crap so it will follow the damn rules! Meanwhile the server and all of our sites are down and everyone is calling and texting - the wife unit is poking me, literally. The whole time all I could think was "damn it I'm missing the game". Finally, after a half hour of down time I fixed it. I felt like Capt. Kirk. Everytime I fixed one problem two more popped up in its place, like tribbles. At one point I wanted to just nuke the whole server, kill all of the damn tribbles. I could see them. Their furry little error codes. Fornicating and multiplying in the event log. Laughing at me. Fuckers. Now that it's done maybe I will rethink why I love Microsoft. Why do I love them you ask? Because Microsoft's crap allows me to be lazy, the thing I love most - perhaps even more than the wife unit. I don't have to type any command codes, I don't have to compile anything - just click and go. Everything is a 5 minute task - that is unless you get an infestation of tribbles. Maybe I'll think about Linux, afterall this whole adverture made me miss the afternoon game, gave me a bruise on my arm (from the wife unit poking me), made my mouth dry (from lack of beer and snack items), and will probably give me tribble nightmares tonight. Edited to add: I know some of you out there are saying "what the hell is a tribble?" Well take a look at the following clip and be terrified.                Trackback(0)
Comments (4)
  written by BadEvan, October 03, 2008
Did you know, that was the first Star Trek to be aired in color. If the show had stayed BW, would Kirk still made out with "green" aliens?
written by Slacker, October 05, 2008
No I didn't no know that. The tribble episode would not have been as entertaining if it were shot in BW.
Knowing Kirk's character on the show, he would have made out with greyscale aliens, one eyed aliens, aliens with tentacles, aliens with spikes, aliens with... written by The Fitness Diva, December 29, 2008
I hear ya about Microsoft products. I use Microsoft Frontpage for building my websites, simply because I love the ease of use of the program, but everyone else seems to think it's the antichrist. Godaddy (my web host) refuses to provide much support for it, and will soon be discontinuing its Front Page extensions, forcing me to use another web publisher. What the hell?
I guess Microsoft has pissed more than one person off out here on the WWW.... ;) written by stiletto sports jen, December 30, 2008
Totally agree with you on this one. Nothing ever seems to work the way it should and it their products have the strangest bugs that you can never just find an answer to when you need them without hours of searching.
I just got a new laptop as a gift and the thing has more weird errors popping up than I can possibly understand--all related to weird microsoft glitches. At the same time, I know I can't live without half the things they have given me.....sad, very sad. Write comment
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