Just got a call from Comcast today from the 856-324-2025 number asking me to call back.

So after calling back they basically said that I was using too much bandwidth and taking away from others experiences.

Couple of bullet points I want to make and will elebrate later

I don't pay, don't have contracts, or anything associated with any other of their customers. I pay for internet service that is for me only. Has nothing to do with other customers. It only applies between me and Comcast. If they do no have the ability to provide what they advertize to all customers, To be honest, That has nothing do to with me. It does not concern me. It's not my responcablity to 'donate' or offer bandwidth to another customer. The 'other' customers don't pay me for bandwidth, so I see no reason why I should provide them my bandwidth.

I do not have any signed contract with comcast. I only pay for the service they advertize. So even if there is some where in a 'contract' stateing the limit to how much data I can use per month. My case against them is the fact that they advertize 'Unlimited' internet. (Ill need to dig up some of their ad's) So if they are not producing what they advertize, That is somehthing that will help me.

Now as they advertize, yes, Umlimited amount of data (if I am reading it correct) I see no wrong in limiting the amount of bandwidth per second. As they do. I have to review the fine print, but I do beleave I am limited to 6mb/sec down, and 764kb/sec UP. In a metaphor, Its like limiting me to driving a civic up and down the road. They are basicly saying that I can only carry 6 people up and down the information super highway. but with unlimited data flow, I can drive up and down the highway as much as I want, cause I only have a small foot print.

Now it would do be a different story if I was driving something like a coach bus where I can carry more people and take up more of the road way, I can see it being an issue if I'm only paying a civic rate. I am driving the same size car as every other customer on their network that is paying the same rate as me. So according to my knowledge, It doesn't matter how many time I drive up and back in my civic sence I have an umlimited rate


Let me know if you know anything thing more that will help me out. Thanks

I have received a second answer to my on going question that fits the current season...

Q: "When you give some one a penny for their thoughts, and they give you their two cents, What happens to the other penny?"

A 01: You get your penny back, plus intrest.

Think about it. Think deeper at the word 'intrest' other than the financial side of the word.

A 02: Other penny goes to the IRS

This is just making me mad. Google, Yahoo, Ask drive me nuts as they claim to be 'great search engines' they never find what I need. Maybe you can help.

When I search for something on lets say Google. Everything on the results is computer related items. For example. An item I am searching for is some sort of simple push button remote. The objective that I am trying to accomplish is for me to be in one room of the house, have a little box in my hand with a simple push button on it. When I push that button, it transmits a signal and a receiver on the other side of the room receives the signal, and mimics the push of a button.

Example 1

>> You have an alarm clock that sits across the room. You like where it sits and it's placement is ideal for you every day tasks. But you now want to use the alarm function on it to alert you daily that the ice cream guy comes at exactly 3 o'clock. And you want a wireless button so you can push the 'snooze' button as you run out the door with that dollar bill in your hand. What you would need is a transmitter push button to carry on you. And to wire a receiver into the 'snooze' push button on the alarm clock. When you push the button on the transmitter. It creates a contact closure, sends that signal to the receiver, which mimics that contact closure, acting like you pushed the snooze button. >>

Now try and search that for me. You won't find it. Searching for 'wireless remote', 'remote push button', 'push button remote', or like will only result in computer aided devices.

Example 2

>> I want to create an artificial skylight in my basement's drop ceiling. My plan is to place a light bulb/fixture that is close to the color of sunlight in a 2'x2' square of the ceiling grid. I want that light to slowly brighten when the sun rises and slowly dim as the sun set. (to resemble the way the a normal skylight would work) In order to do this, I would need a light sensor to brighten or dim the light (Like a cheep photoeye'd night light does) according to the sunlight outside. Now try and find that on Yahoo's search. >>

Don't even bother going to Ask.com. What I described above is too many words for Ask.com to handle as a single question. You can ask it in parts, but you still don't get the answer I want.

I feel like I am shopping in Best Buy when I search for things. The results are only the ones google, yahoo, etc, want you to see. The answers are not broad enough. The results are only for people that know exactly what they are looking for. Yea if I was looking for a frying pan. or to find how to convert feet to yards, or who John Wilks Booth is accused of shooting. These search engines are great. but not for the open minded.

Forget using their 'advanced search' options. That doesn't help at all. That only tightens down the search to more specific words. Not the topic of search.

Search engines are not made for the creative minded. Not for the imaginative. If you have an idea rolling around in your head and you need some inspiration, some extra thought, some outside data. A search engine is not the way to go. Is there anything out there on the web where I can go to search for what I am looking for? I guess my only option at this point is to head to the nearest electronics parts place and discuss over a cup of coffee and shoot ideas back and forth.


Side note. What search engines need to do is add to their 'advanced search' options page is a topic option. This way when I search for 'curlers' I can specify that I am looking for a person who plays a sport preformed on ice, not hair products. When I search for 'top' I am looking for the toy. no some pair of shoes, top 20 or ZZ Top. I'll suggest this and see what the search engine's say. They will problay just ignore this idea.

Please People.

If I really wanted to listen to your selected music on your page, I would use my 'superhuman ability powers' to click the play button. Yea, you go ahead and say "well just click the stop button," It's almost impossible with all that web1.0 crap you have loading over top of more crap on your page, along with all the cheep myspace knock-off images, quizzes, and other pointless nick-knacks, not including the 5 different types of theme layers that are loading one over top of another. Finding the source of the music is almost impossible until I have already had to listen through a good minute of the song that I wished not to hear in the first place. I am sick and tired of going to someones page to leave a comment, or check out a pic, and I have to listen to some song that I don't want to hear. You people are just as bad as those idiots out there with the obnoxious ring tones cranked on high.

I already have my own musical selection playing on my personal computer. I am already tuned in and jiving with the sounds and notes of my own tune. I am a man that plays the beat to my own drum. I don't need your's to cut in and over take my moment.

And instead of just ranting about the problem. I and going to step forward, lead you, and help you on your way to fix this annoyance.

Simply..
1) Log into your myspace and go to the home page.
2) Click on "Accounts Settings" that is next to your picture
3) Under the "Settings: Account" Heading, Look for and click on "Miscellaneous"
4) Scroll down to the topic "Music Players"
5) Un-check the box for "My Profile: Auto-start my profile music player"
6) Click the button immediately below it "Save All Changes"


Thats all their is.

Now please be considerate of others out there, Thank you.

_superNinjatech
myspace.com/eqrunner

Okey, I have become so mad that I have found the need to express it to everyone. You are not Number 1! You think you are but your not. Your just as Number 1 as the next guy claiming they're Number 1. Isn't every one Number 1?

I hear this over and over and over again. Mainly in the to two genres Music and Movies. Lets start with music.

I listen to about a haft a dozen internet radio stations including Club977, Sky.FM, and Powerhitz. Along with terrestrial  radio stations in the Baltimore/Washington area including Hot99.5 FM, 95.5 FM, and 92Q Jams. Every single one of those radio stations say "we are your #1 hits music station", or "We are the #1 hit music station in the country/in the world"

Who the F decided to make you #1? What statistic says your #1? what radio chart are you viewing, or what website did you pay off to put you at the top of their list? None or these radio stations have proved it. I have even called or emailed a couple of these stations asking them what chart are they basing their score on. Either they didn't reply, or forward me over to some one who knows absolutely nothing related to my question. My opinion. You are not #1, Only reason I may be listen to you is because you played a song that I liked when I was channel surfin, or that I had jumped away from another one of those #1 stations cause they played a song that I didn't care for. Which I am due to do your station the moment you play something I didn't want to hear.

This same idea applies to Movies. Every single week I hear another stupid movie brag on their ad that they are #1 best movie, #1 best movie of the year, #1 best movie of all time, #1 comedy/of the year/of all time, #1 Box office smash!. Give it up gosh darn it. Saying that your #1 with whom ever isn't going to make me come out to see it. Along with radio, Why are you trying to change my opinion? I will judge for myself if you are number one in my book. And I can tell you right now, with your attitude, you are going to be lucky to make it in to my top 10, if I even go to see the movie in the first place.

I'm sorry, I guess you can say I have been neutralized to all the hype. #1, a Best seller, Only one like it, act now, you will be sorry if you miss it. Give me a break. I don't care what Elbert and Roaper said, Nor will the New York Times persuade me either to watch what your bragging about. Thats all it is, is bragging. Bragging equals a 0 in my book.

I have 12 different FM stations preset, and 21 internet radio stations preset in my playlist. And they are listed alphabetically. None of you will ever be a number one in my world cause you all have your good moments and all have your hated moments. You are all the same to me.

Two men are alone in the woods, with no women around for thousands of miles in all directions.

Man 1 asks Man 2:

"If a man is alone in the woods, and their is no women around for thousands of miles, is he still wrong?"

Man 2 answers "Yes"


Ladies, is Man 2 still wrong?

I guess networks now-a-days can't come up with anything original any more. I mean this in multiple levels.

First point. Repeats. Channels like the Discovery channel, TBS, USA, Like to play the same exact show, same episode multiple times a day. TBS is good for playing the same movie at the same time Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I always seem to tune into it at the same exact time some where in the middle of the movie while I flip channels. I never get a chance to watch the movie from the begining. VH1 loves to play 'Flavor of Love' show over and over. CMTV is almost always playing "The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search." Comedy central loves playing "Reno 911!" and "MadTV" way to much. If at any point during the 24 hrs in the day, you can almost certanly turn to the SpikeTV channel to watch some version of "CSI."

I am a hard working guy. But due to my work schedule, I usualy have off during the week. When there is nothing on. I choose to tune in to the Food Network in the morning. Watch the "Iron Chief America", "Food challange", then "Throwdown with Bobby Flay." If I stick with this channel, the cycle will start again with the "Iron Chief" and repeat the same shows, same episode, in the same order. So much for the Food channel keeping my attention.

Thank goodness I am not stuck to Cartoon Network. No more episodes of "Dexter", "Pinky and the Brain", "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast", "The What-A-Cartoon Show", or "Johnny Bravo". Oh no. If you don't like "Codename:Kids Next Door", "Ed, Edd and Eddy", "My Gym Partner is a Monkey", or "Pokemon"; your helpless.

Ok, now it's one thing to be playing the same content on the same station. It's another to sell off some older season's to other channels. I first noticed this a couple of years ago when G4 finaly flushed out all remains of TechTV (TechTV you are still missed dearly) So what happens to G4, They decide to purchase (or maybe they rented, I don't know) The first couple of seasons of "The Man Show" from Comedy Central (with Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla). And began airing them. Mean while, Comedy Central was airing "The Man Show" with the new hosts Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope. Which shortly died there after.

You wanna watch "Famlily Guy"? Catch new episodes on FOX, Repeates on TBS, and vaious ones at Adult Swim on Comedy Central. "24? Check out the current season 06 on Fox Mondays at 9:00pm. Season 04 on CBS Mondays at 10:00am, more of Season 04 on the A&E channel at various different block of time. not always in sequence. WGNSAT is aring Season 02 on Saturday and Sunday evenings some where around the 11 o'clock pm hour. God for bid you mix the story lines up, or watch the wrong hour in the wrong order.

"Americas Next Top Model" began on UPN with cycle 1. It since has moved from UPN to VH1, an is now resting on CW for cycle 8. Which cycle did you want to catch up on? Well VH1 had a 7 cycle marathon at the beging of 2007 to lead up to the premier of "Australia's Next Top Model". WHA? yea I typed that correclty. If you wanted to follow "ANTM" (America) You have to tune into the CW channel on Wednesday nights for "ANTM" cycle 8. If you want "AuNTM" (Australia's Next Top Model) You can tune in to VH1 or FOX8 at various hours for "AuNTM" cycle 3. Now don't get that confused with MTV, who for some weird reason is playing cycles 4 and 5 of "ANTM" in huge chunks. Apparently they can't think of any stupid teeny bopper show to produce. Though keep in mind you can always switch to their competeter VH1, who helped get "ANTM" get air time, who not only is playing "AuNTM" like I mentioned before, but you can also catch episodes of "ANTM" cycle 6 at random blocks during the day.

I can't beleave these station have the nerve to create multiple version of their own station (MTV, MTV2, VH1, VH1 classic, VH1Soul) If their main forfront stations seam to play the same stuff.

You mind spinning yet?

Well to close out my point. I was predicting this next point about a year ago when YouTube and other user submitted videos began to emurge. It is now beginning to come true. After "Surviver" took off and gained speed. Reality TV has been the main genre of television shows. Home improvment shows have done the same with going to someone's house and making it all better for the owners. But this means of entertainment has lost its pa-zazz. Viewer made videos are what is now taking over. Back in the day, "America's Funniest Home Videos" was the only place to go to see people make fun of themselves and others. (With out hireing a production company to film it for you). I beleave what put this on the map was the wide spread viral videos on YouTube, then the creation of "Web Junk 20" on VH1. I see in the works now I beleave FOX is having their own user submitted show comming up. MTV already has a show that takes after "Jackass" set to premier called "Scarred." A show of "user generated clips of crashes, wipeouts and accidents that permeate the internet, Scarred is an inside look at some of the most gruesome scars from around the country." I wouldn't put it to far out that some of the videos are of people who sent in videos to MTV to be shown on "Jackass."

Why use my TIVO? Why use my ONDEMAND? Why get cable or sattlite TV full of 500 channels all playing the same thing? Why bother?

That's it I'm going to go outside and enjoy the sun shine.

Now you might be thinking I am talking about Calvin Kline and Abercrombie shirts and pants to make you look cool. No actually I'm going deeper than that. I'm talking about actually shaping the contour of our bodies.

This thought many times when looking at people, and paying attention to their necks. A lot of people have necks that slant a bit forward. Almost like they are forcing their head forward. It occurred to me, Is this because of how we sleep? Now granted while sleeping on your side in bed, a pillow makes for great support in keeping your back bone strait. But when you are laying on your back. Wouldn't you think to have your head flat against the mattress to keep your spine strait? instead we lay on a pillow thus pushing our head forward. And over time your neck builds it's self for the new sleeping position.

The other bone structure I was thinking that is effected is the foot. More specifically the large toe. Is it suppose to be curved in on the knuckle bone? or is that just because of the shoes we have worn all our lives? Did the shoe cause the bone to grow that way? Or is it suppose to be that way?

What do you think?

>>NOTE: Yes this is another blog quoted that was not mine. But I agree with this one too, and I will be posting some more orginal content as soon as I get mad at something, and I begin to rant

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curtsy of Technophile Monkey:
Don’t Ban Video Games — Start Using the Age Ratings



It happens once in a while. In fact, it recently did, and the probability that it will happen again is rather high. Someone goes postal, kills or injures people, and in the aftermath the media start to look for scapegoats. Oh, the police say he always played Counter Strike! Oh, his friends say he liked GTA! He must have been a truly deranged individual, so let’s blame video games (that we don’t understand) for perverting our youth. Our poor children! Your evil games turn them into gun fanatics, drug addicts and antisocial Satan-worshippers!

At this point in the story, someone usually demands tough legislation to take care of the “problem”. Ban violent games. Heck, ban games altogether. But I want to tell you something: the games are not the problem. The problem is you, the parents.

Let me illustrate this with a true tale, as witnessed in one of Switzerland’s largest electronics stores a few years ago. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had just been released to much fanfare. As I walk down an aisle lined with stacks of CD-R spindles and backup tapes, my eyes meet the hand of a middle-aged lady, and it’s clutching something that looks like a game box. Sure enough, she’s carrying a copy of GTA: SA. Just as I finish wondering whether she plans to play that herself (and age is irrelevant for a gamer), I hear someone call from the other aisle. A boy perhaps eleven years old walks over, and the lady asks him “Here! Is it this one you want?”. She points at GTA. “Yes, mom, that’s the one!” replies a voice that is clearly pre-puberty. “Good then, let’s pay and go home.”

GTA: San Andreas is rated 18+. It’s not a game for children. It’s violent. It has bad language. Perhaps it is worth pointing out: you shouldn’t be buying your eleven year old child a game that is clearly marked as unsuitable for minors.

This is certainly not an isolated case. My officemate’s children were 12 and 15, respectively. What did they get as present from their father? GTA: Vice City. Can you guess? The game is rated 18+!

Now, how do you know that a game is not suitable for children? Obviously, many or most current parents grew up without video games, or in an era where the most violent scene on screen was an overweight Italian man jumping onto mean-tempered ambulatory fungi. But they don’t need to understand or play the games in order to judge them, because there are organizations that pre-judge every single title for them!

Especially PEGI, the Pan European Game Information system, makes it ludicrously easy to decide. Every game has an age rating right on the very front of the packaging, clearly visible in a rather self-conscious font. On the back, the rating is repeated along with symbols representing actual game content parents might find unsuitable for their kids. It’s split into “bad language”, “discrimination”, “drugs”, “fear”, “gambling”, “sex” and “violence”. Quite a sensible selection. The convenient scapegoat you’re always using (hint: violence) also makes an appearance and thus can be avoided conveniently and completely. I have used the official PEGI symbols to illustrate this article. I hope you agree that they’re easy enough to understand. If not, check out the PEGI website, the URL of which is also printed on every single game box.

The PEGI system is voluntary, yet I haven’t seen any games without PEGI symbols in almost four years — and PEGI was only established in 2003 to begin with. The ESRB system is also voluntary, yet I haven’t seen any North American titles without ratings in years. The game industry is doing more than enough. There is no needno need to place the burden of parenting on the state instead of into your own hands where it belongs. for yet more expensive legislation, there is

Parents, don’t cry out for someone to protect your children. The tools for that are already here, and they are free. But it is you who has to use them. Stop pointing fingers and face your responsibilities.

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I quote a fellow friend that spoke my thoughts right out of my mouth. I agree and stand by him

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"White pride

I guess i'm Racist

You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.

You call me "Cracker", "Honkey", "Whitey" and you think it's OK.

But when I call you, nigger, Kike, Towelhead, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink you call me a racist.

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you, so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live

You have the United Negro College Fund.
You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Black History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Yom Hashoah
You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi
You have the NAACP.
You have BET.

If we had WET(white entertainment television) we'd be racists.

If we had a White Pride Day you would call us racists.

If we had white history month, we'd be racists.

If we had an organization for only whites to "advance" our lives, we'd be racists.

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships, you know we'd be racists.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.


You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us.
But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am white.
I am proud.

But, you call me a racist."
-aka: Daddy 921

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Warning: Don't read if you beleave

An story out of an old book I had read back in 1996.



The Reindeer Theory

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According to Home Depot. Christmas has come and gone. Yes my friends, what you see is all they got. For a company that was full of Christmas spirit back in September, apparently that spirit has worn off.

Whats wrong with this picture you might be asking yourself? Is it the 3 large snow gloves. The couple of stationary ornaments. The lit green boxes of Christmas lights? No my friends. It's the empty shelves behind them.

Whats really wrong with this picture is the comparison to the day it is. Its the 21st of December. We have 4 days till Santa comes. I have no tree, no decorations, no festive feeling. I just moved to a new place and want to get in to the Christmas spirit. I go to Wal-mart (who has emptied out their Christmas department and filled it with Valentines day supples) and Home Depot to pick up a tree stand, some garlin, some ornaments; a couple of strings of lights. But wait? What's this? No one is selling anything anymore? What am I too do?

Thank goodness this isn't me. But I'm sure there is some newly wed out there that is feeling this.

Oh and snowblowers. That's another story in it's self. Their hasn't been a flake of snow to hit the Maryland area yet this year. But Home Depot has the urg to start packing up all the snow blowers on its lot to begin making way for its grass seed hoppers and lawn mowers. Yes my friends it's true. About 4 years ago, It was the middle of January, and I finally convinced my mother to stop breaking her back after 20+ years shoveling the drive way and get a snow blower. So we got in our van and headed over to Home Depot to purchase one. But when we got there. There were none to be found. So we had to wait till fall to get one. Oh I'm sorry early October.

My overall topic of rant for this all is What in sam hills is the hurry? Swimsuits sold in winter, Leaf blowers in Spring, Christmas in July, and Valentines day when we are suppose to be eating a turkey and thanking people! I don't get it. I can understand getting a jump on the season or holiday early, but Christmas stuff when Halloween hasn't come yet? SweetHearts and chocolate before the begging of the new year?

To tell you the truth, I don't have to much beef with starting early. It's the fact that they pack things up before the holiday has come. I need to do some last minute Christmas supply shopping, but that won't happen. I'm blowing leaves in the middle of the fall season and my leaf blower breaks. I go to buy a new one and there is only snowblowers in stock. Friends decide to throw a end of summer party and I have grown out of my swimsuit. The department store feels that I should only where long johns, or a winter coat to go. And don't even think about buying a 2007 SUV during the 2007 year. Thoes are outdated, they only sell 2008 in '07.

But yet you will always find guns for hunting season all year long. They always have sporting goods for sale. Holiday Hallmark cards 365 days.

Could someone please tell me what these big corporations are thinking?

That's what I feel like sometimes driving down the road at night.

One of two things have happend since I began driving many years back. 1: car manufactures have employees that can't aim. or 2: people got to stop touching!

What am I talking about? Vehical headlights. How many times have you drivin down a two lane road middle of the night, you see a car coming the opposit direction with their highs blinding you. If your like me, you get aggitated and blind them back with your highbeams. What do they do? turn on their highbeams and blind you even more. Thats when you relize the original lights that were buring your retnas in the first place was their normal lights. what the?

I am sideing with #1. The car manufactures. Just because I have seen to many new cars right off the show room floor out on the road blinding me. Don't they have a chart? a line on the wall? or something to tell them the legal hight sight line of the head lights before it becomes a distraction for other drivers?

Oh thats right. They are not thinking of the other drivers on the road. How about the newer HID lights. The blue hue ones. Thoes are worse. Yes of course they are brighter, bright enough to see the driver on the other side of the road waveing their hands infront of their face trying not to be blinded by the light.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the police need to go after these cars. They stop people for tail lights out, they should also stop them if their headlights are blinding the cop in the rearview. And get them adjusted.

For now, I'll just take my 10K and blind the car back just so they know how I feel.

The world is taking a turn for the worst. Cartoon Network isn't showing a cartoon.

Back in the early days when cable was first introduced in to the home I lived at, I found out about Cartoon Network (CN) and fell in love with it. I remeber watching Captin planet, Dexters laboratory, Power puff girls, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, ThunderCats, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Felix the Cat.

I also remember when they had that comerical that would run daily. The whole point was to say you can turn to CN 24/7 and find cartoons.

You turn on CN at 5:00pm, what do you see? A cartoon! 9:20pm? Another cartoon. 1:52am? Another cartoon!

But now, This a Wednesday evening, I turn to CN, and what do I see? A movie. Men In Black to be more specific. I had to flip around and check the TV guide to be sure I was on the correct channel. It even had the CN logo in the lower right hand corner of the screen. Now something isn't right.

A cartoon channel playing movies? What's next? ESPN carrying Days of our Lives? MTV showing a Iron Chef episode? The Weather Channel giving traffic reports? Oh wait, they already are?

I can only guess that there was some sort of company merger somewhere and in the contract agreement says they have to play a movie or something.

I have been a long time IE user. I was even a hipocrit telling people move to Firefox.

But now IE has finally convinced me to Mozilla. With the new IE 7. I tried it out a few months ago with the beta release. I had some hopes. But their hole idea of "Simple is good. A redesigned, streamlined interface gives you more of what you need and less of what you don't." Wrong. They removed all the features that I used routinely, and stuck crap on the front line that I never use.

"The new look maximizes the area of the screen that displays the web page." Yea right. It's all big child-est buttons.

And I can't 'anchor' down the favorite/history window and get it to stick.

Now that Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0. It so far matches what I liked about IE 6, and looks to have more to impress me with. Time to eat the E

Ok, what the ____ is up with penguins? I just saw the ad for "Happy Feet" a movie about a bunch of penguins played by Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving. What is Warner Brothers thinking?

If you recall, they just came out with a movie about penguins named "March of the Penguins" which was narriated by Morgon Freedman.

Who in the world decided to use penguins? Who came up with this idea? What were they thinking? First a documentry, then a comedy. All about penguins? It seems like they are at desprit times doing desprite measures to create another movie to try and roll out as many as they can?

I also have to guess that Robin Williams is doing his best to try to keep his career afloat. Staring in multiple bombed movies like RV and The Night Listener, he is just trying to get in where ever he can.

Im just looking forward to SAW3 and thats about it.

What is it with you lovely ladies, and thoes looks. (various types, I'll explain)

I've been working down in Washington DC a lot now, and I have opt'ed for the metro (aka subway to you NYC folk) as an easy means of transporation to get where I'm going these days. I have come across, and spotted various ladies and women who dress nicely.

Now granted their are thoes who are going out for a night on the town, but don't you think that 6:00 am is a little early to be dressing up.

Many of the working women I see are wearing a wardobe that is very appealing to the mans eye. Many times so lovely that we have to do double and tripple takes, and even stareing watching you strut your stuff down the metro car.

But It's that look, not the one you are expressing with your clothing, but that mean stare you give us guys as if to say "What are you stareing at." Our immediate reply is to look away as if we didn't see anything.

It's that look. Why ladies do we get that look? Your wardrobe is telling me that you want to stand out, want to be glamouris, you wanted to be seen (come on, why else do you spend 5 hrs getting ready. to please inner self, yea right). But when you are seen, you act like you didn't want us guys to be looking.

Face it ladies, women, girls out there. If you decide dress to impress people, then accept the fact, you will be glanced at, you will be looked at, and you will be stared at, and mouths will drewll.

I was just pondering as I was going though all the recent viewers to my blog, and their viewers also.

There are many different screen names out there. Ranging from the most simplest "jim" to the most elebrate "ikantjump39846."

The question that come to my mind now is "What screen names are going to be left when my kids grow old enough to log in?"

Now granted, I don't have kids yet, and givin my love life is a cold as ice cube, it doesn't seam like I will be having any in the near future. But when I first got online back in early 1990's, I signed up for an email address, and relized that I am not the only John in this world. So I did what the webpage suggested. I added numbers to the end and success, I have an email account.

A year or two later I found out about AOL's Instant messanger. Figured out a new screen name based on what I was doing in my life at that exact moment and wah-la eqrunner is born. Yes same screen name as this my mindsay page. But enough about me, now to my point of this rant.

All of the comon names have been taken Jim, Jimmy, Jimbob, and their close cousins. People who sign up today are needing to come up with more creative screen names. Mixing prases around, taking their favorite celeb's names and jamming them together, then ad their birthdate or current year to the end. But whats going to happen ten years from now? Is every name in the dictionary be taken. How far do people need to go to come up with an orginal screen name?

And what about old screen names. Take for example AOL IM. I have 10 screen names that I have registured. I'm sure you have a couple yourself. What is AOL going to do with them? Do they plan on recycling them? Let them drift off into history? Or are they carved in stone to the user who registured them and never can they be used again?

While on the the topic of registured names. Did anyone ever think about web page urls? john.com isn't taken yet. But jonny.com is. Some one is sooner or later going to registure john.com. What is John twenty years from now going to do? I have noticed that companys who do one time deals or short term events come up with some intresting web url's. Like the American Cancer Soceity's celebrationonthehill.org. Now that the event is over, how long is this page going to last? Are they ever going to release the url? or just hold on to it for ever? Which means that anyone in the future who wants to hold some celebration that resides on a hill, will have to get more creative on their event. lets say clebrationonthehillnewyork.org. But the event is also called Celebration on the Hill. Now everyone who wants to go to the events webpage, doesn't know to add the 'newyork' to the end and end up at the ACS site. This, I think will just cause more fustration on the interent.

All I see happing in the future, you will ask some one for their email address and they will reply with jimjimmyjimbojimbob2051ilovelucy1994@hotmail.com. And hope that you can remember it all.

I read this and felt I needed all my viewers to read this. <br>
Thanks Lex
ref: http://beyond-summit.blogspot.com/2006/09/no-i-cant-fix-your-computer.html

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No, I can't fix your computer! Dude, my computer's busted, can you fix it?"

"Hey, do you know why my computer won't boot up?"

"I keep getting this error message, what's the deal?"

Have you heard any or all of these before? Well I have, and if you have a job in computers or are a student in computer science/engineering, chances are you have too. I spent a good part of my college years trying to help people with their computer problems, but then I realized something...I am not a computer repairman. I am a software engineer (with a degree in computer engineering), so I spent my college years learning algorithms, design principles, programming, web development, architecture, etc. I did not spend my time studying computer diagnosis, network troubleshooting, virus prevention/recovery, Windows specifics, nor anything associated with computer repair. So get it through your head, I can't fix your computer!

This may come as a shock to many people, because they believe that if I cannot fix their computer, then I don't know a lick about computers. I'll get the usual responses:

"Aren't you an engineer? Obviously not a very good one!"

"Don't people pay you to do this?"

"What the hell do they teach you computer people anyway?"

All this time I've been working towards being a "computer expert", but I'm really just a know-nothing with a degree. For a while I mistakenly believed this, and thought that I should know how to fix a computer. So, I started reading up on some troubleshooting practices and the like, but I didn't do it because I liked it, I did it because I thought I should be doing it. I learned a little, and might be able to diagnose simple problems, but I grew tired of learning how to repair computers and gave it up, cursing myself for not being good at something I claim to be in my area of expertise, that being computers.

After joining the professional world, I learned a very valuable lesson. "Computer expert" can refer to a very wide range of occupations. There are network experts, processor architecture experts, web development experts, platform development experts, database experts, the list goes on. To be a software engineering expert, does not require that I be an expert in fixing computers, it doesn't even require that I be an expert on anything else related to computers. Sure, I'll want to be aware of network protocols, and database principles, and operating systems theories, but I don't need to be an expert in them. What I do need to be an expert at is programming, software architecture, design principles, algorithms, data structures, web frameworks, etc. That is what matters, but it turns out that in my quest to be an expert in my one niche, software engineering, I'm learning a lot about computers in general, perhaps even enough to troubleshoot certain problems that may arise with windows, or a piece of software, or my machine's hardware. These are usually simple problems, but when it comes to the really tough problems...I'll leave those to the experts.

posted by Lex at 8:34 PM