Another sucktastic day at work... well, the first half went well, got my computers settled in, but the last half was a complete and frustrating waste of time, as the "procedure" to install the Master Stack (actually, several "procedures", some bits of which include various installers, other aspects of which involve manual operations and animal sacrifices; Shanghai, go figure) completely failed to get me a working install.
Instead, and for several hours, we got the same cryptic, unusual, and useless error message, much to the bafflement of my entire group.
Of course, China is on vacation all week.
Also sucktastic, craptastic, and generally full of shititude (since I'm in a mood to bitch) is SPAM.
Unsolicited garbage on blogs is a particular pet peeve -- that nonsense is the internet equivalent of spraypainting graffiti on your house or business. It is NOT TO BE TOLERATED.
E-mail SPAM is, at least with the advent of Google (may they forever remain un-evil), pretty much a thing of the past. Of the 300 to 400 spams I get a month on this one account, maybe 4 get through. And as far as I can tell, I lose very few (if any) valid e-mails.
Even paper SPAM is evil. Electronic SPAM steals my time, wastes the Internet, and so forth. Paper spam inures me to valid mail. When you get a number of stupid, useless envelopes from credit card companies every week, each disguised or generally mutated to "trick" you into "oh my goodness, I accidentally signed up for a credit card" (which is just retarded)... then when you get a REAL letter from a USEFUL credit card company holding, ohhhhhh, for example, your new PIN number or your new credit card for the new year... it's really really easy to toss it out with the rest of the dreck.
Almost did that just now. That would have sucked. It looked like garbage, but I dug deeply enough to find the plastic card (another bullshit fake card, right?) and then discovered... dang. This is my new Visa! Harumph.
Then there is the Domain Registry of America (may they forever rot in hell) who, regular as clockwork, send out a "OMG your DOMAIN IS EXPIRING RENEW NOW" mail to me whenever I have a domain expiring. Sure. At TWICE what I pay now, and to leave a domain company that I love and respect (DirectNIC)? Annoying. How many people fall for this fake renewal notice, I wonder? Especially as smaller domain companies shift and melt away with time.
Evil, lying, useless, filthy bastards. All of 'em.
Go learn a skill you retards, and provide some value to the world. Or go suck on a car exhaust. I'm easy either way.