Monday, April 07, 2003
Dammit Kim! Call me! How many messages do I have to leave?
The latest drive-by toolbar installation that's pissing me off is 'Hunt bar.' I can't even tell where the actual bar went, but whenever I get an error in a page address (wrong address, or right address but not available at the moment) I get two error pages, the standard one, and the huntbar one which looks almost exactly the same as the standard one, but has a list of links and stuff incase what you REALLY wanted to do was not download a mangascan or look at the reviews for a story on ff.net, but go shopping for pet toys for your lemming or get your vegetables waxed by a list of online merchants or services they've been kind enough to recommend. I went to their page to find the uninstall, and they claimed there that even though they've been getting a lot of letters from people complaining about their software automatically installing itself on people's computers without their knowlege, they can't IMAGINE how such a thing could have ever ever happened, and they're very sorry if they accidentally wrote a program that's capable of making a home for itself on your pc whether you actually invite it to or not! It could happen to anyone, right?
Now, at the risk of damaging my oh so L33T reputation, I did find the two offered uninstall packages, and I did understand the instructions for running them even though they were written by the worst kind of technogeek (the deliberately obtuse one who's getting paid by lemming waxers every time you don't get where you're going) and I did attempt to run them. Which brings me to the second thing that's contributing to my obviously sunny mood today, and that is the fact that in the last couple of months, the IT department at the college I work at has decided that anyone who isn't them is a complete and utter moron who should never be allowed to do something so complicated as run an uninstall for a program they obviously want whether they know it or not.
My security level on a computer that I use EXCLUSIVELY is too low to run anything at all. I'm utterly at the mercy of huntbar, or xupiter, or anyone else that decides that my computer is their personal butt monkey. I'm having a lot of trouble understanding why these things are able to keep adding themselves to my computer with the security as high as it is. Appearantly, huntbar's security clearance on my computer is higher than mine.
It's good to know that others are confident in your ability to make important decisions.
3:03 PM
Friday, April 04, 2003
The first time I took my five and six year old niece and nephew to 'Spirited Away,' months and months ago, I wasn't sure they'd like it. When the movie was over, our group of two children and six adults went out into the hall to discuss it my tough and rebellious little nephew began to cry. I mean, seriously bawl. We were all worried about this uncharacteristic behavior, and his step father and I crouched over him and began to ask him what was wrong. It took about two minutes for him to stop crying long enough to answer. He said "It was about true love, and I'm so happy!"
It was all I could do not to laugh. I was feeling vindicated since I'd had to practically threaten and beg to get anyone in my family to go see it, and my nephew is so adorable when he's acting tough, but I guess he's a softy at heart after all.
I'm hoping to get another chance to take them now that Disney sees that they maybe shouldn't have given this movie the back door release they did. It only played in one theator in the entire state of Utah, and only for two weeks or so. I'm torn between believing that they were just too stupid to know what a hot property they had on their hands, and believing that they deliberately subverted this film to keep the general public ignorant of the fact that people other than Disney can make first rate family entertainment. I'm leaning towards the latter. I mean, who's gonna argue that Disney would never stoop to a little bit of cut-throat business dealings?
5:10 PM
Thursday, April 03, 2003
I love Lee Ellen. I do. I love her with my whole heart and soul.
Which is why I have forgiven her for accidentally erasing the blogger entry that I just spent half an hour on.
But I'm not going to try to reconstruct it. I just don't have the focus.
I have some friends that I need to talk to. I just sort of feel "prompted" to. Nothing serious, I just feel like I need to tell them more about my past and experiences that might help them with some of the problems they're having. I'm a little shy about it. It's a hard conversation to start cold, but it feels important.
Some one at work posted this on the bulletin board:
"You know the world has changed when:
the top rapper is white
the top golfer is black
the tallest basketball player is Chinese
and the Germans don't want war."
I'm going to go find some food now.
2:16 PM
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