The Voices From Within Roger Bryant's Head

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Skyfire is out!

Hello, gentles all. If your phone is powered by Symbian or Windows Mobile, then listen up. There is a new browser out there. It's called Skyfire.

Basically it can do anything that the grown-up browsers on your computer can do. You know, like YouTube, Hulu, flash, etc. You can also zoom in and out, and it renders webpages like they appear on a regular computer. Granted The Anti-Christ hasn’t really fückered up Internet Exploder in windows mobile yet, I’m not taking any chances. Although the Facebook app they put out isn’t really that shabby… I hear they’re also working on a mobile version of Firefox (called Fennec), but everytime I try to install it on my T-Mobile Shadow, it just doesn’t work…

The first paragraph of the post was written in Skyfire. The rest was finished Windows Live Writer…

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

More spam from Target

After my last post, I got a reply back from Claudia at Target, who basically told me to click the unsubscribe link, and that she had completed it for me, and that I would be getting it for two weeks. I’m not going to repeat my reply to her, but I’m not impressed with it, to say the least. When I look closer at it, I am ever further disgusted with Target. Not only did they spam me, but they sold my address to a 3rd party, basically means, that my spam load is going to increase. Basically, my address is going to get put on the ‘mllions’ cd and sold to other spammers. I’ve been through this before. I’ve been an admin on spam blocklists before. If I still was, Target’s corporate servers would be there right now. Spammers Lie. Target Lies. End of discussion.

Anyway, here’s the latest one:

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Boulder Pledge: Target

I thought they were one of the good guys. I was treated rudely at the food avenue a couple of weeks ago, and I sent complaint through the web form. I got the auto-ack from them where they basically they were dev/null’ing my complaint, which isn’t good. And then this showed up in my inbox today:

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Saturday, May 16, 2009

One of the definitions of Happiness…

Is a warm, sunny weekend. Too bad I have to go to work. At least SoundTransit still has AC'ed buses…

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Under way & wireless….

I knew this day would come. When my brother and I moved in to our current apartment, it was decided that there would be no more snaking Ethernet cable through the house. His brand new computer had wi-fi already installed on it, so it wasn’t that difficult to persuade him to get a wireless router. Originally, the cable modem was in my room on my outlet, but eventually we started having problems with signal (something about two digital boxes and one modem on one outlet…). SO the modem had to go to the other outlet in the living room. And just in time, I finally get my wi-fi card working….

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

I’ve always said

Give me Guinness or give me death.

My roommate/younger brother had a six pack of Corona in the fridge, and I finally broke down and tried one. Tasted like crap. I tried a Fosters @ my nephew’s birthday. Again, tasted like piddle. The same with O’Douls. Then I realized they were all lagers. SO I decided to try Guinness, a stout.

Tonight, I tried Guinness for the first time. To me, all beer tastes the same. It all tastes like urine. This is why I don’t drink. I just don’t like it….

Happy Cinco De Mayo, people

It’s Cinco De Mayo today. If I understand it, it’s a day when the French Foreign Legion got defeated by by a band of Mexicans. In a war which the Mexicans eventually lost. But I”m no authority on that matter, and if you can read this than you’ve probably have sufficient internet access to look it up yourself. They say that Americans celebrate even more than Mexicans.

But I know how I’m going to celebrate it. I got Guinness…

Friday, May 01, 2009

What a wonderful Sunny Day…

And I have to work. Taken from the 512 park & ride. For some reason the weather is always sunnier on the days that I have to work. Must be a conspiracy on the part of my boss & Jeff Renner...

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Third time’s a charm

I hope at least. The one thing I’ve realized is that nothing ever goes the way you plan it. I decided very recently to wipe and reinstall everything on my computer (I know of no virus that can survive a ‘format C:’ command). But usually what happens is it takes me mulptiple tries to get it right. On my old computer, most of those tries usually were involving me going really Old Skool and trying to put Windows ME on my machine when I usually absolutely no reason to…). In the past 36 hours I’ve wiped and reinstalled Windows XP 3 times. And I think I’ve just got it right this time (at least I made it past the windows update stage. 400 megabytes, not including Office, which had been done separately…)

But on the bright side, since this was a new version of windows that came with this computer, I can still activate over the internet (my previous copy had been activated so many times from my misadventures, that I had to call The Anti-Christ everytime to activate it. My opinions of Microsoft aside, Indians are really nice people.).

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

It used to be

It used to be that I'd be able to fit everything in my computer on CD-ROM. Then I got a DVD burner, and I then did all my back-ups to DVD. Now, I don't have the patience (or the DVDs). Now, I'm using my two spare hard drives for back-ups. It took some rearranging of my computer hardware (mainly moving drives around so I don't have to fight cables…). The main advantage to this is it's a lot quicker to write to a hard drive than it is to a DVD/CD, and you don't need special software to use a hard drive. And the fact that a 160 gig hard drive has slightly more space than a 4.7 gig DVD may also prove to be a slight advantage...

There's something wrong with me…

I'm watching the Mariners game. Of my own free will. And I'm enjoying it. The New World Order (Mind-Control Division) must be employing new methods. Or maybe, my AFDB just needs replacement. Having said that, the Mariners are kicking some serious ass this year. It could be for many reasons. I personally think it's just they're healthy this year, and they're playing for the team, not for their egos. And how's about them Sounders FC? It is possible to best them. You just need to give the goalie a red card first…

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Always remember people:

Don’t eat you shrimp cocktail without singing the Banana Boat song first:

Aw Fudge!

I bought my new computer last December. And I’ve been able to go this long without wiping it. But I may have to. Firefox is acting up of late. Maybe I’ll just rebuild the profile later. I got the computer working the way I want it to, and I don’t quite have the time anymore to spend reinstalling everything… At least it’s not the fault of The Anti-Christ. At least not yet…

Monday, April 20, 2009

One of the better things in life…

Is a nice sunny day. On my day off even. A very rare event indeed.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

It's that time of year

It's April 15 today. The day we all render unto Ceasar. I originally thought of filing an extension this year mainly because my tax forms were at home, and my W-2s were at work, but I decided to come in way too early and file them. As bad as a reputation the IRS has, the late payment interest is actually less than the average credit card. And in all my dealings with them, well let's just say that I've deal with worse creditors.....

As for the rest of the story, I'll invoke the fifth for now...

Thursday, April 09, 2009

For Scott Gaines….

If you’re not Scott from Pierce Transit, then disregard this post. Or you can read it, too.

Making transfers and connections would be a lot easier if your drivers would actually be on their buses at the scheduled departure times. Some of your passengers’ employers don’t tolerate excuses. And neither do some of your passengers.
When somebody makes a complaint, and you take more than 48 hours to follow-up on it, then don’t bother with it. You might as well dev/null it. If the driver has to kick off a passenger, and then she stays there to continue arguing because she has to get the final point across, then she can also call ahead to make the other connections hold…
Having functional wheelchair lifts on your buses does wonders with regards to on time arrivals/departures.

There is no difference between incompetence and malice. Excuses are not tolerated. Only results. If you think I complain too much, then Pierce Transit ought to try something new with its job: Doing It.

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Monday, April 06, 2009

A bit of advice

One of the stores next to my $day-job asked to look at one of their computers. Apparently, they told me, it had a whole load of virii. I get to the laptop, and notice no virus activity. What caught my eye was the fact that there were three anti-virus programs. So I immediately uninstall 2 out of the 3 programs (and yes, I took Norton off. When it comes to crappy, half-assed software, Symantec is even worse than The Anti-Christ). That’s all I did. nd ti improved performance dramatically. I was amazed it would even boot up….

Moral of the story: Choose your AV wisely, because whatever choice you make, you can only install one. Because if you call me to fix it, I will charge you for it. And it won’t be cheap. Learn quickly, or part with your brass….

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UFO sighting

All over the Puget Sound region, there was a UFO in the sky. I saw it myself. Everyone has seen it. But it wasn’t in the news. I could best describe it as a bright yellow ball that travelled through the sky slowly. It took literally all day to cross the sky. I’m surprised nobody noticed it, or raised a commotion…

Now is the time to start panicking…

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A good start

No, I have died. But I do have a Real Life, and I can’t get to my computer as often as I’d like to.

The Mariners won 6-1 today. And Griffey resumed what he was doing when he left: hitting the long ball. It’s a good start. Maybe they won’t go for over 100 losses this year like they did last year. Although being The New World Order (Mind-Control Division), I would still seriously advise an AFDB, and limiting your exposure. Fortunately, this year around, we have the Sounders FC, and they are kicking ass. Nobody has yet to score against them so far….

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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

The spaghetti harvest is in.

And once again it looks like try another bountiful crop. The spaghetti trees in Switzerland were overburdened with the Noodly Goodness this year.

Yes, I suppose I could be a little but more creative with April Fools', but this is a classic, and you can never go wrong with it...