Twitter and office politics…

So, I guess being totally anti social networking, I’m missing out on some really stupid workplace crap. Rumor has it (and I do stress rumor) that a number of upper management at the company I work for like to tweet, and it seems they like to talk shit about the employees where they work. I guess this all blew up with the resignation of one of the employees at work who started, I guess you would call it, a tweet-war. I’m not terribly sure of the details, but it all comes down to this little clique of people, who like to tweet nasty things about everyone in the office having an all out tweet-war with the ex-employee who called them on their shit when she left.

Go-Go-Google!!!

w00t!

Google how I love thee, let me count the ways…

Way to go, stick it to the Chinese government. Someone really needs to stand up to them and call them on their crap.

I hope more international companies follow suit and stop doing business with China (or at least threaten to) and stop playing their games to oppress their own people.

With the removal of the filters for the Chinese google searches, they’re giving the Chinese government the big ole finger. I for one applaud their efforts. I hope they are indeed sincere about it and not doing this for publicity. 

Nacy Grace, omg…

Seriously CNN, you need to drop this woman, she comes off as just a horrible person in general. I swear, she is the Michelle Bachman of cable news. This woman just over-dramatizes the most insignificant comments from people she interviews, is rude to, and is absurdly patronizing to the people she has on her show, and basically makes me cringe every time I hear her voice.

You have much better people to use for stuff like Nicole Lapin. She’s waaaaaaay more entertaining and palatable than Nancy Grace.

Get rid of Nancy and you might get even more viewers

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 installation…

So I got CoDMW:2 today from Best Buy. Big mistake to even purchase it right now for PC I guess.

They force you to use Steam (Valve Corporation), and well Steam is a Steaming Pile of Shit. Initially I tried to run the install from the disc, then the steam client would pop up and tell me “Cannot connect to Steam Network, try again later…” OK, so I start looking at this crap and their support info…none of it’s useful, but I give it a shot.

LOL Comments…

OK, so I made one of the rare visits to my blog here to “spam” a comment, then I decided to go through the list of spam comments for the hell of it. I approved one that got picked up as spam accidentally, then I scroll down and find this:

notscarednews
notscarednews@yahoo.com
12.230.74.2 Submitted on 2009/03/30 at 5:38pm
I have to make it public. It’s suppose to be secret, however most people in Austin, Tx knows about it. The police department has machine that can read your mind. This machine can also change the way you feel. Causing you to feel fear and paranoia , sexual impulses (which allows the user of the machine to take advantage of you), anger, and paranoia, basically any emotions can be prompted so you will be manipulated behave and think a certain way. Its a new way of brainwashing people. One incident is means when they let someone cause a girl to have a false feeling of liking someone. That man eventually took advantage and raped the girl without her knowledge, and thinking that she wanted to have sex with the person. This is just like rape. This is just one crime they commit with this machine. A machine that can read someone’s mind will be used to violate everyones civil rights. Ideas and secrets about companies will be stolen by their competition with ease. People will be spied on in there homes, without a warrant or reason. This means someone will always be able to watch you in your OWN home (even during intimacy) without your knowledge or consent. There are a lot of people all over the United States knowing about this machine and the police department being able to use it. Another incident in Austin, TX and Arlington, TX is when the police department allowed Gansters from Arlington harassed and violates someone’s rights because they knew a parole from the Austin police department. Start thinking about how the government has given the police department a weapon to commit not only one of the biggest civil rights violations of all time, but to commit war crimes such as rape and interrogation without the knowledge of the victim. I know it is hard to believe however if you know someone in the police department that cares for you enough to protect you, just ask if they have this machine that can manipulate you and read your mind. After that, I would also like people to think about how we are able to get the government to stop violating its own citizen’s civil rights and committing war crimes against their own citizens.

All I have to say is WTF?!?! LOL.

Oprah…why outside my job?

So it seems Oprah is closing off Michigan Ave from Ohio to the river for her anniversary show….

Unfortunately the mess is right outside my building…I’m not terribly sure why she decided it was a good idea to close off one of the busiest streets in Chicago for 3 days…she could have just done this mess at Navy Pier and brought a whole mess of business to the stores there and the pier itself. Instead she figured it would be a better idea to inconvenience everyone else who doesn’t care about her show by closing off Michigan Ave. How self centered is that? Busses have to be re-routed, making people’s commute a pain, cabs can’t use Michigan to easily get from one end of downtown to the other, increasing people’s cab fares…

Seriously, next time do it at Navy Pier, it would have been better for everyone if you had done it this time around.

Tagged, you’re it?

I guess the ridiculous nature of “social networking” sites just gets dumber. In an article on Time Magazine’s website titled “Tagged: The World’s Most Annoying Website” spotlights a new “social networking” site named Tagged, and how irritating it is.

Another blogger mentioned snope’s information on Tagged and it pretty much sums up what the article on Time’s site has to say.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/Tagged.asp

WTF is wrong with some gamers?

So, I browse the Crime and Punishment forum for EVE Online regularly, and ended up directed to a website about a corp named “The United”.

It seems that they had a falling out with some people in the game (a good number of them) that used to be in their corp, but the most screwed up thing about the whole situation is, they started harassing people at home…

http://thebl3h.com/ and http://www.eve-druid.com/its-just-a-game-you-know/

The gist of is comes down to this: people leave their corp, other people in The United because someone makes fun of them and is disruptive on their corporation’s forums (corporation = collection of players like a guild etc in other games for those of you unfamiliar), people in The United band together to harass people in real life.

EVE Online Presents: The…system…is…down…

I was attempting to play EVE tonight, and well every system one by one started closing the jump gates…server crash…reboot…rinse…repeat….

So, I present to you the ultimate video on youtube…

Interesting Credit Card gimick…

It seems Chase has decided to make some accounts eligible for “skip a payment”. Unfortunately for me this morning I thought I missed a payment and called them while having a minor heart attack…