Tactile Alpha-Numeric Input Devices can’t be trusted.

The keyboard on my laptop is still not working. So I plugged a USB keyboard in and it worked fine. Which means it’s a hardware fault… I think. Trouble is I noticed the clock was wrong so I went to time and date to change it and the USB keyboard wouldn’t enter the root user password. I decided to save the AbiWord document I had been working on and when I tried to name this document, again the keyboard wouldn’t input text. So I decided to try the time again and this time used the laptop keyboard and I pressed the first letter only to have it exit the password dialogue and start acting up the way it has been.

On a different note I finished Starship Troopers in about 5 hours. It was a short read but I loved it. So now I’ve booked The Code of the Woosters, Where’s My Jetpack and The Secret Life of Houdini from the Brisbane City Council Library. All three are book picks from Mac Break Weekly. Hopefully I won’t have to wait to long for them to become available.

Damn you Foxtel!

For the third time this week the Comedy Channel has shown a repeat of Conan O’Brien from October. Why? Sure it’s on repeats in the US but why can’t we relive great moments from the trip to Chicago such as the Masturbating Bear skydiving, or other moments I can’t think of? (Originally this argument was better formed and longer, then I checked and found it was being repeated in the US as well.)

Another thing that is annoying me about Foxtel is that The Lab with Leo has been back on since last week, but I only found out tonight while looking through the electronic programme guide. This could be my own fault as when I checked last week to see if it was back on, I stupidly was checking the time it USED to be on, a nice respectable time of 5:30pm Brisbane time. The How To Channel however decided Monster House a show were idiots think up stupid impractical renovations for houses and then go through with these stupid impractical renovations, was better served in this time slot, leaving The Lab at 11:30pm Brisbane time, the time when it used to be repeated as the first run time slot.

Yet another annoyance with Foxtel is the advertising. Why does Pay-TV(lets look at the first part of that term, Pay) have ads? I’ve forked over money to see these shows, why do you need advertisers? And why do you seam to show more ads than the Free-To-Air Commercial stations?

P.S. If you know why Foxtel has ads please tell me, I’d like to know. And don’t just tell me it’s because the operating costs are just too high to be run solely on subscription revenue, because if that were the case I fail to see the point in operating in the first place.

Curse you Newton

I want to buy a MacBook Pro, mostly out of necessity, so it’s more of a need. But other than that there is only a single Apple product that I want, can you guess what it is? An iPod, NO, an iPhone, what am I some gibbering nitwit that thinks just because something looks nice it’s ok to ship crap. I want the Newton, otherwise known as a MessagePad. I don’t care which one, be it a 100 or a 2100.

Being that this product was cancelled by Steve Jobs in early 1998, I have to go to places like eBay to get it, and for AU$45 and $10 postage and handling, I could get a MessagePad 2100, why I immediately thought “I have to get this”. However, the damn thing has no stylus, who sells a stylus operated device without a bloody stylus? So I hit the back button and go to the next one, a MessagePad 130 this time and still at 99 cents! But no, again there’s no bloody stylus.

Sure I could use a fingernail but that would mean having an incomplete device, or I could use the stylus from my PalmPilot Professional, but this would just feel weird and perverted. While that may sound stupid to some people, remember that I’m longing for a device that was released in November 1997, 10 years ago, that’s like 30 digital years.

I guess a more appropriate title for this post would have been “Curse you Newton sellers” but I’m too lazy to change it. Either way, fuck you, you bastards with your Newtons, your Newtons without styluses, or as the French would say “Va te faire foutre, vous bâtards avec vos newton, vos newton sans aiguilles”

Pardon the language, I’ve been venting.

Open Office is a fucking bastard

Open Office can fuck right off!

It can go where ever it bloody sent the words it has taken from my essays. I’m sitting here with just 200 words left untill I hit the minimum word limit then I save check the word count again and  poof I’ve lost 75 words, time goes on I add back what I’ve lost and then 250 fuck right off again.

Pardon the language, I’ve been venting.