The Darkest Evil

If you read my post yesterday, you would know that I had a copy of Windows to return to London Drugs today. Well, guess what? They would not allow me to return it. Fuckers. It appears as if I have to beg Nicholi for a small pay advance (actually it would be a loan, seeing as I am getting the money soon, just not before it’s due) on my rent while I scramble to collect the rest of it. However, I know one thing is for certain, London Drugs has lost my business indefinitely.

I like to online shop. That’s because I hate waiting forever for a bus to come and take me to the LRT station so I can head on down to Chinook to purchase a DVD. I would much rather purchase one online but there is one factor that prohibits that. When I want something, I usually want it now and not in a few days. This is unfortunate because I am certain that Amazon.ca has a bit more credibility than London Drugs. And it is unfortunate that they have decided to violate their own guarantee, the guarantee on the packaging AND federal law.

However, I take solace in the fact that not all business are as bad with customer service as London Drugs or Subway are. MediaTemple, my current web host, gave me $40 in credits to my account for the outages in November. I am happy that at least THEY know how to act honourably.

Okay, what the hell is the purpose of Boxing Day now? I just don’t get why we need to extend the holidays well past Christmas. Christmas is already hell because I either have to spend time with family or have to spend it with no one at all. I would like to have a girlfriend or a fiancée during the holidays or someone that just gives a damn. I know that the Boxing Day is comparable to Black Friday in the United States.

I’ve never liked the holidays. Christmas is where you receive gifts that give you some kind of indication what your family members and friends think and feel about you. Like, the time that I got a basketball for Christmas from my Aunt Heather and Uncle Johnny. What the fuck? A basketball?!? I am hardly the person that should receive something like that. Also my mother gave me a paintball gun last Christmas just because I used to go paintballing with friends from church. I know that I could not import a paintball gun at the time I entered Calgary and the CO2 tank into Canada. I entered when they had that ban against cremes, foams, fluids, aerosols and other gels. I know I would have to end up purchasing another one, once I land in this country. And possibly, I would probably have to get a rifle licence from the Canada Firearms Centre.

I hate the fact that stores close early on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. I wanted to get a sandwich from Safeway and I would love to get one because I am so hungry. I don’t have the ability to get some food in this damn city. Even Co-op is closed!

I seriously want to go to MacWorld Expo next month and WWDC next year, but I know I can’t for one vital reason. When I leave Canada, I probably will not be able to re-enter with my current status. So, I do not plan to leave until I procure a Permanent Resident card. But I’ve been seeing the Keynote addresses to the general public and it makes me want to attend so very badly. The worst thing is that I don’t even qualify for my immigration yet.

Sorry for the short post but I am very very tired today.

Since I haven’t posted a Fuck Off and Die Thursday post in forever, this will count to make up the time. Basically, there is this girl from my old church named Amber Alexander. I was, at one point, attracted to her. But I moved on and I am now attracted to more intelligent and better women. Women who can treat a person with the respect and dignity that they themselves want for themselves.

Now, she is brainwashing people into believing that I am immature and jealous of the abuse that she is now lumping on someone more her age. This is not true and I was just comforting a friend of mine with the comment. I will not state my friend’s name because I have a dedication to protecting the innocent. People like Amber, though, don’t deserve friends until they can learn how to respect people.

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As one of the very few Rexanni employees (and the only “designer” on the Rexanni team) I am charged with the duty to code and design EVERY Rexanni site. But, to kick off the series of new designs I am developing, I want to show you the new design I have planned for THIS site. It’s pretty sweet and I hope you like it, I did while I was creating it. (Thanks to Bryan, Heather and Skye for their critiques. I really appreciate it guys!)

Edit: I edited the words to convey my true opinion

Why is this bad? Well, the Internet is a very social network and it was built to be decentralised and an open standard. However, this bill will make it more impossible to run a website with the truth. How so, you ask? Well, here are the reasons MY blog and site would be effected if Net Neutrality were to fail in the states.

1. I tell about my bad experiences of Charter Cable, AOL, Microsoft and all those mother fuckers so once Net Neutrality fails, they will have the power to block my content or make it slower.
2. Advertisements and advertising partners will make less payouts to webmasters and give the ISPs and Telcos more money to prioritise their advertisements. Content is king and it is the reason why the Internet is so successful. Would someone watch 30 minutes of television to see 29 minutes of advertisements as opposed to just 6 minutes of advertisements? Of course not! We would get out a bit more and enjoy life and do other things. And eventually, since we wouldn’t be able to see the benefit of having a “high-speed” internet connection, we’d cancel it in a heartbeat.
3. Do you really think we’d be able to use Instant Messengers from other ISPs? Like if I were using Yahoo!’s DSL programme in the states, do you think that I would be able to gain the same level of connectivity with MSN Messenger, ICQ and AOL IM that I would gain with Yahoo!? Of course not, because Yahoo! would love to try to drive people to help improve it’s market share.
4. Great sites like The Pirate Bay and Boxtorrents would drastically be reduced in popularity as we would probably have an even lower level connection to bittorrent.
5. Firefox is gaining considerable steam and market power. Now, if Net Neutrality fails, it may be that the only browser you will be able to use (if you use MSN or an ISP that works with MSN) is Internet Explorer. That sucks, doesn’t it?

So I approve of Net Neutrality.

Yes, Wordless Wednesday is making a comeback solely due to the fact that I did not sell my digital camera like I thought I would. How wonderful is that ^_^

Yesterday I had to experience the fucking slowness that is dial-up. Dial-up is the worst kind of Internet connection you can have and you should only use it if your high-speed Internet connection is down and you are waiting for the people at the Cable Company to respond, if you are stealing your neighbours Internet connection and you are waiting for THEM to realise that their Internet is out and call the Cable Company or if you are waiting for the Cable Company to come and install your Internet.

Now, whose fault is it that my Internet is down? The blame has to go to Charter Communications, one of the worst Internet Service Providers in the world. If you do business with them, you might want to stop because you are getting a very inferior Internet Connection (see http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Internet_service_providers_that_do_not_like_file_sharing for a list of inferior ISPs).

If you ABSOLUTELY must use Dial-Up, follow the following golden rules:

1. Turn off images and JavaScript in your browser
2. Ditch webmail and use a POP3 e-mail client if possible
3. Forget about online gaming and torrenting. Until you get an acceptable Internet Connection - don’t torrent - it’s better that way.
4. Have a very limited amount of applications open at one time.
5. Turn off additional features of applications like AudioScrobbler or other plugins and extensions that appear on runtime.
6. Cancel your dial-up account IMMEDIATELY after you get high speed.

I apologise sincerely to everyone in my Ragnarok Online guild for not being online. I hope you killed some good MVPs ^_^