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I'm Alive!!!

Hi!

Rising from the ashes doesn't actually feel very good.  It hurts and kinda sucks.

My computer died last week after I reformatted it and re-imported all of my backups, and it took me more than a week to properly address the problem.  Eventually, I succeeded, and the story is retold after the break.

In the meanwhile, I wanted to pop in, say hi and update briefly, because I'd been so intent on updating more, not less, and then this year happened, and touring, prompting, weeklong illnesses and visitors kept me away from the internet for longer than I feel comfortable with.  So I'm off to look for a bedroom or a closet in New York that I can rent through the end of the year, a few more things for Diana Ross and Bon Jovi, both of whom are current PCW clients, and then to format and install everything necessary to run MWS' sales operations on a new computer.

Happy Saturday!

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Of course this week is Windows 7 week

Busiest week in who knows when?
Check.

Windows 7 Beta starts crashing on purpose every 2 hours?
Check.

I know I'm not supposed to be running Windows 7 Beta anymore, but I'm still mad.  I can't even back up my Docs fle in 2 hours, to say nothing of my pics, videos, working files, whatever.  It's frustrating, to say the least.  I'd also like to figure out how to export my Outlook setup so I don't have to do this all again, too, but that's not looking likely, at least not with my current setup and time constraints.  Maybe I can research that today while I'm at Cartoon Network.  Sure.  And I'm a chinese jet pilot.

Anyway, I'm much less inclined to pay for MS operating systems than I was before, that's for sure.  Go out of town for a few months and see what happens.  Fortunately, Ubuntu is solid and virtualization is easy.  Once I manually copy everything in the known universe (WHS doesn't support restores to Windows 7 yet, either.  Way to go, Microsoft, you fuckers) from this computer to another in 2-hour increments, I'll be just fine.

Fuck.

 

social networking is doing it wrong

Gaaaah!

Thanks, Google, for providing a new and convenient way to keep people from visiting my website.  I really appreciate it.  I do.

I understand that ad money is why everyone wants their servers to be the only ones I visit, but fuck off - I visit because you do one thing well.  You don't do everything well, or even passably.  Stop being a shitty piece of Windows software from the last decade that with every release did more and more things and became my default program for everything from opening .zip files to watching porn.  No.  Gmail is a handy and well-coded email app.  It's passable as webmail gets, and a great secondary email option.  Thanks.  But no, I don't want to chat on your servers.  And I certainly don't want to Facebook on your servers - I barely want to Facebook on Facebook's servers.  And while we're at it, I don't want to email on Facebook's servers, especially not with the shitty, slow and buggy app that they have running.  I don't want to chat on *your* servers, either.  Thanks.  I've been IMing since before you were born, and the other guys do it better.  So stop.

Anyway, I'm not going to become some annoying ad guy being all "Check out my new post!" and then posting a link on facebook, twitter, Gmail picasa, flickr and friendster about it.  I'm just going to write and assume that if you want to read it, you'll come read it.  Of course, maybe that's why my readership is so low.  Fuck advertising.

I'm not in a bad mood - honestly.  I'm in fucking Hawaii - it's impossible to be in a bad mood here.  Of course, I'm also working, so maybe I *am* in a bad mood.  I dunno.  At least it's Friday.  Not that Friday means anything in the world of rock touring, but still, it's Friday.  So enjoy it.

 

The Hoover Dam is closed

new Hoover BridgeIt's true.  Closed.  But only to pedestrians.  And only at some unspecified time that includes the awesome pre-dawn light.
Maybe it's not always closed.

I went over there the other day, determined to use my camera to capture something other than simple snapshots.  I drove across the causeway in a caravan of pickup trucks whose owners were going to work.  I parked my car in one of the empty lots and walked back down to the walkway that goes across the dam.

More of this story after the jump.

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What is happening to Sprint?

I've been a more-or-less loyal Sprint customer for a long time now.  Back in 1998, my only connection to the outside world was a Sprint phone - one that didn't work in my hotel or in a lot of other places, but that worked well enough to make calls to people I loved and missed (the list was long).  I don't remember my plan, exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was 500 minutes with free nights and weekends starting at 9 and ending at 7am for $50 a month.  The phone didn't text (none did), and there was nothing like data or music playing or anything else.  The screen barely showed the phone number and the name of the caller, but I did take a call from my dad on a beach in Rio while riding my bike up 6th avenue in rush hour traffic.  That's maybe my favorite phone call of all time, or at least it's right up there, so that phone held a special place in my heart.

UPDATE: the last 9/10ths of this rant have been moved below the break because I hated how it made the page look.  Bye.

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