Welcome to Nowhere

Heh, yeah, that could happen. Because I have such a crammed schedule and all. Well, I was just going to leave some vague entry up here about how absolutely nothing happened, but then I had to go find an excuse to do what I do best; bitch about stupidity. So, long story short, I did nothing yesterday, and didn’t sleep last night. It was much fun. And now, on to my bitching of a fit. Those who don’t want to read any farther, take a quiz.
Okay, so everyone knows te US and its allies–which, now, unfortunately, includes Canada–are on the hugest pro-democracy kick ever known to exist. Well, okay, I don’t agree with forcing our way of life on anyone, but that’s neither here nor there. So, what does Israel’s bonehead army go and do? Why, capture a legitimate member of Palastine’s government, of course. Thus, not proving anything except that they will do what they want, when they want, and with who they want, as long as they have US support. And, as luck would so have it, the odds of Bush actually calling off his new bloodhounds are next to nill. And, of course, like the lost puppy he is, Harper won’t do a damn thing about it because he’d rather cozy up with Bush and screw us all over. And never mind the whole Lebanon situation, now… even if there was to be a ceasefire put in place (ha, not likely) it’s *way* too late for it to do a hell of a lot of good, now. Unless the UN wants to go in and pull the two sides apart like a couple kids hell bent on strangling each other. Well, on the bright side, Harper’s saying we won’t be contributing any of our millitary to any international force that might be headed over there; we’re spread thin enough already, what with afganistan (spelling, I know… sue me), people probably still in bosnia, and… wherever the hell else we’ve got people–it gets hard to keep track after a while. But, on the not so bright side, Harper isn’t doing anything else to help out yet, either. Like, you know… stop agreeing with the US. If I haulled out a “Steven Harper has to go” petition, would it actually get signed?

So now, rather than doing something to make things *easier* for people to put music on their computers, so they don’t have to go and do exactly what the record labels are shitting bricks about, they decide it’d be more fun to stick music on a DVD. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. So, while yes, there is the option of additional video content to accompany your music, among other things, but you’ll be taking this in favour of, say, being able to play said music in your car. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t something like this just *encourage* people to download music and burn it to CD? People… bleh. Should be shot.

I can’t be the only person who’s sick and tired of hearing anything and everything middle-east. And now, one of the local whackjobs is trying to get his share of attention. Again. Lunatic, much? I mean, I’d rather read that story over another casualty report, just because Iran at least has the potential to be amusing. But at this point, they’re doing more irritating me than anything else. Ah well, at least they’re in partial agreement with the rest of the world—there will be no ceasefire. Frickin nutjob.

Especially if the choice is between these folks, who I use now, and these duds, who I’ll be cancelling once all the important crud’s been transfered over. Why, you ask? Well, okay, so maybe you don’t ask. I don’t care. The answer is simple. I pay $15+ per month at the soon to be out the door site, and I don’t think they’ve gone down once since I started. Of course, I wouldn’t know for sure because, shortly after I started there, I got fed up with their pathetic excuse for an administration system and switched to the good guys. Now, while there have been more occurances lately of down time with them, it’s *usually* been an isolated case or two that hasn’t effected me. The two exceptions to this are, of course, when the datacenter they’re in lost power, taking them, My Space, and a couple others with them. But, down time aside, the difference really? I’m informed. Not only do they *try*, being the key word here, to keep their customers updated on their status page, but posts on their blog, like this one, are the difference–not only do they keep their customers informed, but they have absolutely no problem admitting when they screwed up. Though I just like that they keep us informed. The guys I’m getting away from as soon as humanly and sanely possible, on the other hand… the only thing I receive from them is an automated email each month basicly saying “this is how much you owe us, now pay up”. Yeah, reliability’s kind of a necessity for me, too. But, aside from a power outage or two, I haven’t had a single problem with them since January, when they fully admited they fubared a configuration setting for their email servers. The point? If you get what you pay for, then these folks should start jacking their prices up… because I’ve already got twice my money’s worth, which is balancing out the bad taste in my mouth left by these other fools. Of course, someone’s probably gonna try and argue with me on just about every point raised here. And I’ll bet the first time their website goes down with some other hosting company, they’ll bitch a fit and switch back to DH. You can’t please everyone all the time; it’s a fact of life. Some people won’t be pleased until they get 6 months free, and won’t stop crying about the small stuff until that happens; that, too, is a fact of life. That fact, though, can at least be ignored easily… like those people.