A feature that used to work perfectly fine in both Vista and XP in WMP11 doesn't work. At least for me. I figure out how to rebuild my library but now it has fucking disappeared again. I don't really want to rebuild my library everytime I launch WMP... Can I downgrade to WMP11? Don't know but I sort of want to find out now.

after seeing capitalism, a love story I can't help but see the evil on banks everywhere. not the theory of them, but the modern application. combined with their simple incompetence when it comes to actually protecting my money, I wonder what's the point. 53 recently applied a 500 dollar adjustment (down) meant for someone else's account to mine and then had the gall to ask if I had actually put the money into the deposit envelope. now Chase has left me a nice 600+ dollar mystery charge. I wonder what I spent 600 dollars on...

... Anyone else had the exciting issue where WMP 12 doesn't show everything in your library? Just happened to me with ALL of my songs. Someone suggesting renaming your folders and than naming them back, but with over 75 artists and who knows how many albums that's not feasible. Had to go to Tools->Advanced->"Restore Media Library". Not happy about this. That combined with the complete lack of an Equalizer in Library view is epic WMP 12 fail.

So, I'm completely fucked if I get swine flu. To the hospital with me!

Bah, I just looked at graphics cards and it still costs 400-500 to improve significantly beyond a geforce 260 core 216. the market has barely moved....

I think I am going to install windows 7 tonight. trying to figure out if I should do the 64-bit or 32-bit version.

ugh. one thing about the genesis coupe forums, is that you realize people will express any dipshit opinion they have as fact. anything from Obama death panels to convoluted ideas about vaccines. they never bother to supply evidence- their persuasive tool of choice the personal narrative. for better or worse I've decided to call them out. it irks me me when people spread misinformation that can be harmful to more than themselves.

it says something about the phone that I implemented the work around for the 100% usage issue and still have 54%. namely, how bored I am at work. if there are no caps in my mobil posts it is because mobil livejournal does not turn on caps automatically. I've discovered an app called comics. it fetches 25 online comics for your reading pleasure from penny arcade to dilbert. it is a favorite of mine. what are your favorite Mobil apps?

Yeah. I had to start a new insurance plan. It costs 250 more a year. that made me miss Kentucky. also fun: dealing with lazy twat hr people. next up? the Ohio DMV. between getting a new phone and paying a new six month insurance premium I am one poor motherfucker.

words I've taught to my new phone?
twat, fuck, bitch, motherfucker, and zit.

an amusing thing: the hero auto fill already knew "HTC".

figured out the HTC sms and mms app prevents the phone from sleeping. how did they miss that? easy fix: download another sms app.

If Windows could update, maybe, just maybe less than three times a day - well that'd be nice.

Well, the Dragon Age trailer kind of makes me want to play that game.

In my works neverending quest to make a company phone as burdensome as possible they have instituted The Contract. It basically states that if they feel like it, they can go through your phone record and should they deem your use not business related, they're going to charge you for it. I've never gotten any nastygrams about phone usage so it seems a low probability that this will bite me in the ass. They didn't just implement this policy for shits and giggles though. No, rest assured this policy was implemented to lower costs and more importantly to me, to be used. In addition, the principle of the matter just pisses me off. Yes, I understand they're a corporation and are essentially giving me a phone for free so they can put whatever stipulations they want on it. However, I'm perfectly willing to say that "deal" is unacceptable.

The recent banning of Livejournal at work has also stoked the flames of desire. The brave new world of smartphones calls to me. Before, the choice was almost perfectly clear: the iPhone and infamous AT&T. Today, however, is a different landscape. Android has come a long way since the G1 with Cupcake and now Donut and also, more handset manufacturer's are designing Androids. This of course breeds Droid competition improving the quality of handsets available. Consumer win. Another important consideration: apps. You don't get a smartphone without considering what "Apps" are available because this can greatly increase the general usefulness of the device. This is another place Android has greatly improved, particularly with the appearance of a Pandora app. No joke, that application was nearly a selling point to me for iPhones. The prospect of once again being able to listen to Pandora at work was almost too much to resist. Also, TMobile used to be the only Android carrier and their 3G network has yet to exist in Cincinnati. AT&T does have 3G here. Whether or not it actually works is up for debate. What isn't up for debate though, is the fact that the #1 and #2 rated Cincinnati carriers will have Android phones. That's another way to say Sprint and Verizon. Unfortunately, this requires me to be patient and wait until the end of October. Does that sound like fun? No, but they keep telling me good things come to those who wait. Between Sprint and Verizon, Sprint is rated higher. Verizon looks like it has better coverage maps. I am also familiar with Verizon service because that's what my work phone is. Essentially, I would know what I was getting. The one huge plus to Sprint is that you can get an HTC Hero with no contract. That may be worth the unknown.

And so ends my smart phone analysis and the wait begins to see what Verizon and Sprint can profer up in the next month.

No, I think I've pretty efficiently wasted the day so far.

As for the month, uhm... No I'm kind of glad I'm already through it. My allergies were crappier than usual - good riddance I say.

The year? Yep. Made a few choices I wouldn't mind renigging.

I've had this song stuck in my head for the past week. It's been in my dreams. It's so groovy. It makes me feel like I should be making moves on the town at 2 a.m. - living life in the fast lane. Yet, it ends so abruptly.

Bah, my Google Reader has over 1,000 things unread now. Honestly, who gives a shit? Not this guy.

Most of it is meaningless.

Just got back from a short little stint in Oregon. A bit jet-lagged. I wish I could've taken today off but I didn't want to blow too much of my vacation time in one go, especially since it wasn't really my trip. Consequently, not much work has been done. I was greeted this morning by a $500 bill to DirecTV. I was ready to tear someone's head off but they were fairly nice and prompt about removing the charge. I now owe them 15 cents. Whatever... I forgot how much being at work sucks.

I managed to get through all of Watchmen, finally. I started from scratch rather than try and find the place I left off three months ago. I was startled how exactly the movie followed the "novel". I was disappointed to learn that uber-nerd mutterings about the absence of giant, Earth-destroying squid were inaccurate. Indeed, there were squid, but they did not end the world. Essentially, the movie transposed one mechanism with another to equivalent effect.

One thing I roll over and over in my mind is that there must be a political statement in the comic. The best I've come up with is something along the lines, "Uncompromising morality isn't compatible with the real world." The problem is, that isn't very descriptive. Though, one of the comics creators did mention something along the lines of the comic being a rebuke of Reaganism. It just sounds like he means it in the way that Reagan is held up as a hero rather than as a comment on his policies. Yet, you can see that Rorschach is conservative. His morals are black and white - uncompromising. This, in the end, leads to his death and depending on your take, the end of the peace found by Veidt's deceptions. So, we have the politically conservative character with black and white morals dying and in the end taking the world with him. In contrast, Veidt is liberal. "The ends justify the means," accurately frames his world view. He compromises morality for a brighter future. And it works.

Political undertones or not?

Amazon has Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for $20. All three Golden Axes, Altered Beast, Shinobi, lots of Sonic games - how could I resist? I'd been eyeing it at $30 but was all, meh. $20 sounds good for every good Sega game ever.

Dude kills intruder with samurai sword.

What exactly makes this a national news story? It may sound hard and cold, but frankly, I don't give a shit about a murder that happened in some other state. Hell, I mostly don't even give a shit about murders that happen here. I get it, she was a good person. That's just not national news.