I've just signed-up for Broadband ADSL2+ with Optus. What I'm laughingly calling my Vodafone internet account has been knackered for almost 3 weeks now, with no sign of them fixing it. I'm up for MASSIVE bills if I exceed quota.
Why didn't I go with TPG or iiNet?
TPG wouldn't do naked DSL. It seems the Hellstra exchange is out of ADSL2+ nodes. As a good friend said, why the hell should Hellstra upgrade the ex [...]
In: bag me stupid, geek-out! |
I'm happy to announce I've found the full document which covered my issues with the "Three" phone company way back in 2004. I post it here for posterity, and as a terrifying warning of what to expect when you mix bad hardware with bad software, or even just simply because I'm a vindictive bitch who'll get her kicks any way she can.
ps. Just noticed I wrote I'd never go the fully integrated camera-phone-pda thing a [...]
In: Amazing, Belgium!, Disgust, I LOL'd, Morons, Rant, geek-out! |
I am a frustrated writer. It's the kind of low-level irritation that, if it were an audio frequency, would be carried for miles and miles by the perfectly configured woofer; it's that bass frequency that you can hear from across the continent.
Here's my frustration:
As a writer, I can churn out stories relatively easily (given the right circumstances and the presence of the Muse - more on her later). A fortnight [...]
In: About moi, Dejection and Despair, Musing, Opinions sought, Rant, bag me stupid |
I once knew a girl, clever, direct and with her head screwed on right (so in this case she was able to look me in the eye). I think what attracted me to her was her experiences and the feeling that she had wisdom that I could learn from.
Over a period of time I surrendered myself -- and why not? My life to that point -- other than some interesting bits -- had been a bit of a fuck-up, with dabbling in idiotic pursui [...]
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A report in todays newspapers:
South African minister threatens 'world war' if Caster Semenya is banned
I agree that great injustice is being created with this mess.
I agree with the statement:
"...It is very, very clear to us that Caster’s human rights are not being respected...'
What I'm sick to death of is seeing a war paradigm used to back-up a statement or an approach to something. War is the ultimate a [...]
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I have a specific reaction to stress: itchy knuckles.
Contrary to the suppositions of people I used to know, this does not mean I need to hit something and that I have a lot of repressed anger ('The teachers on Minbar said I had a lot of repressed anger.'/'And now?'/'It's not repressed any more.').
What it means is that I'm stressed. And this means I break-out in little milimeter wide lumps which, like mosquito b [...]
In: About moi |
Often when I'm awake late at night, I reach for the pen and paper and write a stream of consciousness that usually - if not always - resolves the issue very neatly. I work-out what's wrong just by getting it out of my head.
I'm awake, but it's only 7.45pm. I'm writing because I'm very sad that my lovely housemate has gone off to a fabulous new place of her own.
I'm not sad because she's found a fab new place. I'm [...]
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I just watched Vampire Hunter D again -- an anime with a real set of vampires. You know the ones, don't like sunlight, suck the blood, hunted, pale skin and definitely don't like sunlight.
The burning in UV kind of Vampires I'm talking about, not these sparkly tossers that someone has used as a warning against sex.
It occurred to me that there are quite a few cures for this monstrous approach to our pointy-toot [...]
In: Musing |
Over the last few years, there's been more and more reporting of news in "present tense"
Try this one for example, a report on the winds that whipped through Melbourne today.
What irritates me about this is they mix tenses in the same report.
The winds and damage was present tense, yet the SES received -- past tense -- lots of calls.
You might call me a pedant for pointing this out (hey, I've been called worse [...]
Tags: bitch, irritation, tense, winds
In: Rant |
This may make me a pariah of the internet community, but so-be-it!I am not a fan of LinkedIn, the "professional" social networking site. I've recently closed my account with them actually simply because I was getting lots of lovely emails regarding people in my "network" and their activity, and nothing else. At all.Oh, there was that one message from someone in Russia making me a business proposition, outlining the [...]
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