Well, end of year.
Here’s my plan for tonight. We’ll have a party, which will be a nice little affair with some chili con carne, a few bottles of beer and the best thing, we have some charity scheme lined up. My sisters have prepared a raffle with all kinds of interesting prizes to win, where all the money earned will go to a charity for the victims of the tsunami in you-know-where. And now that I’ve mentioned it, here’s but one thing I’d like to say about it:
I think it’s admirable how many people feel with the victims and it’s unbelievable how quickly 500 Million Dollars were shelled out for relief. But there are other places in the world where people are living under the poorest of conditions, die of starvation or get murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. These things happen all year through, and most of the time, they warrant a five line notice in your local newspaper or less. So maybe, next time you hear of another 100.000 people fleeing from murderous hordes of rebels, or another 2000 people dehydrating somewhere in a place most people can’t even pronounce the name of, think of the hundreds of charities doing work there and shell out a few more bucks without the incentive of hundreds of journalists and home-video tapers delivering footage straight to your living room.
Monthly Archive for December, 2004
From the 2002 version of Solaris, a very well done piece of work by Soderbergh.
Gibarian: You think you’re dreaming me.
Chris Kelvin: You’re not Gibarian.
Gibarian: No? Who am I then?
Chris Kelvin: A puppet.
Gibarian: And you’re not? Or maybe you’re my puppet. But like all puppets you think you’re actually human. It’s the puppets dream, being normal.
(nicked from this site)
Disclaimer: Fucking profanity ahead.
I still have an account with MSN’s Hotmail, which I check once in a while because it has been my account for over seven years, and people keep sending stuff. Now, after Google announced it’s GMail service, every free email service started to panic and quickly upped their storage space. Hotmail, not wanting to fall behind, announced to up their storage space to a whopping 250MB (which is a lot, but come on, you can’t beat 1 Gig). That was about seven months ago. Now, everytime I check my mails on my Hotmail account, I’m greeted with that obnoxious red bar telling me I probably won’t be able to receive any more mail if I don’t clean out my inbox. Why? Maybe because I’ve already stored 250MB worth of mail? Well, how the fuck should I? They never upped it! I’m still stuck with 2MB, which is death to any inbox. It may have sufficed in 1998, when spam was still mainly known as canned food, broadband a term only people working at CERN were familiar with and the general filesize of emails didn’t exceed 20KB. But I can live with it. I’ve got my GMail account, where storage space simply isn’t a matter anymore. If Hotmail just didn’t keep pissing me off.
Today I decided to check my Hotmail account again. And when the page was loaded, I was greeted with the following message:
What’s new For Free Hotmail? MSN Hotmail Inbox Storage is now 250 MB and there is an increased attachment size of 10 MB!
Well, I thought, finally they managed to deliver. I signed in, and for people who are familiar with creating suspense in a crappy 20 line blog posting, this won’t come as a surprise: There was that FUCKING RED BAR. Yeah, they still haven’t upped my account. Not that I care, but what the fuck? What’s so difficult in NOT promising something you won’t deliver? Is everyone working at MSN on crack? Or is it simply a big, practical joke. Let’s see how those stupid users cope when we keep promising their mail will be delivered and not sent back because their inbox is full.
Adding to MSN’s inability to actually deliver, they’ve obviously turned off their spam filter, because there was more spam in my inbox than ever before. Or maybe they’ve just started to sell email addresses in order to afford that increase of storage-space, WHICH WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
Angels do like to have a day off. Why not spend it on a turkey, doing some sun-bathing.
Merry Christmas. Enjoy your meal.
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