May 08, 2005

Top Five Most Aggravating Things So Far Today

#5 - Nov 25, 2003 = The last time Erik Meijer made a blog posting

#4 - The fact that the most recent recorded "progress" for the IceCube (engines and applications) project at Microsoft Research is 2002-06-11 (if you count the date on the license "progress" that is) and between April and May of that same year for the source -- which, by the way, is written in Java. Whats IceCube? Basically "Yet Another Decentralized Version and State Control System" that seems to be a bit stalled at the moment... Actually.... 2002.... Isn't that just about the time Microsoft had to pay Sun a billion cool ones so that they didnt have to write a Java VM anymore which, at the time was basically a death sentence for Java... never quite understood that one but I'm still trying to make sense of women, and this after growing up with five sisters and a mom... yeah, I know, I never will... learned that at a VERY YOUNG AGE!!! Its much like trying to make sense of the "We pay you to not have to support your product and therefore kill it in doing so" ordeal from right around that timeframe. Ummmmm... anyway...

Lets move on...

Wait, backup... You know, I think I have my dates off anyway,,, that was more 2000/1'ish... so whats up with the 3 year source gap???!!! HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...... [UPDATE: Oh, I bet thats when the license expired... my guess is that if you look at the Java source for IceCube it will be right in line with the 1.1.4 drop-off the licensing map brought about by the aformementioned... whateveryacallthat... non-licensing-buy-out-death-sentence (probably a more legal term than that but I think that sounds better. At very least more accurate... :D)

Ok...

#3 - An actual download link for the WWMXClientSetup.msi client application WWMX or World Wide Media eXchange project, again at Microsoft Research. Go ahead, you try and find it... Theres even the following tip from yesterday!!! [UPDATE: Ummm... its May now isn't it. Ooops... Ok, how about "the following tip from a month from yesterday!!!"? Not quite the same impact I realize but its probably the best I can do with another fine sampling of my inability to have any real connection with what day, month, year, or century we happen to be in at any given moment.]

News: April 7, 2005

WWMX Client Application Tip: If you see a photo that you like, you can comment on it by adding a pop-tag (double-click on the thumbnail and drag a rectangle across a portion of the screen) or send e-mail to the owner by right-clicking on the thumbnail.

Now before you get all slick and say "Listen here Mdot", (nice, very clever with the whole dot thing,,, original too ;) "what you do is go back to the MS Research Download page and click the heading for the project instead of the link to the project page contained in the explanation paragraph"

Ok then, if your such a smooth operator their SmartAssDot try it... (of course by the time you read this they will have fixed it, but you can bet your bottomdot dollar that it was broken... for 30 damn minutes I searched and even crawled the site with a spider looking for it... Nothing, nada, zip, zero, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

Don't you people have anything better to do than play with my mind like playdough??? A link, its all I'm asking for.... a link. Is it really that hard to provide a link???!!!

Ok, I'm over it... [although the whole idea of tieing GPS data into a world wide archive of photos and tagging them is REALLY COOL!!!... Hey flickr... got an idea... (shhhhh, see the previous paragraph[oops] sentence ... don't worry, you cant download the app anyway, so as far as I can tell were just looking at vaporware, not exactly something thats going to hold up in court all that well... dont, worry, I wont tell... unless they pay me... ;)

[UPDATE: HOLD UP!!!! Just found this(bottom of page):

Version 1.4.1536.18637 - 3/17/2004 Fixed occaisional assert on login regarding person dots

If not obvious, let me pinpoint... "Fixed occaisional assert on login regarding person dots"

Its a personal thing... a bit coded, but I think I get the picture.... Translation: "Fixed occasional ass logging in, regarding specifically those with "dots" as part of their person"

Can you see a better explanation??? Thats just mean... flat out mean...

Oh well, flickr's more fun anyway... and they LET me login... HAH! (something tells me I'm not gaining much ground with this one...)

Ok then... how about...]

#2 - When did this > MSIL backend for lcc v4.2 < and this > ConferenceXP < show up? I don't remember gettin' no memo??? Whats up with that? My hard earned clicks arent't worth what they used to be? Or is something much deeper and evil... come on, I want names... heads are gonna roll when I -- whats that? -- security? Theyre on their way?? Ahhh... cool, as I was saying "I's gots to rolls"... thanks... BYE for now!!!

And the #1 most aggravating thing so far today (for me -- not you -- if it were you then the most aggravating thing so far today would obviously be me... but we're focusing on me here... my aggravations, not yours... mine... we cool now? right on... k, back to me and then its ALL ABOUT YOU FOR THE REST OF THE DAY, I PROMISE THERE PEACHES... YOU, YOU, YOU... but for now, me...

K - This is it, numero uno of the day, and its only 9am....

#1 - THAT FUCKING EMAIL -- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! WHY AM I AM SO STUPID!!!!!! Can I not figure out how to write an email and.... you know what, If I told you you wouldnt believe,,, well, you probably would believe me come to think of it and furthermore not be the least bit surprised... Thus is the reason its sucks to be me on days like today...

Ahhhhhh.... DEEP BREATHS (couple valium would be nice too but don't have any handy unfortunately as I gave up the whole black market mexican pharmacy thing years ago... hmmmm, too bad...)

Anyway, thats my day so far and as you can tell its a REALLY GOOD ONE!!!

I need some code to mellow me out... wheres my compiler...???

There you are!!!! :D I can always count on my trusty CSC to be there for me everytime... Now thats commitment...