“The more companies and management treat their administration like dirt, the more problems like this will arise.”


by Kevin Church

A Wired article about San Francisco’s network being hacked by a vindictive ex-employee features a litany of offenses by sysadmins who have wrought havoc upon their former workplaces, including someone deleting a database used for matching organ donors to patients and an Australian fellow who hacked a sewage plant and flooded local rivers and parks with hundreds of thousands of gallons of filthy water. This has, of course, brought out those on both sides of the “You know, my IT guy is kind of a dickbag” issue.

The gems, of course, all come from the guys that make sure your business functions well in between marathon sessions of WoW and Mountain Dew Code Red runs.

This is just bullshit….The companies that fire their employees after a year of employment ask for it…it is so simple…don’t hire someone if you want to fire him/her afterwards….Japanese are smart….after all the yellow race is the superior than others…
It is simple…..we lost !

This is why it is so critical that management handle their tech personnel carefully. If you need to let one of them go, for whatever reason, it’s not a good idea to make it a public event or a heated argument. It only takes a knowledgeable tech a mere minute or two to initiate an attack that will severely cripple the business.

It’s generally a good rule of thumb to not talk down to your local tech during any period of their employment. That will only guarantee you poor and slow service when you need it and will make that techs termination even more potentially hazardous.

So if you like to be the hardass boss to the employees in your charge, tone it down for the techs. Treat us with kindness and you’ll reap the benefits!

I’m amazed at some of the HUGE sentences handed down for mostly “irritating, not life-threatening” crimes. Even some killers don’t get 97 months jail, and it was only a s**t Banking Institution!! Somebody must have been REALLY pi**ed off!

One last word for IT management, you’re only in control because us techs let you be because we like you and the way you treat us. Don’t cross us unless you want to lose your job too.

Its not the poor treatment of the employees that caused them to go off. Its their poor mental state that caused them to go off, most of us with the knowledge and ability to pull off such sabotage would never do it. We might think about it and fantasize about it but never actually go through with it..
NERDS RULE!!!

Here is a hint to resolve these common plagues from network admins…

Treat your administration with respect and as if they are actually valuable!

The more companies and management treat their administration like dirt, the more problems like this will arise.

Either that, or send the admin jobs to be outsourced in India. You think it’s hard understanding the guy from 7-11, try getting your password from him and understanding what he said.

If Corporate management would use just an ounce of respect, maybe things will be different. But since that will never happen, maybe you’ll think twice about treating your admins and engineers like the geek you kicked around in high school.

I would suggest that Terry Child is probably a disgruntled homosexual. This is the type of behavior you will see from such persons. Another example was the homosexual that blew up the turret on a navy ship after a falling out with another homosexual lover.

So, what have we learned? That IT guys are overbearing, loudmouthed whiners who don’t understand why people don’t like them? Or that companies need to have better procedures in place? Or is that the gays are always up to no good? U-DECIDE!



Self-satire, but not as she intended.


by Ted Grant

Michelle Malkin is angry. Yes, I know, that’s pretty much her default state, but now she’s angry about someone else being angry. Specifically, she’s upset that former NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers-Williams was critical of the New Yorker’s recent “Obama as terrorist” cartoon. How the woman who got Dunkin’ Donuts to pull an ad campaign because she didn’t like the pattern on Rachel Ray’s scarf can accuse anyone else of needing to “grow a brain” is a philosophical question not appropriate to discuss here, because the real gem of a comment comes from one of Michell’s faithful followers, one “emjem24″:

I wanted to mention what a shame that people like this woman keep bringing up “lynching” and in the same way, do a disservice to the black community.

Many blacks paid for HER civil rights with their lives. Does she get that or are their deaths just so much more politically expedient for the joy of using that word like some self-fulfilling prophecy or something?

I wonder if all the family members of those who’ve been lynched would accept such “death politicization?” It’s really a shame.

One more thing, it must be so “hard” to be black like her. Accuse others of “lynching” when they criticize you or even immortalize you in a cartoon.

Oye Vay, Ms. Evers-Williams needs a new schtick ’cause this one’s gettin’ real old. Do you think she cares about the impact of illegal immigration in the black community?

For those not in the know, here’s an article about Ms. Evers-Williams deceased husband.

Yes, that’s right. The widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers was just accused of not only being stupid, but of not appreciating the sacrifices those in the civil rights movement have paid.

So, are American conservatives just completely and utterly without any sense of shame or human decency, or hopelessly stupid?



Granted, I live in Alexandria & do not get to Arlington that much, but if I’m ever in their neighborhood & want coffee, I wont be going there


by CM

Boing Boing, Mecca of all small incidents blown way out of proportion, links to the story of an under-caffeinated fellow who takes umbrage at the posted policies of a local coffee shop and a particularly obstinate coffee-slave who seems destined for a life in the 9th level of the bureaucratic hell of government service. This post is not about that incident. This post is about the day the ENTIRE GODDAMNED INTERNET shared in that cup of coffee.

From the comments at the original post, by a person going by Heyheyhey:

this isn’t about coffee, this is about the barista doing his job the best he can and you totally disregarding the store policy and then proceeding to be a dick. that photo of the dollar you left speaks a ton about you. you’re an ass and i hope for the sake of the baristas at [coffee shop in question] you don’t go back.

Another commenter, apparently wedded to the sanctity of capitalism, responds:

This dude was RECEIVING MONEY to create a beverage that was apparently beneath him and his store’s policy (what happened to the customer is always right, folks?) and then had the AUDACITY to deny said beverage, potentially losing a customer and money, not to mention being a royal dick about it. Heyheyhey – you’re way out of line.

Lucky for us a fellow is there to jump in and link to his flickr page with a picture of the coffee shop policy, and the infamous dollar bill mentioned above:

I know you felt affronted by this, but there was a big sign saying what they wouldn’t do.

Also, your message to them now proudly hangs in their Hall of What Not To Do board at the register:

Crikey, a Douchebag

On that flickr page are more comments (surprise!) from more people who want to drink deeply of such an infamous and vainglorious cup of coffee. For example, here’s a threat that carries deep and economically apocalyptic ramifications:

I will never patronize [coffee shop in question] with my business. Granted, I live in Alexandria & do not get to Arlington that much, but if I’m ever in their neighborhood & want coffee, I wont be going there.

Tremble at the power of this man’s dollar!

But most luckily for us, there’s a link in the flickr page comments to someone ELSE’S blog about this very same incident:

The behavior that caused this particular dollar to be written on was VERY rude and unprofessional. www.andiamnotlying.com… A different take on the same incident here www.welovedc.com… Snobbish people irritate the crap out of me, especially in customer service positions. The jerk is lucky he got a tip at all (other than “find a line of work where you don’t have to deal with people who offend you by wanting something you don’t approve of”).

welovedc.com backs up the original blogger’s version of events, and of course, there are more people who wish to indulge in such a pointlessly famous cup of coffee:

Straight espresso and the classic cappuccino are signature beverages at [coffee shop in question]. They don’t ice them, they don’t serve them to go. Saying no in these particular instances shows the pride they take in their work. It might cost them a few customers, but it helps build the company culture of being the most devoted to coffee quality in the DC area

And, what’s this? A few comments down, a link to the original post:

This entry on And I Am Not Lying may interest you.

Whereupon the original blogger notices the trackback and responds:

Hey man — I can freely admit I was being a dick. And I’ll even admit that sometimes I’m a barbarian that doesn’t appreciate the subtleties in things. But being a dick doesn’t start out of nowhere. Usually rotten customer service brings out the worst in people.

He goes on, adding nothing but fuel to this now coffee-soaked, orgiastic, incestuous, self-referential, internet camp-fire. That is, until he closes his comment like this:

And, dick or not, it’s still just coffee.

That’s right people, in the end it’s just a cup of coffee. A cup of coffee, incidentally, THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE, WHATSOEVER.



This is not to say that BB should in any way be compared to, say, Stalin in other respects, but a purge is a purge.


by Kevin Church

it just came to light that the hyper-popular group blog BoingBoing deleted any and all posts linking to one Violet Blue, a proponent of “open source sex,” whatever the fuck that means. The reasons for this are Cory Doctorow, Xeni Jardin, David Pescovitz, and Mark Whateverthehell’s own. It’s their site to do with what they please. While some are just enjoying the mystery of “why,” (which may have to do this this article written by “Violet Blue,” in which she basically call Xeni Jardin’s friend Amanda Congdon a corporate shill), others are very, very concerned about the goings-on at a site that doesn’t belong to them. Of course, this set my GOTI-senses tingling and I went through the over six hojillion comments to find the ultimate piece of internet drama bullshit.

And here it is, courtesy of someone who calls themself “Pyros.”

For all those who say that this is a trivial matter, you are wrong.

I can see they doyens of corporate America and governments around the world breathing a sigh of relief. Boingboing did it, why can’t we? Yes, BB, like it or not, you are this influential. This could easily become the new mantra of redactors of every stripe. A very bad precedent has been set.

For those who say this isn’t an autocratic-like maneuver I ask, “how is it not?” When purges take place almost all of it is trivial bullshit. There is never enough time to find the smoking gun so it always best to use the scattershot method. This is not to say that BB should in any way be compared to, say, Stalin in other respects, but a purge is a purge.

Furthermore, I don’t expect any reasonable person to necessarily agree with my point of view. Reasonable people placate and abide. They smooth things over. Their goal is to arrange their world in such a way as to avoid any turbulence. Anyone who causes it, no matter their claim, has to be marginalized.

But I’m not trying to deny or even deprecate their important role within complex sphere of the social ecosystem, merely pointing out their limitations. They have their place in the world to be sure. As Shaw once wryly noted though, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. Progress is a synonym for change, and change is a synonym for struggle. I can understand why some may not be inclined, but there is no other way of making the world a better place.

In this particular situation, the only dialogue of any importance will come from the unreasonables. It is their voice that we must generally listen to on matters of broad, rather than narrow social scope. The passifying reasonables (who are more expert within a more narrow social realm) should not be expected to contribute anything of relevance. They will only block progress and should therefore be ignored.

Given BBs actions, no reasonable person could advance a compelling argument that would have any truck with an unreasonable.


This is such sublime horseshit that I can’t help but think it might be parody, or some piece of internet performance art. I hope so, anyway. It’d be lovely if Pyros is actually on their porch right now, sipping lemonade and reading a copy of The Steampunk Guide To Disney, quietly bemused.



I french bull Hanz zappa who wants to meet loki


by Kevin Church

I was going to write up a big thing about it, but really, if you can’t figure out who the sort of people who visit Celebrity Dog Watcher are, then you probably need to go find another website to hang out on for a bit. Here’s a random selection:

i didn’t think she was a cute girl in sisterhood but she looks good here.

That beautiful … enchant to me…
Thanks

I french bull Hanz zappa who wants to meet loki

I HAVE OOPS

hanz loves janis and wants to meet with Loki!

She has money & she feed’s her poor dog’s garbage.

Hey, my dogs eat Beneful and are healthy, happy and loved. Next thing, you’re gonna be pouncing on my Purple drinks. That’s okay, though. My pets have their nutrition and I have my antioxidants and Christina does still look good.

This has already happened with chihuahuas. If you’ve ever walked through downtown los angeles or the los angeles animal control, everywhere you turn you see a chihuahua or small dog of some sort. They’ve probably figured that since there’s already a boom, they’re safe.

Bethenny – Cookie is so cute. I like that she really is apart of your family. You were my favorite “housewife” and I wish you and Jason all the best! I heard a rumor there’s not going to be a season 2, is there?

No, that’s his second dog. His first dog’s name is Arrow.



Flooding the Republican heartland is no way to get our attention.


by Tom Thumb

The Swamp is the Chicago Tribune’s politics blog, and like most blogs of its type, it runs a little bit of commentary, a little bit of snark, and a little bit of stuff that probably wouldn’t make the paper even on a slow Sunday.

Case in point: to accompany an otherwise-standard election fund-raising story, they ran a mundane, even banal photo of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle on Chicago’s South Side. And sure, nobody looks good in a bicycle helmet, as Obama conceded at a Thursday night fundraiser:

“I had an internal debate,” Obama admitted, when a supporter thanked him for wearing a helmet. “Because I knew that the AP was going to take a picture, and they were trying to portray it like Dukakis wearing that tank helmet.

“But I wanted to make sure that the children who saw that picture knew that even the Democratic nominee for president wears a helmet when he goes biking,” he said to applause.

Well, shucks. Hard to argue with that, politically calculated (“For the Children!”) or not. The photo business just barely adds interest to another campaign newsblip. Surely no one can make a mountain out of this molehill.

Haha, what a tool!!!!!
Ooh, I did it for the kids, always about the kids. C’mon, you are a part of the problem why these kids are such wimps today. When I was a kid, I never wore one, fell plenty of times but got right back up every time. Learned a lot of valuable lessons that way.

For example, “how to act like a douche in a public forum,” right, Ed? But at least you’re not reading a sinister political agenda into coverage of a bike helmet, like our cousin Vinny:

Still no article on McCains nationally televised Town
Hall meeting last night. Nah the swamp is not biased towards or Obama
otr anything like that. The swamp is clearly pushing an agenda. I dont
want to have to but I think I am going to have to put the swamp in the
idoits category along with Olberman, Limbaugh, Hannity, Mathews, Air
America, and Anne Coulter.

I will say this for Vinny: his idoits category is refreshingly non-partisan. His comment is even somewhat germane to the topic, and while it will get no points for spelling or grammatical elegance, it does at least have the virtue of seeming, well, sane.

Let us turn now to the comment of stan woodbridge, which is not germane, grammatically correct, nor… well. You’ll see:

Still no article on the hate America global warming
loons scaremongering and flooding of the Midwest? Flooding the
Republican heartland is no way to get our attention. We get it you hate
America, now leave this great country.

So if I parse this correctly, stan believes that “global warming loons,” by which I infer he means advocates of the climate change theory, are somehow causing the floods in the Midwest to scare Republicans into believing in climate change. Because they hate America.

Someone clearly forgot to wear his bicycle helmet one too many times.



THERE NOT TATTO’S THERE TRAP STAMPS


by CM

Tattoos are perhaps one of the most interesting body-modification processes available considering the history of tattoos is thousands of years old, and that in the hands of a talented artist the human body can become a beautiful canvas. Tattoos can be discreet or in-your-face; deeply introspective or light and whimsical.

Apparently, they can also stir up the mouth-breathingest denizens of humanity that ever mashed their meat-paws against a keyboard.

Asylum.com provides access, in this case, to a slideshow of the “worst tattoos ever”.

Here is the first comment on that slideshow:

those have got to be the most stupidest corniest bunch of retards with tatoos i have ever seen

Believe it or not, this is the highest level of civility the comment thread produces.

If a person wants a tat, fine that be his or her choice.

Oh, well I guess that wasn’t too… what? He had more to say?

Personally i think it is a big waste of money and a potential threat of infection. When a person gets older (a lot older) and things begin to SAG; or you go for that job that you always wanted;etc,etc,etc When my son got his first one he told me this ” but i got it where no one could see it” really proud of that one ( $159.00) I just think they are a stupid wast of hard earned money

Wow. That was fast. From “zero” to “crotchety old bastard” in one sentence!

It’s a good thing there’s an available member of the tattooing community to upbraid him.

thats your opinion your obviously a very closed minded tight wad , tattoos are more than just a waste of money

Sure. They’re a great source of Hepatitis C, too!

if you had any idea as to how much time,dedication, and skill that goes into being a professional tattoo artist, you would feel a little more respect, and appreciation for the ARTFORM! its not just for scumbags and sailors anymore pal

But really, up until this point, things have been positively congenial. After this things quickly degrade into what amounts to an internet slap-fight.

THERE NOT TATTO’S THERE TRAP STAMPS

All caps? Check. Spelling errors? Check. Even spelled “tattoo” incorrectly? Check. Obnoxious opinion no one asked for? Check. Congratulations, we have Internet!

It is not only awaste of money, but most of those guys are NOT artists, they are want to be artists. And besides, if God would have wanted us destroying something he had made, he would have covered us all in junk like that, let alone all the stupid canabalistic nose rings, tongue rings, and other unmentinable places that these people place them for thier self identification. Those things are absolutely disgusting, and show me nothing but perversions of offending God.

Uh oh. Some sanctimonious prude said “God” on the internet, thus blowing the “Douchebag Atheist” dog-whistle.

You may have one of the stupidest opinions I have ever heard on the internet, and the internet is a pretty damn big place.
… paragraphs and paragraphs of being an overbearing ass…
Lastly, I do not believe in all this God talk, but I am trying to help you better understand the God you think you know. I’m not saying that some tattoos are offensive, but a lot of people who get them do so to commemorate something very influential and important in their lives.

If I live for 10,000 years, I doubt I’ll ever read anything more obnoxious than “I am trying to help you better understand the God you think you know”. Oh, wait, the comments continue? I guess I don’t need to live that long.

Where in the h**l did they come up with those designs? Someone was obviously on something to make those designs so ugly. What a waste of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, if one exclamation point means I’m excited about something, certainly 20 mean that I’m really excited!

I’m now operating under the policy that people who use extra exclamation points, commas, periods, et cetera should be sterilized.

I SAW A WOMAN WITH A ….W …..PRINTED ON EACG SIDE OF HER BUTT. wHEN SHE STOOD ON HER HEAD IT SPELLED ””””””””””””” M O M

See what I mean? An almost decent joke that is, shockingly, relevant to the topic at hand, and it’s completely ruined by an incomprehensible use of punctuation. However, it might have been enough to get the comments back on topic. Let’s check:

To each his own but don’t make me look at it. Keep your shirt on. Wear sleeves. Don’t put that crap in my face. I don’t like it.

Ah yes, the old, “I don’t want to see it” argument. A favorite of racists and homophobes with extremely delicate sensibilities everywhere.

I really don’t know why anyone would pay to scar themselves like these people did! I know people who have birth marks that cannot be removed, who would give anything to not have the birth mark! I have friends who got tattoos, who now say it was the dumbest thing they ever did. They are paying thousands of SSS’s to get them removed. $159.00 to put it on and $5,000.00 to get it removed? I will not hire anyone to work for me who has a tattoo. I am not running a circus, I am running a business!

I didn’t realize that SSSs were legal tender. Also, I don’t know what country’s currency that is.

I have a tattoo and I love it….I have a bubblegum collection…so I went and had a bubblegum machine tattooed on my stomach…left side of my belly button…it turned out great…worth the money I spent…and by the way…I am a girl…not a guy…didn’t want you to think it was so guy getting a bubblegum machine tat.

Yes, because men HATE bubblegum!

umm….thats pretty muich the grossest tatto evr!!! i meen the one wit da skull think with the teeth…yeah EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW gawwsh get a life ppl!!!!!!!!!!

Get a life, indeed.

Aren’t you glad you decided to see what people thought of the ridiculously bad tattoos? Looking at comments is like going on a treasure hunt where all you find are punches in the genitals.



Parentdish Passes Judgment on Paltrow’s Parenting, Finances, and Smoking


by evilolive

On the post Gwyneth Paltrow: No trust funds for her kids, over 100 people feel compelled to comment:

Jan:

Oh Gwyneth, I didn’t criticize you when others were having plenty to say about a celebrity mom naming her baby after groceries, but I can’t let the statement about buying cigarettes out of tips go.

Why on earth would someone who says that they were struggling think that they should buy cigarettes? Couldn’t Gwyneth have put some gas in her car rather than to blow her cash on tobacco and inhale poisonous, toxic substances into her lungs?

Donna

Oh, Jan, we’ve heard it over and over again. Give it a rest. She knows what is “correct” and what is not. She was trying to make a point regarding her past, not the political ideology of today. You people who want to criticize and “direct” people on what they should or should not do with their money need to take care of your own life.

MBurger

How about raising your kids properly and letting them use their share of your wealth to invest or start a business.
It’s sad when a parent would deprive their children of their inheritence because of their own retardation.

ninainindia

It might not make any sense to us, but I always see “poor” people smoking, which to me means they are not poor.

Gc

We all know that Hollywood acts like a bunch of groupies: what one does they all do. They all name their kids weird names, they all are liberal Democrats supporting Barack Obama and now the new thing is to place their kids in poverty at age 21. Watch what happens 20 years from now – a bunch of resentful kids coming out with expose books about their greedy parents. No one says you have to give your kids a silver lining but a little head start is the least you can offer especially if your kid’s name is a fruit.

S.Lane

My brother feeld the same way. He won’t give his kids any money and he has plenty. He feels they should develop a work ethic. He is the same one who forgets his wallet when our famillies go out and eat….twice!

rivirivi

GWYNETH, DONT BE A MORON. YOU START THE TRUST FUNDS AND DONT TELL YOUR CHILDREN. AS LIFE GOES ON AND AN EMERGENCY COMES OR AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE MORE MONEY LIKE A BUSINESS, OR SO, YOU CAN GIVE THEM THE SURPRISE WHEN THEY ARE 30. THEY WILL THANK YOU!

sue

MAKE ME ILL HER DAD DIDN’T GIVE HER ANY MONEY MY BUTT SHE HAD HIS NAME AND GOT JOBS IN HOLLYWOOD…………………………..FUNNY HOW BOTH HER AND HER BROTHER WENT INTO SHOW BUSINESS, SHE IS JUST FULL OF HER SELF IS ALL.SHE DOENS’T KNOW WHAT HARD WORK IS. FUNNY HOW ALL THESE HOLLYWOOD PEOPLE ACT LIKE THEY HAVE HAD IT OR HAVE IT SO HARD THEY ARE ALL CRAP. MOST HAVEN’T EVEN FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL. LIKE ANGELINA EVERYONE PRAISING HER FOR HAVING ALL THOSE KIDS I COULD HAVE ALL THOSE KIDS TOO, WITH NANNIES. AND WHY DOES SHE ADOPT FROM OTHER COUNTRIES BECAUSE SHE WANTS PRAISE AND ATTENTION, SHE IS A FREAK THAT WEARS BLOOD VIALS ON HER NECK FOR GODSAKES. GO INTO THE COMMUNITIES THAT IS WHERE THE HEROES R NOT THESE FAKE HOLLYWOOD PEOPLE

L_snooki

Gee Gwyneth are you going to leave your monies to some charity so they can put it in the own pocket instead of helping some one with it I feel real sorry for your kids to be that dam selfish not to help them. Have you check the news how bad everything is getting.
And you want to make sure you kids end up on the streets poor and homeless. Your are a hell of a mother to do that to your children. Amen to that one ppl



if i were an investor, i’d be asking to see your tech department’s letters of resignation right about now.


by Kevin Church

Twitter is a microblogging platform that lets people post short “status updates” online in tiny 140-character bursts. I like it because it lets me get out brief, pithy thoughts that aren’t quite worth an entire blogpost or that tread too closely to the “talking about yourself is a no-no” guideline that I set up in my head a few years back for my personal blog. It’s also one of the prime examples of Web 2.0 wherein it offers a platform for expression and very little else. Its growth has been meteoric, with something like nineteen bazillion active members online at any one time, thus causing the usual growing pains, with the past week or so featuring a few outages and disabled features while the development team attempts to scale up their operations to match the new masses using the service.

Twitter is, it should be noted, free to use. This is why people display an extraordinary amount of vitriol and condescension in the comments for a recent post apologizing for the downtime and explaining what’s happened.

Joe Manna shoots out of the gate with some hard technical questions:

Why can’t twitter just purchase the equipment and get the OC-12s they need? Didn’t you folks just raise $15M in funding?

I strongly suggest twitter sets up geo-located Co-Lo’s around the world and the states.

Basically, West Coast, Midwest, East Coast locations. Then make the twitter servers round-robin from their localized server to other ones. So at least outages can be isolated to regions instead of the whole service.

It’s frustrating that when I finally give Twitter a chance, your servers bite the dust.

Yes, Joe. I’m sure they’re very sorry that the world is missing out on your taco-eating updates and will take your advice as the impetus to immediately launch into action.

David gives one of those “If I were…” comments that make me want that throat-chopping-over-IP technology even more:

if i were an investor, i’d be asking to see your tech department’s letters of resignation right about now.

He’s joined by someone who knows where they can find a sudden replacement for the tech-void David’s suggestion would create:

Time to just go to Wall Street and hire a real database person from Bloomberg or Reuters – someone that knows how to move massive amounts of data in short-form.

It’s obvious that the SF/SV engineers are not up to the task. Hire someone that is up to the task and get this shit done.

Yes. Silicon Valley and San Francisco engineers don’t know how to GIT-R-DUN.

Hang on! Erazmus has a fantastic idea:

Enough already. How about monetize this thing? Some of us would actually pay for a working Twitter.

That $19 is going to go a long ways towards fixing this problem, I’m sure.

Oh, hey, someone’s about to talk about the competition!

dear twitter. i’ve had enough of your on again / off again attitude. i’m leaving you for friendfeed. all the cool kids are making the switch. sorry. you fail.

As a cool kid, I can assure you this is not the case.

Kiki has an analogy I don’t quite understand:

I don’t pay to vote, either, yet I’ll certainly complain when that’s flawed, too. But I’m not going to leave the country on account of it, and I’m not giving up on Twitter, either.

The Mad Doctor is a materials scientist in Silicon Valley and has some ideas:

Break down and do a few things with the VC funding:

(1) Hire a systerm architect.
(2) Hire someone who has worked with large databases and rapid data transfer.

You could recruit for (2) at SLAC which, until Google, was moving the most data in the world the fastest. Maybe they still do. And, they just had a layoff!

I digress (and yes, I was at SLAC from 2002-2004; great people, great place.)

(3) If you haven’t already, get rid of that silly toy known as Ruby on Rails. It’s shite.

It’s amazing how someone can make a fine, fine argument and undo it completely with a hackneyed Britishism they picked up in their college theater classes.

Chris Thomson is emo:

Good luck with getting Twitter back up. Oh, but then it’ll probably crash again. :(

This pretty much sums up how Twitter’s been working lately:

http://twitter.com/_evan/statuses/819151648
:-(

Is there an emoticon for hanging yourself because a free internet service isn’t working over a holiday weekend when you should be fucking off with your friends? I hope so!

For some reason, I hear Ward Cleaver when I read this comment:

I have never seen a tech company have so many failures and outages than Twitter. People will only put up with it for so long.

Finally, a suggestion from the staff here at GOTI. Visit Whentwitterisdown.com. It can help.



I’m cool with the gay thing just don’t touch my ass and stay 25 feet away from me.


by Ted Grant

The Consumerist brings us yet another story of corporate malfeasance, or at least less than adequate customer service which is, at best, a minor inconvenience, with the story of an XBox 360 owner who found his gamertag changed against his will because it contains the highly offensive word “gay” in it.

Let’s see how the always reasonable Consumerist readers react:

Try a gamer tag like BrokeBackMountaineer.

Two whole comments in, and we already get a Brokeback Mountain joke. How timely.

A child playing XBox live may not have parents that are ready to explain homosexuality, heterosexuality or any sex related topic yet.

Ten comments in before someone asks us to think of the children…

I too find the term “homophobic” offensive. It’s a convenient classification to demonize and lump together people who disagree with you, whether or not they have an irrational, pathological and psychological fear of homosexuals. It’s like calling someone a fascist when they exhibit no attributes of fascism: a convenient personal attack to confuse the issue.

Funny, isn’t it, how only homophobic people ever seem to be offended by the use of the word “homophobe.”

I’m constantly amazed at the fact that gay people feel the need to advertise their ‘gayness’ to anyone and everyone.

Noone feels the need to use the login “theHETEROgamer”.

Get over it and stop broadcasting your sexual preference like it’s a badge of honor…

Yes, gay people telling you they’re gay is “advertising their gayness.” Lord, how I’m tired of that argument…

The XBL TOS also says something about no sexual references in a gamertag and while you didnt say penislovinggamer, you did make a semi sexual reference.

Yes, because all being gay means is OH MY GOD I HUNGER FOR COCK! GIVE ME COCKS! COCKS COCKS COCKS!

Keep your sexual preferences to yourself, people. I’m sick and fucking tired of gay people wearing their gayness on their shirt sleeves as a badge of honor. You know what? I really don’t want to know how you like your sex. Do you see heterosexuals using monikers that mean, “I like to give it to my woman up the ass?” Hell no, because that would be offensive. Equally offensive is your compulsive desire to tell the world just how gay you are. Knock it the fuck off. Go home and be gay in the privacy of your own home, I support your right to fuck who you want, however you want it, just keep it to yourself, damnit.

“Look, you can be gay, all right. Just don’t be gay any time I’m around. Or might be around. Or might think about it.”



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