NETSCAPE ASSRAPE
Invasion Software & Verizon DSL Team up to Bring You
THE NEW VERSION OF NETSCAPE THAT WILL FUCK YOUR COMPUTER SILLY
ok so i got verizon dsl yesterday. it fucking PISSED ME off. after i opened the box, i found out i had to buy an ethernet card. so off to best buy we go. oh did i mention how there were TWO SIGNS on the shelf under the TWO ROWS of ethernet cards that said $14.99 - $10.00 rebate = $4.99. well that was for the Dslink card but i got the "
symbol that totally resembles a D"slink card. i told them i don't care if it's not the right one, it shouldn't have been stacked so neatly above the signs. The guy at customer service, literally 3 feet away from the fucking shelf told me that they aren't the ones who stock the shelves. i mean COME ON, i admit, if it was just one there that somebody sat down,
and YES i've mistakenly grabbed those and bitched about it only to find out i'm wrong, i get no refund and i've wasted my time AND made a complete ass out of myself, but anyway if it was a mistake then no big, BUT IF THERE ARE 50 OF THE FUCKING THINGS ALL NEATLY STACKED ABOVE THE TWO
NOT ONE BUT TWO SIGNS, THEN IT IS MISLEADING, and therefore i deserve ten dollars. yes the thing i bought was $24.99
and get this!!!!! IT ALSO HAD A $10 REBATE, which is just TWICE as misleading. ok my point is that verizon pisses me off because:
- the dsl service was already on when i plugged in the modem, but i had to install something to get a name/password anyway;
- i could not just use windows and configure a dial-up mechanism of some sort to get name/password;
- i had to install their shitty winpoet software WHICH FUCKING INSTALLED NETSCAPE WITHOUT ASKING ME AND NOT ONLY OVERWROTE MY CURRENT VERSION OF NETSCAPE BUT PUT 800,000 FUCKING ICONS ALL OVER MY DESKTOP, TASKBAR AND TRAY. FUCK ME IN THE ASS WITH NO VASELINE, WHY DON'TCHA?!!!!!!!
- i called them and the guy told me that i could uninstall netscape when i was done, but that i needed it to get a user name/password. when i looked in my list of add/remove programs, i saw only one netscape, which means if i uninstall it, i will have no netscape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- in the instruction booklet, it says that if you use netscape, to back up your bookmarks somewhere else on your harddrive. well i use ie5.5 so i didn't worry about it. what it didn't say was that if you have ANY FUCKING VERSION of netscape ANYWHERE on your computer IT WILL BE OVERWRITTEN and you will LOSE ALL YOUR FUCKING BOOKMARKS regardless of what the instruction booklet says WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT;
- oh well, warez sites disappear quickly anyway;
- it changed all the icons for jpgs although they're still registered to psp;
- when you finish the installation of the cheap-ass freeware dialer AND the NETSCAPE, you have to go into all the new icons on the taskbar "verizon dsl" -- "netscape" -- "netscape account setup" which, in order to work, forces you to grant an extraordinary number of file writing, sharing, modifying and sending permissions TO IT, which i saved as a log; and then it takes you to a FUCKING SIMPLE PAGE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ACCESSED IN ANY FUCKING BROWSER, SO THE INSTALLATION OF NETSCAPE WAS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. THE ONLY REASON FOR INSTALLATION OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO TOTALLY CONTROL YOUR COMPUTER IN A WAY THEY LIKE WITHOUT YOUR KNOWING IT.
- i went thru my add/remove programs today, to see where this fucking low-resolution bubble popping game came from (jazz could have installed that by accident or on prupose---note: jazz said she didn't do it. it came from the shitty logitech software and there is no uninstall information- it zaps my monitor every time i try to access is because it DEMANDS my resolution to be fucking 480x640. i'm so glad i got a free $10 webcam with software from 1932!) and it said i has used quicken YESTERDAY. i haven't even opened the program this month. does verizon really need to know my checking account number and everything else about me??
- the damn dsl line (which they explicitly TELL YOU not to show in the taskbar once it's connected and of course i did just the opposite, already on to their scam) was sending packets constantly, even before i signed up, and even afterwards when i had stopped my browser and was viewing nothing.
- their installation changed my homepage in ie5.5, even though i didn't use ie to register my acct.
- it reconfigured ie5.5 so that it no longer asks if it should be the default browser i will have to change that myself
- i looked in the installation booklet again and it said something about netscape and ie are included with the installation CD. THAT'S A FUCKING LIE
- they include a webcam for you to use for free and i set it up pretty easily
- in order to get it working i had to install its software (which, to publish anything you HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR AN ACCOUNT AT "SPOTLIFE" which you first MUST REGISTER FOR) thereby giving your personal information away ONE MORE FUCKING TIME THAT DAY.
why do they need all these fucking permissions when you can access the same page thru other browsers. i think they intentionally use netscape because they can program it to ask for those permissions before going to that page, ie might be harder to do that way. and they need the permissions to overwrite your default browser (WHY?) overwrite your bookmarks (WHY? other versions of netscape don't do that) overwite your home page in netscape and other browsers (WHY?) change your registry (WHY? the winpoet crap was already installed) and modify, write, delete and send other items on your computer (AGAIN I ASK WHY?!!!)
whew! i'm SO glad i got this fixed!
triple 9 is also the day for completion.....
ok it's still fucked up and i've wasted a ½ hour on this shit!!!!
i'm fucking hooking up the dsl and/or limiting my blog to the last 3 posts!!!!
oh shit error 504 tag not found. i know what it is. sometimes dreamweaver makes shit all lower case letters, so the BlogBlahBlah Tag shit doesn't work. *hehe* i'll fix it now.
ok so i'm home with sick juju for 2nd day. today is a triple 9, which means cleaning out my life like a motherfucker, if you're in to numerology.
anyway, i've been posting on guru like a whore and am getting ready to do elance. watch out. lock up your accountants! i'm on the rampage!
ok anyway, been missing some of my old friends, i need a personal site where i can post numerous pictures and other pages instead of just this one page.
will have to open up freebie site if i don't renew y2kira.com
need to work on the
new site to blah blah isn't this boring?
nobody's posting anything funny lately, nothing even worth reading,
including me!!!
big surprise.
ok changed the template. that's something new at least.
gonna try this dsl thing but still waiting for the free month of buttlink. i wonder if i can use both thru the 2nd company's modem.
hmmmmmmmmm
ok so guess what!
yesterday after i was gone all day at the PTO, i came back to find literally 15 files on my desk (probably more) with letters etc. to be copied & mailed. they weren't mine! so, not having much time before i had to leave to get my kids from school, i copied the stuff to be fed-exed and the 3 searches i had been working on anyways. the other stuff has to be copied differently (or not) but i didn't wanna get into it. then i noticed that the initials llb were on all the correspondence-- meaning the office manager (who orders supplies and fixed network difficulties, but otherwise just gossips) had done all these letters and piled them on my desk to copy.
she's the one who HAD TO have the trademark stuff, didn't wanna give it to me. hey, i didn't want it so more for you, baby. but no, now i'm stuck with it. so i come in this morning, a little late because of juju - she said her tummy hurt so i got her a soda before taking her to school, then i got settled and then the phone rang. She had thrown up all over school and i had to get her. she;s got bad ear infection and i've got to get her script filled at the grocery store around the corner but she's sleeping now.
anyway, i told llb (who was in the hallway gossiping the whole time) that i''d be gone and would call her back. so i called back and asked for my mom who also works there, and she said i should try to find another job. oh great! just what i fucking need.
she said my timesheet is on my desk with a nasty note from the boss telling me to take off the time that "Ross" was talking to me the other day. that was the day he yelled at me for some guy talking to me. i told him THAT DAY that i had continued working and didn't even turn my head. he screamed at me that "he's losing money" and i said "hey i don't blame you" [for being pissed] "but i didn't stop working." which is fucking true. god i've got ½ a mind to tell my mom to copy the fucking note that is on my desk, for everyone to see of course, and just hire a lawyer. just what i need another lawyer in my life. i'm sick of these big baby - penny-pinching (but filthy-rich) lawyers who want my blood and won't pay me shit.
fuck you fuck you fuck you!!!!!!!
i'm taking all the software i put on there OFF and i'm taking all the nice stuff i put on the website OFF and i'm taking the graphic i spent 3 hours working on at home OFF. i'm taking it all OFF. bye bye bye baby ~k~m~a~
fuck now i'm pissed and can't think straight......
stay tuned~
ok so it's been a while AGAIN since i've written. i'm sorry. i don't know how many people read my blog because i don't have stats here (at blogspot) but i'm sure
somebody's reading. i've been SO busy, with 2 open houses at school last week, trying to set up meeting with my elusive attorney and my drunk husband. still haven't gotten car insurance (!) and trying not to go crazy or kill someone at work. actually had me downstairs at the front desk one morning, god i am so NOT social
that way. been going to the PTO and doing trademark searches, which is kind of cool. lots of walking, so i wore a cool dress & way bitchin' heels yesterday but what? i had to got there yesterday and we had to walk like FOUR TIMES back and forth to building 1 & 2 (yes the north tower and south tower, kind of gave me the creeps but they're only 10 stories tall --
whew!) and my feet hurt SO BAD afterwards. actually got back at 1:45 and forgot that my kids get out of school at 1:20!!!! jazz calls me at work and she's like "mommy why aren't you here!" i'm SO GLAD i got her some prepaid cell-phone minutes in case of emergencies!!! or in case i fuck up and don't remember to go home at the right time!!!!
been thinking about renewing y2kira.com because it's a bitch to try to put up pictures here without having the webspace to do it. i mean i've GOT the space, but it's not on the same server with my blog and that somehow fucks me up mentally. plus all the email i'm losing. everything and everybody has me down as kira@y2kira.com so i literally get no email now, and believe it or not, some of it is actually important. yes i know, i shoulda changed all that before my domain expired, and i sent autoresponders back to everyone who emailed me at that address for the last 3 days that it was in existence, but they didn't change it. it expired on the 8th but didn't disappear until the 11th. and i STILL haven't put all my subscriptions and registration information for all the websites i have signed up at into my file, and all that shit's down in storage in bf south carolina....fuck fuck fuck
also heard from
planetaide that he wants to do the translations. he's got some strange-looking website from brussels who will do the translation for free, but it goes through their server on the fly and i don't understand it and i don't wanna use somebody from brussels --- can you imagine the customer service probs that might await me if i do?!!
having a webhost in australia is bad enough (just kidding, will). which reminds me, i registered
dreaming4ever.com on the 23rd and will be working to build the site asap, although i don't have much (or any) asp experience. welp, no time like the present, eh? 'specially while i'm at work *hehe* i'm also learning how to use pagemaker with my "voluminous free time" as my boss put it yesterday. yeah,
whatever Þ
i need to learn quark too, ALREADY KNOW HOW TO USE PHOTOSHOP duh like how do you think i quit doing heroin?
[hint: now i'm a photoshop junkie ok i know you get it.] ok but anyways.....
well i think the answer has something to do with
this. thanks to
moon for the brief.
and on this sunday, let me just share a
thank god story with you....
so we're outside last night while mom has a smoke, and juju had asked my mom if she could get something to eat, and mom said to "ask your mom," meaning me. so juju says, "well we didn't have to ask for food at home." meaning they could just raid the fridge any time they wanted, and mom says that that that's ok at your house, but not here. so juju says "I wanna live with my daddy." i replied that living with daddy wouldn't change the rules. and juju says, "i wanna live with daddy. i don't wanna ask for food. i don't wanna go to school. i don't wanna live with that dumb pentagon anymore."
i was so surprised. at 4 years old she knows what's happened. i've never said "pentagon" to her or even explained it or that it's around here. she just grasped it. no wonder she's been crying all week. she knows what's up.
here's a very good, detailed account of what happened in ny, along with some great b&w shots from 96.
and here's a great animation by my cyberfriend john.
it seems there was a bit of
premonition to all of this. i'm still wondering about that guy in the suv.....
note: time to use a template until i work out this java shit
nother note: ambulances scream down columbia pike in arlington as i write this, i'm approx 4 miles from the pentagon
well at least blogger's not down. i just don't know what the fuck to think, or feel or anything.
god and it's such a trip, this arab guy cut me off, or rather thought i cut him off, monday afternoon after i left work. he was yelling but i didn't even want to look at him. he tried to get right up next to me at a red light but i just inched forward to stay further ahead of him and looked straight ahead like i didn't know he was there. finally i got pissed and looked over and he was screaming at me and spit was flying and shit - he was saying "fucking....(something or another)..." in his language or a really strong accent. he couldn't even pronounce the f word properly. and i thought, "ain't that the shit? getting cussed out by a foreigner who's too arab to even say Fuck properly.... and he's driving a better car than i am!" nice black shiny SUV - i think it had a temporary tag on it too. fucker. god that freaked me out but i just tried to ignore it. i mean he was so full of hate! and screaming at me just because i switched into the left lane and he had to wait ONE CAR to make a left! it made me feel so yucky like scared but angry and just wanted it to go away.
holy shit!
did you see the news? i wonder what the fuck bush is gonna do about this !!!!!
ok so jakie learned the pledge of allegiance last night:
i pledge of allegiance to the flag
of the united states of america
and to the republic, of Richard Stands
of witches public
one nation, under guard
invisible
and adjusting for a bra.....
god damn fucking java error!@
i've copied my fucking template THREE TIMES now, yes i edited it in another program, but the &'s are still fucking up. either way, no matter whether i edit my template in notepad or edit it in the blogger window, when it SAVES is when it fucks up the &'s. you know, sometimes the directions on blogger are not exactly clear. what difference does it make if you paste your code into the form or edit it in the form? when you save your changes, blogger has its way with the code. why bother with the fucking stupid directions telling you to cut & paste?
i'm aggravated. :(
OH FACXK!!! it's been a while since i've written. and my domain is gonna expire tomorrow. yeah i'm a real good advance notice kinda person. but anyway, hell the fucking shot records were a nightmare. i called the doctor's office like 5 times that day and they never called back. i got the nurse's --then the
receptionist's voicemail and ended up missing the whole day at work. then the next day i called - no answer. again-left a msg. w/my phone number etc. then i finally got a hold of someone and she said "we've been trying to get a hold of you! your kids haven't been here in 3 years and we destroy the records after two! we destroyed all the records. and we didn't know HOW to reach you to tell you! all we had was this fax number!"
and i thought
#1: if you destroyed the records a year ago, how the fuck DO you know when my kids' last appointment was?
[side note: my daughter was seen there a year ago in June - i have the cancelled check to prove it! i remember because she had been scratched by a stray cat and they never called (or had me call) animal control to quarantine the cat to make sure it didn't have rabies. nor did they even bring up the subject. later when she was scratched again i got pissed and called. i mean she could have died. it's rare to catch it from a scratch rather than a bite because it's in the saliva, but it's STILL possible. when i called they said they had no record of her being there. after i told them i had the fucking cancelled check in my hand, i got 3500 "sorry, ma'am"s and got off the phone. in other words: "we're lame and we'll never change. there's nothing we can say or do about it or even explain it. we suck." which is why i switched doctors in the first place.]
and
#2: why the fuck didn't you fax me a fucking message you southern fuck?!!!
yes i highly advise ANYBODY in the woodruff, sc, area to stay away from Dr. Byrd's office. they are LAME, nasty and totally unprofessional. they gave TWO of my kids their shots TWICE because of losing the records. and you read the story above. totally fucking lame.
anyway called the school and the bitch wouldn't fax the shot records to me cuz she said she didn't know who i was. so i said call the doctor's, get the fax # and do it and she said no. so i called ian and woke him up and he got them at 4 and faxed them that night. but the doctor's office (out here) didn't get them i had to fax them 5 times! then i finally faxed them all and said that i was coming in at 1. they were ready! so i came home to fill out the front page about health history or some crap and found 2 packs of sheets to fill out on each kid. FUCK ME with no KY! i musta had to write my name and address and telephone number like a dozen times i almost wrote "are you too dumb to look at the other piece of paper stapled to this one?!!" but decided it might be a bad starting-off move, so i just wrote as fast as i could. AND they wanted to know language preference by EVERY FUCKING person listed, me my kid, the other kid, their siblings, the emergency contact, the fucking doctor, the father. FUCK are we on mars? i didn't put a thing, i figured if it weren't english, i'd put something, otherwise SHUP!!!!SHUP!!!!SHUP!!!! i went in and they copied my "lease" (downed that off the internet and signed it w/my mom DUH yeah right and sherry notorized it
backwards) and b certifs and physical forms and gave the origs to me and they took the 2 white packets and were all friendly and shit. then i get back to work and the records nazi called aobut where are the school records from last year. they're in a fucking cram packed storage unit in south carolina, k bitch? na fuck off ! no, basically i told her i'd try to get them soon but my kids are going to school on tues, and she said ok.
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kids are in school and the woman from Uncle Buck is there, asking me for previous school records every fucking time i turn around. i've filled out 3 emergency forms for my kids and they still send them home and threaten jazz w/no recess until they get the fucking forms. how the fuck do they think i registered her in the first place DUH!
it's a good school though. i called her teacher yesterday and he was really nice and said great things about jazz. the principal already knew jakie by the 2nd day and was calling him by name after school and smiling at him. he lost a bottom tooth on wednesday and the tooth farie fucking didn't pay out...he cried the next day til we realized she probably went to south carolina by mistake. it's ok though cuz he got A GOLD COIN this morning and it's way rad. he took it to school for show & tell. i thought it would be ok to trust him. he's got velcro pockets!
juju is throwing up - bad fever last night. i've been sick all week but still working. now i have the day off, right after i became
hourly so i'm not a-gettin' paid :(
which is actually ok with me because that guilt thing of i'm new and i called in doesn't exist now.
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JOB: oh jeez where to begin. first of all i know i haven't done much with this site, but you have to believe that I RULE when it comes to their shit. i am fucking elite the way i've been able to use demo versions of things just to get a fucking file open cuz all their installation disks have disappeared and shit. god i could do so much for them but the equip is old, low memory, no appz and won't spend a dime, lame site, lame jealous nosey people gossiping and tapping into my box all day (computer, that is) etc etc etc plus a boss who is absolutely one of the strangest managers i've ever met. nobody gets their own email, it all goes to him. so he reads their shit all day (and then fwds it to them i guess) while they stand in the hallways and talk shit about him behind his back for an hour and a half. DAMN i would never run a company that way. he's only operating at 50%. wordperfect 5.1~~~ i nearly came, it was such a flashback to good old times. 8.3 protocol for file names on the LAN (only 8 characters, plus the 3 character extension)
-- LMFAO burst out a roid or 2!!!
anyways i'm totally confused what my job there is. i'm supposed to be crossing the i's and dotting the t's, but only the ones he says to and he can change his mind at any time? WTF? i was working my ass of on that other site, god it could be SO GOOD but no he has to keep the old crap cuz it cost money. correct me if i'm wrong but i don't remember that spending money on a project was one of the criteria of good design. you could flush money down your toilet but it doesn't make your house worth more...
k you get the msg.
welp peepes i'm off to never never laundry land WOOHOO if ya know me ya gotta love it
i'll have a new domain soon.
{smooches}
