18,000 down, 3,000 to go.

Nearly there...

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Currently watching Kodomo no Omocha, also known as Kodocha, also also known as Child's Toy, and there's just one thing I don't understand.

Why does Sana's mother have a squirrel living in her head?

Update: In episode 5 the subtitles have been changed, and it appears that the squirrel only lives on rather than in Mrs. Kurata's head. In episode 6, we learn that the squirrel's name is Maro-chan, though what use this information has has* not yet been made clear,

*Has has! That's even better than had had! Um, has anyone else here read The Well of Lost Plots?

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Still working on graphics stuff... Sneak preview:

I'm also making a set of images for those stuck on antiquated equipment; they'll look something like this:

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SCO has accused IBM of orchestrating a consipiracy [Uh, how do you orchestrate a conspiracy, exactly? — Ed.] against them. This, perhaps, is what inspired someone to create WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.org. So... WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.com was already taken?

Update: It so happens that yes, WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.com was already taken. Must be something in the air...

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1 Actually, I registered .org because .com would be inappropriate for a non-commercial website...

Posted by: The Silent Majority at August 25, 2003 10:47 PM (FZeDj)

2 Fair enough.
But still, WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.com is taken.
Hmm. And now it redirects to WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com. How dull. Comical Ali isn't a patch on Darl McBride.
Meanwhile, you really should consider selling t-shirts and coffee mugs. I'd buy a dozen gross.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 25, 2003 11:33 PM (jtW2s)

3 Any idea what sort of investment it takes to do the CafePress thing?
(I tried the .com this morning and it went to a place holder that just said the domain was registered. So the MSS folks appear to have picked it up, eh? Must have been that mail I sent them with my link

Posted by: The Silent Majority at August 26, 2003 02:59 AM (FZeDj)

4 A basic CafePress store is free. The only real limit I know of is that you can only have one design for each item - so, one white t-shirt, one grey t-shirt, one coffee mug. A premium shop is $6.95 per month.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 26, 2003 08:39 AM (jtW2s)

5
EMAIL: amelia2003_5@yahoo.com
IP: 62.213.67.122
URL:
DATE: 01/21/2004 08:30:35 PM
Lies are only a problem when you believe them.

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I've been working on a re-design of Ambient Irony. It looks wonderful on my monitor at 2048x1536.

Unfortunately, it doesn't quite fit on the screen at 1024x768. I can see only one solution...

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1 Your CURRENT one doesn't fit on my screen as it is...I have to scroll right and left to see all three columns....How big is your moniter anyway?

Posted by: Susie at August 24, 2003 01:00 AM (KK9YD)

2 Then it is gonna look really crappy on mine where I cannot go above 600x800

Posted by: Tiger at August 24, 2003 02:04 AM (xlR8R)

3 It's a 21" Sony. Or rather, all three are 21" Sonys...
I'm re-doing the graphics now so that they'll fit at 1024x768... I'll try to make it work at 800x600 too, but no primroses.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 24, 2003 02:11 AM (jtW2s)

4 I've got a 19-inch, so bring it on!

Posted by: Victor at August 24, 2003 03:41 AM (FNHVL)

5 And you mocked my CSS... Divine justice.

Posted by: Kevin at August 24, 2003 03:55 AM (zClXV)

6 I mocked your CSS? Oh, that. No, that was aimed at Microsoft. Drove me crazy trying to get the current look to work in IE.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 24, 2003 04:22 AM (jtW2s)

7 Pixy Misa, don't you ever sleep? At NIGHT, I mean?

Posted by: Susie at August 24, 2003 04:47 AM (KK9YD)

8 P.S. You all made me measure my moniter...it's 16" (and a lot bigger than my original one). I now have moniter envy.....

Posted by: Susie at August 24, 2003 04:51 AM (KK9YD)

9 I just got a new monitor and only just went to 1024x768! and you want me to switch? Actually, I'm not sure if I can... I must check now!

Posted by: Ith at August 24, 2003 05:34 AM (pNDoX)

10 My monitor's only 14". No wonder everything looks like crap!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at August 24, 2003 11:25 AM (x2qke)

11 I think Pixy Misa lives in New Zeeland or somewhere where it's day when it's supposed to be dark and it's cold in summer and stuff. Oops, I mean New Zealand (there's a Zeeland, Michigan down by Holland, Michigan (can you guess who settled SW Michigan yet?)).

Posted by: Tim the Michigander at August 24, 2003 01:24 PM (HkIcq)

12 Susie - I sleep during the day
Tim - Don't know who settled SW Michigan, but I suspect they were lost

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 24, 2003 02:39 PM (jtW2s)

13 I just realized: Pixy is bragging that his is bigger.

Posted by: Victor at August 25, 2003 10:16 PM (L3qPK)

14 And I've got three of them

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 25, 2003 11:27 PM (jtW2s)

15 Your perfect design doesn't render correctly in IE. How is that a problem?
Seriously, I keep IE around simply to verify web pages I create are legible, but I don't give a rat's ass if it looks perfect or not. I design to the standard and refuse to implement anything that is a Microsoft extension.

Posted by: Rossz at August 26, 2003 01:53 AM (43SjN)

16 I'm from New Zealand... I think Pixy is actually an Aussie.

Posted by: Cherry at August 27, 2003 09:56 AM (i7dMY)

17 West Island

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 27, 2003 11:01 AM (jtW2s)

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According to this article, a group of Egyptian lawyers living in Switzerland plan to sue "all the Jews of the world" to recover gold allegedly stolen from Egypt in the Exodus (dated at 3754 B.C. based on the the article, which clashes somewhat with my history books).

They are also planning to claim 5% compound interest on the value of the gold. At yesterday's market rates, that works out to... the number shown above.*

(via a comment on Little Green Footballs.)

*Let's see what this does to my blog formatting...**
**Not too bad in Mozilla. Totally screwed in IE, of course. I've broken the number up with spaces, metric-style, for the browserly-challenged.

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More hilarity in the ongoing SCO saga.

Bruce Perens got his hands on the full SCO presentation, and provides a detailed analysis here. He traces one of the alleged infringements back to its original published form in 1968, through its release as open source - first by AT&T and then by Caldera (the company that now calls itself SCO) - and explains how it in fact entered the public domain during the '90s.

He also points out that SCO is claiming ownership of IBM's JFS and SGI's XFS filesystems - purely because they are part of those companies' Unix distributions.

Linus Torvalds is more direct. He says:

They are smoking crack.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Allison and the Samba team (Samba provides Windows file services on Linux and Unix) are just a little upset with SCO. They note that Darl McBride, chief weenie at SCO, recently said:

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

Guess what license GCC is released under? The GPL. So are Squid (a proxy server application) and Samba. So why are SCO deliberately destroying the value of their own product? Investors need to ask this question.

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I've haven't posted anything about anime for a while. I plan to correct this in a major way soon, but for today I'll talk about what I'm watching right now. Which is Nanaka 6/17 and Stellvia of the Universe.

Nanaka 6/17 is the story of a girl named Nanaka, who falls down a flight of stairs one rainy day and bonks her head. When she wakes up, she has lost all her memories of the past eleven years: she's a six-year-old in a 17-year-old body. To give her the best possible chance for recovery, it's decided to treat her as though everything is perfectly normal... Except that she has magically grown up overnight.

Which is pretty silly, but hey, this is a TV show, not Shakespeare. The result is the sort of good-hearted fun that is found so often in anime, without the nasty chemical-treacle gloss that American productions tend to put on such an effort.

I've seen three episodes so far (out of 12 available from AnimeSuki), and I'll give more details when I've seen the rest. As for Stellvia - which, as it happens, is not about a girl named Stellvia - I've only seen the first episode. But I like it so far.

Anyway, here you can find the opening credits for Nanaka 6/17. I've got it down to 8 meg with a certain amount of fiddling. I might end up buying DrDivX, because at least it does what I tell it to (a feature sadly lacking in so much software today).

To play the video, you may need to download a DivX decoder. You can find a handy pack of codecs* here. Or go to Kazaa Lite and download either the basic or full codec pack from their download page. (The link I gave is the basic pack.)

*Codec is short for coder/decoder; this codec pack includes both the decoders for playing files and the coders for creating them.

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1 Eh, I found myself wanting to like Nanaka 6/17, but not actually succeeding. The combination of real mental illness and cutesy-poo schoolgirl/magical girl love-comedy gave me motion sickness. The show changes personality with the main character - very disorienting. I think I prefer actual magical girl stuff to this hybrid business. Have you seen Full Moon o Sagashite? Magical girl show about a protagonist dying of throat cancer. It struck a better gloom/goof balance than Nanaka 6/17, IMO.
Sora no Stellvia is five times as good as it ought to be. Sort of an anime version of Enders Game. I can't understand why it wasn't picked up in this summer's licensing orgy. Of course, I don't understand most of what went on in said licensing orgy. Any season where the US companies pick up crap like Narue no Sekai, Gunparade March and Happy Lesson and ignore greatness on the hoof like Princess Tutu is one that's going to leave me fuming and irate.

Posted by: Mitch H. at August 21, 2003 12:40 AM (tVSJJ)

2 I have some episodes of Full Moon o Sagashite waiting to be watched... I have more anime than time at the moment, rather a reversal from the start of the year when I was reduced to watching Sailor Moon
You have a point about the light treatment of what would be a serious problem in the real world, but really, this is a staple element of humour. It doesn't bother me, unless it's taken to extremes or handled ineptly. The changing mood of the show reflecting Nanaka's personality is fine with me also; it's just like the weather in King Lear reflecting Lear's descent into madness.
I've heard that Stellvia picks up after a few epsisodes; since I liked the first episode well enough, this (and your comment) is encouraging.
Like you, I have not the faintest idea what drives the licensing people of the U.S. anime distributors. I mean, Jungle Guu still hasn't been licensed. What's up with that?
Anyway, the fansubbers and BitTorrent are doing a great job in getting the lesser-known titles out to the fans. I just hope that it doesn't come to a point where the distributors feel that it's cutting into their sales (rightly or wrongly). At least I don't have to buy Hong Kong rip-offs to get my fix of neglected shows any more.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 21, 2003 12:59 AM (jtW2s)

3 That one guy looks a lot like Junta from DNA^2

Posted by: Wanderer at August 21, 2003 03:26 PM (AKG1f)

4 It's the hair

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 21, 2003 03:42 PM (LBXBY)

5 Speaking of which, I've got DVDs 2-4 of DNA2 to watch...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 21, 2003 03:43 PM (LBXBY)

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The Ulead video editing software just plain doesn't do what you tell it to. Give it precise codec settings, and it ignores them. Change the settings radically between two attempts, get identical output files.

Bah.

DrDivX seems to do the right thing, but all it does is encode. So I have to load the encoded file into Ulead, edit it, re-encode it, save it, load the file into DrDivX and re-encode it again.

This is not a recipe for high-quality output.

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Heh.

Instapunditeers, click on the Movies link at left to find the whole story.

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1 Yay! And did your server survive? What kind of numbers did you get? Tell all, tell all!
Frank J. isn't really sick, he's attacking the blog-city server. Sneaky little monkey.

Posted by: Jennifer at August 20, 2003 07:37 AM (rZmE1)

2 Guess you better finish the saga now, for all those Instafans....

Posted by: Susie at August 20, 2003 08:08 AM (XQ0Gn)

3 yeeeeee-HAW!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at August 20, 2003 08:52 AM (fRIQH)

4 Yep, my server is fine. Would you like a blog, Jennifer? I've monkey-proofed mu.nu...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 20, 2003 10:02 AM (jtW2s)

5 Woohoo! Go you.
Let a thousand puppies blend! (If I get the meme to spread enough, maybe I'll get Instalanched too.)

Posted by: Tim the Michigander at August 20, 2003 10:03 AM (/dr4a)

6 Awww, you're sweet, Pixy.

Posted by: Jennifer at August 20, 2003 10:30 PM (LNFFk)

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Foo.

My new DVD burner came with a library of video and DVD editing software from Ulead. This prompted me to try something I've wanted to do for a while. I have all these anime files on my computer, and I'd like to put up some little video clips to show people just what it is that I'm talking about - without them having to download entire episodes at 200 meg a pop.

The program found my collection of codecs just fine, which was a relief. Most of the files are in non-standard formats such as DivX (unrelated to the failed attempt at selling pay-per-view DVDs) and Xvid, which are variants of MPEG-4. The program read the files just fine, and allowed me to select from these and other codecs for my output.

However, the file produced for a 90-second clip came out to 25 meg. No matter what I set the bit rate to, it comes out at 25 meg. Except sometimes when it's even bigger.

The one success I've had was with RealMedia format, which produced a 1.5 meg file for the same clip. The picture and sound quality was... About what you'd expect. Awful.

I'm sure there's a trick to making this work, but I'm not going to find it tonight.

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SCO, the evil and irrelevant company that's been suing IBM for $3 billion and trying to extort money from everyone from yours truly to the U.S. Government, has finally shown their cards, that is, the code they allege to have been stolen.

They showed it in Greek.

No, really. At the recent SCOforum, they presented some of the claimed infringing code. It was printed in the Symbol font, so all the Latin letters were replaced by their Greek equivalents, rather like the menu Susie found on Mars. Someone took a photo of the presentation, and it was translated.

Turns out that the code in question dates back to Unix System 6, first released in 1976, documented (and indeed printed in full) by John Lions in a book that has since had SCO's official blessing, and apparently released into the public domain. At the very least, it is open source as part of BSD Unix.

SCO's case seems to be weaker - if more amusing - than even I expected.

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I went out to lunch and came back with a DVD burner. Oops! The Pioneer DVR-A06, to be precise. Yay!

In fact, I bought it from the same store that's advertising the Pressit CDestroyer. I should have asked them about that.

Now all I need is a hundred or so blank DVD-Rs and I can back up my 3.4 million files...

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Too many CDs? Too many CDs that work? Not enough time to ruin them yourself? No kids to do it for you?

Then you need the Pressit CDestroyer!* Designed specifically to destroy your valuable CDs!

Act now and we'll throw in this valuable bag of dirt!

* As far as I can tell, this is a real product.

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Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit writes:

THIS may well be true. That's okay -- I can live with being replaced by a robot.

And to think I serve in his Intelligence Corps. The shame!

Update: Heh.

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Shepherd's Pie (made with real shepherds!), followed by apple pie with boysenberry ice cream. If anyone's still hungry, there's pistachios and chocolate frogs.

Yes, I do my own grocery shopping. Why do you ask?

(By the way, pistachios are expensive.)

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Even if he was last seen transformed into a heron, trapped in an out-of-control UFO, heading for an oddly-decorated space station, he's still cooler than Frnak.

I, Pixy Misa, declare for the Coalition of Instantry!

Let a thousand puppies blend!

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1 Want to join my completely-unrelated-to-Instapundit Axis of Naughty? As long as you're declaring against Frank and all...

Posted by: Jennifer at August 18, 2003 11:25 AM (rZmE1)

2 Sounds good to me

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 18, 2003 12:13 PM (jtW2s)

3 Yay!
I hope Susie isn't too mad at you about the Puppy Blender thing.

Posted by: Jennifer at August 18, 2003 12:21 PM (rZmE1)

4 I'll say that a RoboPixy did it. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 18, 2003 12:37 PM (jtW2s)

5 LOL. I almost forgot...you need a title. Have one in mind?

Posted by: Jennifer at August 18, 2003 12:50 PM (rZmE1)

6 Minister for Bread and Circuses?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 18, 2003 12:54 PM (jtW2s)

7 You misspelled that, you mean "The Coalition of Insanity!"
muhahaha!
Long live Frank J!

Posted by: serenity at August 18, 2003 10:26 PM (jZMrq)

8 While I am excited that you have joined the Axis, I am heart-broken that you have turned your back on the Alliance....
*sniff* Let's Party!

Posted by: Susie at August 18, 2003 10:55 PM (XQ0Gn)

9 Serenity, you say that like it's a bad thing. And Monkey-Boy can live as long as he likes. We're just at war, we don't want him to actually get hurt or anything.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 19, 2003 12:56 AM (jtW2s)

10 Sorry Susie. Have some pistachios?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 19, 2003 12:58 AM (jtW2s)

11 Hear, hear! Let a thousand puppies blend!
Indeed.

Posted by: Tim the Michigander at August 19, 2003 03:30 AM (DfBhj)

12 Tell me how that puppy blender is cooler than Frank.
Look at Instapundit. White Glenn quotes and quotes and then gives ridiculous one-sentence comments. Frank, on the other hand, actually has something to say on his blog!

Posted by: Metal Phoenix at August 19, 2003 11:07 AM (RAG/j)

13 How is that puppy blender cooler than Frnak?
Well, for a start, he blends puppies! How cool is that?
Where all Frnak can do is pretend not to be a monkey. Hah!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 19, 2003 11:57 AM (jtW2s)

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Tales for the L33t Part 2.

Warning: Contains language, rude pictures, and utterly tasteless humour. Probably NSFW.

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Don't know what Frnak or the Puppy Blender run, but I run Linux.

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Tales for the L33t.

Warning: Contains language.

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Heeere.

Update: Mooore meeese.

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No wonder I can never find anything.

I was looking for a particular file - a rather nice picture of Benten from Urusei Yatsura that I used to have as my desktop - and I was having trouble finding it. (It isn't called anything sensible like Benten.jpg, unfortunately.)

So I did a wider search across my home network. I still haven't found the picture I'm looking for, but I have learned that I have over 3.1 million files. No, hang on, I missed one computer... 3.4 million files.

I wonder what's in them...

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Karen? My parents considered naming me Kate, but never Karen.

Dear Karen,

We've missed you! You haven't placed an order with us in a little while, and we want to make sure that we don't loose touch with you.

For a limited time only, we are offering you the opportunity to enjoy $10 off your next order if it's delivered before Saturday August 23th 2003.

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1 Hmm...looks like you got an email intended for (one of) my sister(s)....

Posted by: Susie at August 16, 2003 01:03 AM (Avj/J)

2 So... How many sisters named Karen do you have?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 16, 2003 01:05 AM (jtW2s)

3 LOL--only one Karen, but four sisters... but that's not important right now...Bill C.'s Missus, Alice, is having a Sexiest Male Blogger contest, and I nominated you-- but the kicker is she needs a picture...have you got one posted anywhere?

Posted by: Susie at August 16, 2003 01:56 AM (Avj/J)

4 I don't really keep pictures of myself around... I can give you a picture of my nephew Lionel. Oh, here's one. Taken while I was setting up servers at the new office.
I'm the little green lizard clinging to the monitor. It's hard to type when you're only eight inches long.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 16, 2003 02:32 AM (jtW2s)

5 How many guys did Susie nominate?
Karen Pixy, when did you move me to "Blogfriends" status? Awww...thanks.

Posted by: Jennifer at August 16, 2003 04:06 AM (3ZCRn)

6 how come the strikeout doesn't work in comments? now i look like a bigger tard than normal.

Posted by: Jennifer at August 16, 2003 04:07 AM (3ZCRn)

7 There you go, Jennifer. All striked out.
Only now they don't format properly... Fix fix...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 16, 2003 04:42 AM (jtW2s)

8 Yay!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 16, 2003 04:43 AM (jtW2s)

9 Yay!

Posted by: Jennifer at August 16, 2003 05:24 AM (3ZCRn)

10 But now the link to the picture doesn't work....(or maybe it never did...don't ask me, I've been having a harrowing day in the Technology Free™ Zone....)

Posted by: Susie at August 16, 2003 12:27 PM (Avj/J)

11 Hmm... Fiddle fiddle... Fixed!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 16, 2003 02:29 PM (jtW2s)

12 Dear Karen,
I am an official of the Federal Government of Nigeria civil service. Serving as an officer of the Contract Review Panel (CRP). A panel set up by the Government to investigate and verify all debts owed to the Nations foreign contractors.

I have therefore been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to liaise with you. We want to ask you for your assistance in a project that demands your unflinching trust and confidentiality.

The transaction is a 100% legal, being that all aspects of bureaucratic protocol will be observed in the pursuance of a successful conclusion and finalization of the project.

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It looks like my trusty Netgear Firewall/Router with built-in 8 port switch, my faithful D-Link DSL-300 Ethernet ADSL Modem, and my ever-reliable (ha!) Windows XP system had all decided to go on strike. After rebooting the modem (once), the Windows box (once) and the router (twice), I'm back on air.

Things were so messed up that even the switch part of the router wasn't working, and my whole home network was down.

Meh.

Meh! Meh, I say!

Well, at least I'm not off the net for the whole weekend. And my boss did let me go home early, even though I hadn't finished the reports.

Speaking of which, my boss said something interesting today. He said: Addition is commutative. Which is true, and fairly basic, but how many managers have you known who actually knew that?

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I got a message on my mobile from Telstra to call them regarding my home phone service. (I missed the call by about half a second.)

Sure enough, pings to my home network are failing.

So I call Telstra on the number given in the message, and I get the usual message that they are busier than usual and I'll have to wait. After a moderately interminable period, a woman comes on the line and asks me for my phone number and account details. (Which I have already given to the computer system which answers the calls.) Then she puts me back on hold.

After another interminable wait, a guy comes on the line and asks me for my phone number and account details. (Again.) I tell him I got a message to call, and he says that my account is overdue. I point out that I in fact paid it on their pay-by-phone system this very morning. But no, I don't have the receipt number. (It's recorded on my computer at home, the same computer I can't get to.) That's fine, says he.

You didn't disconnect my line, I ask?

No, says he.

It's still not responding.

I can't tell from here at work if it's a trivial problem or if I need to contact my ISP for support. My ISP's support line is only open until 7pm, then closed all weekend. I need the line up this weekend so I can... Never mind what, I need the line up! This is my internet connection!

So I have to get home by 6 so that I have time to check it and call support if necessary. Only I have another 4 creditors reports to run before I can go home, and it's already twenty past five.

Aargh!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:19 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)