Google Office For iPhone!

Yeah, the blog is supposed to be closed for today, but while awaiting a food delivery my Net wanderings have come across this: gOffice for iPhone!

Oh man!

All-Time Record Traffic Today

You people are maniacs! Maniacs!

I expected traffic today to drop to at least half of yesterday.

Instead, with the day not yet over, it’s exceeded yesterday’s traffic!

Note to Steve Jobs (Real and Fake): All I did was copy a forum post! Please don’t have me killed!

Blog closed for today.

(And, no, I still don’t have a damned prepaid debit card. I think I will do what I should have done back on Saturday, before getting seduced by this non-existent Visa Card: open a fekkin bank account and get a real one through a bank! I would have had image storage back by now, dammit. Eejit me…)

Another Record Set For Traffic Today

The day isn’t even over and already this is the second-highest traffic day since this blog has started.

In the search results area of the WordPress Dashboard, all but two of the slots are taken up by Barbie Bandit/Heather Johnston queries. (The other two slots are taken up by “Bugs Bunny” and “meth face”. Go figure!)

This is probably the last post of the day. I have an afternoon appointment, then I must decide if I really have to get a damned Green Dot card…

Nokia’s Creative Bankruptcy Continues Full Speed Ahead!

So not only do they come up with nothing more than mimicking a UI that’s tired even on desktops, now they’ve apparently sunk to copying competitor smartphones for their own design!

Nokia, iPhone jälkisäädös hävittää te. Hyvästi!

Previously in this blog:
Microsoft, Palm, And Nokia: You Better Be Freaking Out!!
Oh, Look At The Pathetic Stalkers!
LifeDrive Notes: Final WiFi Unfun
Cheap Is As Cheap Does, So Don’t Buy Cheap!
The Nokia 770 Is Not Dead Yet: Except To Me
Nokia Hätäkeino Sen Oma Peräruiske*
It’s A Phone, You Life-Deprived Eejits! A P-h-o-n-e!
Nokia 770: Now 99.9% Shit!
It’s Time To Stop Looking At Cheap Devices!
OQO: Tough Shit
Oh Look! Just Like My Nokia 770 Nightmare!
Why Does The Truth Always Come Out Too Damned Late?!!?
Don’t Beg Those Bastards! Boycott Their Shit!
A Horror Of Lovecraftian Proportions
Hey, Nokia! This Is How Quality Works!
Welcome, Apple. Seriously. (Not!)
WTF?!!? Will The Nokia N800 Be Worth Buying After All? (Updated: No.)
Like This Shit Is News?
770 Shitcanned By Nokia
Nokia 770: The Endgame
Coming Real Soon Now: My FINAL Nokia Post
Nokia N800: Still Shit!
CrunchGear Has Balls!
Blame the Nokia 770, Dammit!
Nokia 770: Now Twice As Shitty
Nokia 770 Plumbs New Depths Of Shit!
Nokia 770 Gets Shittier
Is Nokia Delusional?
Nokia 770 Regains Shit Title
There Is A Right Way, And There Is The Nokia Way
Is Nokia Totally Incompetent?
Are You Nokia 770 Owners Nuts?!!?
Nokia: Please Unshackle Me!
(Anti-) Progress Report

Heather Johnston On ABC’s Primetime (Post 2)

Due to problems associated with delayed financial transactions (detailed here and here), the screensnaps of Heather from last night’s Primetime report will be delayed until tomorrow.

In the meantime, go watch the video itself.

Previously in this blog:
Barbie bandits category
Heather Johnston category

WordPress Is Bitchy Today

Twice it’s refused to save all the text in posts.

I just had to go put in three words it vaporized from the headline of the previous post.

Today is a short blogging day due to an appointment I have this afternoon.

Free Energy That Won’t Work During A Hot Summer Day (Or Global Warming!)

That announcement about a revolutionary free energy source that I mentioned here?

Forget it.

According to them:

Sean McCarthy CEO stated that “technical problems arose during the installation of the demonstration unit in the display case on Wednesday evening. These problems were primarily due to excessive heat from the lighting in the main display area. Attempts to replace those parts affected by the heat led to further failures and as a result we have to postpone the public demonstration until a future date.”

Yeah, sure pal, whatever you say.

But if the damned thing generates free heat and will work just fine and dandy during New York City’s monstrous winters, I’ll buy two!

Previously in this blog:
Oh Dear Christ, Let This Be So. We Could Send Those Oil Bastards Reeling!

Hey, VISA Card USA! I Accuse You Of Running A Bait-And-Switch Scam!

So now I’m doing granular hunting for a retailer that carries the actual card that I want.

And what I’m coming up with over and over again — on VISA’s own site! — is All-Access cards!

All-Access is even worse than Green Dot! All-Access dings you $5.95 a month for maintenance versus $4.95 for Green Dot!

I don’t think VISA is offering their actual card anywhere in Manhattan. They are perpetrating a fraud on their site by claiming they have retailers that do so.

Hey, VISA Card USA! What is the connection between you and All-Access? How come Green Dot isn’t listed at all? Have you spun off the card I want into a shadow company so you can discontinue the free first six months? How come Green Dot is kicking your ass in chain retailers? Are you connected to Green Dot at all?

VISA Card USA, I hate you!

You bastards should pay my first six months of maintenance fees if I have to go get a Green Dot card. No fucking way in hell will I get an All-Access card. I won’t support your fraud.

As usual, it’s my life that winds up colliding with shit like this.

Previously in this blog:
Why VISA Card USA Sucks Ass

Why VISA Card USA Sucks Ass

I need to pay for image storage space here at WordPress.

Being someone who has never had (because he’s never been offered) plastic, and lacking a bank account (that’s another story for another time), the only way I can do this is to get one of those prepaid debit cards so I can transfer money into a PayPal account (which I have to create) to then transfer funds over to WordPress.

I’ve done my research about which prepaid card is the best. It’s the Visa Reloadable Prepaid Card. It’s straight from VISA, not an intermediary, and offers no maintenance fees for the first six months of use.

So I go to that link to find a retailer I can get it from.

And this is why VISA USA sucks ass: Despite their claim that it’s widely available at Walgreens, CVS, and Rite-Aid, all I find when I go to those places are the dreaded Green Dot version of VISA!

Each of these stores have standing displays for prepaid debit and gift cards. When it comes to the debit cards, Green Dot owns the damned space! Nothing but Green Dot.

Green Dot dings you $4.95 a month for maintenance right off the bat!

Green Dot might be a very fine service, but goddammit, I want the VISA card VISA shows on their own site!

As if it wasn’t bad enough that these three major retailers aren’t carrying the card VISA claims they are, other non-chain retailers I’ve visited (or called) that are listed on VISA’s site tell me they either do not carry the card or they carry a version from a Green Dot-like intermediary (FastCard, allaccess All-Access, et al).

Bloody hell!

I don’t understand how a ginormous company like VISA can’t know who is and who isn’t carrying their card. Nor can I understand why they haven’t deleted retailers from their site who aren’t carrying their card. And I especially can’t understand how they’re getting their ass kicked all over the place by Green Dot (who?) and its ilk (who?).

So, right now, I still don’t have a way to pay for image storage space here simply because I can’t get the damned kind of card that I want from a company that encompasses the entire frikkin planet.

Can you imagine Microsoft or Apple acting like that?

(Well OK then, Microsoft maybe…)

Heather Johnston On ABC’s Primetime (Post 1)

Ach, the drama of my attempts to pay for image storage space here continues with no end so far.

I was stupid last night and didn’t think to take a pocket TV with me so I could catch the actual broadcast. What I’m left seeing now is what they’re calling the webcast version. This is its link if you haven’t seen it. It can also be viewed in a non-popup version at the main Primetime page.

I’ve ripped it to my hard drive and can now take stills from it.

But I can’t yet publish them!

Stand by for an update about image storage space later today…

Previously in this blog:
Barbie bandits category
Heather Johnston category