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Ubuntu really pissed me off

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I’ve been running Ubuntu on my work laptop for several years and it’s been rock solid. I got a distribution upgrade notice yesterday and clicking on the “upgrade” button was, in retrospect,  A FUCKING BAD IDEA!!!

I’ve lost two solid days of work trying to get my dual-core laptop with 6gb of RAM in a state slightly more responsive than a very drugged up sloth.

The new Unity desktop is a bloated mess. Several times in the past two days, I have wanted to hurl my laptop out the window. I really don’t like the direction that Ubuntu is going. 10.04LTS was rock solid and peppy. 12.04LTS turned my laptop into a brick. An ugly one at that.

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Android development is sexay!

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There’s a small side project that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now and I’m finally getting ’round to getting it done. It basically revolves around an online fiction website that I frequently go to to get new reading material. The only downside to that website is that it only offers HTML-fotmatted text, unless you pay a really silly amount for a premium account. The work-around I’m developing will allow you to log in, collate all of the individual chapters and subchapters and produce a full-fledged ebook. That’s all already done. The next step is to skin it and make an android app!

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I can already see a few cool features I want to implement: * keep track of ongoing serials * set custom cover pages And that’s just the beginning :-)

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Almost lost bunny *gasp*

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On the way home from work last night, my bag was very full and I had to cram a few things in, including bunny. When I got home and started to unpack stuff, my blood ran cold when I realized that bunny had gone AWOL. I told Katy that I’d retrace my steps and called the campus coach company to see if it might have been left in there by accident. I’m happy to say that all is well. Some kind soul had picked him up from the sidewalk and propped him up on a brick wall halfway from the house to the bus stop. I called the coach people back to let them know I’d found him and, bless their cotton socks, they were already looking all over the coach.

I carried bunny back hone, but he gave me frightened evils all the way…

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They sold Charlie!!!

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We went to Scottsdales to buy cat food and Bean wanted to go see the fish. Except they weren’t there any more. Apparently, someone came and bought all the koi they had, including Charlie. We’re talking several, several thousands of pounds worth of carp. Charlie, himself, was over a thousand alone. Dang! The sales guy was saying that some people took it a bit hard to see him go, but apparently they’re going to a very nice pond in a local village pub. Still, it’ll be weird to not feed the fish anymore – something we’ve been doing since before Bean was born.

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Yet another reason to never deal with Zenith Staybright ever again

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On Friday, I got a phone call from Katy at work saying that someone from Zenith would be coming round the following day to take pictures of our patio door. When they first contacted us years ago, their usual sales pitche said that as part of a “special promotion”,  we’d get an “additional discount” if we agreed to let them take pictures of the house as a model home for their promo material. Naively at the time, before realizing just how much of a pain in the ass they could be, we said yes. As it turns out, it’s just a “legal” way to let them contact you every 6 months or so to see if they can sell you more shit. My patience and politeness with them is gone. I told the “security confirmation phone call” today that they could come and take a picture if they wanted but I wasn’t interested in a sales pitch and that we didn’t have any money for DIY. Surprisingly, no one showed up at their expected time to come take pictures. Go figure.

So, FYI, stay away from Zenith. The product is OK, but you can find just as good or better without having to deal with the snake oil salesmen from their front office.

And Zenith, if you happen to see this by whatever odd chance, STOP CALLING!!!!! We will never deal with you again.

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