I’m just a caveman

How do you use bittorrent? I don’t get it.

I’m trying to download something and it coming down in dribbles.

Now I now that I’m just getting bytes at a time, but can’t it serve up or down load quicker.

It looks as if I have several others to share from, but it ain’t working.

I wish I new how to run these torrent clients better…

Information wants to be free

Wikileaks, the wiki that tries to provide a little transparency to things that the higher ups don’t want you to know about, was ordered off the net. This coming from a judge in the freest of countries, the good ol’ US of A. This action against freedom of the press and president fucktard whining for immunity for those assholes at AT&T and Verizon makes me want to take a shiv and stick it in everyone of their throats. Freedom my ass.

Not Tivo

After arriving home from Spain, I find out my Tivo isn’t working. This particular model is connected with my DirectTV receiver. The shows were coming in fine, but it didn’t record.

So naturally, I reboot.

Big mistake.

The shows from the satellite stop showing and I’m forever stuck at the start up screen.

First of all, this is the second machine that’s done this. I think also I went away for the week and came back to find Tivo gone. I think I turned up the thermostat causing the hard drive to overheat and go bye-bye.

Second, that is the worst design ever. I can’t use my satellite receiver once I restarted the machine. What bone head designed this thing. They should’ve been separate processes with barely any dependencies upon them.

So any way I solve my problem the way I know best. I buy another DirectTV receiver with DVR.

Let me stress that, WITH DVR.

It’s not Tivo, but some lame ass DVR.

It doesn’t work like Tivo.

It’s not elegant like Tivo.

It feels funny and acts totally different.

It’s not Tivo.

I don’t like it.

Like a Windows machine.

Para Libre

I’m trying to get the new Radiohead album but I can’t for the life of me understand WTF I am looking at as I navigate their site. This dude complains a bit, but is very right about that site.

The more I wait. The more I want to put a negative number in that box so that Radiohead pays me for downloading their album.

It’s just like one of their albums. Inscrutable and arty for the sake of it. Please, someone, show me that Yorke guy so I can kick him in the nads.

“Shredding the instruction book for the shredder. Talk about your mind blowing irony.”

Can I whine about the iPhone price drop? I mean I bought it the first day. I bought into the hype. Steve Jobs owes me. He OWES me $200!

Bullocks!

I knew buying an iPhone then meant getting stuck with a 1.0 release. Being first when getting some kind of tech gadget means that you'll be bummed out when the 2.0 comes out.

And it will come out.

It won't be in the form of an 16 GB iPhone. That'll come this Christmas.

But iPhone 2.0 will be sleeker, cooler, sexier. It will be more powerful. It will have a longer battery life. It will be available for other carriers. It will have cooler applications. It will be another thing to drool over. It will cost cheaper for the amount of features it has. It may still cost $600 but will certainly be worth it.

It's coming. You'll want to buy it. You'll buy it.

And then Apple will pull the rug from under you, drop the price, and bring out iPhone 3.0. Let the whining begin again.

“Cadbury got up early this morning and left, along with my wallet, my credit cards, my TV, my stereo and most of my furniture.”

Steve Jobs, that magnificent bastard, lowered the price for the iPhone to $399. That’s $200 cheaper than two months ago. Let the whining begin.

Hey, CapitolSwell can you start a letter writing campaign?

UPDATE: They got the 4 GB iPhone going for $299 while supplies last. Looks to be we’re gonna be getting that 16 GB version for Christmas!

Le Tour 2007: C’est lui

The farce that is pro cycling ends. The current leader of the tour gets fired by his team. He wins today’s stage, but loses it all out.

I am so disappointed. I love watching the tour. I love watching pro cycling. Even if it’s boring to others, I find it exciting personally. I always wondered how they do it. Now we know.

Vinokourov out. Rasmussen out. Who’s next? Is even Lance Armstrong innocent? We know Landis was caught. It puts everyone in the sport in a bad position. It puts the sport in a bad position. WTF?! It’s sad.

Up until today le Tour was awesome. The alps. Rasmussen in yellow. The first time trial. The Pyrannees. Rasmussen v. Contador. Everything was exciting. The cycling was phenomenal. WTF? How did it come to this?

They really need to clean this sport up. I am sad again.