The Website is Down: Sales Guy vs Web Dude.

I was pissed, angry, depressed, mad, sad, fucked up, you name it.

But this made my day.

http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html

I am a happy woman.

Advertisement: Best friend wanted.

Intro: Back in the college days I used to back up almost everything. Almost all of the junks that I kept in my computer. So yesterday I was going through some of the backup CDs, just looking for some old paperwork when I found a piece of writing that I wrote when I was dead bored. Upon reading it I’d have to say that I don’t completely agree with everything that I have written, but it’s nice to see how I have changed, even though it is not so significant – I realized that I myself rant a lot, so that makes complaining as my part time job. I don’t mind hanging out with smokers, in fact, it never bothers me. I remember that I wrote it for a blog that I owned at that time, but somehow I never published it. And I don’t remember why. So here goes.

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20/female, seeks a best friend. Now resides in Cyberjaya and still studying in MMU. Age of applicants may vary from 18 – 30. Applicants with the age outside of this range, may consult the advertiser for approval.

Simple, open minded, outspoken and understanding applicants with an adequate control in English are most welcomed. Looking for someone who can endure the behavior and mood of the advertiser, especially with her PMS mood swing that might be an excused for her to be bitchy. Sasrcasm, profanities and vulgar words are acceptable. Dirty jokes, insults and blatant conversations may take place, thus, applicants with super sensitive feelings may ignore this ad.

Applicants must meet the following qualifications – On top of all, applicants MUST be civic minded. Give and take, toleration demeanour are primal. No compromise for backstabber and begrudgers. Exert pressure againts advertiser will be portrayed as a privacy invasion. Wanted a person who will always be there for her, who will hold her at the times of her fall, concerns and won’t leave her for other guy or woman. Act as oneself, and not to please her.

Similarities with the advertiser is a bonus. As an example, a good taste in music, like Radiohead, Muse, Smashing Pumpkin, U2 as well as solos like PJ Harvey and Bjork. Hate talking with a snobbish tune. Stupid nags and complains will not be entertained by the advertiser, since she hates people who has nothing to do else than complain, complain and complain and keep on complaining until everything is fucked up and still complaining. A sensible complain will be accepted as normal, especially a complain that comes along with an action.

Preferably does not smoke, drink or partake any illegance substance abuse. Believe in destiny, yet trust that there is a power to decide and change the fate through courage and will. Caffeine addiction is permissible.

Advertiser loves to be loved yet doesn’t know how to show an affection towards others. Sensitive person she is, yet doesn’t show her sensitivity. Applicants with the ability of making the advertiser feels smart and cool will get extra merits. Enjoy talking aimlessly about life , mind and people. Willing to share opinions, views and feelings but not making it a reason to create a gap between applicant and the advertiser.

Applicants are not allowed to apply on behalf of other applicants. There will be no deadline for this application. Applicants are not limited by quantity, but it may differ depending on circumstances.

Friday, 29th November, 2002.

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Signs that I’m busy.

Unread comics.

Unchecked emails.

Fallen cars.

Untouched preciouses.

Other than that, messy bed, huge gap between blog update dates – but this could be a sign that I’m lazy too, bad hair day.. etc.etc.

If you’re sleepy, just sleep, don’t do your work.

I was so damn sleepy last night that I could hardly remember what I did before I went off to bed, but I do remember one thing – I switched off my external hdd without checking if I have safely unmount it from Windows. Actually I was too lazy to check and I forced myself to believe that I have unmounted it.

Back in the office this morning I plugged in the hdd, and surprise, surprise.. Ubuntu recognized only one of the partition (I have two, ‘Work’ and ‘Personal’). It gave me an error stating that it failed to mount due to unclean shutdown.

I remember having the similar error with the same hdd, even worse actually since both partitions failed to be mounted. But that happened after I borrowed my hdd to a colleague who is running on Vista, and it is pretty common to have that error once you try to boot it back on any *nix system. Back then I was using freebsd, and I normally mount it manually using the “mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s5 /mnt/hdd” command. ntfsfix didn’t solve the error, but ntfs-3g worked like a charm.

And so I tried to mount it manually on Ubuntu using ntfs-3g command, but it gave me this error:
fuse: mount failed: Invalid argument

I installed ntfsprogs and tried to fix with ntfsfix. It completed successfully, but my attempt to mount the partition still failed.

I mounted it back on Windows, and checked on the disk management. While it recognized my ‘Work’ partition as ntfs, my ‘Personal’ partition was recognized as raw and unlabeled. So I labeled it, and run chkdsk against the volume. Mount it back on Ubuntu, and it worked! Yay

Moral of the story is - Don’t work when you’re sleepy.

The art of lying -

to yourself.

So, do you lie to yourself? And if you do, do you do it often? How often? And when do you normally lie to yourself? When you’re depressed? Or when you’re too excited? Or when you’re less sober?

But the main question is, why? Why do you lie to yourself? Did anyone force you? Are you too bored with life that you just have to lie to yourself because you know it’s wrong to lie to anyone else? Too much of spare time? Because it’s fun?

Or, are you in a denial state and you just can’t handle the truth so you lie to yourself to make you feel better?

Temporarily, yes.

Thing is, in the end of the day, you know it’s a lie, and you won’t feel any better.

If there is a true art in lying to yourself that I can master, I would’ve surely dig it. Yes, so that I can feel better.

I guess dis ees an important lesson.

Am planning to sit for an exam this year so for a start, I bought these two books last week.

Don’t get me wrong. When you get your brain loaded with all the stuff for the exam, you have to keep it happy too. So am gonna read these books during the interval hours of my study.

But the problem is, I think I stuff my brain with too much of PBS and only work on the exam on interval hours.

Erms.

I felt something different when I turned you on just now.

There is something wrong somewhere with the button but I couldn’t figure out what it is.

You made me sick.

Ok, so I was pissed this morning. Last week I sent an email to this company and I have not gotten any reply from them. This is one of the thing that annoys me. What’s the point of displaying an email address on your website, when you’re not even bothered of checking it? If you feel that emailing is not important, then by all means, remove the address off your website. There is no point of having it there – Note that I’m only referring to business websites. Not personal ones.

I was feeling angry so bad this morning that I decided to send them an email to complain on their service. Well it was not an all-polite email (but yet not too nasty) since I was pretty mad at that time, but sorry, patience have limits. And magically, I got an immediate respond from them. How wonderful! And boy, was he furious..

He asked me who am I to say such thing to them – I am a customer, I have rights to complain. Arse.

So he told me the delay was due to one of the staff was on leave, so she was not able to attend my email. By the time she forwarded my email to him, it was already too late. Well, reason accepted. But seriously, that is none of my problem. I ain’t a psychic. A simple solution would’ve been if she is on leave, she could simply turn on the auto responder to acknowledge me of her absentee. I would be damn allright with that. Or, better, configure the email server so that it redirects the email to other recipient. Ok, prolly the latter is rather a ‘high hope’.

Anyways, I suggested him to get the auto responder configured whenever a staff is on leave, and all I got was a reply from him saying that their server does not support it. Guess Larry the Croc would’ve said.. “Dat’s ammaaaayyseeeeeeeeengggg!”

Wtf? For a company that has ‘Technology’ as the first name, that, is plain dumb.

Shoot me.