Thank you EA, Will Wright and all of you that have made me go through hell watching the counter tick down. I went through it without illegally downloading your game but you all could have hit:

Thanks for buying the game, we are releasing the key early for you.

Spore should be the best game ever and the worst torture that has ever been invented. I guess the CIA made EA do it because most of us are on the watchlist. This is worse than waterboarding or watching Full House.

In a CNN story about wind turbines John Yancey talks about life staying the same way. He speaks of shadows and noise that upsets his sleep. Get some insulation, earplugs or play some ambient noise. Find a solution instead of bickering.

Listen Mr. Yancey…. for a person that is so tough I lived next to a church that had a loudspeaker play bells for up to an hour every Sunday. Guess what happened after I stopped complaining about them? I didn’t notice the sounds any longer when I stopped bickering.  I’ve heard turbines and the sound I have heard pales in comparison to the speaker system that blasted bells less than 50 feet from my bedroom that was underground. It was louder than my 15″ sub woofers.

If you want your life to stay the same, namely not live in a scorched earth that can no longer sustain life then you should just quit complaining. Your father is doing what is economically, enviromentally and just plain right. I hope my son does not hate me when he gets a small electric car that hums too loud and is not an atmosphere nightmare.

Shame, you hate your father for trying to make money and help save the world. Would you rather have no world to complain about? You sound a lot like Mark Cuban so I have to wonder if you two are related.

It is truly useful to just type in quicken trial 2008 deluxe and just about even visiting intuit’s site, which just did not work. Btw that link for the quicken trial 2008 deluxe is here

I was once a supporter in the Axia branch that is the online classes for UoP. The curriculum appears sound from real people I’ve spoken to that should know what it takes to get into college.  The issue from what I can tell is the administration of the college in general.

In the next few months I will blog a little more about what drove me from attending for a second year. For now, I can say that it is lack of accountability inherent in what they do, the teachers that is. So a word of warning, your teacher can ignore emails requesting information and you will never know one way or the other what happened.

“I told you so” or “Did you read rip off report?” comments will be denied. I learned a lot in a year but the learning is not the issue here and if you want to wait there is a valuable lesson to learn.

I had this problem too, being told that something was wrong with SSL or TLS. My solution? Rapid click on the “Ok” and then back on your unactivated device in Itunes. Within 3 minutes my pre 2.0 iPhone was activated, with my previous “wait a few minutes” was fruitless after over 15 minutes of waiting.

I am assured that rapid clicking helped. The chances of getting that free server slot is just much higher if you click fast.

Like to point out this rebate from Western Digital that does not seem to be actively listed where rebates normally go. So go get a 75gb Raptor for only 119.00 USD at Newegg here

Ethanol gets a bad trip because it is not fully utilized yet. Therefore, I add the following statement from http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm

“If all the automobiles in the United States were fueled with 100 percent ethanol, a total of about 97 percent of U.S. land area would be needed to grow the corn feedstock. Corn would cover nearly the total land area of the United States.” -David Pimental, a leading Cornell University agricultural expert

I add with glee, my own quote:
“If all the automobiles in the United States were fueled with 100 percent ethanol, a total of about 97 percent of U.S. land area would be needed to grow the corn feedstock. Corn would cover nearly the total land area of the United States unless we develop a better corn. Through better corn that yields double the corn or energy, imagine what it could do for our economy.”-Robert Atkinson, First Year College Student

I have no problem saying a Cornell expert, while right, is only fueling the fire to keep destroying our planet.

Recently I had the (dis)pleasure of hearing an employeer tell me that they had intentially tried to make an employee mad. Why would someone do this? I implored them to realize that it was not right in any way to provoke your own employee.  I felt very upset over this, given that the person involved was more than 10 years younger than the manager.

Had the employee done anything wrong? I had asked myself the question for a week, asked friends and bounced the situation off a lot of websites. In the end I concluded that in fact the employee did nothing in public to suggest that the reason the manager gave me. Intentionally trying to make the employee mad is not only bad, but makes someone appear liable if that employee decides to crash their car and kill five people.

Why did the manager do this? I asked this question the most in the last week and have only the manager’s own explanation as to why. I examined the accusations and can find no fault by the employee, yet only reckless libel laced behavior by the manager.

If you are a manager, take some tips from Casey Hawley who wrote these ideas:

1. Your employees are not going to talk to you about faults.
2. When you think an employee is truly trying to make you mad, write a letter in his or her point of view. After you are done, you might see how paranoid you really are and what a fool you could have played the part of.
3.  Do not clip people when they talk, give appropriate time for a response. No matter what do not ever talk over people. If you think you do not do this, ask a friend or an employee if you do. Listen to both of the people you ask and wonder why one told you that you don’t.

In the end, the only employee that tries to make you mad is the one you already did that to. I’m glad that if you’re a manager and you’ve read this article this will never happen to you. I am the employee in Hawley’s book that cannot get an appropriate response from his employer. Taking my frustration out on a blog is the better route for anyone when anger is an issue, even if you do not feel angry. Take it easy on the little guys that work for you and for everything Holy: do not ever try to provoke an employee into anger. 

ARS may you cache this permalink forever concerning a disturbing trend coming to the United States.

1. I am not against bandwidth caps.
2. I am for bandwidth caps.
3. If I sell you Internet access, I will ignore #1 and # 2 and just focus on #3.

There, now I sound like an uneducated fool.

More later.