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On December 20, 2007 I blogged about how to effectively get rid of almost all SPAM that still makes it into your Yahoo! Mail inbox. The article was titled SPAM be gone @ Yahoo. Apparently, no one cares that I figured out a better way that what Yahoo! has come up with to block SPAM from entering your email inbox…and its free no less!

How did I come to this conclusion? I have registered a whopping 4 hits on that blog entry since 12/20/2007. I guess you all like wasting time clicking delete.

Enjoy reading about how to enlarge your penis and make tons of money on the the stock market.

Intellisync:

It all started when I wanted to sync my work Outlook to Yahoo so that my work event would show up in my personal calendar and vice versa. What do think happens, a cryptic error that is wrong. “Cannot log into Yahoo. Please check your user name and password and try again.” Well actually, you dumb program, if you enter a wrong user name and password you will get a prompt to re-enter them again.

So being a happy premium member that I am, I search Yahoo help. No luck. Oh here is phone number for premium members. Thats Me! Joy, my problems are solved!

I call Yahoo support line and ask about Intellisync. Well they can’t help but they can give me a number, OK. I also asked two other questions while I had them on the phone, but I will come back to that.

I called the Intellisync support number and find that it is no longer in service. I call Yahoo back and let them know. They tell me that since they just found out that the number no longer works that I should send a message to support via one of the web-based forms. OK, bye Yahoo support. I submit the form with my Intellisync problem and sure enough I get an auto-response that says they don’t f’ing support Intellisync.

Are your palms starting to sweat like mine are? That’s because you are pissed like me.

Two other questions:

Remember those two other questions I asked about when I was on the phone. Well…

1) Do you have an estimate on when Yahoo! Go will be ready for the T-Mobile Dash?

Response: I don’t know but here is an email to contact someone who will know.

Me: Well I send off the email and sure enough it gets kicked back as undeliverable. My mouth is now just hanging. It might not even be attached anymore, I don’t know because all I feel is rage.

2) I noticed a message on the login screen that Yahoo! Mail will now have unlimited storage, is that for premium users or free users?

Response: That is for all users.

Me: Wow that is great for everyone but what the F do I pay for a premium membership for? I guess that can now be answered one less advertisement on the Yahoo Mail interface and a customer support line that might as well be making up shit and telling it to me in German.

Let me weigh in my thought on the Yahoo!/Microsoft talks. Although it sounds like for the time being that the talks are over and Yahoo! is not interested, this did raise a lot of eyebrows. You can read other articles on the clash or benefit of the potential Microsoft and Yahoo! merger but I would like to think about an alternative: Google buys Yahoo!.

This partnership seems to be more in-line with both companies cultures. At least more in-line than a Microsoft/Yahoo! merger. A couple of creative powerhouses (Google -> Yahoo!) more concerned with innovative and pleasing customers and letting the money follow rather than forcing customer into things and thus sucking the bucks right out them (Microsoft). Don’t get me wrong I think Microsoft has done some great things as of late with their web initiatives, but they are just not quite on the same page as a Yahoo! or a Google.

The power and the brick and mortar / web combination.  I firmly believe that if you live near a Blockbuster and you use Netflix you are silly fool.   Blockbuster has eve more reasons to use their service.  You can now return DVD’s to the store itself.  Why would you want to do that you might ask?

1. Faster delivery time on the next DVD in queue because the queue is immediately notified to release the next DVD
2. A FREE in-store rental (on top of the 2 free rentals you are already getting)!

Think about it.  I would love to hear other peoples comments that are contrary to my opinion as well as anyone who agrees.

Blockbuster tries new online rental incentive | CNET News.com

Are all major newscasters retarded?  How can I be more blunt?  You are all dumb and actually degrade other’s intelligence.

Lately, there has been hype all around Amazon Ubox and Apple iTunes for their new, movie / TV download / rental service.  I am not even going to link to their websites.

This quote from Bill Car of Amazon sums up most of what is being said is most major articles that I have seen.

“This makes us the destination for film and TV lovers online,” Carr said. “No one else offers this.”

http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/09/08/amazon.reut/index.html

No one else?  Are F***ing crazy?  You ignorant sluts!  Considering I watched a DVD from a direct competitor (for the same or less price and just as good if not better interface) over a month ago makes me a little sick to my stomach.

Are big companies that self-involved and financially secure that they do not need to do market research anymore or is it the fact that they do not want to acknowledge these better services?  I desperately want YOU to decide!

Let me just name a couple of the ORIGINAL services:

CinemaNow
Movielink

My plea:  Please, major news sites, don’t be ignorant when reporting just because another large company has copied a great service from a small company doesn’t mean you have to help perpetuate the problem.

The Wii has now said it will allow for FREE online game play.  That is just another reasons out of hundreds of others that convinces me that it will be the sweetest game console out there.

Secondly, check out this freaking hilarious commercial from YouTube.  It pretty much sums up my thinking on the PS3 vs. Wii debate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXm5n2n_U3c&NR

What a mess. The government and leader is literally a clown. Cartoon watching, insane clown. A dildo who eats like a king while many barely have anything.

I feel deeply sorry for the citizens in North Korea. One citizen that was lucky enough to pass to China was quoted is saying how amazed he was at the advancement of civilization in China. This is of course because he came from a country with daily power outages and an announcement speaker in every household that pipes in government propaganda and tells them when to wake and sleep.

Please, higher up’s in North Korea, take over and straighten out the freaking mess that you have there. Read an economics book and you may realize that if you weren’t threatening missiles then you would be trading goods and thus you would be a richer country. Rich is good right?
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On another opinion note: What does it say to other countries and groups that we perked our ears right up after they test launched missiles. Maybe instead of dealing with them at all we should have went after them. After all we have gone into countries for less. (this is meant to be provocative)

Read more here:
North Korea Full Coverage on Yahoo! News

This guy put a jet engine on a VW bug. My opinion = use you time and money on more important things.  Screw you for wasting my time watching a video about how much money you blew on something that does nothing other than make you the fastest dork on the road.

When bugs fly / Auto geek hits highway for surreptitious runs in jet-powered VW

MySpace is so clustered with ads and lousy layouts it is impossible to bear looking at the site. Less is more. Why use MySpace when there are so many better alternatives. This is only due to, what I will call, "the fad effect" where a few of the right people latch on and it blossoms from there.

Let me list a few better ones:

1. linkedin.com
2. orkut.com
3. tagworld.com
4. 360.yahoo.com

See a full list via wikipedia

This is a bit off topic but since I am governed by myself that doesn't matter.

Maybe everyone should write their own eulogies right now. This would allow everyone to put into words the way they want to be remembered and thus how they should live.

Think about the last two people you interacted with. If those two people were going to sum up your life, what would they say?

Just food for thought.