Once again my morning session with KCBS managed to garner my ire. This time is was a story about CBS’ online streaming of the NCAA tournament free of charge. y’know, kinda like watching television is free of charge?

anyway, the story goes on and they bring in another analyst who’s just singing the praises of CBS. Granted there is a bit of conflict of interest considering KCBS is owned by CBS, but whatever. what really got me was when this analyst said, “This is a brilliant move by cbs.”

Brilliant? . . . Really? . . . Brilliant?!? No, this is not brilliance, this is mother fucking common sense! I mean any fool you ask would tell you that they’d want to see what they want, whenever they want to (tivo, anyone?). Giving the people what they want is brilliant? No. Relativity, that’s brilliant. String theory, that’s brilliant.  Ron Artest-for-Peja and the latest Burger Kings commercials are brilliant. There’s nothing brilliant about CBS streaming. In fact, I bet you the engineers at CBS have been trying to make this happen for years. I also bet you the people who stopped those engineers are the same spineless folk who are going to take the credit for making this “Brilliant” move.

Which brings me to another question: why am i getting so ticked off by AM radio these days?

is the non-repeating shuffle. like, when you click the “shuffle” button on your music player, i want it to shuffle and not repeat songs. if i wanted shuffle to repeat songs, i’d hit the shuffle AND repeat buttons on my darn music player. I fail to understand why no one can do this.

actually, I’m going to be greedy. you know what else I want? I want to be able to create song blocks that i can use in shuffle mode. i want to be able to tell my music player that, when in shuffle mode, if you play song X, play song Y after. I guess I want meta-songs.

By the way, shuffle on YME seems to suck more than usual. while writing this post, i’ve heard two songs repeated twice. can a brother get some variance? where’s the plugin api for this thing? i need to go fix this.

After much ado and 111+ minutes on the phone with cingular, i’m finally a proud sim card carrying member!

so far, this thing has been pretty fun. it’s also an mp3 player . . . and you can set an mp3 as your ringtone. i might be the first person ever to have The Heat as my ringtone.

now, just have to flash and unlock this puppy, and i’m set.

oh, and, yes, that is a beard papa’s phone dangly thing there. that place is the shit.

UPDATE: I might also be the first person ever to have HTMC as my ringtone!

I’m livid right now. apparently, none of those cvs assclowns thought to make cvs add recursive. what. the. fuck.

additionally, none of those assclowns thought to make cvs add smart either. It can’t tell the difference between new files and old files. so if you create 50 new files in a directory that already has one old file, you have to issue 50 cvs adds! what. the. fuck.

it’s amazing how little respect i have for those cvs people. is there not a competitve bone in their bodies? i’m looking at there NEWS file and there’s no feature development whatsoever. no wonder everyone’s trying to find something else.

getting from ogre to onion is not easy. especially when low on sleep and/or doing push-ups every fifteen minutes. unfortunately, time is not on my side either.

i think part of the problem is that when making the conversion, you lose some of the essence that is ogre, and you end up with ogrion and not an ogre-onion.

who wants an ogrion?

Yahoo! Mail Beta just launched to a select few. you can find screenshots and reviews here, and you can sign up to be next here.

I didn’t have anything to do with it. but i’ve been using it for the past month or so, and it’s the bee’s knees.

from witch hunt to ms hunt. Not all of them are winners, but those kids in MA come up with good ideas every once in a while.