Please read this article if you’ve been getting Rogers/Yahoo search page when using Firefox 3.

Now here’s the fix for Mac users from the thread below the article (Win instructions are in the article).

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Click on Network
3. Select “Airport” on the left (or whichever internet connection you are using)
4. Click on Advanced
5. Select DNS from the bar
6. Add the following two DNS numbers: 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2
7. (optional) i added google.com on the right menu, im sure this step isnt necessary but everything is running smooth for me
8. Click on OK and then Apply.

Unbelievable.

I’m sure there’s some kind of clause somewhere that I’ve signed regarding my Blackberry and the oatmeal-brained cretins that think I’d want to be violated via every communication device I own.

There’s fake “women” sending me texts over Microsoft’s Messenger asking me to cyber-meet with them, multitudes of crazed spam trying to get me to buy viagra and consolidate my debt (haha) - porn is a rareity these days it seems - then, there’s this well written little gem I just received over my Blackberry. Honestly, I cannot understand why this invasion of my privacy is so prevalent. I’m gobsmacked that these spammers actually make any money from these ventures. If you’re someone who has responded to any of these, you’re just a sad, lonely, creepy little carbuncle.

“hi. A pal gave me ure #, but i am a bit shy, so i dont want to say who I am yet. But, if ur interested, come find me at [site omitted as I refuse to give these idiots any traffic]“

What a pip! This is like me randomly dialing someone from the phone book and asking them out on a fucking date! I especially enjoy the misspelling of “you’re” differently - twice. When I used to work in the adult business, we had people sitting around making this garbage up to trap the pathetic slobs (mostly males) who would then get the shaft by then responding to these “cleverly” planted, online “calls to action” and of course, keep the chat/porn pimps rolling in dough.

It’s no different from a telemarketing scam, I suppose. (Except, you have no recourse or ability to respond to these anonymous intrusions). I just feel sick at heart for the human race when I see brainless crap like this. Rancid little weasels, rubbing their hands together and preying on the stupid.

Once again, computers …will be the death of us all.

1:42:53 PM dukepobywyd42@hotmail.com: Hey, are you busy? I’m really lonely right now on my webcam waiting for somebody to cum chat with me on this awesome online webcam website!!! go here [link omitted] i’m waiting =)

1:43:02 PM BuCkSaTaN: Kill yourself!

(By the way, the link, if you hadn’t guessed is… yep, porn.)

10:59:56 PM BuCkSaTaN: I didn’t get your voice message because I need Fagdows
11:00:08 PM Gary Gnu: it was an accident
11:00:19 PM Gary Gnu: it was gonna be pissing
11:00:20 PM BuCkSaTaN: bah
11:00:21 PM Gary Gnu: brb
11:00:51 PM BuCkSaTaN: ok when will you realize that anyone who uses Winblows is just asking for a big cock in their brown eye?
11:02:59 PM Gary Gnu: when will you realize that anyone who uses osx just wants to live a frustrated life?
11:03:22 PM BuCkSaTaN: My life is totally fine. It’s Windows that makes it miserable.
11:03:31 PM BuCkSaTaN: The fact that so many losers exist.
11:03:55 PM BuCkSaTaN: trekkers
11:03:56 PM Gary Gnu: you know i can’t remember the last time i called a friend and said my computer was fucked…. oh wait it’s never happened.
11:04:49 PM Gary Gnu: they both suck just one of the two gives you more control to fix it…
11:05:23 PM Gary Gnu: kaaaaannt
11:05:45 PM BuCkSaTaN: Yeah but it’s still gay. And that’s the sad part.
11:08:40 PM BuCkSaTaN: New Microsoft tag line: “It’s gay. But it works.”
11:09:57 PM BuCkSaTaN: Or “It’s gay. But someone has got to use it.”
11:10:09 PM BuCkSaTaN: Or my favorite: “It’s gay. And cheap.”
11:11:03 PM BuCkSaTaN: Wait! Wait… “It’s just fucking gay.”
11:11:07 PM BuCkSaTaN: Yeah, I like that one.
11:11:23 PM Gary Gnu: OSX Tagline “You’re pretty much fucked if you didn’t get AppleCare, but no matter the problem just try upgrading”
11:11:30 PM BuCkSaTaN: haha

After my idiot hosting company allowed their rackspace monkeys to delete all mySQL databases on my blogs and websites and after posting about ten entries since last March ‘07, the creeps have pulled another accidental mySQL deletion. They’ve thankfully made restitution for this second blunder and have finally put a redundancy system in place.

So, for all ten of you out there reading the ol’ blog, it’s back up. Any entries after “From Beyond on DVD” are sadly lost, but they weren’t Wordsworth or anything, so I’ll just start from here. Also, if you’re on my Facebook, forget about clicking on any note links to read the rest of any of the newsfeed entries.

The internet is useless. Remember kids, if you care about your intangible work online - make backups constantly, and don’t write directly in the blog editor like I’m doing right n———–

It’s like traveling back in time, when no one knew how to make websites but tried their best, then put ‘em live anyway. www.rogers.com has to be one of the worst corporate sites I have ever had the misfortune of navigating. It all started when I received their broken-image riddled email.

I had to laugh, knowing how shitty their website is, and now here I am, stupid enough to actually think I could use their online billing system without any glitches. Oh woe is me! The link inside the email is prologued with “to view your bill simply sign on at www.rogers.com“. (Of course, were I not smarter than I look, I would not have realized that there are four other steps you need to perform before actually “viewing” your bill). Finally, I reach my content-rich billing page:

First of all, neither “View Bill” or “Download Bill” were clickable. Okay I admit, I only tried the site in Firefox and Safari, but come on! It’s a button and a link! Okay, not just a link; they attached some javascript with it to send my user information. Real secure. So, I’m completely unable to get my bill breakdown, just the “current balance” - whose button actually works and it’s probably all they care about anyway. What a fucking sham! (By the way- their bill PAYMENT area works flawlessly.)

I decide to wait until I hit work tomorrow to test it in Windows. Just for laughs I click on the Wireless link in the sidebar navigation - thinking I’ll go looking for a ringtone or two:

Brilliant. Well done Rogers.

So, I type in www.rogers.com and take it from the top, finally managing to get to the “Fun With Phones” page. Hoo brother… Here’s the mess that greets me:

Ha ha ha ha… (none of the links or buttons work in this pile of spaghetti either).

This is just the tip of the iceberg folks. I’ve had so many run-ins with this piece of shit - I just gave up. God knows, I’ve given it too much time here and think I’ll just wrap it up by saying I’m completely disappointed that a fairly decent media provider is too lazy or too cheap to hire someone to design and program their website better. Maybe they’re just incompetent. In that case, I’m sorry, Rogers. You can’t help it and I really shouldn’t have made fun of your website. Please forgive me.

I eventually find out they don’t have download connect for any ringtones for Blackberry either. (What a surprise) Just a pile of radio hits for the kiddies’ regular cell phones. At least that’s what their “funky” little Flash intro and it’s tinny little “beats” tell me. I couldn’t get beyond the Big McG splash page.

(Tested on a G5 Power Mac, Dual 2.3 GB with 2.5 GB RAM.)
See my other article on this monstrous cash gobbling corporate entity here.

The idiocy of some people online never ceases to amaze me…
I received this email (verbatim) the other day from some illiterate chucklehead:
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Subject: you site dont’ work

Forward this to the proper people..your site is not workin!!
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Hmm. Why I think I’ll get right on that.