So, in an unfortunate accident… I blew up my website.

Turns out, playing around with iWeb when you have all the ftp information typed in will actually effect the actual server. I was playing around with the program to see how much use I could get out of it (after my version of Coda went the wayside), and I discovered it’s just not my taste. So, in attempting to delete the new website from the list, I ended up deleting my actual website.

Who knew?

Now I’m trying to put the pieces back together. I’m just thankful that it didn’t touch the MySQL databases.

Dear Microsoft;

I do not appreciate the irrelevant changes you’ve made to Office that belligerently destroys all things familiar to the user (as is par with you considering every other known version of Office). I was hoping that you would learn from your mistakes and stick with an interface that users could recognize instead of implementing wholly new half-baked ideas that leave everyone lost and groping for concepts like “Save As.”

Further, Vista (and Windows 7 by extension) are illegitimate brain-children and should be discontinued for the bellicose and knavish offspring that they are. We all know you’re trying to look better, but stealing visualizations and throwing former resemblances into the wind only make you look as foolish as you are disparate.

How about concentrating your energy in something that works before you make it look pretty? Function before form. American marketing has proven you can sell anything to anyone. And I’m sure that your 1 billion pc users are well on that trail of actualization no matter how many times they see Jerry Sinfeild making Bill Gates wag his fanny on camera. Perhaps if you had something worth buying, the internet community would stop wasting their time pirating you to get your services for free.

Thank you,
Raul

Dear Apple;

I don’t think anyone has had the guts to tell you this, because you are so wonderful and gracious to us peons, but… $700 is entirely too much for a phone! Further, price-cuts to your other products will not make it easier to sneak a $700 price tag under our noses. It’s to a point that I’m not entirely sure what market you are playing for, and it is really starting to show that you think we are dumb.

For example: the lovely OS 3.o software you just released for all iPhones. I have to tell you I am terribly disappointed in you for not including some of the other special features that should have come with it. How hard is it, oh masters of meticulousness, to include voice commands into a phone with a pre-existing microphone? Hmm? Or could you explain to me how I may use MMS (as wonderful as it is) if your carrier doesn’t even support it yet?

Which reminds me. Your choice in friends is also questionable. AT&T is ruining it for you, and you know it. I’m not entirely sure what backdoor-schemes you’ve been forging in your off-time but you should really reconsider bringing more people into your elite posse. Like T-Mobile. Or some other carrier that, you know… Works. Or at least a carrier that actually provides the services that you’ve been advertising.

Thank you,
Raul

As it sit at my MacBook Pro to reset my first generation iPhone (yet again) due to the numerous problems that have been cropping up, I find myself anxiously awaiting the release of the iPhone 3.0 OS. I’m really happy that they decided to pick up MMS so we iPhone owners can actually send photos from our phones like everyone else.

And yes, Cory, I already predict some snarky comment from you about my hatred of camera phones once upon a time.

In case you geeks out there want to know, I’ve been experiencing a phenomena where I receive no phone calls in a coverage area. Then suddenly, en masse, they show up as missed calls. This has happened on numerous occasions and actually have led people to believe I am ignoring them. One particular instance, someone was calling me judiciously and thought I had been ignoring them the whole time. Upon arrival to my house, they scolded me (as they were so entitled) and when I tried to explain that I received no phone calls, they suddenly appeared upon the screen as I grabbed my phone. What excuse now?

You can imagine you can’t explain that one away. Thankfully, the proof was in the missed call logs where it said all of the calls were missed at the same time of day (the exact time it was at present). But you can imagine how such a situation would be inconvenient.

I’m ready for an upgrade. I believe I’ll hold out until the release to find out what sort of goodies I can get.