So now that I have actual internet instead of a Rogers rocket internet stick, I figured I could ditch the stick and turn it into a cell plan. Basically changing a data plan into a voice plan as far as I see it. Apparently it doesn't work that way. Two totally different creatures it seems. Rogers and Telus(previous experiences) sure like to make things difficult for no real reason. I'd be giving them(rogers) more money than if I buy out the contract, and I wouldn't be giving telus any money. It seems like a win for rogers to let me do that. oh well, it's their loss. So now I've got to buy out that contract or...

Does anyone want to take over a rogers internet stick? If you are frequently without wifi and still need internet it is a cool toy. You know you want it!

This xkcd comic is fantastic, particularly the mouse-over. (which I can't make show up here for some reason, but if you click the link, you'll get it)

Is there a name for computer-murder? (other than "computer-murder" of course)

"Computericide" just doesn't sound right, but it's about appropriate for what I feel like doing right now. Stupid effing MS Word + Ref Manager... hell in software form. Between the two of them, I have had to reboot my compy (still brand new, less than 3 months old) over 20 times today alone. Often it did nothing besides blink on to a black screen and words like "Hard Disk Not Exist". I love my life.

As soon as this project is over, I am taking the bastard back to Future Shop and demanding answers asap. If it's Word (2007 - I hear there are major glitches... beyond just my experience), I'm ok reverting to 2003, I actually own that program, but seriously, WTF computer???

ok, sorry, /rant. I needed to get that off my chest. My roomies have all already had an earful over this, thanks for letting me use up some internet space. I kind-of feel like I'm in the midst of this scene. If only hopping around saying "whoop-a whoop-a" actually did something...

I actually found the second trailer way more annoying because of text: its sentence fragments that are already spoken by one of the most over-the-top "I'm narrating a movie trailer voices"; then the totally bland sentence "How close can you get/to the truth/before you/become the target" cut up and drawn out.... ugh.

I suppose that's the same complaint that you have about the visuals in the first trailer, but they didn't bother me. But then, you're the visual artist and I'm the writer, so I guess that makes sense.

Also, is it just me, or did the intro music from the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sound like Lord of the Rings? And did the font from the Robin Hood trailer match the font from Harry Potter?

And I like that they toughened up Maid Marian.

I don't know if I'm just being picky, but I think they're over-editing movie trailers. exhibit a There's so many cuts to new scenes, and SO MUCH time spent fading between cuts that it's like you're trying to watch the preview through the eyes of a slowly-waking post-operative patient in the hospital.

As much as Robin Hood looks really enticing, I will not watch that preview again. My eyes hurt from the experience, and there's hardly enough time between blinks to actually catch whatever the important image is that they so purposefully edited (in some of them at least).

Okay, maybe not all of them are that bad. I'm just tired of the slow-as-molasses blink-fade edit. THIS has good fast editing.

True enough, you have to get it when it is right for you not because someone wants to sell you a house.

Yeah. Someone is always predicting that house prices will be going up. It's usually a realtor's group. They might be right, but I've got a few too many questions in the air right now, so I need to wait!

Just some very questionable unsolicited advice, If you are getting a house get one soon as there are some predictions of climbing house prices this summer.

On the other hand rising interest rates and stricter mortagage rules may hamper this decision.

Whatever you want, sweetie. You want a new internet service provider; I want a dining room (to build my Lego Millenium Falcon in). Sounds like we need to move. ; )

For another opinion, Telus' service once connected has been very good, although sometimes when someone calls, I lose my x-box live connection during an important hockey game against some teenagers from Vancouver. I can't tell you how much that chaps my A$$.

The big problem comes when you need to make any kind of change to anything, Telus is by far the worst company when it comes to that kind of service I've ever experienced ever. In my life. Period. Literally. I have vowed that next time I need to change phones/internet/anything telus-related, I'm just switching to Shaw. Hopefully my wife is on board.