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No, this isn't the story about my new phone. I have to tell you something else first because it's just too infuriating and stupid to pass it up.
Listen!

Like I said on Twitter, the moron from GLS (German parcel service) told me he couldn't find our house so he'd already sent another parcel back the other day.
I was like "Um... okay" but at the same time thoguht "Crap, that might have been the brake fluid for his model car yamasagi has been desperately waiting for since last week".
So I took my parcel and called yamasagi, telling him what happened. He wrote to the shop he ordered the brake fluid from and they advised him to check GLS's online tracking serive.
When we did that, this is what we saw:



Uh... wait... what?!?

According to this, the parcel bastard couldn't contact us when he arrived at the house (that doesn't exist :P) and left notification cards. Um, I was at home (and since it was 6 in the evening, yamasagiwas, too) and even if he had just been too lazy to walk the stairs, we never received any of those cards. And then, on May 4, the guy suddenly decides the address doesn't exist after all?! What in the holy mother of crap is going on?? If you ask me, he's just making things up to hide his own inability to do his bloody job >:O
Needless to say, we're both angry as hell. All of the other parcel companies (DHL, Hermes, UPS and so on) always arrive at our place just fine. Also, it's not like the house is hidden or anything. We're number 1 which is right next to #3 and across from #2 so where the hell is the goddamn problem?!
The guy from the shop told us he'll call GLS tomorrow and ask what the fuck they've been doing. We'll see what's gonna happen next. Man...

I'm currently installing the new Nero 9 on both of my laptops. The setup is still running here on Hikaru. On Rick, I think it took more than an hour O_o That's more than Vista itself! Jeez...
Suppose it's because it comes with a gazillion of extra programs apart from the burning application itself. Not that I'll ever need most of them... Yeah, I could've unchecked them at the beginning of the setup, but I hate browsing through a list of dozens of entries, sub-entries and sub-sub-entries, selecting what to have and what not, without really knowing what all of those things actually do. Also, I do have enough HDD space to hold the crap so I might as well check it out. And who expects a CD/DVD burning suite to take longer to setup than the operating system it's running on anyway?!
Did I mention the custom install takes up more than 1 GB of HDD space?
Oh, and it also seizes a ton of multimedia file extensions that I'm expecting to have to reset manually. Greedy bastard.
At least it seems to work alright...
Damn, I need empty DVDs. Again.

ETA: Apparently, this moron of a burning suite is also far too stupid to uninstall its own predecessor *headdesk*

As you probably know by now, LiveJournal has discontinued new basic accounts; the only two options are a paid account or a plus account. beckyzoole has proposed this:

The one-day content strike is on for this Friday, March 21, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT.

For 24 hours, we will not post or comment to LJ. Not in our own journals, not in communities. Not publicly, privately, or under friends-lock.

This is a protest that will have long-lasting effects, showing up forever in the daily posting statistics.

This is a protest that will not harm LJ in the long run, as leaving LJ might do.

This is a protest that will demonstrate the power of community, as all users unite to support Basic users and the concept of adfree space.

This is a protest that will educate the new owners that LJ is driven by user-created content.


How Can I Help?

DO post about this in your own LJ.
DO post and comment about it in appropriate communities.
DO remember that it's based on Greenwich Mean Time, which may not be your local time.
DO turn off LoudTwitter and your RSS feeds for 24 hours.
DO feel free to friend beckyzoole for updates, and defriend when the strike is over.
DON'T forget to get permission from community mods before making an off-topic post or comment about the strike.
DON'T be spammy with your posts or comments about the strike.



These are the points we want to make through the strike:

# Restore basic accounts for new account creation.

# Inform users before any change to the site that affects how we use the site or demands on our resources.

# Run change proposals by the Advisory Board and take their advice into account before implementation of any change.

# Homophobia, misogyny, and racism must not be a part of the decision making processes about appropriate content of the site, including what user interests are deemed appropriate.

Alright, so. As I said, I write well on anger. So here goes my rather long story about what happened to me this very morning. Enjoy, and I really mean that ;)

( Clicky, clicky for the madness )

So, that was my morning. How was yours, and did anyone actually read this thing all the way till the end? I'd love to know!