Blog of Billy

Sorry about the site(s) being down yesterday. A hard drive crash on the computer that connects the website to the Internet is to blame. At least it wasn't another worm.

Oddness this week included the obvious computer problems, two increasingly awkward situations with the girlies, drama between three sets of friends, an old friend getting the axe, and the beginning of a cough. It's going to be a long November, and seems to only be getting longer.

I'm never buying a Sony music CD again. Forcing your consumers to install a program that intentionally breaks the ability to secure their computer from any bad-hat piece of software that is bright enough to use the string "$sys$" in its name is the dumbest idea anywhere ever. I can't trust Sony not to break the machines that I use to play the music I buy from them, so I am going to have to go to more secure methods to get said music. I sure hope I keep it legal...

In the kind of purely self-centered vein that I promise I generally try to avoid, how much do people like to talk to me online? I've created a scoring system based on the size of some IM logs. The logs rolled over in July 2004, when I switched computers to come to Hertz. Scores before July '04:

1. Denise: 695
2. Jennie: 381
3. Jessica Marlin: 142
4. Bryan (my brother): 125

Then, from July '04 to the present:

1. With a commanding lead, Denise: 853
2. Leila: 411
3. Chris Brodt: 288
4. Lori: 188

Looks like the rest of you had best get crack-a-lackin'.

Well, I never thought it'd come to this when I said: "Have another."
'Cause, baby, you turned into me, an' I became my mother.