As some of you may know, I purchased a new cell phone on Sunday. It’s a Sony Ericsson T68i. Nice phone, right? Well, it runs on the new GSM network. Now, AT&T tells me that it will take a max of 24 hours for my plan to activate on the new network. Both my Dad and my sister had purchased new AT&T GSM phones a few months ago and their plans had activated with about 45 minutes.

32 hours later, my phone still isn’t active.

So, I call up AT&T. After a 30 minute hold time (not too bad, really), I get a customer rep on the line and we discover that there is nothing wrong with my phone or the service.

AT&T had been hit by the Saphire worm. WHY?! First of all, they need to be shot for running running Microsoft SQL in the first place. Second of all they need to be shot in the penis for not patching it! MICROSOFT RELEASED THE PATCH FOR THIS BUG 6 GODDAMNED-MONTHS AGO!!!. And this is Microsoft were talking about! Two, simple button clicks and you’re updated!
I find this excusable for the other 250,000 computers (comprised mostly of small firms) that were hit, but AT&T? Jeebus christ… You think LoD and MoD would have taught them something back in the ’80s.

If I hadn’t just purchased a $100 AT&T phone, I would switch to another carrier immediately.

I was fooling around with tcpdump and I found another Gamespy Ad server: http://adcontent.gamespy.com/

0 years, 0 months, 0 days, 3 hours, 15 minutes, 21 seconds till Kevin is free!

1) Before Dieselboy was famous, he was an extra in porn films
2) Dieselboy is growing a mullet

And everybody go upgrade their phpBB forums to 2.0.4

The P-M Netwerk (all domains) will be down on Saturday, Jan. 25, between 10:00 PM and 3:00 AM PST (approximately) for server migration. This includes: HTTP, mail, webmail, Telnet, FTP, SSH and all databases.

The GBA-SP may renew my faith in Nintendo. It looks a nice piece of hardware and, with a $99 price tag, should sell well here in the U.S.
Now, if they would only stop making kiddie games.

Here’s an interesting read.
I love his predictions for 2003.

Do not go see Gangs of New York. It has to be one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year.

Speaking of movies, has anybody seen the special extended edition of the Fellowship of the Ring DVD? I gave it to my dad for Christmas and we watched all 4 discs that day. They say it’s only 8 hours, but I think it was 10. Anyway, the first two discs (the actual movie) are awesome. You get 30 minutes of deleted scenes.


Coming home from Gangs of New York last night, I stopped at my bank and discovered a wireless network their. Interesting…