Handango lies and Mobile Extender executables

So I bought Jeyo Mobile Extender today with one day of my trial left. From Handango, because, for whatever reason, they decided to delegate (probably the most important part of) their sales process to a 3rd party. They try and sell me some BS “Download Protection” (what is this, the mafia?) in case I lose the download. Well, I don’t need that, because I’m paying for a serial number for the product and shouldn’t really be downloading anything. Long story short, there is no serial number required for Jeyo Mobile Extender. Go forth and pirate, etcetera.

More seriously, I saved the link to my download from Handango (racketeering mobsters that they are) and fired it up in another browser (that is, without an active session on their site) and it worked perfectly fine the first time. So I emailed myself the executable and that link and saved myself a little over three bucks.

Morals of the story:

1. Don’t believe anything you read in a trial version about serial numbers.
2. Handango are a bunch of lying chumps out to steal your cash.
3. Normally “Profit!!!!” but in this case… “Use p2p and save!”

Okay, I’m kidding about 3. I paid for it and you should, too. Just don’t believe their lies…

Sick of fonts for the web

This is such a generic geek/pseudo-designery blog post, so I’m really sorry to subject everyone to it (truly), but how much does the limited scope of typography suck?! I’m just wishing there were more/better choices to be had. I’m getting too used to beautiful printed text (not designed or artful, but simply beautiful, well done, and functional), I think, and now the web seems stagnant and awful. But I know a copy of Flash can produce all kinds of evils if used for whole sites, so I sit here and get gradually more and more frustrated. At the end of the day, I couldn’t manage static graphics for text, either. This blog has over 1,000 posts with over 2,000 comments and over a quarter million words associated with the posts alone, and I’m both a little scared (amount of my life lost) and proud (amount of personal vocabulary and expression development) of that. Too much to be manually managed, that’s for sure. Which means something but I’m not sure exactly what. Or, rather, I could posit many things but will elect not to in the interest of brevity. Because I’m so good at that *rolls eyes*

Ironic spam

Well, they listened to me about the viagra. I just got an attempted comment of casino spam on my viagra spam isn’t funny post. At least they weren’t trying to be humourous *zap*

“Cancer won’t kill in twenty years”

According to this guy, anyway.

Smoking increases the risk of lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. These progressive lung diseases – grouped under the term COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) – are usually diagnosed in current or former smokers in their 60s and 70s. COPD causes chronic illness and disability and is eventually fatal.

Don’t know average stats on heart disease, but I bet if I were to start smoking today, I’d be set. ;-)

You are not here. Or, the Problem with Headphones and Office Chairs.

I decided to move across the room, the headphones fairly solidly plugged in (around a desk and a block of marble) had fairly different ideas. Desk accoutrements went flying, headphones remained firmly tethered, Josh sustains whiplash. It’s like a seatbelt for your head only really, really, not.

The solution? Either a printer situated upstairs so the tray output falls down to me (nifty but occasionally irritating) or wireless headphones (and, really, I get enough Bluetooth/mobile/whatever else radiation as it is). Or just buying less comfy headphones so I don’t forget they’re situated on my head. The ones at present keep my ears warm. Yes, even with this much hair my ears get cold. Yes, nearly in summer after heat waves. Yes, my circulation is that bad, etc. Shut up and leave me to strangle myself with a headphone cord.