Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
The problem with niches…
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Rants, TV
With cable and satellite viewers assaulted with eleventy-billion channels, cable broadcasters have to carve niches for themselves so they can find an audience. This is how we ended up with channels like E! Style, Sleuth, The Food Network, and thirteen different Discovery channels. Within the last five years or so, TBS decided to change its image [...]
Held hostage by cable
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Misc., Rants
My cable internet service went out for about half of last week, which served to remind me how little choice I have when it comes to broadband and pay TV service.
This game is not for resale
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Movies, Rants
You remember the music industry, don’t you? The guys who are desperately trying to cling to charging you $17 for a new CD, the ones who sued a twelve year-old? Well, they’re at it again. Universal Music Group has sued a man in California for reselling promotional CDs that go out to radio stations and [...]
MySQL can kiss MySQAss
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Misc., Rants
So my endeavour to get this site up and running is complete. What you see here is the result of several days worth of agonizing and scrutinizing over MySQL databases, PHP issues, wrestling with WordPress, and several botched attempts to edit a CSS stylesheet when I had no idea what either a stylesheet or a [...]
Zippity-doo-dah
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Rants
So I was in a particularly good mood earlier today, for no real reason, and inexplicably I started whistling “Zippity-doo-dah” to myself. I stopped and asked myself: does this make me racist?