Post type: Rant

MSN network down again?

It seem that every so often MSN decides it's users don't need to talk to each other anymore and they need a time out. So they lock down their network.

This is one of the main reason's I wish my friends switched over the the ICQ network. Their protocol hasn't changed since 1998, and the reason is it doesn't need to change. Unlike MSN which most people download these days cause emoticons are just the most crucial feature to have.

And what about jabber, it's a good alternative to this MS.

ICQ back before 2000 had one major feature that made MSN more prefereable than it. ICQ stored contact lists locally, where MSN kept the contact lists on their server. This meant that alot of ICQ users upon logging on to their accounts on another computer or, after a freshly formatted computer lost their contact list.

However since then ICQ also stores their contact list server side so there should be no excuse, not to switch back right? but at this point MSN has already aquired millions of users and ICQ at the time with their much more complex client could only hold on to the more expert users. Not to mention at the time before broadband MSN being less than 1MB and ICQ bein more than 4MB was a big deal as well.

Even to this day the ICQ interface is not as good as it could be. Admittedly the new MSN interface is not much better.

Personally I'm using trillian mainly cause it's tried and true when it comes to IM and it allows me to integerate all the networks but since switching to trillian I've noticed that the MSN network goes down way more often then the ICQ network.

So foggy tonight so very foggy, gives everything a surreal feeling. 

Doesn't this look like a scene from Half-Life? 

Cart's don't seem to move that well in the snow. 

What do you do when your really really bored and don't want to do work? Steal shopping carts of course! 

Following a recent traumatic event in which my cell phone shot out of my jacket and bounced off every stair in BSB/108 I now am able to view the insides of my battery. I own a VTech A700 

Following a recent traumatic event in which my cell phone shot out of my jacket and bounced off every stair in BSB/108 I now am able to view the insides of my battery. I own a VTech A700 

Term two has started that means alot of work. This term should go better than last term where most courses seemed unrelated and learned without reason. This term several courses are courses that we can all as a class see the practical connection. Such courses as Control Systems should be very interresting and fun to work with, as well as the database courses which will teach us some SQL.

As for the carrier side of things I'm getting back on the applying game hopefully something interresting will come up and I'll spot it.

Now if only our university can fix the dumb grade servers so we can check our marks.

I'm at the hair cutter's today. I figured that I should get a trim before the holidays.

It's going to be so strange this year I've been away for over 3 months now it's bound to feel a little wierd to be back in the T.O.

I guess while I'm in T.O. I'll try and keep myself busy by applying to CO-OP positions non-stop as the chances right now look bleek. The goal is this approx 1 new position per day. On top of that I'll be practicing for my driver's examination on the 10th. So these two things should keep me busy.

We'll see what else happens during this break hopefully it wont be too dull :-)

I started creating a personal website today and was infuriated by the fact that MS Publisher in all their wisdom creates pages that won't render on the Gecko engine.

It's basically WTF?

Anyways I'm looking into some open source W3C compatable packages now to be able to do this. Mainly I want to start uploading all my random code snippets up to the internet.

Construction is in progress for the ghetto tree