So recently Microsoft was doing some­thing. I say some­thing because I don’t know what it was they were doing, only that it affected many users of the pop­u­lar chat client Live Mes­sen­ger (MSN Mes­sen­ger for those not both­er­ing to keep up). Basi­cally it cut off a good sec­tion of people - myself included - from the ser­vice. The best part is that dif­fer­ent people were get­ting dif­fer­ent error mes­sages, and there were dif­fer­ent workarounds that worked some of the time.

Alright, so a post at 11:30 pm on the day you say you’re going to post still counts right? Regard­less, here we are. My only defense is that I was no where near a com­puter for the time required to actu­ally put some­thing together. I’ll make it up to any/everyone that actu­ally reads this.

Any­ways, todays little post is a little bit of a bitch. That is to say that I am bitch­ing about some­thing that to this day man­ages to blow my mind.

Why the hell can’t people drive in the snow?

Seri­ously, it’s been around longer than we have. We have devel­oped wheel-​drives, tires, break-​styles, wiper-​blades, anti-​freezing, self-​heating, Pi-​calculating cars. So despite our advances against the frozen flecks of water still manage to turn every­one into drool­ing, knuckle-​dragging morons whos only response to having to drive in the stuff is to go under twenty km at any given time. For those out there still using the impe­r­ial system, that’s roughly 12.4 miles per hour.

So I just spent four hours of my life fight­ing with Share­Point 2007. I can’t explain all the details because my employer pays me, which in turn pays the bills and they frown upon my telling of com­pany secrets. I can, how­ever, bitch about some things that have been irri­tat­ing me over the past while. As it turns out every­thing I hate con­verged on me today.

Let the story begin!