Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by Myke.

Let me first start off by saying, this is some funny stuff and was done very well.  This took some time and effort and I give this an A+.  I laughed at this and have watched it many times since.  Here is the link to the video, The Website is Down.

I think my favorite parts are the password and the icon arrangement.

Again, great video and I cannot wait for the sequel to this one.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by Myke.

This article is dedicated to two of my greatest friends, Trish Meriweather and Michelle Hudson-Tenney. The two of you are so awesome and beautiful. If only more people could meet you and know you. Some of you may be asking, who are these two ladies he is taking about and what do they have to do with his life. They are two of the most wonderful lesbians I have ever known. I was an only child and I now consider these two my sisters.

I recently watched one of the greatest documentaries of all time, For The Bible Tells Me So. This movie basically details the problems with society and how homosexuality is looked down upon. It covers the lives of a few folks and what they went through when they came out and also how the parents and children dealt with it. It got me to thinking of my life and how some of my friends say how hard it is in today’s society when you are gay. It also discusses the possible ways that someone can actually be born gay. I would highly recommend this movie for you and your children.

The main story line is about how the church shuns the gay and how Focus on the Family, led by Nazi “Dick”tater Dobson, tell parents and friends to ignore and push away their gay children and friends. Are you ******* kidding me?!? If you feel that if someone is gay they are going to hell and there is nothing they can do about it, maybe you have a few screws loose in your head. I am not a religious person by any means but I do know that according to the Bible, we are accepted as the Lord’s children no matter what. You preach to accept each other, to love each other and that war, crime and hate is a bad thing. Then why would you wage a war against the gay community. You hypocritical son’s of bitches.

My gay friends, male and female, are some of the greatest people to hang out with. I mean with Trish and Michelle, we can make comments about females all day and how good they look or how high maintenance they may be. With the gay guys, they can always reassure me of my “lack of fashion sense” and remind me that my haircut is so “high school jock”.

To think that in today’s society, we still have such closed minds and still will not accept people for who they are. That is actually very sad. We have people fighting over sexuality, race, color, flags, land, politics and so many more. Wouldn’t it be nice if just one day we could all get along for 24 hours just to see how nice it would be? We could call it, ihatemykereinhold Day. It would be a day where there was no war, no fighting, no crime, just people being nice and saying hello and enjoying each other.

The last time I remember something that was close to this was the first few days after 9/11. People were somewhat calm and very considerate of others. Everyone acted as if they knew each other. People gave each other hugs for no reason at all.

Taste the rainbow people. Gay people are just like every day people, if not better. We could all learn something from a gay couple, love and acceptance.

p.s. I was going to make this a rant Blog against Focus on the Family and James Dobson but decided against it. The message I wanted to express was that we could all do a better job in life. Just walk up to a complete stranger and say “hello”. If you see someone that is down, tell them it will be okay. things happen for a reason, sometimes we just do not see that reason until later. But it happens.

snap fingers twice, twirl in a circle - “Gingersnaps”

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by Myke.

Brothers and sisters of the technology world, hear me roar and let your voice be heard.  How many times have you had to call into tech support and cringe each time you do?  How many times have you hit up your network of contacts long before calling some outsourced tech support?  Man let me tell you.  I hate it and have hated it for years and will always hate it.  That is why companies like, LeftHand Networks, CommVault, Exagrid, Lewan and Homerun Networks will always have my vote as the best companies.  They not only have local “USA” tech support, but we can actually have a conversation while a system is rebooting or an application is loading.

I know, the sweat is pouring down your face right now and you are cringing at the thought of your next call.  I have actually been so mad at them that I decide that a complete reload is better than talking to Habib Alibaba Sandindabutt.  I am not a raciest, I am just a proud American who thinks that companies could do a better job at having local tech support.  instead we save a buck and send it over to India.  STOP!

Now with many years of knowledge under my belt, I have to call them very little now.  Thank god!  But when I do call now, I have made it a game and it has actually been pretty fun and it can make your job more enjoyable.  Heck, you might even decide to call an outsourced India tech support group just to play.  Basically when you call, have fun with them.  Act like you know them and they are best buds with you.  Act as if you know India and have been there so many times you cannot even count.  Act like this is the greatest thing, having tech support sent over to India.

Still wondering how fun that could be.  Well, let me demonstrate for you.  this is the dialog from a recent call to a certain hardware vendor tech support group.  We had to get a new part for an under warranty server and since we have 4 hour response support…we called. 

(cough cough…clearing throat)

Tech Support: “شكرا للدعوة الى دعم فني ، إسمي بوب محمد . كيف هل لي ان تساعدك اليوم؟”
Me: “Hey Bob, how is it going?  Man, long time no speak home boy.  man it has been forever since I have talked to you and the rest of the crew out their in India.  Man I miss you guys.  Listen I am calling because we have a server that has a bad power supply in it.  I need a replacement.”
Tech Support: “ما هو الرقم المسلسل للخادم وما هو الجزء على عدد امدادات الطاقة؟”
Me: “Oh, the serial number is ****************.  So how is the wife and kids doing?  Still herding goats in the spare time?  I know the feeling of needing to moon-light for some extra cash.  Times are tough man.  I mean with our tech support jobs going to India and all your cab driver jobs going to Americans, it is tough right now.”
Tech Support: “ولست متأكدا من انني افهم ما انت تقول. وانا لست راعي الماعز ، واعمل لحصان وليس  لدي زوجة واطفال”
Me: “Man, good times, good times.  So about that power supply.  Can I get that here in the next 4 hours?  I mean that is what our agreement is.”
Tech Support: “نعم ، مكتبة داغ همرشولد سيلقي في ذلك الجزء من جان pm اليوم. هل هناك اي شيء آخر يمكن ان يساعد لك؟ آخر يمكن ان يساعد لك؟”
Me: “Sweet, so 4PM today.  Man you always rock Bob.  tell the wife, kids and goats I said “hi”.  Maybe next time we all come out there we can go catch the latest sand-script and have some drinks and talk about the good times we always have.  Thanks again man.”
Tech Support: “لماذا لا تذهب بنفسك اللعين الاحمق!”

See, you get what you want and you can make it a pleasant call.  Now I know that not all calls will go this smoothly, but it is worth a shot.

Cheers and have a great 4th of July!

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by Myke.

For over 15 years, Bill Gates and the Microsoft teams have been a very large part of my salary. For that, I thank you very much. For all of those that just plain hate you, I toast you. Most of your haters are just mad because of how much money you have made over the years. I say congrats man. I have lived through every single version of your software and will continue on. Now that you are “retiring” to your Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, what will you do to keep yourself busy? I vote you take over a small country like, oh I do not know, Canada. Build a wall, allow only those that have certain Microsoft certifications to move in and we will all live a technical and wonderful life.

You and Microsoft are a huge factor in where this World is today when it comes to personal and business computing.

MILLIONAIRE FACTORY. The success of Microsoft DOS, and, later, Windows, helped the PC spread to businesses and homes, empowering office workers and consumers alike. By the count of market researcher Gartner Inc., 1.75 billion Microsoft-powered PCs have been sold since 1981.

And consider the even bigger picture: Economists estimate that all information technology, including PCs, contributed about one-third of the 2% average annual U.S. productivity growth since 1995.

Gates’s greatest legacy may be the creation of wealth, both his own and others’. Microsoft churned out $88 billion in profits since 1985, some sucked from customer pockets as payments on his monopolies in PC software. That drove up the company’s stock, enriching Gates and other insiders, who held 26% of the shares in late 1999. But Microsoft also minted, by some estimates, thousands of other employee-millionaires, maybe the most at any company ever.

Starting in January 1975, Gates and Allen develop Windows Basic for the Altair 8800 to June 27th of 2008 when you officially became a part-time employee…you made the world a better with each and every launch of software…minus the every famous Windows ME. (puke)

Here is my farewell thanks Bill,

William Gates III will live on forever as one of the most successful, wealthy, loved, liked and hated men in the history of this World.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by Myke.

Thanks to 9News.com for this story, ‘Black national athem’ stirs controversy for city.

I know this is going to start the email fire but here we go.

I do not believe this singer Rene Marie was right in what she did.  I do believe in having the right to express your beliefs and feelings, because I do.  But when you basically go up and slander the American People with your “Black National Anthem”, as opposed to the “Star Spangled Banner”, you have crossed the line.  I mean come on, if a white woman were to go sing and she decided to sing a “White National Anthem”, all hell would have broken loose.  Please feel free to go sing on a damn soap box in a park and let everyone who wants to hear it, enjoy it.  But when you get hired to go in front of members of our government that represent America, then sing the song you were hired to sing.  There is NO substitute for the National Anthem.  This was stupid and disgraceful in my eyes.  I mean damn woman, you not only stirred the hornets nest but every single bigot and raciest now has reason to be pissed as hell (please see example below).

Reaction to story:
One_America wrote:
You can expect more of this if Barry Hussein wins come November. Barry’s black pals/thugs are already calling for increased affirmative action, and reparations. You’ll get my “reparations” $$ when I get my slave. Could you imagine a white person writing a lily-white rendition of The Star Spangled Banner, and singing it instead of the real deal? This singer should not get paid to sing divisive, polarizing songs- she was hired for another purpose. For those who consider yourself “African” before you consider yourselves “American”, please renounce your citizenship, buy a one-way ticket, and go home to Africa. Sorry you hate America that much, we don’t need you. Go away! Bye-bye!! I’m tired of the bigotry, tired of Rev Wrong, tired of Father Flatulence. Sorry blacks hate it here so much, now go move to your shack, enjoy your meal of grubs and bugs. Again, I say GOODBYE and GOOD RIDDANCE! God bless ONE America!

Do you think you will ever sing in front of a group like that again…NO!  Be proud dammit.  Be proud of being an American.  This makes me wonder, did she do this to cause the controversy?  Did she do this to get the national attention?  Is she an attention whore looking for more listeners?  Is she not proud of living in America and being in the land of the free and home of the brave?  Only she can answer that, and she did.

Marie says if she had the benefit of doing it over, she would sing the same song.   When asked if she would apologize for what happened she said, “No I do not.”

As people, we need to understand something.  When you get hired for a job, do it and do it well.  Be proud of yourself and let others be proud for you.  Let everyone out there make the same comment and not a mixed, separated and hated one.  I truly believe she meant well, but has caused so much controversy that it has actually done more harm than good.  When you sing the National Anthem, you sing for all Americans no matter what color or race you are.

Please, pull your head completely out of your butt and not just half way.  If you would have just sang the song, people would not be so damn pissed about it.  This is the kind of **** that separates people and that is what we do not need right now.  We have presidential candidates for that.

Here is the lyrics to “Lift Ev’ry Voice & Sing”

LIFT EV’RY VOICE AND SING

Also known as “The Black National Anthem”

by James Weldon Johnson

Lift ev’ry voice and sing,

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