GEEKS...GEEKS...GEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Gawd!!!!!! - Just wasted 2 days of my vacation trying to fix an antiviral upgrade download problem. My antiviral subscription was expiring, so, I wanted to renew my subscription. BUT... they won't support my old 2004 version, thus forcing me into a more expensive upgrade that has features I don't need. So I do that - or try to!!!! Problems with the download - couldn't install it, ended up on the phone for hours with some southeast Asian technical support guy who spoke a form of english I had a hard time understanding. Finally got the damn upgrade installed, but then only to find that 2 of the files for one of the functions I didn't want anyway were corrupted. Everytime I started my PC I kept getting these annoying error messages about it. The geeks from the antiviral sent me to microsoft who sent me to my pc mfr. Everyone seemed to think that the only solution was to start from scratch - RE-INSTALL WINDOWS!!!!! GIMME A FRIGGIN' BREAK!!!!!! I wasn't gonna do that. So I mulled it over, did some research, concluded all I should have to do was try another uninstall/reinstall. Got on the phone with the antiviral company 2 days later, got another guy I could barely understand, and finally, FINALLY, got the damn thing installed correctly. .. I have a 2 year subscription, so, I shouldn't have to worry about this again til then, right??? HA!!!! I should be so lucky! Geeks!

Syriana

Whoa - went to see Syriana today. Blew me away - what a great flick. What do y'all think?

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, all that stuff

To all of you rare souls who, I know, have only happened upon this Blog site by accident, best wishes for a happy holiday season.

Drop me a line so I know I'm not talking to myself...

Ace's Take

OK - this is something on a serious note.

My wife died one year ago this coming Friday. My kid has been having a hard time dealing with it as the memories start flooding back. She's only 12.

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? I already have counseling scheduled for her, but, it won't start for another 2 weeks.

Ace Goes Go Kart Racing

Here are some pics from my GoKart racing days. The guy behind me cheated on a re-start following a crash & I never could catch him again. Starting from Pole, Racing, Leaving Pits, 2nd Place Podium. (Got a speeding ticket in my G35 on my way home from this - see earlier blog!

I can't remember if I posted this pic before or not (I'm too lazy to check).

Anyway, I'm just checking out Blogger's new pic posting tool - helluva lot better than the nonsense I used to have to do.

This is my 2005 Infiniti G35 Coupe 6 MT, 298 HP.

Go-Kart Racing/Speeding Tickets

We had a team building exercise at work last week. Our entire department and all the remote field/area folks in HES went Go-Kart racing. Way cool stuff. I finished 2nd in the 25 lap main event. Then I got a speeding ticket on the way home. Cop wasn't too impressed with my trophy. He asked if I knew how fast I was going. I said no. He said he paced me at 70 in a 55 zone. I said, "Figures, no wonder I finshed second!" He didn't appreciate that - cops have no sense of humor. Oh well - a big fine and internet driving school awaits.

Home Improvement Crap - Lowe's/Home Depot/Etc.

Geez - bought some new patio furniture the other day, well I tried to anyway.

Spent a month trying to replace a glass tabletop for my existing set that got shattered in a wind storm - no luck. No one carries replacement glass and getting a new one would cost more than a complete new patio set - including chairs, chaise, and umbrella!!! WTF is up with that?

So I bought a completly new patio set - except two of the 4 chairs I needed were out of stock!! Supposedly will be in the store in 4-5 days. (And, No, they won't reserve 2 for me - so I have to call the store up every day now to find out if they came in!)

So I get my table, chaise, umbrella, and 2 chairs (from one of the above stores)and go home to assemble them. Start putting the table together. I'm supposed to have 12 washers - need them to screw in the legs. Guess how many washers they gave me - right, ZERO!!!!!!!!!!WTF!!! So I'm off to a hardware store to buy 12 washers. Get the table put together, then start working on the 2 chairs. Get them done - they look pretty nice, comfortable, but wait. Somethings wrong. I look and notice one is missing 6 plastic spacers that sit on the bottom so the metal base doesn't scrape against the concrete patio. GEEZUZ!!!!!!!! What the hell is wrong with these folks? How hard is it to remember to put all the parts in the box??? And this happens ALL the time at these warehouse home improvement stores. Any of you homeowners, I am sure have similar stories.

Oh well...for once I can't blame sumthin on geeks!!!

Does Anyone Read These Things?

Hey - does anyone ever come visit this place? My old decrepit website gets more visits than this site. Mebbe I gotta start spreading conspiracy theories in here?

Drop me a note even if you only accidentally find this place. Thanks!

Ace's Take

Ace's Take

Why do I have so much trouble all the time?

Ok - I have a website at Yahoo/Geocities. I wanted to edit the site tonight. In order to use the same format and enter the site, I had to use Yahoo pagebuilder - but, it won't open up. I click on the link and nothin happens.

So I go to Yahoo help - and none of their solutions printed on-line are applicable. I have all the stuff running I'm supposed to have, my Java is loaded, etc.

So I try to send a message to yahoo Help - and I get an error message that my browser can't access the site.

WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

What is it with you geeks? Why does something as simple as this have to ALWAYS be so frigging screwed up and complicated???????????

I turn on my TV, and it works every time. Same thing with my radio.

I turn on my computer, and every frigging day is an adventure - I NEVER know if things are gonna work properly or not.

GAWD this sucks!!!!!

Spyware - final take

OK - all the big spyware companies couldn't do the job - I sent them tons of emails and scan logs, and they couldn't stop the spyware from downloading malware.

So, Ace took matters into his own hands. I went into my Norton firewall and added my own blocking rules. Stopped the spyware dead in its tracks. Mind you, it's still lurking somewhere in my registry, but, it can't access the website that was triggering all the bad stuff that was infesting my PC.

What a joke - I asked all the companies how could I block these sites and no one had an answer, not even Norton who made my firewall.

Now, how could a non-geek like me come up with a simple solution that worked? I spent 2.5 weeks working with these anti-spyware companies and none of them suggested doing what I did, and it worked the first time I tried it. Knock on wood, it still is working - I'll just block more sites if I get attacked again.

Spyware Update

I've slowed it down, but, I still can't get rid of it. My anti-spyware programs either are finding things that are immediately replaced after they delete them, or, they are finding "ghosts" of spyware that are no longer there.

And while we're at it, why do most of these anti-spyware programs disagree with other anti-spyware programs. I'm running 6 different programs and none of them give me the same analysis. You'd think there would be at least some commonality in spyware detected amongst them all!

Oh well, y'all know what I attribute that to - I better not say it though, right?....

In case they get pissed?.....


Right? I shouldn't?...





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MORE SPYWARE CRAP

OK - THE GEEKS AT SEMANTEC (NORTON), COUNTERSPY, AD AWARE, SPYWARE BLASTER, SPY BOT SEARCH AND DESTROY, YAHOO ANTI-SPY, AND EARTHLINK ANTISPY , VIA THEIR BALLYHOOED ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE, STILL HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO RID MY PC OF THESE BASTARD POPUPS AND DIALER PROGRAMS.

I FOUND A TEXT FILE IN MY BROWSER (TEMP INTERNET FILES) THAT LINKS TO A WEBSITE (WEBSEARCH01 DOT SOMTHIN OR OTHER). I ALSO FOUND CODE WRITTEN IN THE TEXT FILE THAT TELLS ME (WHO IS NOT A GEEK AT ALL)THAT THERE IS A FILE BURIED SOMEWHERE THAT KEEPS LOADING THIS FILE EVERYTIME I OPEN MY BROWSER AND THEN IT TELLS THE BROWSER TO WAIT A FEW CLICKS, BEFORE GOING TO THIS WEBSITE AND DOWNLOADING SOME ADS.

NOW, HOW IS IT THAT I CAN DISCOVER THAT WHEN THE GEEKS CAN'T?

I BETTER STOP POSTING ABOUT GEEKS - SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE GEEKS...

ADWARE/SPYWARE - CAN'T TRUST ANYONE

I am so ticked off. After I started this blog, I installed some of the software as suggested. Now, I can't definitely prove they were the source or cause, BUT, my pc is now infested with spyware and adware. I'm now running 4-6 different anti-spy, anti-pop-up, anti-adware programs and I still can't get it clean. Everything was ok before I started this blog site.

Now I have to run some regedit changes based on some directions from some geek that I don't even know, changes he doesn't know for sure will even work, to save this brand new pc of mine.

Hey - I don't know wtf I'm doing - I'm not a computer engineer.

This is another thing Geeks do just to tick us off.

Ace's new ride. Infiniti G35 Cpe 6MT 

Help Instructions from Geeks that don't help or work.

Dontcha just hate it when you ask for help, and the Geeks tell ya what to do, then after ya do it, whatever it was still doesn't work?

And dontcha hate it when the Geeks all talk this strange language that isn't intuitive, a language that regular folks like us don't understand?

Example - I asked for help to change the color of the NAV bar above. Went to the Blogger help site, followed their directions, picked a different color, saved it, AND ENDED UP WITH THE SAME COLOR!!!!!!!! WTF!?!?!?!?

Geeks do this just to piss us off...

First things first

Hi, I'm Ace. This is my first blog. So what you ask? Good question. I don't have a good answer. Let's just see where this goes.

If you want to know some more about me, look at the profile or go to www.geocities.com/aceyou.