i hate them but they feed me

what a useless and wasted day.

what was supposed to be an intensive day studying (cramming) for my oracle test, turned into a mostly unproductive day barely studying at all.

problems:

1. thunderbird keeps not working. it’s up and running, but then it just stops sending and receiving mail. it works again if i reboot, but who’s got time to do that over and over again? shit, man, i got stuff to do. it looks like it’s a not uncommon problem, but without a fix or even formal bug? in the meantime, it’s just easier to jump into gmail. but it doesn’t mean that it’s not annoying.
2. trying to get the personal version of oracle installed on my laptop has taken a couple of days now. maybe that’s really the meat of the first test: if you can’t even install the program, you fail. sorry, sucker. i think i was mistakenly downloading 9i/10g database lite, which is the wrong thing entirely. but it’s just more wasted annoying time.
3. even my failback plan of using my old oracle installation on an old laptop didn’t work. i couldn’t get that to run anymore, although it used to work fine. and it turns out that it was 8i, so it’s sort of moot anyway.

the last two wouldn’t even really be annoying if they weren’t just a way of highlighting the fact that i’m such a pathological procrastinator. and yet, if everything does work out and i pass my test, then i get money. like mr. krabs says, “money money money! mmmm money!” computers are good. computers are bad. computers annoy us. and then they give us money.

of course, later come the tubes in our neck and mouth as we power the computers as human fuel cells. that’s called grid computing, my friends, and larry ellison says that it’s the future!

(side tech note: the new rss v2 feed works much better than the v1 feed. it’s fancy and lists comments, too! i recommend it to all my friend who use feeds, and their friends who use feeds, and so on and so on and so on…)

Posted at January 25, 2005 8:51 PM