Yeah, well, it was nice — the free Flickr Pro account that came with AT&T broadband.

So, AT&T, are you going to knock some off of my monthly bill, now that I have less??

Pfft.  I’m not holding my breath.

I picked up a Time Magazine at work last week. Read this interview with PETA wacko Ingrid Newkirk. I really have no idea what reality these people live in. E.g.:

How do you justify advocating animal rights in a world filled with poverty and starvation? Joslyn DeGroot YPSILANTI, MICH.

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that’s all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

Uh-huh.

The List

• Keith Olbermann — this guy is the epitome of obnoxious
• Hillary Clinton — like fingernails on the proverbial chalkboard
• Rosie O’Donnell — see note on Keith Olbermann, replace guy with, uh…something
• Kirsten Dunst — she’s smoked one too many doobies
• Al Gore –  how could Heisman trophy winner and Internet inventor not be on this list?
• Michael Moore — I wish someone would do a “documentary” about him
• Cindy Sheehan — glad she’s been out of the spotlight lately
• Lenny Dawson — should retire yesterday from broadcasting
• Jim Rome — his shtick is old and otherwise lame
• Katie Couric — I can’t believe she’s still hosting the CBS Evening News.  Ugh.

Dishonorable Mention

• Billy Packer — thankfully former CBS basketball commentator
• Oprah Winfrey — talk about the cult of personality
• Tom Cruise — uh, Scientology

I’ve been using Google Docs quite a bit lately.  It’s starting to grate on me a little.

If you are particular about how things look, you almost have to hack the HTML version.  Setting styles on text sometimes works, clearing formatting sometimes works, etc.

You’ll get in nested HTML tag hell pretty quickly just by doing basic text formatting — headings, bold, italics and so forth.

Don’t get me started on tables.  They’re even worse.

I’m a fairly content AT&T DSL subscriber. I’ve also been a loyal AVG Antivirus user since my last nightmare with Norton Antivirus 2004.  It turned out to be a chipset incompatibility with my model of Dell Dimension 4100 that caused the never-ending cycle of BSODs.

Old news.

I came downstairs to the computer the other morning to find an AVG ad on my screen.  Grrrr.  Any program installed on my machine that throws ads up on the screen is gonna to get uninstalled.

My co-workers kept raving about the Symantec AV that comes free with AT&T DSL.  I don’t know what I was thinking, but I thought I would give it a spin.

Stupid move.

I should have stopped when it required that I use IE instead of Firefox.  I had to set IE to my default browser.  The agony.

An hour and a half later, I’m beating my head against the brick wall of crap software that is Symantec Antivirus.  Here’s the lovely error message:

Problem is: There wasn’t a previous install or uninstall to be completed.  I did everything they told me.  I clicked here to resolve.  It didn’t.  I uninstalled AVG, Windows Defender, disabled my Windows Firewall, manually deleted my Temp files, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.  Four restarts later, I’m ranting right here.

Check out these moves:

Check, check, check and check.  Uninstall.  Yes, I’m sure.

Downloading the Norton Removal Tool.  Check.

Running…

Ahhhh…Freedom.

1. Anything about the University of Missouri. Even though I live in Missouri, I’ll always be a Kansan.
2. My lawn. Yes, I did just spend a lot of time trying to make it look nice, however, that doesn’t mean I liked doing it.
3. Bossy, type-A personality women make me want to turn around and walk the other direction every time.
4. The national nightly news. I just don’t believe most of what’s reported.